Goshen College hosted the opening of  the 2025 Senior Art Show this weekend, an event held at the Hershberger Art Gallery in the Music Center, where current senior art majors displayed their final undergraduate work. The event drew in a large crowd of students eager to support their peers’ artistic achievements. The artists showcased in the exhibit included: graphic design majors Damjan Mojsin, Isaac Sawatzky, Paula Ferrer Nolla and Ava Lickliter; art major Joseph Mounsithiraj and physics and art double major Elise Jantz.  The students put countless hours and effort into their work; as Sawatzky said, “It was a long...

By Ana Alves Machado • March 27, 2025 • Arts

Last Sunday, on Jan. 12, the Goshen College Hershberger Art Gallery presented an opening reception for the exhibit “Aspects of the Feminine” by Laurie Rousseau, a local artist from South Bend, Indiana. The artist talked about her previous work and what led her to create “Aspects of the Feminine,” then followed her talk with questions from the public, which was partially made up of students from different art classes. Sara Method, assistant professor of art and chair of the art department said, “One of our big goals with our art gallery is to show a variety of artwork from a...

By Ana Alves Machado • January 16, 2025 • Arts

Sunday, Nov. 17, the Hershberger Art Gallery hosted a reception for local artist Jake Webster’s exhibit, “A Conversation between Agony and Grief.” The reception was full of a mix of colleagues, community members and students. Growing up in Mississippi, Webster noted the presence of social movements and general systemic violence in his upbringing. In his youth, Webster thought that art of the time should reflect not just tragedies around him, but the way people continued to live in both ordinary and remarkable ways.  “Somehow, nobody around me was making art about that,” he said to the audience. Webster began to...

By Bennett Silveus • November 25, 2024 • Arts

Former Goshen College art professor Randy Horst presented his new art exhibit in GC’s Hershberger Art Gallery on Sunday, Jan. 22.  The opening also included a reception where Horst reflected on his work, which is titled “Inside Voices.” After serving as a professor at GC for 13 years, Horst retired last spring. He graduated from GC after transferring from Hesston College, and received his Master of Fine Arts from Bowling Green University in 1986. Horst remains involved in the local community, and his passion for art extends past the visual — he is currently in two local musical groups: “The...

By Kate Bodiker • January 26, 2023 • Arts

Many visitors come to the Music Center to attend performances in Sauder Concert Hall or Rieth Recital Hall, but another notable stop is the Hershberger Art Gallery. The gallery is currently featuring a collection of works by artist Greg Constantine. The exhibit will be open until March 13. Constantine is a visiting artist with the Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist Program, a memorial for a student artist who attended Goshen College and passed away at the age of 20. The program has hosted visiting artists from around the globe since 1988, but the last artist featured by the program visited...

By Sarah Miller • January 28, 2022 • Arts

Current and retired faculty members of the art department are displaying their work in the Hershberger Art Gallery until October 29. The exhibition includes art from current Goshen College faculty Merrill Krabill, Randy Horst and John Mishler, along with art from retired faculty Marvin Bartel, John Blosser, Abner Hershberger and Judy Wenig-Horswell.  The exhibition is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on weekends. It is located in the Hershberger Art Gallery in the Music Center, which is named for former GC art professor Abner Hershberger. One...

By Amelia Witmer-Rich • September 30, 2021 • Arts

While the current artists showcasing work in the Hershberger Art Gallery differ on many things, they have one fundamental commonality: their first name. David Kendall, a visual artist, filmmaker and educator at Goshen College, and Dave Nofsinger, an assistant professor in Western Michigan University’s Department of Theatre, both have visual art from throughout their careers featured in the Music Center’s gallery throughout the next couple of months. Although the bulk of their pieces differ in medium — Nofsinger’s representing his work as a set designer and Kendall’s focusing on 2-D drawings — both carry a playful and whimsical quality about...

By Olivia Smucker • January 24, 2020 • Arts

A new art exhibit, featuring work by Emma Gerigscott and Nick Loewen, was unveiled in the Music Center’s Hershberger Art Gallery this past Sunday. Gerigscott, who grew up in Goshen, graduated from Goshen College with an interdisciplinary major in art, environmental science and social policy in 2014. After graduation, she spent some time working as a farmer in various capacities, both in New Zealand and in Goshen in the hopes of putting her degree to practical use. When burnout with farming hit, she got a job at Goshen Brewing Company as a line cook and a dishwasher. Eventually, Gerigscott realized...

