Welcome to the Mindscape

By Dinema Mate

Seniors Savannah Weidauer, 21, from Pleasant Grove, Utah, Martina Julhin, 22, from Walthill, Colorado, and Jessica Rawlings, 23, from Kimball, starred in CSC’s Spring 2019 Senior Art Show.  

The art work ranged from expressive oil and acrylic paintings, self-portraits, clay pieces and photography to an intervention sculpture based on the high school shootings across the US, created to make people stop and think about society. Both two and three-dimensional pieces were featured in the show. 

“My favorite piece was my self-portrait, ‘The Color of Her Life,’” said Weidauer said pointing at a colorful and dynamic work of oil painting. Weidauer will graduate in May with a Graphic Design option.

Juhlin, an Art Studio major, nominated “When We All Fall Asleep” as her favorite, a provocative, avant-garde, oil painting. Julin will graduate in December with an Art Studio major and a minor in psychology.

Rawlings, a Graphic Design major with an option in Marketing/Entrepreneurship, named her favorite piece “Faux Mountains of Burrowers Bohemia,” a sprawling, life-like mountain sculpture reminiscent of the cave-structured living of different people. Rawlings will graduate in December with a Graphic Design option and a minor in marketing/entrepreneurship.

The event attracted current students, members of the general public and former CSC students.  Communication, Art, Music and Theatre professor Laura Bentz described the artists’ selection process,  noting that although she may have bias she knows how difficult the choices can be.

  “As the instructor who worked with the artists I could be biased,” Bentz said. “But there is no denying that the students had to make tough choices in selecting the art work that would showcase their work for the past two years”. 

The artwork exhibited was the culmination of planning that spanned throughout the first half of the semester. Two weeks of work and coordination resulted in the reception and gallery showing.  

The exhibition will run from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, until April 5 in Memorial Hall.