Recent Student Work
Craft with Intent
Content drives process developing practice,
even if content is decidedly no content more…
NCECA Alt-White Exhibition
JU Arts + National Artists = Social Commentary
We exhibited 30+original plates as Tongue & Cheek Whitehouse China.
View show alt-white.weebly.com
For the love of art: non-art majors excel as Dana Tupa guides them past “Please don’t make me draw”
Phillip Milano and Dana C. Tupa
February 14, 2017
Division of Visual Arts Chair Dana C. Tupa wanted to jolt her non-art students into getting past their fears and tapping into their creativity in her Underglaze Carving Ceramics class.
What better way than to have a colleague in the division learn the fine details of an unfamiliar art form right in front of them in class? more…
Thirty-Nine Stars: JU students and faculty bring their art to the community at Jacksonville Zoo
Dana Tupa, edited by James Nasella
December 6, 2016
Each holiday season thousands of lights transform the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens into a luminous winter wonderland where zoo guests have the opportunity to view sculptures and performances by local artists.
This year, as part of the Division of Visual Arts’ commitment to professionals-in-training, professors Tiffany Leach and Dana Tupa challenged students to team design and fabricate 39 luminaries for a 30-foot throughway at the zoo. more…
Professors Tupa, Leach and students once again working with Empty Bowls project
James Nasella, edited by Dana Tupa
November 4, 2016
Two professors from the College of Fine Arts and some of their students are teaming up to once again participate in the 26th Empty Bowls project to help raise awareness about hunger in our area.
Division of Visual Arts Chair Dana Tupa and Assistant Professor for Visual Arts Tiffany Leach are leading student and faculty efforts by making ceramic bowls to donate to the annual Empty Bowls luncheon scheduled Nov. 14. more…
Small scale art part of bigger picture for Professor Tupa
James Nasella
October 11, 2016
Another commissioned ceramic piece in another law firm is small in scale, but also part of an increasingly big picture for Professor of Fine Arts and Division Chair Dana Tupa.
Tupa, who works with Soren Christensen Gallery in New Orleans and has several corporate considerations, recently added to her Floor Sweeps project as commissioned by the Chicago firm Levin Schreder Carey. more…
