The work of seniors Yujin Kim, Joel Lara and Priscilla Tanujaya will be on display from April 8-23 in the Hershberger Art Gallery. Located inside the Goshen College Music Center, the Hershberger Art Gallery is open weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (later during special events) and weekends from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

By Record • April 15, 2022 • Arts

For years, Leah Kauffman, a senior graphic design major, has wished that Goshen College had a yearbook. This year, she took it upon herself to create one.  Goshen College published its first yearbook in 1915. For almost a century, yearbooks provided a record and history of the school. But after the 2012-13 school year, there was insufficient interest and funding to justify continuing the yearbook’s publication, so it was eventually phased out. Kauffman and friends had discussed bringing back the yearbook, but other ideas had always pushed it to the backburner.  At the start of this year, that finally changed....

By Phil Witmer-Rich • April 14, 2022 • Features

Senior art majors showed off their work to friends, family and community members at the first of two senior art shows on Sunday.   The event was held in the Hershberger Art Gallery, where artwork by four students is on display.   Exhibit One features the artwork of four seniors: Anna Smucker, Leah Kauffman, Andrew Bodden and Jacqueline Efigenio. Anna Smucker, a graphic design major, presented a zine booklet documenting her SST experience in the Southwest United States in the summer of 2021. The booklet is split into two parts, based in the Navajo and Hopi Reservations she visited.  Smucker said the...

By Anna Kauffman • March 25, 2022 • Arts

The Goshen College theater department began its spring season on Feb. 16 with two plays written and presented by seniors majoring in the field: “An Ode to Blackness” by Gloria Bontrager-Thomas and “Behind the Curtain” by Tobias Garcia.  These shows started off as projects that theater majors are required to present by the end of their senior year.  “They can be originally written stories or an adaptation of a stage play,” said Fatima Rhana, an actor in Bontrager-Thomas’s play. “You can choose whether to direct or act in it, just as long as you put your idea onto the stage...

By Jocsan Barahona Rosales • February 25, 2022 • Arts

Over the last few years, I’ve been breathing, dreaming, eating and hearing art. The desire to make art keeps me up at night, and at times I even dream about it.  For an art major, the senior art show is everything. It is the chance to show the entire world the artist that you are and the art you have created. One year ago I thought I had mine all figured out. I was wrong. Thoughts came rushing in, and I began to overthink. I had a mental block that lasted an entire semester. “This is not good enough, you...

By Joel Lara • February 11, 2022 • Arts

As the days until graduation march ever closer for the Class of 2020, the last of the senior recitals draw near. These events showcase the talents and final projects of members of the senior class and are all free and open to the public. You won’t want to miss these exciting final showcases!    Bodies of Eden: An Original Devised Movement Piece Featuring Abigail Greaser, theater major Sunday, Feb. 2 at 8:00 pm in the Umble Center   Senior Art Major Exhibit: Mar 22 – Apr 26 Featuring Dillon Hershey, graphic design and sociology major, and Javier Prieto, graphic design...

By Olivia Smucker • January 24, 2020 • 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

Last Saturday, March 24, the Hershberger Art Gallery opened its doors for the 2018 Goshen College Senior Art Exhibition. The show features GC’s four senior art majors: Caitlyn O’Neal of Russiaville, Indiana, Jill Steinmetz of Bluffton, Ohio, John Schrock-Shenk of Goshen, Indiana, and Maddy Keener of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. As the culminating requirement for a major in the visual art department, each student-curated a selection of their work to be displayed. The show runs through April 28. Caitlyn O’Neal O’Neal uses her experiences as a twin as inspiration for her senior show. Her pieces are also inspired by the poem “Twins”...

By Siana Emery • March 29, 2018 • Arts

On the evening of November 21, the lights of Umble dimmed to present the culmination of four years of work in Goshen’s film department. As the capstone project for his major, Tim Litwiller invited the public to attend his senior film show. A double major in communications and film production, Litwiller’s project has been a long time coming. He first seriously started planning while on SST in Peru the fall of 2016, where he developed an original plan to create new short films and typography animation videos. However, due to time constraints and struggles in writing a short film script,...

By Record • November 30, 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

Katie McKinnell, senior art major, loved design at an early age. Her mother was a graphic designer and would often let McKinnell propose her own designs for clients. “I grew up just kind of in that world; I got to help with projects starting when I was in middle school,” she said. “[My mom] would have me make up little mock drafts of posters or things when she was kind of stuck. I would be in her office, and she would show me her sketches for a logo that she was supposed to be designing, and then I would be...

By Andrew Pauls • February 2, 2017 • Arts

In January, Jesse Bontreger, a senior theater and film major, will be finishing up his degree at film school in Los Angeles. Before he leaves, he will be giving Goshen College one last taste of his artistic talents. His senior theater show, “Tape,” will be performed on Saturday, Dec. 10 in Umble Center. Bontreger describes “Tape” as a serious drama that centers on the reunion of two men who were high school friends. The story escalates as the friends begin to argue about an incident of sexual assault that happened in the past, and it reaches its climax when another...

By Katie Yoder • December 8, 2016 • Arts

Filmmaking has been the focus of Mason Mellinger’s years at Goshen College, with his most recent project aiming to give viewers a piece of the past as he begins to pursue his future. Mellinger is a senior commuter student studying communications with a focus in film studies. Mellinger’s senior show is a documentary focusing on a historical reenactment by the Stone’s Trace Historical Society as well as Early Americana artist Ken Scott. Ken Scott is a “world-renowned historical artist,” whose specialty is Pennsylvania-German and Pennsylvania Dutch Fraktur art. Scott’s pieces include hunting pouches and props that have been used in...

By Elsa Lantz • November 17, 2016 • Features

Martin Flowers, Christina Hofer, Paul Zehr and Adrienne Schmucker, all senior acting majors, will put on “Dinner with Friends,” this weekend, a full-length play and their joint senior show. While senior shows in the theater department often include one-act plays put on by an individual, Hofer said that this year’s four seniors believed they could do stronger work together. She said, “We’re all close friends who felt like we could trust each other and work on this crazy project together.” The seniors play two couples, the show’s entire cast. Hofer plays Beth, a messy, spacey artist who is married to...

By Jenae Longenecker • April 7, 2016 • Arts

Spring has come around again, and for Goshen College seniors, the joys and stressors of the final semester of college are in full swing. In the GC art department, Ellen Schlabach and David Pauls have been hard at work putting together their joint senior art exhibit, which will open this Sunday, March 20. The exhibit will kick off with a reception from 2-4 p.m. in the GC Music Center’s Hershberger Gallery. Schlabach is an art education major from Goshen, IN. She has chosen the theme “personal sanctuary” to bring together the prints and paintings in her portion of the exhibit....

By Jenae Longenecker • March 17, 2016 • Arts