The Northerner

Longstanding art professor impacted by budget cuts becomes new director of galleries and outreach

Andrea Turner, Reporter

After 25 years of teaching at NKU, Paige Wideman has now been given the position of director of galleries and outreach, following the exit of Sso-Rha Kang. Making it through a couple rounds of budget...

Relief and reflection: BFA seniors exhibit final pieces of work, wrapping up their time at NKU

Andrea Turner, Reporter

The BFA Senior Exhibition features a number of spatial works that depict personal experiences of artists using animals, a video game concept with colorful qualities and a collection of photos reflecting...

NKU’s BFA Senior Exhibition exhibits work reflecting cultural identity and perseverance Visuals:

Andrea Turner, Reporter

A tearful goodbye was in order for graduating senior Mariam Shaban as she took the floor during this semester’s BFA Senior Exhibition artist talk at Northern Kentucky University. Her exhibit...

Exhibition leads a path of education and awareness as students visually represent issues in the community through art

Andrea Turner, Reporter

The Juried Student Exhibition featured charcoal on raw canvas depicting an all seeing figure during the isolation of covid, a culmination of pieces emulating an artist’s reality with ADHD, and the uncomfortable...

Chloe Wenger – R. Sho. P and Anticipation

Andrea Turner, Reporter

BFA painting major, Chloe Wenger, noted that the pieces she had featured in the exhibition were portraits, as she has taken to the skill of painting faces. In Anticipation, Wenger was inspired...

Sydney Bryan – Oracle

Andrea Turner, Reporter

After completing Oracle during the pandemic and in the midst of family issues, VCD major Sydney Bryan was proud to showcase her piece in the exhibition. As described by Bryan, the figure depicted...

Bridgett Hancock – Overdramatic

Andrea Turner, Reporter

Bringing light to issues women face when going through the menstrual cycle, drawing BFA major Bridgett Hancock brings in her personal experience to relate to the audience. Hancock hoped to bring a visual...

Hannah Wentzel – Dreaming, Depleted, and Disengaged

Andrea Turner, Reporter

Though Hannah Wentzel’s photos were each named separately, they work together as a series. She noted that her goal was to make them look like a series even though the content was different. To do...

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"Oracle" in Juried Student Exhibition.

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R. Sho. P in the Juried Student Exhibition.

[Photo] Haylee Vallandingham: Called Mirrored (hand & mirror), Zoned Out (side profile), and Fake Smile (portrait)

Zoned out and Fake Smile in the Juried Student Exhibition.

Senior foundations lecturer takes on new position at local art center

Andrea Turner, Reporter

Alongside the Clay Alliance, senior foundations lecturer Nicholas Bonner has taken over the position of director of galleries at the Pendleton Art Center. Simultaneously, Bonner has assumed the director...

Full and part-time faculty exhibition sheds light on the work of instructors and issues that extend beyond NKU

Andrea Turner, Reporter

Throughout the school year, the work of SOTA students are highlighted in the Main and Third Floor galleries to broadcast their work to the public. The spring semester allows for a change of pace in...

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Wall leading into the exhibit with the names of the faculty featured in the gallery.

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Nicholas Bonner’s high fire porcelain pottery in the exhibition.

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Nicholas Bonner’s high fire porcelain pottery in the exhibition.

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Featured artist, Candice van Loveren Geis' work entitled "Presenting As".

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Pagoda Jar (Yellow Study) pottery by Joshua Maier.

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Photographs by Matthew Albritton.

BFA students showcase their work in senior exhibitions

Andrea Turner, Reporter

The fall and spring senior exhibitions for BFA students provides them with an outlet to broaden their critical artistic thinking before entering into careers after college. It has become an essential platform...

New director of galleries and outreach to provide new perspective on art to NKU

Andrea Turner, Contributor

Director of Galleries and Outreach Sso-Rha Kang strives to bring a new approach on how students on campus view local art and the art of radical thinking. She specifically intends to bring to light artists...

NKU introduces new animation major

Andrea Turner, Contributor

NKU started the new animation major to prepare students for a fully immersive experience in the creative digital industry. The new animation major is in the College of Arts and Sciences- Visual Arts program,...