New Goshen College art professors exhibit work in gallery

Exhibit: New Art Faculty – Anne Berry, Kristina Glick and Randy Horst
Dates: Sept. 18-Oct. 25
Location: Hershberger Art Gallery, Goshen College Music Center
Reception: Friday, Oct. 2 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Cost: Free and open to the public

GOSHEN, Ind. – Three new art professors have arrived at Goshen College this fall to teach, and together they are exhibiting their artwork in an exhibit in the Hershberger Art Gallery from Sept. 18 to Oct. 25. An exhibit reception for the new art faculty – Anne Berry, Kristina Glick and Randy Horst – will be held during the college's Homecoming Weekend on Friday, Oct. 2 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. All three of the professors are also Goshen College alumni. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

Berry has worked as a graphic designer since graduating from Goshen in 1999, and received a master of fine arts degree in 2008 from the School of Visual Communication Design at Kent State University. Her graduate work focused on environmental graphic design and she had opportunities to collaborate on way finding and interpretive design projects with other graphic designers as well as architects and urban designers from Chicago and Cleveland. Prior to graduate school, Berry lived in Denver where she became connected with The Spirituals Project (TSP), an organization dedicated to educating others about the historical significance of the music first sung by enslaved Africans in America. Her experience with TSP heavily influenced her approach to art/design and deepened her understanding of the systemic power of music and visual imagery in American culture. Berry continues to work as a freelance graphic designer in addition to teaching.

"Each piece helps show the general progression of ideas, beginning with my documentation of two specific sites in Seattle and leading up to the final design solutions," Berry said. "Hopefully, traces of my creative process – the 'mess' that inevitably informs and permeates my design development – are evident in my work."

Glick's childhood years were spent living in several U.S. states and four countries, giving her a deep love of travel. In 1997, she graduated from Goshen College and then moved to Bolivia were she lived for three years as a voluntary service worker. She earned a master's of fine arts degree from East Carolina University in 2007 and then became a member of the McGuffey Artist Association in Charlottesville, Va. She now teaches enameling, jewelry and design, in addition to working as a studio artist.

"As I work with color, texture, and layering on these pieces I discover many things. Landscapes, echoes of the past, visions of the cosmos, minute details from nature, flights of imagination," Glick said.

On a tangible and ethical level, Glick added, "As a metal smith I am very conscious that many of the materials and processes I use to create my work can be quite damaging to our environment. The use of recycled steel is exciting not only for the new visual and expressive possibilities it offers me, but for the opportunity it gives me to practice my art in a way that has less harsh consequences for this Earth that I love."

Horst is a 1983 Goshen College graduate and received a master's of fine arts degree in drawing from Bowling Green State University. He taught art at both Bowling Green and Goshen College before teaching art and art history for the past 15 years at The University of Montana Western in Dillon, Mont., where he also served as the department chair and art gallery director. For the past two years, Horst served as the vice president of the Montana Art Gallery Directors Association.

About his art, Horst said, "Like a poet plays with sounds and words, I'm interested in how visual information can mean more than one thing at the same time. A circle can be both a shape and a star, or a hole, or a target, or a dotted pattern. Figures can be both historical and reflections of ourselves. Paper, which is physically flat, can also be made illusionistic. A drawing can be both amusing and troubling."

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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