ESU Art Program

06/01/2026

Only a few spots left for our camp next week! Sign up soon!

Interested in an Art Camp? ESU's Art Program is hosting an Art Summer Camp this upcoming June 8th - 12th from 9am to 4pm for 6th thru 8th graders. For more information and to sign up please see the link below and email Art Program Director Dr. Kate Iselin at [email protected] .

Sign up ends May 15th to ensure a spot!

Link for registration and more information:
https://www.emporia.edu/visual-and-performing-arts/events/summer-arts-camp/

05/29/2026

Save the Date!

Join the Art Program at Emporia State University for our upcoming high school events:
HIVE, February 26, 2027

Come explore our creative community, meet faculty and students, and see what ESU Art is all about! More information coming soon, be sure to follow our socials for updates and event highlights!

05/26/2026

Save the Date!

Join the Art Program at Emporia State University for our upcoming high school event:
Grand Tour, November 13, 2026

Come explore our creative community, meet faculty and students, and see what ESU Art is all about! More information coming soon, be sure to follow our socials for updates and event highlights!

05/16/2026

Congratulations to our Art Program graduates today! It has been such an amazing experience to work with you all and we are so proud of all you’ve done to get here today. Please join us in celebrating these students newly awarded degrees.

Bachelor of Fine Arts:
• Zach Dyer
• Luke Farron (Art History Minor)
• Sydney Hickman
• Kalia Keosybounheuang
• Destiny Lynn Kay
• Michael Kidwell
• Caden Stucky

Bachelor of Arts:
• Haruto Oikawa
• Katie Rankin (*Outstanding Senior)

Bachelor of Science (Pre-Art Therapy):
• Deborah Burgess

Bachelor of Science in Education - Secondary Art Education:
• Anastasia Dorton
• Naomi Hart
• Jane Hough
• Julianne Ludlow
• Kinslee Moore
• Olivia Willis

Art Minors:
• Kathryn Wilson
• Lenora Kent
• Hannah Beattie
• Yiyang Qi

Congratulations to all!!!

05/16/2026

Congratulations Katie Rankin, our Art Program Outstanding Senior!

05/09/2026

Interested in an Art Camp? ESU's Art Program is hosting an Art Summer Camp this upcoming June 8th - 12th from 9am to 4pm for 6th thru 8th graders. For more information and to sign up please see the link below and email Art Program Director Dr. Kate Iselin at [email protected] .

Sign up ends May 15th to ensure a spot!

Link for registration and more information:
https://www.emporia.edu/visual-and-performing-arts/events/summer-arts-camp/

05/06/2026

On view today and tomorrow, our Graphic Design Senior Show! This exhibition is on display in the Eppink Gallery and has 6 graphic design students work featuring their individual brands. Please check out all of our students promotional graphics for their senior group exhibition!

Please stop by and view our students amazing work.

Students on view:
• Zach Dyer
• Luke Farron
• Destiny Lynn Kay
• Kalia Keosybounheuang
• Abigail Spellman
• Caden Stucky

04/16/2026

Please join us this Friday, April 17th from 1pm-3pm for our Snack and Sketch event!

We will meet at the Gallery Office in King Hall and then move to another space to draw depending on the weather. Please bring materials to draw with. Snacks will be provided!

This is a casual come and go event that we would love to see you all attend! Open to any major. 😊 Hope to see you there!

04/07/2026

This past Emporia First Friday we had our community mural painting event as a collaboration with Emporia State STEM Outreach for their involvement with ARISS - Amateur Radio on the International Space Station. This mural was meant to depict the upcoming event (happening TOMORROW!) where ESU Stem will communicate with an astronaut that is currently in a space station. This is a very select opportunity and we are so excited to have been apart of it! Thank you to Dr. Erika Martin, Mark Brown, and Stephanie Alaniz for making this happen!

Mural was designed by ESU Art Program Painting and Art Ed student Ayden Young and was facilitated during EFF by Art Therapy graduate students Chelsea Mock-Johnson and her peers during EFF. The community was also invited to paint laser cut stars that will be adhered to the canvas to fill up the space sky!

Please swing by tomorrow morning at Prophet Aquatic Research and Outreach Center At Emporia State University to see this finished mural in person as well as hear the conversation that will take place with NASA astronauts! You won't want to miss it. Please see attached image for more information. Enjoy these in progress pictures from this past Friday's event. 😀

This mural will be permanently installed at ESU's Science Hall lobby.