Katie Waters to present retrospective view of her artwork during her time with USI

The University of Southern Indiana College of Liberal Arts will host the final Liberal Arts Faculty Colloquium for the Spring 2019 semester featuring professor and chair of the USI Art Department, Katie Waters, at 3 p.m. on Friday, April 12 in Kleymeyer Hall in the lower level of the Liberal Arts Center.

Waters has taught painting and drawing at USI since the fall of 1981. In this, her last semester at USI, she will present a retrospective view of the artwork she has created in her almost four decades at the University.

Waters earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from Ohio University and a bachelor's degree in art education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A recipient of many fellowships and artist residencies, she was honored with the USI's Distinguished Professor Award in 2015.

Her work has been exhibited widely at the national and regional levels, including Mind, Spirit: 12 Contemporary Indiana Women Artists at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Her drawings and paintings also appear in many corporate, university, museum and private collections, including The Evansville Museum.

Each fall and spring semester, USI faculty members from the College of Liberal Arts present individual, free public lectures featuring their current research. To see the current lineup of speakers and past presentations, visit USI.edu/liberal-arts/special-programs/liberal-arts-faculty-colloquia

For more information contact Dr. Sri Dandotkar, assistant professor of psychology, at 812-464-1952 or sdandotkar@usi.edu.