Senior art exhibit highlights student talent
Photo Credit: Sophie Saks
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Lindsey Trettin, staff writer
January 27, 2012
Filed under News, Top Stories
Six seniors are getting the chance to show off their artwork in the Senior Art Exhibit that will be on display until Feb. 24 in the Rasmussen Center gallery.
The crowd at the reception last Friday, Jan. 20, was mixed with the artists’ friends, family, Grand View alumni, students, staff and community members.
Mimi Solum, art education senior, said, “Most people were asking what my pieces were about and how I came up with the idea and how I went about making it.”
Each student was asked to show four to five pieces based on forming their own ideas that best represented them as an artist.
“The exhibit is good experience on how to learn to hang a show,” Jolynn Reigeluth, visual arts senior, said. “It seems a lot simpler than it really is.”
Print media can take days to weeks for the students to finish and sculpture pieces can take up to a month.
“I start with an idea and I go from there,” Reigeluth said. “Your first idea is never the best and the more you work with it the more it becomes what you are after. It grows into something better.”
Reigeluth says her favorite pieces are her mixed media ones. It is a pre-show of what her and Solum will offer in their 3D gallery from May – August.
Most of the students will put their items displayed in the gallery up for sale.
Artisits included in the display include: Thomas Burman, graphic design senior; Meghan Clark, graphic design senior; Allie Quirk, graphic design senior; Mimi Solum, art education senior, Jolynn Reigeluth, visual arts senior; and Elizabeth VanderSchel, visual arts senior.
The exhibit is a requirement of the visual arts program.
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