A reception was held Sunday, Jan. 12 at the “Lion & Lamb” student art exhibit in the Good Library Gallery. The exhibit will remain on display until Feb. 1. and is free and open to the public.

By Ariel Ropp • January 17, 2013 • Arts

Bluish-green rings stain the skin of Mandy Schlabach’s middle finger on both hands. She has removed the thick copper rings and fingers them, pointing out where the metal didn’t solder properly. “I messed them up but I can wear them anyway,” Schlabach said, smiling down at the jewelry. Schlabach, a sophomore, has a wide resumé with the arts.  She has dabbled in acrylics, ceramics and most recently, jewelry making. Her passion, however, lies with watercolors. As an art major she gets to try a variety of mediums, but her concentration is watercolor painting. “I enjoy watercolor because I enjoy how...

By Elizabeth Derstine • December 6, 2012 • Arts

Sitting on a stool and eyeing a spinning mug from six inches away, Abi Abebe Tsigie trims the unwanted clay from the base of his hand-molded mug, and smooths the edges round before initialing the bottom and moving on to the next mug. On a shelf where he stores his artwork, Tsigie shows his collection of pots, mugs, vases and ceramic sculptures.  Some have been glazed and fired, and some are the collapsed remnants of failed throws, but all bear the fingerprints of an artist who hopes to shape the world he lives in like the clay he sculpts. Tsigie...

By Logan Miller • December 6, 2012 • Features

For Mohammad Rasoulipour, a senior art and Bible and religion double major, art is a medium through which simple questions about societal constructions can be questioned and reinterpreted. In his latest piece, Androgynous Male, Rasoulipour attempts to create a portrait which includes a male model with feminine qualities. Through changing certain facial qualities and accents, he is able to construct a picture that catches the viewer off guard, presenting a portrait that is comprised of square jawbones (a masculine trait) and smaller, thick lips (a feminine trait) side by side. “Everyone has qualities of feminine and masculine,” Rasoulipour said. “Showing...

By Steph Swartzendruber • November 29, 2012 • Arts

The stark contrast between lions and lambs is an easy metaphor, found in the Bible, on Twilight fan T-shirts and in the Library Basement Art Gallery.  The Lion and Lamb art exhibit co-sponsored by the Art Club and the Art Department will be on display until February 1st. This particular art exhibit is three years running, with each year sporting a different theme. The first theme was “Tolerance and the Other” and last year’s was “North and South.”  The exhibit is the brainchild of Randy Horst, Art Club faculty sponsor, and past Art Club president Jordan Kauffman. It was thought...

By Elizabeth Derstine • November 29, 2012 • Arts

This week, the business department is hosting Global Entrepreneurship Week. The week intends to offer education about entrepreneurship while also providing fun events for students. On Monday, a brainstorming event gathered ideas to change problems perceived on campus. On Tuesday, Half the Sky, a PBS documentary, was played to show examples of entrepreneurial individuals helping women and children across the world. On Wednesday, entrepreneurs from Springer Designs and Menno Tea shared their tips for staying successful in the business world. On Thursday, students are invited to paint a toilet to represent the creative side of entrepreneurship. The toilets are also in...

By Becca Kraybill • November 15, 2012 • Arts

The ribbon cutting ceremony for the underpass took place Friday, Nov. 8. But it’s not complete. The hard labor may be finished but the aesthetic components are just now being coordinated. Rachel Smucker, sophomore Student Senate cabinet member, has been heading an initiative to create a mural in the underpass. She has put together a proposal that she will be sharing with Goshen’s Space Planning Committee during a meeting on Friday, Nov. 16. The process isn’t a simple one.  Both the proposal and the mural design have to pass by the Space Planning Committee, then both idea and design need approval...

By Elizabeth Derstine • November 15, 2012 • Arts

Alex Pletcher’s arms swing about excitedly and his speech tempo picks up as he shows off pictures he has been taking on his iPhone. With one finger he flips through a leaf covered in delicate crystals of frost, a spider the size of his palm with tiny baby spiders enveloping its back and road kill. His energy is palpable as he exclaims, “I want to find ones to impress you!” Pletcher, a junior, may be best known for the pictures he has taken for Goshen College. The GC website is plastered in Pletcher. Pletcher has taken the Photo Communication 1...

