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UST Student Mary MacArthur Publishes Artwork
12/8/2010
 University of St. Thomas senior Mary MacArthur recently had two illustrations published in the American Chesterton Society’s Gilbert Magazine and has been invited to blog with the Catholic Illustrator’s Guild’s blog Small Pax.
As a theology major with minors in studio arts and English, MacArthur credits her UST education for much of her artistic success.
“The studio arts classes at UST have caused an immense improvement in my skills and in finding my style,” MacArthur said. “The theology and English classes have fruitfully provided a sense of inspiration and new ways of putting ideas together. Dr. Clinton Brand’s class ‘Opening to Transcendence: Rediscovering Symbolism’ was especially inspiring.”
One of MacArthur’s published illustrations, a chalk and conte portrait of St. Lucy, was a final project in her Intermediate Life Drawing class at UST.
“The art editor for Gilbert magazine announced on the Small Pax blog that they were putting together an art issue and called for contributions, so I decided to try it out,” MacArthur said. “When I turned in my contributions, they invited me to become part of the blog.”
MacArthur has been studying art seriously since the age of 13 and hopes to make a career out of it.
“I’ve previously designed some greeting cards for a charity called Let the Children Live and I’ve sold some things at charity silent auctions,” MacArthur said. “I want to become an illustrator or religious artist, doing art for churches, children’s books, and maybe graphic novels.”
The UST Studio Arts Program allows students to experience the best of two campuses. All art history coursework is taken on the UST campus, and all studio arts coursework is taken at the Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston campus, located only five blocks from UST in the Museum District. The Program provides students with an extensive background in theory, aesthetics and practice in the visual arts and prepares them for careers as professional artists, designers, teachers, museum curators, gallery directors and illustrators.
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