Fine Arts Program

The painting program at IU Southeast provides experience in both acrylic and oil painting techniques. Painting students at IU Southeast develop the ability to manipulate spatial and expressive qualities in their work through paint application, color, and drawing. Students are also encouraged to explore representation, abstraction, and experimental image-making and techniques. The resident faculty member in painting has an extensive background in traditional and modern painting techniques. Students in the program learn traditional skills involving surface preparation and glazing, as well as more recent techniques involving digital imaging. Painting is one of the oldest mediums in the visual arts and is still considered one of the cornerstones of an artist’s education.

• Painting Faculty
• Painting Facilities
• Painting Courses
• Painting Degree Checksheet
• Painting Student Work

• Debra Clem
• M.F.A., Pennsylvania State University
• Teaching Painting
• dclem@ius.edu
• Debra Clem's Personal Homepage

Debra Clem is a Professor of Fine Arts. She has taught fine arts at the college level for more than thirty years. Debra also maintains the Painting Guide, an online painting manual for her students. She is a member of FACET (Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching) and is an active visual artist whose works have been exhibited on a local, regional, and national level. She has been awarded seven individual artist grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentuckiana Arts Council, as well as fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. In 2010, Debra received the Museum Guild Purchase Award from the 55th Mid-States artists exhibition at the Evansville Museum. Debra is also the recipient of the university’s 2006 Distinguished Research and Creativity Award.

• Debra Clem's Faculty Work

18-easel facility with both artificial daylight and natural northern light, also includes vented spray booth, and painting storage, floor to ceiling exhibition and presentation surfaces.