LINDSBORG – Local and area students will show their artistic abilities during the annual Bethany College Messiah Festival Juried Student Art Exhibition next week.
The exhibition opens Monday and will continue through April 17 in the Mingenback Art Center gallery on the corner of Olsson and Second Street on the Bethany College campus. The show will exhibit works by local women artists from the Sandzen collection as well as those of the Bethany College students.
Featured works for this year’s student exhibition were chosen by juror, Valerie Haring. Haring is a life-long Kansan and currently the chair of the Art Department at Butler Community College, where she attended as an undergraduate and has taught for nearly 30 years. She earned her BSE from Emporia State University and an MA from Wichita State University. Haring is a painter who also creates assemblages, sculpture, photography, and digital prints. She traces her interest in art from her childhood, where she loved to “find” objects and assemble odds-and-ends into artistic creations. In her current work Valerie utilizes a striped composition and her intellectual, personal, and artistic discoveries are manifest in the artwork she makes.
Works could be submitted by any student, so long as the work was created since the last Messiah exhibition. Work could be submitted for 2D, 3D, Design/Photography, or Digital Arts categories. Haring chose works based on what she considered to be a good fit for this exhibition, and selected art works from the following students:
Marcus Ruiz, Austin, Texas, senior
Lydia Nicholson, Hesston, senior
Jeannette Crossno, Hutchinson, senior
Katherine Fowler, Spearville, senior
Zephra Rice, McPherson, sophomore
Halle Giddings, McPherson, sophomore
Keri Woodburn, Wichita, senior
Antonia Waggoner, Salina, freshman
Rebekah Roach, Melvern, senior
Emerald McGlashan, Wellington,New Zealand, junior
David Williams, Lee Summit, Mo., junior
Trevor Kemp, El Dorado, senior
Hailey Snyder, Sterling, Neb., freshman
Indigo Guise, Salina, freshman
Best of Show will be awarded to Katherine Fowler, for Branch Teapot. Best of 2D will go to Lydia Nicholson, for Frog Melody. The Best of 3D award will go to Zephra Rice, for Rainforest Tea Set. Several other awards will be announced at the Juried Student Art Exhibition awards ceremony reception at 4:30 p.m. April 5 in the Mingenback Art Center gallery.
The Juried Student Art Exhibition is part of the Messiah Festival of the Arts, the celebration of sacred music, theatre and art at Bethany College. Every year since 1882, the Bethany Oratorio Society has presented Messiah at the college. The society has performed Messiah across the plains, in Carnegie Hall, and on national television.
For a full listing of special events and exhibits during the Messiah Festival of the Arts, visit www.messiahfestival.org.