Arcadia University Bulletin

Rawlins’ Scientific Illustrations Featured on NPR Website

Illustrations by Scott Rawlins, Professor of Scientific Illustration, were among those featured on National Public Radio’s “Science Friday” program on July 6 in a story on “The Artists Behind Your Elementary School Science Textbooks.” “Maybe you’ve experienced a similar phenomenon—that sensation of being blown away by a drawing or animation of a scientific concept,” said NPR’s [...]

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Hamilton Displays Thesis, Scotland Jewelry on Her Blog

Luminita Hamilton ’10, earning a B.F.A. in Metals and Jewelry, expresses her passion about making jewelry in her blog and displays work from her Capstone thesis and study abroad in Scotland at luminitahamilton.blogspot.com. “Since the fourth grade I have been making jewelry….We had a mini-society where we sold things with paper money, and I chose to [...]

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FADE at the Student Art Gallery, through Nov. 17

Art and Design students now have a new place to display and share their work with the Arcadia community—a new Student Art Gallery in Landman Library. The Student Art Gallery is located on the lower level of the library in the former microfiche room. The Art and Design Department opened the gallery with FADE, a freshman [...]

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Rawlins, Alum Illustrate Tetrapod Remains for Academy Article

Many of the illustrations in the article “Late Devonian tetrapod remains from Red Hill, Pennsylvania, USA: how much diversity?” were generated by Scott Rawlins, Professor Art and Design, or by his former student, Kyle Luckenbill, who graduated from Arcadia in 2002 with a B.A. in Scientific Illustration. The paper was published in May 2009 by [...]

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Art Students: Superheroes by Design

  On Oct. 6, students in Studio Art Foundations courses taught by Carole Loeffler, Assistant Professor Fine Arts and Coordinator of Foundations, and Matthew Borgen, Adjunct Professor of Art, critiqued their first projects of the semester. Each student had to recreate himself or herself as a superhero. Not only did they have to come to class [...]

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