“Lord Filet” by Laina Joy Aquino
Better than anyone, Western Nevada College Fine Arts Professor Rachel Stiff can attest to the increased number of students participating in the 2021 Student Art Show.
After all, Stiff needed to hang 126 pieces of artwork from 64 artists for the show in the Bristlecone Main Gallery, which opened in late April.
After the Student Art Show was canceled a year ago because of COVID, Stiff decided to open this year’s exhibit to all WNC students who have been enrolled in classes from Fall 2019/Spring 2020 and Fall 2020/Spring 2021.
Participants submitted artwork in mediums of drawing, painting, printmaking, digital media, photography, graphic art, ceramics, sculpture, book art and mixed media.
The show will continue into May. The Bristlecone galleries are located at 2201 W. College Parkway and are open to the public from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Artists are permitted to sell their artwork during the show. Contact them, if you are interested in purchasing one of their pieces.
The exhibit includes artwork by the following artists: Angel Natividad, Caslon; Jennifer McKenzie, Milton Glaser; Isela Rodriguez, Bodoni; Bea Whitney, The Gospel According to Hawking, The Gospel According to Einstein and The Gospel According to My Brain; Dylan Sliger, Alphapipe; Brooke Walker, Aspens and Sunset, Faery Woods at Pyramid Lake; Syeda Khatija, Self-Symbol Drawing, Change and Objectscape; Melanie Fricis, Camphor Autumn; Everett Fernquest, Ecstasy and Ruined; Laurel Broderdorf, Cobblestone and Gelantina; Mark Brewenstall, Candle Light; Hannah Lyons, Aspens and Sky, The Last Sunset of 2019 and Steamy Coffee; Zane U. Westom, Aspen Grove, The Last Supper and I Have Questions; Erynn Schrauth, When Life Gives You Lemons; Aspen Carrillo, Da bul and Essence of Skully; Sharon Carter, Old East Fifth Street, Fault Line and Galena Bridge — Highway 580; Levi Anguiano, Storage; Kelly Kiesow, Jan Tschichold; Annie Tewalt, Strip Mall Just Outside Town, Churchill on the Hill and Gas Station in a Valley; Micah Woodruff, Past Passion and Future Dreams; Dyan Defalio, Open Field; Elizabeth Vincent, Memento Mori; Josh Morris, Space Ranger, Bi Polar and The Essence of Rosey; Elizabeth Ardinger, Shadowscape; Steven Rodgers, Through the Woods, Sand Harbor Paradise and Just The Three of Us; William Hoffecker, Night Sky, Sunset and Trees in Winter; Summerlynn Dennis, Desert Gems, Bust and Fragmented; Beck Freeman, This Is My Soul People, My Soul and Burnout; Makayla Mueller, ABORTED, I.C.B. and Division; Amanda Perry, Rooftop Sights and Barren; Jiamin Cui, Symbolic Self-Portrait; Heidi Thompson, Horses Gaze; Nicole Klein, The Haitian Leo and Paradise; MaryJane Rose, Summer; Katherine Holley, Colt’s First Trim and Forgotten Sacrifice; Bryce Stimka, Spirit, Fire and Paranoia; Ray Freeman, “Oh, Hm”; Lindsay Chowanski, The Girl and Her Rose, Birch Trees and American Flag; Fiona McDonald, Souper Swaggy and The Essence of Froggy; Ayla Charles, Futura; Ryan Defalio, Splitting Tree and Climbing Gecko; Briza Ambriz Rodriguez, Things You Won’t Remember and Soul Eater; Annelise Poor, Merciful, Ridiculed and Seeker; Margaret A. Densford, Psychedlic Bookworm and Timelessly Neelu; Garrett Bowden, Carson Sunset, Carson Waterfall #1 and Carson Waterfall #2; Wendy Frogget, Home, Love Ya Mom and Beauty in Adversity; Diana Estey, Futura; Erynn Schrauth, Here I Am, This Is Me; Alyssa Medieros, Equivocal Red, Weightless Serenity and Melancholy Blue; Bretta Guzzetta, Inferno, Inferno and Inferno; Natalie Newman, Fortune; Jennifer Bunn, Lady in Red, Inside Joke and Good Girl; Marietta Sophie Paul, Finn and Radar, Spyder and Loopy, Wren, Yin & Yang and Scuttled/Transformed #3 “Catfish”; Melanie Prias, Heart of Nova; Heidi Thompson, Sunlit Milking and Milking Pails; Jacob Flynt, Helvetica; Heather Nelson, Kitchen in Bodie and Faded Wall; Leticia Ledezma Rubio, Lila, Fun at the Park and Play Time with Lila; Karla Pacheco Carrillo, Lepidopterology; Mark Brenestall, Corner Bar and Diversion Dam; Ethan Rico, Jolly Good Show; Laina Joy Aquino, Lord Filet; Kailey Olson, Just Leaves; Jennifer Peterson, Miso and Creature of Habitat; and Elena Winward, Thrive.
For information about the exhibit, email artgallery@wnc.edu
