Work of Senior Art Majors on Display at Museum

You can find out what some art majors have been working on for months at an exhibition on display at the Art Museum through May 25.

<<< Frances Perkins Scholar Patricia Belanger's untitled oil painting is one of the standout pieces in an exhibition of work by senior art majors. The intensely colored images in this painting come from storybook characters Belanger created for her children.

Student artists whose work is part of the exhibition include: Patricia Belanger, Sarah Dolan, Anna Greenfeld, Katherine Kelly, Jana McQuilkin, Nicole Mathers, Shira Melenson, Nadee Harshi Nissanka, Bianca Partee, Selina Valade, and Samantha Williams. All the submitted artworks were done to complete requirements for the art major.

The exhibit encompasses figurative and nonrepresentational styles in a variety of media including painting, prints, and sculpture. There's a metal-mesh and plastic-tubing chair, and assemblages incorporating everything from tree limbs and rope to wallpaper and bubble wrap. Among the particularly intriguing pieces are Samantha Williams's arrangement of one hundred wax horses on ten shelves reaching exactly one hundred inches high, and Patricia Belanger's colorful paintings, which incorporate bird images rendered in a style reminiscent of Northwest Native American peoples' art.