七位高年级学生展示艺术作品

The show features the work of seven seniors, each with varying interests. They are Marianne Benson, Chadron; Erica Eisenbraun, Wall, S.D.; 特拉维斯法伯尔, Big Springs; Rachel Kruse, St. Paul; 梅丽莎·纳尔逊, Rapid City, S.D.; Travis Peak, Douglas, Wyo.; and 梅根Schefcik, Alliance. The work includes watercolor, oil, pencil, photography, glass and pottery.

他们必须制作一张海报, 作为课堂作业的一部分, distribute it and information to news sites, 准备他们的作品, hang and light everything themselves and even repaint the white pillars holding the sculpture—for every show.

Once the art work is hung, cards and artist statements must be made and hung as well. This semester’s senior show took approximately 16 hours to put together, not including the individual work on the art.

Sometimes all it takes is one source of inspiration to motivate a person in to a field of study. For these students, there was always someone in their life prodding them to do better.

Benson is a graphic design major who was motivated to begin art after seeing her sister’s painting of a deer. “I thought that was so cool and became interested in trying it,” she said. She enjoyed printmaking classes but hopes to pursue photography in the future.

Eisenbraun was brought to art through a high school teacher, Ms. 美国沃尔的莱斯特.D. Her work often centers on her faith, which is apparent in her glass room divider that took her over three weeks of in and out of class time to complete, and she hopes that everyone can draw something from her art even if they aren’t religious. She enjoys photography the most and hopes to incorporate it into a graphic design field.

The ability to make someone smile is why Faber chose to pursue art. “I like to make people happy with my cartoons and funny artwork,” he said. The bold borders he places around characters in his work outline his comic book style. “This art show doesn’t represent me as much as a newspaper comic strip would,” he said. His major is also graphic design and hopes to work for a newspaper or advertising company, and maybe start a cartoon strip of his own some day.

Childhood curiosity captured Kruse at a young age, and her mother encouraged her by buying her art supplies and enrolling her in art classes as a child. 现在, majoring in graphic design and two-dimensional art, and working for the Chadron Record to gain experience, Kruse enjoys stain glass and painting the most. Her art is not drawn from her personal life as much as what interests her. She loves tigers and used them as a subject in a painting and a stain glass; the glass took her about three weeks in and out of class time to complete.

Nelson found art by looking through old artwork of her mother’s, and decided she wanted to try it. “After seeing her work I realized it was something I could do,” she said. At Steven’s High School in Rapid City, Nelson took every art class offered and was an active member of their art guild. This is the first year she has tried watercolor and it has become one of her favorite mediums, 还有陶瓷, 对她来说也是一种全新的艺术形式. Her plans are to become a college art professor or run a gallery.

It’s all in the family for Schefcik, 有两个祖父, several aunts and uncles and a mother for artists, it seemed natural for her to take up art. She enjoys experimenting in different types of art, which she does by choosing a subject and using it in several types of artwork. All the work in the show was done within the last year. “Doing all new work for the show has been my greatest achievement,” she said. She’s a two-dimensional art major who hopes to become a professionally paid artist and travel. Her artists statement, clearly the shortest of the group’s, states, “Go and do art.” It was written to inspire people to focus on their creative side and not hers, she said.

A scholarship is what brought Peak to art at Chadron. “I got an art scholarship and wanted to keep it,” so he began majoring in art and physical education. He became interested in art at an early age and it progressed with the help Ms. Sonya Seige, his elementary through high school art teacher. His preferred art style is with pencil or printmaking and his art reflects something real, 借鉴个人经验.

演出于4月5日星期一开始.