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If you love to create art,
come to Cowley College
All High School Students are invited to enjoy a day of the performing and visual arts at Cowley College on March 7, 2012.
Compete for Art and Design Scholarships
Enter the competition for a full tuition and books scholarship
(valued at $4,750.00)!
Seniors in High School are encouraged to exhibit in the Prodigy Arts Awards competition for an Art & Design scholarships. Go to Scholarships for additional nformation.
Compete for Cash Vouchers
and Awards
Prodigy Art Awards competition
All High School art students are encouraged to compete in the Prodigy Art Awards competition.
Senior Division - open to all High School seniors.
Junior Division - open to all High School freshmen, sophomores, and juniors.
$150.00 cash voucher will be awarded to the Best of Show in four categories.
Medals for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places will be awarded for all Art & Design categories.
Go to Prodigy Awards for more information.
Go to Art & Design categories for descriptions of all categories.
Go to Guidelines and Timeline for specific rules, dates, labels and inventory forms.
If you love to express yourself through fine art...
Choose Cowley College
We have wonderful facilities and instructors for Art and Design at Cowley College. Work with some of the best artists in the state. Learn techniques to advance your skills and polish your talents.
Art students at Cowley have the flexibility to incorporate into their program the types of work they are interested in, while learning the basic fundamentals or execution and design. Students are encouraged to take on special design projects for the college and other groups, in addition to work done for themselves such as designing and selling personal work. Art students show their work in displays on campus and at special college events.
The Associate of Arts degree from Cowley offers an introduction to various artistic media. Drawing, design, painting, sculpture and ceramics are courses that illustrate the artistic diversity to students. General education courses such as art appreciation, history, literature and problems in art help round out the art major's years at Cowley. Elective courses give students an opportunity to construct individualized programs.
Click here to learn more about the Art program at Cowley College.
Meet our Art Instructors
Mike Fell
Ceramics, Sculpture, Design and Art Appreciation
Contact information:
Office: Kerr Technical Building
Phone: (620) 441-5235
E-mail: fell@cowley.edu
About Mike:
Mike is a native Kansan who spent his childhood on the family farm in western Kansas and his high school years on a ranch in the Flint Hills. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in both Art and Biology from Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas.
He graduated as valedictorian of both his high school (Dexter, Ks.) and college classes and taught both Art and Biology at the middle school and high school levels in Winfield for 27 years before coming to Cowley to teach Art and Design.
Mike currently specializes in stone, clay, and metal sculpture and has received several awards in juried competitions for his work. He has also served as an Arts judge in a variety of local art competitions including the Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival, Winfield Art in the Park, and the Arkansas City Prairie Fest.
Fell’s works blend his love of nature and natural forms and his reverence for life and its multiple expressions. From simple abstract forms whose flowing shapes and contrasting textures invite a person to touch, to the intricate details of the human face, Fell’s works blend reality and imagination in a manner which invites the viewer to stop and participate in the experience.
“I am both a teacher and a student. I enjoy learning from my students as well as sharing what I know with them. Together we both grow.” “Creating art helps me to connect the reality and spirituality (essence) of what I see around me. It allows me to go beyond replication and truly create images which exist only in the mind’s eye.” “ Helping my students to create their own visual expressions of the world in which they live is , for me, what the Cowley experience is all about.”
Mark Flickinger
Painting, Drawing and Art History
Contact information:
Office: Kerr Technical Building
Phone: (620) 441-5255
E-mail: flickinger@cowley.edu
About Mark:
Mark Flickinger, a California native, earned a Bachelor's degree in Painting and Drawing from WSU, and a Master's in Painting from Indiana University. He has shown his work in many galleries across the country, including Axis in Philadelphia, Browns in Boise, Idaho and Jay-Addington in Chicago, as well as having solo exhibitions at Exhibit A Gallery, Savannah GA.
Flickinger has been represented by Ruschman Gallery in Indianapolis for the past 15 years. He also shows currently at American Legacy in Kansas City and locally over the years at Clayton Staples, Trish Higgins and Fiber Arts. His paintings are included in many private public collections across America and abroad.
Flickinger’s oil painting titled “Cedars and Snow” was recently purchased by the Governor of Kansas office. Along with the painting being displayed in the Governor’s mansion, the painting will be used as the Christmas card, which the Governor’s Office will send out to more than 28,000 homes world wide.
The subject of Mark’s work is a study of light effects in nature as expressed through color and texture. He finds in the Kansas landscape a source that is wondrous and fair. Infinite in possibilities both subtle and sublime.
One of Mark's favorite quotes is by Henry David Thoreau as he describes his view of landscape: "There is as much beauty in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate. Not a grain more"
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