After 39 years of dedication to Biola’s art pedagogy, Dan Callis III, a professor of art, is retiring and transitioning to a full-time art practice.  The art department hosted a retirement party on April 23 with students, staff and professors sharing pivotal moments where Callis impacted their...

Without collaboration across the art programs at Biola, individual departments miss out on opportunities for growth, especially Biola’s cinema and media arts program, which lacks the interconnectivity it needs in order to prepare students to thrive in the multi-faceted world of filmmaking. Performing...

This week in the Green Art Gallery, senior art major Katie Tuttle premiered her senior show, “Remnants,” which focuses on the what the artist terms as her “fundamental commitment toward freedom” from her years of collecting art supplies, books and jewelry. Tuttle noted that this is “not freedom...

On a Monday night, as the sky darkened and the air cooled, the doors to the Bardwell Art Gallery opened. Students walking in were greeted by a diverse display of all kinds of artwork: drawings, paintings, sculptures and design work. Art hung not just in the gallery space but in the hallways and upstairs,...

On Feb. 15 the Caf Banquet Hall was packed with students, professors and friends waiting to hear from artist Shawn Michael Warren on his career. His piece “Troubled Waters” serves as a centerpiece for the current showing in the Earl and Virginia Green Art Gallery.   INFLUENCES  Warren was deeply...

On Sept. 17, Biola dedicated the new Bardwell building with a chapel service that celebrated the gifts of God, commemorating Bardwell Hall as a new gift to Biola. The service, titled “Extravagant Gifts,” highlighted the history of the art program and the people who contributed to the development...

(This story was originally published in print on Oct. 31, 2019). Bardwell Hall was once full of chemistry labs, microscopes and cadavers, up until the sciences moved to the Alton and Lydia Lim Center for Science, Technology and Health in 2018. As of Oct. 21, renovations on the 60-year-old building...

On April 27, a pentagram—the symbol often associated with satanic or occult imagery—appeared on the door of the Earl & Virginia Art Gallery. The image, which senior studio art major Ludo Krabbendam used as the show title for his senior showcase exhibit, was promptly removed by the art department...

Ashley Logue is getting eaten alive. She is not the only one, either. The junior and her fellow art majors have been dealing with an infestation of mosquitoes in and around several lower campus art buildings over the past few weeks. These mosquitoes, from the Aedes genus, are more commonly known as...

Last semester, the art department let the people swing. This semester, art students are redefining nap time. The area that was occupied by swings last spring 2018 has returned this fall, with hammocks. Students can take a study break or a nap on the new hammock pop-up on the south side of campus thanks...

As many students’ stress levels increase in the wake of finals, they can now take a study break on a set of swings in south campus due to design students’ new installation, “Let the People Swing.” “It’s really joyful and it reminds you of childhood,” said Sarah Scholl, senior education...

Sophomore studio arts major Hannah McLaughlin was in her typography class when a flood of art students rushed into the Mac lab, each of them vying for the use of one of the precious computers. So many students had come in that her professor had to ask them to give priority to those taking the class. Art...