Goshen College Art Department celebrates 50 years with faculty
art exhibit
Art exhibit: 50th Anniversary Goshen College Art
Faculty Exhibit (Sept. 7-Oct. 22)
Dates: Sept. 7-Oct. 22
Reception: Oct. 6, 6-8 p.m.
Location: Hershberger Art Gallery, Goshen College Music
Center
Cost: Free and open to the public
Web site: www.goshen.edu/art
GOSHEN, Ind. – Celebrating its
50th anniversary, the Goshen College Art Department is
currently displaying works by current and former art faculty
members. The exhibit, located in the college’s Hershberger
Art Gallery, features pieces from the beginning, prior to 1955,
when Associate Professor Emeritus of Art Ezra Hershberger began to
develop the art program with only a few students. Since then, the
department has had over 400 students graduate with art degrees.
The exhibit features two or three pieces of art
– in varying mediums – from approximately 16 faculty
artists, and is on display until Oct. 22, with a reception on Oct.
6 from 6 to 8 p.m. Each faculty artist participating in the exhibit
has taught at the college for at least two years.
The anniversary events also include a panel
discussion, open studios by Professors Emeritus of Art Abner
Hershberger and Marvin Bartel and an Afternoon Sabbatical Series
program “Growth of a Dream: The Goshen College Art Department
at 50” on Oct. 10 at 1 p.m. in Sauder Concert Hall.
Prior to 1955, when Hershberger began to build
the program, Goshen College did not offer an art major, though a
few classes were taught. At that time, Mennonite students who
wanted to study art usually had to go elsewhere, such as the nearby
Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. What finally brought an art major to
Goshen was a change in state guidelines toward licensure for
teaching, which began to require preparation to give art
instruction.
Anniversary schedule:
- Oct. 6 – 6-8 p.m., Exhibit
reception, Hershberger Art Gallery
- Oct. 6 – 8:30-10 p.m., Open Art
Studio, Abner Hershberger home studio CANCELLED
- Oct. 7 – 2 p.m., Visions and Revisions
Panel Discussion, Rieth Recital Hall
This discussion will feature
stories from the past 50 years, plus visions for the future.
- Oct. 7 – 3:30-5 p.m., Open Art
Studio, Marvin Bartel home studio
- Oct. 10 – 1 p.m., Afternoon
Sabbatical: Growth of a Dream: The Goshen College Art
Department at 50,” Sauder Concert Hall,
The receptions and open studios will allow for
further informal conversation to continue following the faculty
exhibit reception and panel discussion.
The Hershberger Art Gallery, located in the
Music Center, is open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through
Friday, from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday. The
building is accessible to people using wheelchairs and others with
physical limitations.
Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an
interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College News Bureau
Director Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.
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Goshen College, established in 1894, is a four-year residential
Christian liberal arts college rooted in the Anabaptist-Mennonite
tradition. The college’s Christ-centered core values –
passionate learning, global citizenship, compassionate peacemaking
and servant-leadership – prepare students as leaders for the
church and world. Recognized for its unique Study-Service Term
program, Goshen has earned citations of excellence in Barron’s Best Buys in Education, “Colleges of
Distinction,” Making a Difference College Guide”
and U.S.News & World Report’s
“America’s Best Colleges” edition, which named
Goshen a “least debt college.” Visit www.goshen.edu.