The annual student exhibition, a State Fair Community College tradition dating back to the late 1960s, is open to all students currently talking studio art classes at the college. Interested student-artists collaborate with art department faculty to select work that best represents them. Each year, some 50 students exhibit close to one hundred artworks in ...

Nora Othic refers to herself as a neo-regionalist artist, and she does share many traits common to the American Scene painters of the 1930s. Chief among these characteristics is the sincere desire to portray everyday life in the rural areas and small towns of mid-America. Her multi-figure tableaus and animal studies are rendered in pastel, ...

I have spent the last couple of years trying to paint my way out of a corner. I seem to think that if I paint something I need—for instance, Freedom—paint Freedom and understand Freedom, then Freedom will become mine. Stuff like that. Sometimes I’m not so desperate, just interested—sometimes. And, of course, there is also ...

Includes work by Victor Babu, Robert Kushner, Betty Woodman, Jim Waid, and Hunt Slonem.

Analogon:  A thing which is comparable with, resembles, or is equivalent to another. The artwork assembled in the lower galleries was selected and arranged to highlight analogous traits shared among disparate objects.  Although the works represent varied aesthetic and conceptual points of view, there exist between them revealing affinities, echoes, and correspondences. A careful consideration ...

Includes work by Jun Kaneko, Peter Voulkos, Jim Leedy, Ken Ferguson, and Robert Sperry.

Cork Marcheschi is internationally known for his architecturally-scaled public light sculptures that feature soaring modernist forms and jewel-box colors. His earliest experiments with light-art, however, beginning in 1966, were more direct explorations of the intersection of art and electricity. Marcheschi combined his passion for avant-garde electronic music with an interest in the work of the ...