By Elizabeth Derstine • November 1, 2012 • Arts

Shelby Burge, a junior biology major, based this drawing on a picture of her and her grandfather. The piece took Burge several days to complete and won third place at the Defries Garden Show with the Goshen Painter’s Guild. Burge included “In Loving Memory” in the drawing’s top corner because the photograph that inspired the drawing was taken a week before her grandpa died of cancer. Burge finished the drawing a few months after he passed away. Drawing, which she has been doing for 20 years, is Burge’s passion. Though she is not majoring in art, Burge took all of the...

By Sara Albaba • October 18, 2012 • Arts

The popping color and dramatic lines of homemade stencils that litter the floor of David Pauls’ dorm room provide sharp contrast to the man himself. Pauls, a first-year, is all worn-flannel and soft voice. Pauls doesn’t need to be loud because his passion for art speaks for itself. Even though Pauls has been creating his own art for the past two years, he is at first shy to call himself an artist. After warming up to the idea, he stated that “an artist is someone whose art is more than just a hobby,” which for Pauls is true. Pauls’ favorite...

By Elizabeth Derstine • October 4, 2012 • Arts

Leslie Miller is a new assistant professor of art this year. Miller graduated from Olivet Nazarene University in Illinois with a focus on graphic design. Art may not have been Miller’s first choice of study, but art eventually chose her. “I first chose to study art in middle school when I realized I was not very good at singing,” Miller said. Miller’s choice to pursue art was also influenced by a high school teacher. “He wanted to give back to the students,” Miller said. “I want to be the same way he was with my students.” Miller knew art was...

By Brandi Brubaker • September 27, 2012 • Arts

A menagerie of maps, a plethora of posters and a glut of greenery can be spied in the Yoder, Miller and Kratz dorms this year. As a person keeps looking, more individualized items start materializing. One can find plaster lion heads mounted on walls and displays of flat brimmed hats. Original Goshen College art is harder to come by, but for what it lacks in quantity it is make up for in quality. Tessa Ray, a first-year, hates white walls and has brought with her three large canvases she painted last year to conquer the barren atmosphere. Two of the...

By Elizabeth Derstine • September 12, 2012 • Arts

Found objects including unusable computer parts and things people typically throw away are among Ida Short’s mediums for creating art. Short, a sophomore, typically uses these objects to create jewelry. Her favorite piece is a pair of earrings fashioned out of PCB board. Besides creating jewelry, Short enjoys printmaking, specifically with silk screens. She strives to promote recycling through her jewelry and her printmaking, and focuses on social justice and political issues. Short’s love of art developed her senior year of high school, when she had a “crazy art teacher, who was really enthusiastic, who gave me the art bug.”...

By Hayley Brooks • September 10, 2012 • Arts

Though the senior art exhibit remains open for a few more weeks and the school year is quickly coming to a close, the GC art department has one more exhibit in store. On April 29, the Hershberger Gallery will display the 2011-2012 Juried Student Art Exhibition. Not limited to art majors or minors, this collection serves to represent the work of all students in art classes over the course of the last year. “The exhibition is a chance for the students individually and the art department as a whole to showcase the work that is being done in our art...

By Anna Ruth • April 11, 2012 • Arts

Summer Hasan has a unique perspective on religion that she’s begun to explore this semester through painting. Coming from a “mixed faith” family, with a Christian mother and a Muslim father, Hasan’s series of paintings focuses on women of faith, an expression of Hasan’s interest in learning about multiple faiths. “Religion was never something that I considered to be black and white,” Hasan said. Most paintings feature women wearing a head covering of some sort, something that “kind of connects these ‘opposing’ religions in a way.” Hasan had never spent much time on painting before enrolling in an upper level...

By Andrew Shenk • March 28, 2012 • Arts