The “Finishing Touches” senior art exhibit will premiere in the Nordstrand Art Gallery in the U.S. Conn Library starting March 26. 

A reception will be held on the opening day where the student artists will be available to answer questions about their works. According to the WSC website, the exhibit will be held from March 26 to April 16, and will be open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays.  

Beatriz Rodriguez, an assistant professor of studio arts at WSC, says that there will be many types of artistic mediums on display. “The students here get a pretty well-rounded education, so they are going to be showing their best works that they have completed so far,” Rodriguez said. “It will range from paintings, drawings, prints, photos and sculptures.” 

The artworks on display will be a collection of the students’ work throughout every part of their time at WSC. The exhibit features the studio arts students who are graduating this semester, so you get to see all the work that they have created from the beginning towards the end. 

According to the WSC website, the seniors who will have their artwork on display are Shayla Bennett, Lynx Thompson, Jenna Wooldridge, Brittany Hensley, Savanna Nelson and McCaslinn Brand. The themes of life, death, nature, culture, escapism and emotional connections with music will be present in their artworks.  

Not every student in the exhibition is a studio arts major, and Rodriguez said that the diverse ways they think and have been taught can be shown by the different views of how they create. Hensley and Nelson are art education majors and Brand is a graphic design major. 

 Rodriguez said the exhibit will be the students’ main major exhibition where their creations will be shown to the public and its purpose is to introduce others to the abilities of the art students at WSC.

“It gives people the idea of the quality of work that the students graduating from Wayne State College are creating,” Rodriguez said. 

After working with all the students, and even some of them for all four years at Wayne, Rodriguez takes pride in the artists she taught.

“It’s very rewarding to see how they have grown their skills from the beginning to now, and the way how they express what their artwork means to them,” Rodriguez said.