Eastern Illinois University’s 2002-2003 annual Art Faculty Exhibition, which features recent art work in a wide variety of media and styles by Eastern’s current, adjunct and emeritus art department faculty members, will begin with a public reception from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Tarble Arts Center.

Represented in this year’s exhibition are art faculty members Jeff Boshart, sculpture; Suzan Braun, weaving; Jenny Chi, painting; David Griffin, metals, Glenn Hild, drawing; William Hubschmitt, digital prints on canvas; Christopher Kahler, painting/drawing; Mary Leonard-Cravens, graphic design; and Charles Nivens, graphic design.

Also participating are Kit Morice, drawing and David Pooley, painting, of the Tarble Arts Center staff; adjunct faculty Dorothy Bennett, mixed media and photography, and Jamie Willis, drawing/watercolor.

The emeritus faculty represented are Carl Emmerich, painting and mixed media and Bill Heyduck, ceramics.

“It’s a good way for students to get an idea of the kind of work the art faculty members create, which could even provide extra content to the class they are taking,” Michael Watts, director of Tarble Arts Center, said.

The newest member of the art faculty is Jenny Chi who teaches painting and drawing and holds a degree from the graduate school of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art, New York City, and a bachelor’s degree from Lewis University, Romeoville. She also attended the Taiwan Junior College of Art, Taiwan, and has studied for the past two summers at the Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy, a press release stated.

Prior to joining Eastern’s faculty, Chi taught at Jacksonville University and the University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Fla. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Florida, Canada, Norway, Taiwan, Japan and Korea. Among her awards received is the Carl Stiensieck Memorial Award for Best Figure Drawing at the St. Augustine Art Association, St. Austine, Fla., a press release stated.

The longest participating artist in the exhibition is Bill Heyduck. Heyduck was featured in a recent issue of “Illinois Issues” magazine and his works range from functional vessels to sculptural works. Though retired from Eastern for a number of years, Heyduck has remained as active as a ceramic artist, a press release said.

When asked about his art, Heyduck said, “I don’t like to talk about my work — I think the work should speak for itself. Each viewer brings his or her own set of life experience into play as they look at any work of art. Their reaction to the work is a rich, personal one and any explanation I might add would be an intrusion and might even seem to invalidate their first response.”

Watts said: “There will be a wide variety of art work, everybody will get something out of coming to see the exhibition.”

The exhibition is co-sponsored by the art department and will continue through Feb. 23 in the main galleries of Tarble Arts Center.