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Student Art Exhibition

Jordan Beck | Daily Press Bay College Arts Faculty and Fine Arts Coordinator Kristine Granger looks at student Janel Dani’s piece “Fabric” in Bay College’s Besse Center Gallery. “Fabric” is one of more than 70 works on display for the college’s Student Art Exhibition, which will run through Jan. 9.

ESCANABA — Visitors to Bay College over the next few weeks will have a chance to see what the school’s art students have worked on during the fall semester at the Student Art Exhibition. The exhibition will be shown in the Besse Center Gallery at Bay College through Jan. 9.

Over 70 works are on display at Bay College’s Escanaba campus as part of the exhibition. Arts Faculty and Fine Arts Coordinator Kristine Granger said Bay’s students worked in several artistic mediums this semester, including ceramics, charcoal, oil, and ink.

“I think we’ve got a great variety of pieces, including the 2-D and the three-dimensional,” she said.

Bay College holds two student art shows every year. Granger said that, as the art classes offered at Bay are rotated each semester, the types of pieces on display also change from show to show.

“The classes that are represented each semester are different, so it gives variety,” she said. Students from Digital Cinema I and II, Drawing I and II, Visual Structures, and Ceramics I and III are all represented in this semester’s Student Art Exhibition.

Bay College President Laura Coleman said she believes the works on display at the Student Art Exhibition testify to the growing skills of their creators.

“We are thrilled with the progress they are making in building their skill sets, which creates a great foundation for their careers,” she said.

Kim Carne, the college’s vice president of student advancement, said this semester’s Student Art Exhibition is particularly diverse thanks to the introduction of film and graphic design classes at Bay.

“We’ve expanded our art offerings extensively,” she said.

Among the students taking advantage of these classes was Bay sophomore and Visual Structures student Michael Kidder, who made it into the exhibition with a video self-portrait and an animation called “Kirby’s Dream Land.” This animation was inspired by a video game of the same name.

Kidder said he began the animation process by making about 50 drawings.

“I drew it on paper, and then I scanned it into the computer,” he said. The final version of Kidder’s animation consists of roughly 600 frames, and is about a minute long.

Kidder’s video, along with others in the exhibition, will be shown on a computer monitor in the Besse Center Gallery.

Also on display will be Bay College sophomore Lila Gunville’s mixed-media lightbox. Gunville said that her untitled piece, which depicts a pair of lungs, was meant to represent the concept of perseverance.

“I knew that I wanted to do … something that kind of involved having hard times in your life, but continuing to go on,” she said.

A wide variety of other pieces will also be on display during the exhibition.

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