Mr. Baltagi's Pilot Boat, Beirut Harbor

More than two dozen pieces created by Arthur Frick will be featured at an exhibition opening Friday, June 5, at Wartburg College’s Waldemar A. Schmidt Art Gallery.

The show, “Arthur Frick: Selected Works by Wartburg Professor Emeritus,” will run through Friday, Aug. 7. A reception will be Friday, July 10, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Frick, who headed the Wartburg Department of Art for more than 20 years, also spent more than two decades teaching at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon where he headed the school’s art, music and theater programs. At Wartburg, he helped build degree programs in studio art, art education and art and business as well as a program in pre-architecture. He and his wife, Aida Moukheibir Frick, a Lebanese-American artist who taught at Wartburg for 18 years, continue to reside in Waverly following their retirements in the mid-90s.

His work has been shown in art museums, galleries and collections abroad and in the U.S. All pieces included in this exhibit will be available for purchase.  Many items can be viewed at http://faculty.wartburg.edu/frick/.

Frick calls his work a reflection of his generation.

“So many younger artists are willing to deal with secondhand and tertiary experiences. For me, it has to be firsthand,” Frick said. “My background, philosophically, spiritually, morally, the mark of those times in which I developed is very different than now.”

The exhibit is free and open to the public. The gallery, in Bachman Fine Arts Center, is open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily or by appointment during the summer months.