Charles Gick, Associate Professor of Visual and Performing Arts, received his M.F,A, from Northwestern University in 1993 and holds a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute (1989). Professor Gick offers classes in drawing, painting and installation. His recent work is interdisciplinary in nature, as it combines video, performance, painting, photography and assemblage. Recent exhibitions of his work include solo installations: Ritual-Myth-Dirt-Spit at the I-Space Gallery in Chicago (2003-2004) and Earth, Air, Skin and Household Objects at the Brauer Museum at Valparaiso University (2002). His work was included in the Binational Exhibition at the Paraguauyan American Cultural Center and U.S. Embassy in Paraguay (2003). In 2004, Professor Gick will have an installation in a show for the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (held at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis) and work in a show at the Colorado Museum of Contemporary Art.