By Kristin Jantzen • November 29, 2019 • Arts

For many Midwesterners, the cornfields and plains that dot the central United States are just that: plain. But for Abner Hershberger, there is opportunity for beauty to emerge from the simplicity. Since graduating from Goshen College with an art degree in 1960, Hershberger has become both an active artist and a teacher. In fact, after teaching art in the Indiana public school system for four years post-grad, he returned to his alma mater as one of the arts professors from 1965-1999. He was the one who began Goshen College’s gallery program in 1968, which was renamed in his honor when...

By Olivia Smucker • October 9, 2019 • Arts

The annual art show showcasing the work of seniors in the visual arts department opens on March 31, with a reception from 2-4 p.m.. The exhibit will include artwork from Norah Glass, a potter, Rachel Yoder, a sculptor, Brianna Herndon, a painter and multimedia artist, and Yadira Figueroa, a graphic designer. The exhibit is located in the Hershberger Art Gallery inside the Music Center and will run until Apr. 28. Each artist curated their own section of the show. Herndon’s portion of the exhibit is based on a theater inspired piece from a forest. The paintings she chose to display...

By Emily Cummings • March 28, 2019 • Arts

This past week, Goshen College welcomed Eugene Stutzman ’73, a nationally-recognized fashion designer, back to Goshen. He and the Eugene Alexander Hope Foundation sponsored Fashion Week, an event in northern Indiana that is the first of its kind. As Fashion Week came to a close on Sept. 24, the exhibit “Eugene Alexander: The Fashion of Eugene Stutzman” opened at the Hershberger Gallery, located in the Music Center. Stutzman was one half of Eugene Alexander, a fashion company Stutzman ran along with his late partner, Alexander Wallace. Stutzman and Wallace created fashion pieces under the Eugene Alexander label throughout the 1980s...

By Kory Stoneburner-Betts • September 28, 2017 • Arts

For senior art majors, March and April are the most important months of the school year. Starting on Friday, Mar. 10, the first of two senior art installations will be showcased in the Hershberger Art Gallery in the Music Center. Each installation will feature the work of five to six senior art students. The first features work by Diana Blacut, Ginyce Haywood, Courtney Miller, Anya Slabaugh and Ardys Woodward. The senior exhibits will be the culmination of four years of hard work. As with other academic programs, senior projects provide a tangible and public expression of artistic growth throughout their...

By Sadie Gustafson-Zook • March 9, 2017 • Arts

For Karl Eigsti, a visit to Goshen College is a chance to look at all of his work from over the years. It’s also an opportunity to connect with people. Eigsti spent over 50 years as a set designer in theater and was involved in 20 Broadway shows, as well as Off-Broadway shows. This week, Eigsti is on campus, speaking in various classes about his work throughout his career. The Hershberger Gallery is featuring Eigsti’s design concepts from Jan. 22 to Feb. 26. People are invited to browse through his designs, but the gallery is featuring work that Eigsti himself...

By Jordan Waidelich • February 2, 2017 • News

The visual art and theater departments of Goshen College have teamed up to bring notable theater designer Karl Eigsti to campus. Eigsti has worked in American theater for over 50 years, and has been involved in 20 Broadway productions. The designer has worked with costume and lights, but his primary focus is set design. Just after finishing his master’s degree in theater from the University of Bristol, England, Eigsti became the resident designer at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. The Arena Stage features a tiered theater designed in the round, meaning the audience surrounds the actors on all sides....

By Andrew Pauls • January 19, 2017 • Arts

If you venture into the Hershberger Art Gallery right now, you will find several lifeless birds. The gallery is showing Merrill Krabill’s most recent project entitled, Between Earth and Sky: exploring loss and redemption. The exhibit is made up of smaller pieces, all exploring the contrast between life and death. Each piece is comprised of a section of a tree root, a clay bird, seemingly lifeless, nesting in the root and a landscape photograph printed on an accompanying hanging cloth. In each photograph, the clay bird’s image has been edited into the sky scene, emphasizing the interaction between earth and...

By Sadie Gustafson-Zook • October 13, 2016 • Arts