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.”
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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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