Richard Terrell

Richard Terrell

Richard Terrell has taught art and art history at Doane since 1970. He received a BFA degree from Illinois Wesleyan University, and the MFA from the University of Wisconsin.  His paintings, prints, and

drawings have been exhibited in numerous competitive and solo exhibits, and his artwork is in the collections of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Museum of Nebraska Art, academic collections at Hastings College, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Doane College, and numerous private collections. Terrell maintains a studio in Lincoln's Historic Haymarket district, at the Burkholder Project. Terrell administers the Doane College art collections and the program of the Rall Gallery.

Terrell is the author of numerous book reviews and published essays concerning the interaction between the arts and Christian faith, and is Associate Director of Ad Lib, a Christian arts retreat fellowship that meets annually in Colorado.  He is the author of one published book, "Resurrecting the Third Reich" - a study of the spiritual and aesthetic dimensions of the Nazi epoch in Germany - and contributed a chapter to "The Christian Imagination," edited by Dr. Leland Ryken.

As a performing artist, Terrell has acted in many stage productions for community and academic theatre, including the lead role in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" at Doane College (1974), and a solo performance, "The Wondrous Transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge," an adaptation of Dickens' "Christmas Carol" (Seventh Street Loft Theatre, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2002).