Major in Art & Illustration
Become an artist • Develop your personal style • Impact the world
John Brown University
2000 W. University St.,
Siloam Springs, AR 72761
479-524-9500
jbuinfo@jbu.edu
What are you looking for?
Become an artist • Develop your personal style • Impact the world
You develop both the conceptual and technical skills you need to create high-quality work in the art and illustration major. As you learn from talented artists in the field at JBU, you will build a marketable portfolio that exemplifies your versatility and range of abilities.
Start your applicationExplore various art styles and ways of expressing your creative voice by engaging with state-of-the-art resources and professional artists.
Learn the technical skillsets and philosophies of numerous art styles and means of expression to produce engaging and authentic work.
Produce high-quality pieces of work for a versatile and adaptable portfolio that seniors will present at the JBU Portfolio Show.
Art and illustration majors have all the necessary resources and opportunities to find their creative style, learn adaptable techniques and produce marketable and proficient pieces of art.
Our three art buildings include two three-story facilities featuring classrooms, a theater, two galleries, photo and cinema studios, Mac labs and a printmaking workshop. The Studio Project Barn features a state-of-the-art photo studio, drawing and painting classrooms, a woodshop, a ceramics studio and individual artist stations.
At JBU, your faculty will encourage you to use your talents for the glory of God. In every class and every career, our desire is to honor Him.
Every year, seniors display their best work for potential employers at the JBU Portfolio Show, which draws a large group of recruiters as well as hundreds of friends and family.
Old family photographs have long been a deep inspiration and nearly endless resource for my artwork. These images of close kinfolk and distant relatives are icons for me, symbols of a Native American identity that is not seen as “traditional,” but is just as valid and vital to me—a tradition of Indian Christianity and mission schools that has been a part of my family history for generations. I base many of my works on photographs that belonged to my full-blood Indian grandmother, my aunts, my mother—images found in shoe boxes, forgotten in the bottoms of drawers, or found among the tattered black pages of old leather-bound photo albums. The photographs have very personal meanings for me as the artist, but I have found also that there is an almost universal recognition among viewers of a sense of history and identity, evoking memories of their own family’s past. My art aims to return the viewer to a specific moment in time—not a monumental or historic moment, just a simple, personal moment in one man’s family history. While it may be possible to peel back or peer around the layers in these works to reveal deeper intent, it may be just as possible to look at these works and think about a favorite aunt or Granny’s old Ford truck. My hope is for my art to become like an old family photograph—perhaps cherished, perhaps stuffed in a box in the attic—but always able to evoke memories every time it is viewed.
Professor of Visual Arts; Art Gallery Coordinator; Peer Endowed Chair (Year 1 of 3)
Mr. Peter Pohle grew up in Berlin, Germany where he received his initial art training as an apprentice in the biggest printing house in Berlin. He earned a B.A. equivalent degree in Visual Communication at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. He worked for nine years as an artist in the media department of Campus Crusade for Christ in Germany. It was at Campus Crusade that he met his wife Becky. Peter and Becky Pohle have three daughters.
Since 1997, the Pohle's have been living in the United States, where Mr. Pohle worked as a freelance illustrator, fine artist in oil painting, and full-time staff designer at Dayspring Cards and Hallmark Cards.
Mr. Pohle has extended experience in the traditional as well as digital art. He enjoys the range of working on the computer modeling in 3D or illustrating in Photoshop. In his free time and summer break he works in traditional media with oils and oil pastel.
Art work appeared in:
- Expose 10, Ballistic Publishing
- Expose 11, Ballistic Publishing
- 3D World Magazine, Future Publishing
- The Society of Illustrators 36th Annual of American Illustration, 1994
- Governor’s Invitational Art Show of Loveland Colorado, 1994, 1995
- Print’s regional design annual, 1992
- Book cover design and illustration Gold Medallion Book Award, Evangelical Christian Publishers Association
Professor of Visual Arts
Equip yourself for a successful career and a life of purpose.
John Brown University
2000 W. University St., Siloam Springs, AR 72761
479-524-9500 jbuinfo@jbu.edu
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