Students play video games, draw at Tarble After Hours party
Kyara Morales, Staff Reporter
March 6, 2020
Students explored art exhibitions, grabbed snacks, listened to music and played board games Thursday evening during the Tarble Arts Center’s After Hours party. A Wii was provided, allowing the attendees to play games projected on a wall. Attendees also got the chance to make their own art with...
Students perform in ‘Art Speaks’ series
Samad Fawole, Contributing Writer
March 5, 2020
A show at the Tarble Arts Center featured four students and three types of performance Wednesday night. The first performance consisted of two groups of two individuals moving and placing an object in different corners of the room, which Brendan Fernades, an internationally recognized Canadian contemporar...
FEATURE PHOTO: Snacks and a movie at Tarble
Elizabeth Wood, Photo Editor
November 19, 2019
Tim Abel, the museum education manager and organizer of the event, watches the documentary “The Central Park Five” as he keeps track of the snack table at the Tarble Arts Center on Tuesday evening. Abel said this is the third movie Tarble has shown this fall semester to challenge students to think abo...
400th commemoration continues in Doudna
Zoë Donovan, Staff Reporter
September 10, 2019
Amber Johnson, an Associate Professor of Communications at Saint Louis University brought in three experiences for students, faculty and community members at Eastern’s campus on Tuesday. Johnson’s events focus on the idea of radical imagination and radical forgiveness. Johnson is also resp...
Children’s traveling art show on display at Carnegie Public Library
Zoë Donovan, Staff Reporter
June 20, 2019
Members of the community can visit Cultivating Creativity, a traveling art show that highlights student art from local area schools, at the Charleston Carnegie Public Library until July 7. Cultivating Creativity displays 44 works of student art from 33 different area schools, ranging from primary...
FEATURE PHOTO: Unwinding at the pavilion
Raine Zhu, Photographer
June 18, 2019
Heather Davis, 42, and Hannah Hudson, 14, relax in the pavilion outside the Tarble Arts Center Tuesday afternoon. Davis said they come to the pavilion because it makes them feel peaceful. Hudson said they also usually bring lunch when they visit.
Tarble After Hours set for Wednesday
Logan Raschke, News Editor
April 23, 2019
Students can unwind over food and music at the Tarble After Hours party Wednesday night. Tim Abel, the museum education manager at the Tarble Arts Center, said this party is the perfect opportunity for students, staff and anyone else in the community to relax and have fun. He said with it being...
Tarble to display graduate students’ artwork
Morgan Bledsoe, Contributing Writer
April 22, 2019
Students can appreciate original artwork that graduate students in the studio art program have created for their master’s theses at the Graduate Art Exhibition at the Main Galleries of the Tarble Arts Center starting Wednesday with a reception on Friday. The work on exhibit is courtesy of 10 gradua...
Curator to discuss job, female contemporary female artists at Tarble Arts Center
Logan Raschke, Campus Reporter
November 29, 2018
Visiting scholar Miranda Lash will discuss what she does as a curator of contemporary art with students Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in the atrium of the Tarble Arts Center. Other subjects Lash said she is eager to discuss will be female contemporary artists and their work. According to Eastern’s website, ...
Tarble movie showing highlights women’s rights issues in Afghanistan
Malik Smith, Contributing Writer
November 28, 2018
The Tarble Arts Center held a showing for “The Breadwinner” on Tuesday. Released in November of 2017 and nominated for an Oscar in 2018, the movie gives an animated detail of the female perspective during the Taliban rule in 2001. The film follows the main character named Parvana as she goes about...
Students can make ugly art, drink wine, talk at Tarble event
Dee Luter, Contributing Writer
November 7, 2018
Ugly Art Paint ‘n Sip, a day of open conversation and pasta sauce, will be held in the Tarble Arts Center Thursday from 6 to 7 p.m. Tim Abel, museum and education manager, started working at Eastern in July of 2018. “I wanted to work at Eastern Illinois University because they really respect wh...
Families can create art at Tarble Arts Extravaganza
Karena Ozier, Staff Reporter
September 20, 2018
The Tarble Arts Center is hosting their annual Tarble Arts Extravaganza alongside Family Weekend on Saturday, starting at 1 p.m. in Tarble’s atrium. Riley Snyder, a student worker at Tarble, said three activities will be available at Tarble for students and their families to engage with. Model printing ...
