An art exhibit featuring works by 11 students in Dr. Carolyn Albracht’s Art 316 course, Secondary School Art, at Wayne State College, opened Dec. 10 at the Peterson Fine Arts Building on the Wayne State College campus in Wayne.
As a demonstration of their learning in the course over the past semester, students were tasked with creating an exhibition to communicate with a wider audience than is typically possible inside the classroom walls.
The featured student artist-teachers are: Destynni Hendrickson (Saint Edward); Savannah Nelson (Columbus); Atlas Wemhoff (Columbus); Kellan Meyers (Sargent Bluff, Iowa); Perla Ramirez Castllio (Grand Island); Hannah Vech (Wahoo); Eryn Hull (Scribner); Ruby Golyar (Omaha); Jazmyne Roach (Blair); Brooke Daughenbaugh (Neola, Iowa); and Lainey Palmer (Broken Bow).
In addition to selecting artworks created for various assignments over the course of the semester, students elected to include photographs of two teaching experiences they had with area high school students: a sidewalk chalk mural lesson with Wayne High School students, and unit plans they taught to Vermillion High School students. Artworks included in the exhibit are students’ explorations and expressions of various ideas, such as artist-teacher identity, studio thinking, communicating what their passion is in art education, and the history of teaching art in the US. At the gallery visitors will note that the students selected to start with teaching art throughout US history.
The public is invited and encouraged to visit the exhibit at Wayne State College, Peterson Fine Arts Building, Room 203. The exhibit includes an interactive component in which visitors are invited to sign as they exit the gallery. Viewing hours are open Monday - Friday through Dec. 23, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. The building will be closed for the holidays and reopens Jan. 2.
For more information about the exhibit, contact Dr. Carolyn Albracht (caalbra1@wsc.edu or 402-454-5144).
