The time-honored tradition of senior art exhibits allows senior visual arts majors to showcase their work over the past four years. Next week, three seniors will have the opportunity to show Ouachita what their four years of painting, sculpting and designing have culminated in.
Treslyn Shipley, Katelyn Smith and Amanda Bunting will showcase artwork as part of their senior art shows beginning November 17.
Bunting, a graphic arts major and minor in mass communications, says she’s excited to showcase her show, which features different elements involved in its design, but all tied together through the use of signed letters. Her show, titled “Sincerely, Art,” is a call to observers to connect with the art they see.
“There is going to be, for each artwork in the gallery, a shelf with a letter on it for the audience to actually open and read,” said Bunting. “It’ll have all the information about the artwork, but it’ll be coming from the perspective of Art.”
Smith, an art education major, focused her repition show on tying educational themes with her show. Titled “The Artist Will,” Smith’s show emphasizes how art ties to concepts taught to education majors.
“In education, you write out an objective on what the student will learn,” Smith said, “and you finish it with how they’re going to learn it. I basically took that idea and made objectives for myself.”
Shipley’s show, titled “We Are Art,” is her appeal to the on-campus audience mainly comprised of students. The exhibit features 100 portraits of Ouachita members, directly appealing to students in how familiar it is as well as the opportunities they have had to have their faces painted for the show.
“Portraiture is a practice that is historically saved for the wealthy and elite, and therefore few have the opportunity to have their portrait painted in their lifetime,” said Shipley, a studio art major and minor in mass communications.
“However, because we are the Lord’s cherished children and heirs to His Kingdom, we inherit riches that far surpass a mere portrait.”
Shipley will host her exhibit in the Hammons Gallery, located in the Mabee Fine Arts Center.
Smith and Bunting will host their shows in the Mary Gossett Adams Gallery, located in Moses Provine, with Smith’s exhibit on the first floor and Bunting’s on the second. There will be a reception for all three artists on November 19 at 6 p.m.
