Margaret Eccles Yost Named Director of Visual Arts at The Attic Institute
Art alum Margaret Eccles Yost has been named a senior fellow and director of The Attic
Institute's new visual arts program.
Known as a hub and haven for writers, The Attic is expanding into the visual arts.
The new visual arts program will offer workshops, or "assemblages," to beginning,
emerging and established artists beginning January 2013.
Margaret Eccles Yost emerged in the late 1980s as a visual artist in Portland. Her
work can be found in public and private art collections both in the United States
and abroad, and has been seen in numerous exhibitions worldwide in galleries, on-site
installations, museums and film festivals. Interviews and reviews of her work have
been featured in Art in America, The New York Times, The Oregonian, The New Jersey
Star Ledger, Willamette Week and other national publications.
She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Marylhurst University and a Master of
Fine Arts degree from Rutgers University.
Dr. Susan Carter, interim chair of the MA in Interdisciplinary Studies Department, was named vice president of the Pacific Northwest Region of the American Academy of Religion / Society of Biblical Literature in May 2013.
Dr. Libby Farr
Faculty Receive Innovation Grants
Marylhurst faculty received "excellence and innovation" grants supporting work in business, interior design, art, sustainability and music therapy.