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2024, “Student to Artist: In Pursuit of the Artistic Practice”
Artist, educator, and pioneering art therapist Mary Huntoon graduated from Washburn College in 1920. She then moved to New York to study under influential artists Joseph Pennell and Robert Henri. In the 1920s and 30s, she created art throughout Europe and in Topeka. She then served as the director of the Federal Art Project in Kansas. She also taught etching and painting at Washburn and worked as an art instructor at the Menninger Clinic. She was the founding director of the Department of Art, Physical Medicine, and Rehabilitation at Winter Veterans Administration Hospital.