“I feel like I can communicate through my art better than I can communicate through language,” said Anya Slabaugh, a junior art major from Kalona, Iowa. While Slabaugh came into Goshen as a PJCS major, she quickly realized that wasn’t the path she wanted to take. “As passionate as I am about [peace and justice issues], I can’t face them and write papers,” she said. “When I’m dealing with them, it needs to be in a tangible way that my whole body is experiencing, not just my brain.” So, instead of taking PJCS classes, Slabaugh decided to take a jewelry...

By Jenae Longenecker • March 10, 2016 • Arts

Goshen College has been quite the journey for Emma Koop Liechty. It’s a journey that began in her senior year of high school, after taking graphic design classes. At GC, she took a while to choose a major, only deciding on art in the second semester of her sophomore year.“I always really liked doing art when I was little,” she said. “But I was never interested in high school or middle school.” It was only in taking those graphic design classes that she found an art form that, as an adult, she could love. When college began for Koop Liechty...

By Christi Sessa • February 4, 2016 • Arts

This Friday through Sunday, Goshen College will be hosting their second Global Game Jam. Throughout the course of the weekend, up to 40 participants will engage in programming, iterative design and artistic expression in the process of their own game creation. The first day of the event will be held in Umble Center this Friday, from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. At this time, participants will watch a keynote video with advice from leading game developers, and then the secret theme will be revealed. After the theme is revealed, all participating sites worldwide are required to use this theme to...

By Lexa Magnuson • January 28, 2016 • News

  The North and South student art exhibit will remain in the Good Library Basement Gallery until March 16.Photo by Maria Bischoff   Over the course of the fall semester, 39 Goshen College students explored the theme “North and South” in a variety of art classes. The products of this exploration are on display in the basement of the Good Library. Exploring ideas of polarization, the exhibit features 55 student works including watercolor paintings, pencil and charcoal drawings, mixed media collage, ceramics and sculpture. During the first convocation of the spring semester, members of the GC community heard from several...

By Jenae Longenecker • January 14, 2016 • Arts

Goshen College students walking by the Administration building are in for a pleasant musical surprise. Located in this nondescript corner of campus lies a new painted piano. If one decides to approach and further inspect the piano, they will be greeted by the evoking artistic stylings of Maddie Gerig, a third-year student at Goshen College. Riddled with chipped keys and left without a bench, the piano is painted with a color scheme of varying shades of blue and white accompanied by powerful accents of yellow and red. This piano came as a result of the efforts of Student Senate to...

By Carter Mckay-Epp • October 15, 2015 • Arts

David Jantz, a junior, spent his Saturday sharing his glassblowing talents at the Michiana Mennonite Relief Sale. “It was a really cool opportunity,” Jantz said. “And I made over $300 for the sale.” Jantz spent around 20 hours preparing pieces for the sale, and then eight hours at the sale making pieces as a demonstration, some of which he made according to individual request. Jantz’s father, Jonathan, taught both David and his sister Maria, a recent GC graduate, how to glassblow, despite his day job as a pediatrician. “It’s kind of a family thing,” David said. “For a lot of...

By Isaiah Friesen • October 1, 2015 • Features

At the conclusion of his exhibit in Goshen College’s Hershberger Art Gallery, Lancaster-based ceramicist Dennis Maust stopped in at GC on Sunday to give a Topics and Issues lecture about his artwork. The exhibit, which was open from June 7 to Sept. 27, featured dozens of ceramic pieces, inspired by the time he and his family spent in Pakistan, Egypt and Bangladesh. In his presentation, Maust explained how many of the pieces feature patterns, structures and colors that echo things he saw and experienced living abroad. He was specifically inspired by the way that cultures interact. Maust enjoyed making the...

By Emma Koop Liechty • October 1, 2015 • Arts

For the last 10 years, the Goshen College business department has been providing funds for students to start businesses as a part of the Venture Planning course. The business department selects ventures to fund based on the student’s passion for the idea, their understanding of the venture, and how well this venture would do in the long-term. This year, there are five different ventures being proposed by seniors Mikhail Fernandes, Peter Schrock, Brian Sutter and Dean Nafziger along with juniors Maddie Gerig and Preston Carr. “My proposal is to build an online e-commerce platform for students,” Mikhail Fernandes said. He...

