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And the arts have played a pivotal role at Eureka College since it's founding in 1855. Nearly 40% of the student body gets involved in the arts here in some significant way and there's good reason for that - we're winners! Our reputation is national and our students go on to professional careers in the arts and attend some of the finest graduate schools in the country. We stress overseas study and internships but our specialty is YOU. That's right - YOU. YOU will always be a person - an artist - to us and we will become your friends and mentors for life. Check out our scholarships - we want students who are intelligent AND talented. For quality, professionalism and a personal touch - this is the place.

Rhea Edge
Professor of Art
Chair, Fine and Performing Arts

"Can conscience, ethics, social justice, and faith coexist with adventure, ask, excitement, and even fun?  I believe they can." - Rhea Edge

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Rhea Edge - Chair, Fine & Performing Arts

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The head of the division

Professor of Art, Chair of the Fine and Performing Arts Division and President of the John Wesley Powell Chapter of the National Audubon Society, Rhea Edge has a strong commitment to education, conservation and art expression. She offers course work in several media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, design, and photography. As a freshman Seminar team leader, she has guided student in-service projects in local land restoration. Her work as an environmental painter, produced at The Beluga Press Studio in Bloomington, Illinois, has been widely exhibited, winning awards and major purchases. Ms. Edge received her B.S., in Art Education, M.S. in Printmaking and Painting at Illinois State University and, completed graduate course work at the Brooklyn Museum in New York towards before earning a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Design.

Ms. Edge is the 2004 winner of the Helen Cleaver Distinguished Teach Award.