BEMIDJI, Minn. (March 30, 2011) — Eighteen students from Bemidji State University’s Department of Visual Arts will have work on display in the University’s Talley Gallery as part of the department’s annual scholarship show.

The show, “Contrast,” opens Monday, April 4, and continues through May 3. An opening reception for the exhibition will be held at the gallery from noon to 3 p.m. on April 4.

Students competing in this year’s show were free to create works in any media featuring an interpretation of the word “contrast.”

Each year through generous contributions by donors to the Department of Visual Arts through the BSU Foundation, scholarships and awards are granted to Bemidji State students with a major or minor in art. This year, a total of $12,000 will be awarded.

The Talley Gallery is located in room 212 of the Education Arts building on the campus of Bemidji State University. It is barrier-free and open at no charge to the public.

For more information, contact Talley Gallery Director Laura Goliaszewski at (218) 755-3708.

VISUAL ARTS SCHOLARSHIP SHOW PARTICIPANTS

BEMIDJI
56601 | Elijah Balbach, senior, art; “Hestia,” “Hermess,” and “Hephaestus,” oil on canvas.
56601 | Candice Billups, senior, art; “Blue Earth,” watercolor monoprint; “Mirror Pond,” mixed media; “Dry Lake,” graphite on paper.
56601 | Darin Hansen, senior, design technology; “Duality of Self,” mixed media.
56601 | Luke Holden, senior, undecided; “Keys to Success,” “Duluth Styles #1” and “Brown Gold,” screen print.

MINNESOTA
ANDOVER
55304 | Clifford Breffle, freshman, art education; “Montezuma’s Revenge,” stoneware.

BIG LAKE
55309 | Katrina Moshier, junior, art; “Time Change,” ceramic; “Nine Lambs in the Field,” photography.

BRAINERD
56401 | Jacob Iten, senior, art and design technology; “Dermochelys Corlacea,” mixed media.

DULUTH
55810 | Linsey Olesiak, senior, art; “A Walk Through the Woods,” “Sweetly Broken” and “Trapped Energy,” oil on canvas.

ESKO
55733 | Nicole Collins; “The Arts Live,” copper basse taille; “Bipolarity: The Story of Victoria,” cheesecloth, resin and chicken wire; “Future Flower,” welded metals.
55733 | Emily Wendland, junior, design technology and art; “Creativity vs. Logic,” oil on canvas; “Creativity vs. Logic,” ceramic / multimedia.

EVELETH
55734 | Ian Higgins, senior, art; “Paperless,” ink on plexiglass.

FERGUS FALLS
56537 | Tyler Brown, senior, design technology and art; “Standardized Anxiety,” charcoal on scantron sheets.

MINNEAPOLIS
55411 | Alexander Deme, junior, design technology and art; “Tea Bowl” and “Bump Tumbler,” porcelain.

PARK RAPIDS
56470 | Jonathan Billing; “Passing Through,” carved and painted basswood; “Mortal Coil,” carved and dyed basswood; “Remnants #2,” plaster.
56470 | Ashly Karl, senior, art; “Chemo,” monoprint and colograph; “Resentment,” mixed media.

STAPLES
56479 | Melody Fellman, senior, art; “Courage = Liberation” and “Fear = Isolation,” acrylic on canvas board.

VIRGINIA
55792 | Matthew Socha, senior, design technology; “He Was Perfect We Were Black,” oil on canvas; “See With New Eyes,” pencil on cotton fiber; “From Darkness to Light,” oil on canvas.

WAUBUN
56589 | Timothy Johnston, junior, art; “Fire and Water Forms Paradise” and “The Battle of Dark and Light,” air brush on paper; “Light and Dark,” plexiglass.

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