By Elsa Lantz • September 24, 2015 • Features

As a part of Sexual Violence Awareness week, a panel of four students and a graduate of Goshen College discussed their own gender realities and how they have grown, changed and developed during their time on campus. Led by Natalie Thorne, a junior, and Erin Bergen, a sophomore, Tuesday’s panel produced discussion of a range of themes, including both male and female sexual violence, gender fluidity and the roles that women and men are expected to play in other countries, as well as many others. Jacob Putnam, a senior, discussed the struggles of growing up with locker-room talk and how...

By Maddie Birky • September 17, 2015 • News

Artists and entrepreneurs, young and old alike, are finding The Hawks to be an affordable place to live in the city of Goshen. Among them are a number of recent Goshen College graduates, including Caleb Longenecker and Nina Fox. Longenecker started work this year in the Goshen College Admissions department, while Fox teaches at Bethany Christian High School. Both of these recent alumni live in The Hawks, along with their third roommate, Mandy Schlabach. According to the website, The Hawks, once a furniture factory, is now a “live-work community designed for artists and entrepreneurs with space to work, live and...

By Jordan Waidelich • September 17, 2015 • Features

The following selection is one of the many stories showcased in the Good Library exhibit entitled “Along the Road to Freedom: Mennonite Women of Courage and Faith. Anna Dick Bergmann  Born April 7, 1880 on the family estate Rosenhof, Southern Russia, now Ukraine. Passed away: February 24, 1961. “Anna grew up on her parent’s large estate. Her mother, who came from Alsace, France, provided her with a good education and a grounding in the Christian faith. In 1901, Anna married Abram Bergmann and settled on an estate called Woronaya. Anna gave birth to ten children. Four died at a young...

By Ellen Conrad • September 17, 2015 • Arts

This fall, junior art major Maddie Gerig will step behind the pottery wheel not only as a student, but also as a teacher for an Intro to Ceramics course for Goshen Youth Arts. The eight-week class begins October 7 and is open for students ages 11 to 19. Although this will be Gerig’s first time teaching an art class, she gained valuable experience teaching young students one-on-one last year. “That’s what got me into [teaching]—giving one- on-one lessons and really enjoying that,” said Gerig. Goshen Youth Arts is a non- profit organization that provides after school, weekend and summer art...

By Christina Hofer • September 10, 2015 • Arts

Walking through Goshen College’s current Senior Art Exhibit, you’ll notice a number of posters in red and white that belong to a series titled “Comfort Women.” The ridged lines and structures of the posters seem unable to hold together the content presented. “You can’t contain horror in structured spaces,” said senior Shina Park, creator of the series. Park is an art major at Goshen College from Vancouver, Canada. With the combination of her Korean heritage, her passion for social justice and her graphic design skills, Park presented the topic of comfort women to the Goshen community. Comfort women were women...

By Chau Ngoc Bao Bui • April 16, 2015 • Arts

For those who saw the Winter One Acts, you’ll remember senior Kate Yoder as the writer of “Reality TV Island.” If you read the Funnies page, you’ve seen how proficiently this English writing and art double-major exhibits her love of humor. “I really like wordplay and making puns,” said Yoder. You may be less familiar with the other realms into which Yoder’s creativity extends. On March 17, Yoder will publish a collection of her poetry and creative non-fiction titled “Bonehouse.” Yoder describes her writing style as “sarcastic and a little ridiculous.” When asked the theme of her book, she says...

By Jenae Longenecker • March 5, 2015 • Arts

Bob Emser, sculptor and aviation enthusiast will give the Goshen College Art department’s 2015 Eric Yake Kenagy visiting artist lecture. Emser’s lecture will take place on Sunday, January 25th from 7-8 p.m. in the Music Center’s Rieth Recital Hall, and a reception will take place immediately following the lecture. The reception will be in the Hershberger Art Gallery. Both the presentation and the reception are free and open to the public. Born in 1954, Emser draws his artistic influences from constant house construction of the era and from his father, who was a mechanical engineer. He spent many years of...

By Kayla Riportella • January 22, 2015 • Arts