Students’ snow day shenanigans photographed
Hannah Wilmes immediately grabbed her camera when she saw the snow.
The sophomore business major, a Missouri native, is no stranger to snowfall. However, many of her friends had...
Art Spotlight: “Self-Portrait” by Eva Poulsen
Artist's description :
In this self-portrait, I wanted to be surrounded by objects that take up space in my everyday life and makeup part of my identity. I’m...
Art Spotlight: “Daniel 3:57-88” by Marguerite Mitchell
Artist Description: This is a still life in oil that was inspired by the verse of Daniel 3:57-88. The entire painting represents creation’s calling to give praise to God. Each object is...
Art Spotlight: “A Winter Project” by Paula Chang
This "Winter Project" is a porcelain sake set fired with a copper red glaze.
Art Spotlight: “A Study in Light” by Gracie Morris
Artist Description: Featuring the same fire hydrant outside of Braniff painted at two different times of day. One painted at 6 p.m. (left) and the other at 3 a.m. (right) captures how...
Art Spotlight: “In-N-Out on a Friday Night”
My husband and I were in the habit of going out to eat every Friday (and we were kind of going through an In-N-Out phase). When this project was assigned, we had...
Art Spotlight: “Exit” by Susanna McNichol
"Exit" is oil on-canvas; a depiction of man's attempts at escapism resulting in the fall and his traversal through the depths bringing him to the truth of the incarnation.
Art Spotlight: “Appetite” by Alisa Nascimento
Medium: Ink on Mulberry paper
Artist's description: Though disconnected through language, a young girl seeks to understand her cultural heritage through food as she gazes into the window of...
Art Spotlight: “St. Peter” by Helen Maier
Artist Description: Shortly after my time in Rome, I was inspired to depict our first pope in this watercolor piece. Like us, Peter was called and chosen despite his weakness. He denied...
Art Spotlight: ‘The Oresteia’ by Quinn Kelsch
This is a diptych, called 'The Oresteia', depicting two related moments from the Agamemnon.
First is the moment when Agamemnon "puts on the yoke of necessity" and decides to...
Makenna Connors: Art as self-expression
Given free reign, freshman art history major Makenna Connors was tasked with a cut-out project that consisted of sketching out a design on a white sheet of paper and then transferring it...
Art Spotlight: Earrings and self-expression
What started as a hobby for senior English major Michelle Ciacchella turned into a creative outlet when she did a project with plaster for her 3D design class. Using leftover materials to...
Artist Spotlight: Annabelle Nicholas
Graphic t-shirts have become a staple of modern mass-production fashion, placing emphasis on quantity over quality. Annabelle Nicholas, a freshman art major and photography editor of The University News, strives to bring...
Artist Spotlight: Mother of God, Mother of All
In the Intermediate Painting I class, students are given a semester-long project that serves as their final for the course. The specific parameters of this project, such as the subject, the medium...
Gracie Morris: a study on how light affects color
Junior art major, Gracie Morris, recalled a project from her freshman year in which their task was to find an object and paint it at two different times of day.