Annual Student Honors Exhibition showcases work by McDaniel College seniors

2015 Mar 11

The student honors exhibition at McDaniel College, Westminster, Md., features a variety of work from nine senior art students, including seniors Betty Japinga of Westminster, Md., and Karlie Pickett of Finksburg, Md.

Titled "Honorable Discharge," this annual exhibition runs Tuesday, March 24 - Saturday, April 4, in McDaniel's Rice Gallery, Peterson Hall, at 2 College Hill, Westminster, Md. An opening reception takes place Thursday, March 26, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., with a gallery talk at 6 p.m.

Betty Japinga exhibits mixed media works, including sculpture, printmaking, photography and fibers.

Karlie Pickett uses mostly acrylic paint in her work, which, she said, "is a commentary on introversion, extroversion and the struggles of finding your place."

According to Pickett, her collection, titled "Recharge," "plays on stereotypes, including the typical introvert and the typical extrovert, and also covers the broad middle ground-challenging you to redefine how you and the world categorize yourself and others around you."

The exhibition and reception are both free and open to the public. Rice Gallery hours are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from noon - 4 p.m., Thursday, noon - 8 p.m., and Saturday, noon - 5 p.m. Call 410-857-2595 for more information. Visit www.mcdaniel.edu for information about McDaniel College.

McDaniel College, recognized nationally among "40 Colleges that Change Lives" and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 25 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.