Hesston College Art Department

08/20/2020

Textures and details.

08/20/2020

What a beautiful day to be outside drawing! (Today, we're collecting textures and details.)

04/14/2020

Moving online has been a challenge, but we're finding ways to engage in different aspects of our classes! We've also experienced some things that we'll be adding to regular curriculum, so bonus for all of us!

01/30/2020

3D Design tearing it up with string as line, doing a line and light in space team composition, chaos to order, in Regier Friesen Gallery in Friesen Center.

12/11/2019

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from mod 3EB and the HC Art Dept!

03/15/2019

Milling lumber in Tennessee for 3D Design wood working projects. Best Spring Break activity ever!

03/15/2019

3D Design finishing their string installation, working with space, line, and light.

12/07/2018

Drawing 1, bringing the semester home.

09/28/2018

2018 Homecoming Community, Alumni, and Local Art Show! Reception today, Friday, September 28, 2018. 4:30-6pm.

Participating artists: Jon Friesen, Gerry Epp, Isaac Shue, Brittni Wegmann, Matt Thomas, Paul Friesen, Hanna Eastin, and Bruce Plank.

If you want to join in next year, please email [email protected]!

10/06/2017

10/01/2017

09/22/2017

We hosted this event last year. This year it is at Bethany College, just north of us on I135 in Lindsborg, Kansas. If you are interested in an opportunity to learn new things, experience a broad range of techniques, and meet new people, or old friends, this is the conference for you!

KACA Conference Schedule Bethany College Please choose either the student or regular conference ticket. Then choose ONE ticket per time slot. For example choose one ticket for each time of Friday 9am, Friday at 1, Saturday at 9 and Saturday at 1. You should have a total of 5 tickets at checkout. Nov...

06/13/2017

Working on blacksmithing examples at FHSU summer blacksmithing workshop (Hanna is almost done with MFA course work!). This particular course will open doors to new projects, skills, and techniques for 3D Design and beyond!

06/02/2017

HC graduate Ashley Sauder Miller Art has a show!

The Leading Contemporary Art Institution in Virginia fostering awareness, exploration and understanding of the significant art of our time.

05/04/2017

Wood/soda/propane electric conversion firing number 4! Ooh, we're learning how this works now! 2 bushels of soda soaked pine. About a bushel of split oak. About 2 bushels of hedge. We used about half of a 30lb propane tank. Lit the w**d burner at 7:30am and closed her up at 7:30pm.

The second lid, which made the roof of the kiln two bricks thick, made a huge difference! Steadyish climb up to 2200, then a bumpy ride for the last 5 hours, but it turned out our pyrometer was failing, so pretty well held between 2250 and 2300 for about 4 hours.

Gorgeous results for our fourth effort!

04/04/2017

Tortus Copenhagen (Eric Landon) is one of our go-to video resources for Ceramics I and II. Throwing technique is important, and one of a kind for pretty much every ceramicist. His videos help broaden our perspectives. Also, he's funny. Check out his Instagram for more.

04/03/2017

Ceramics 1 has been centering and lifting. Different techniques can never hurt. These are some we may have to try!

Just a quick video showing how I go about opening up the clay once it's centered and the first lift of a small piece of clay.

03/21/2017

Work In Progress- Succulent Planter, Ceramics I free project. Nice work!

02/16/2017

This Friday afternoon we'll have Eleanor Heimbaugh from Bethany College doing a come and go demonstration in the Ceramics Lab, and a slide talk in the Mac Lab at 4:30. This is also the last day to see her exhibit TRACE in the Regier Friesen gallery. Feel free to stop in!

02/03/2017

In the Regier Friesen Gallery as we speak! Eleanor Heimbaugh: TRACE Artifacts of the Future.

11/25/2016

Hesston College Experience Expo!

11/23/2016

Celebrate the Season! and learn more about the art of printmaking while creating handmade Christmas cards or print images of your choice. Come to Friesen Center for the Visual Arts, room 108 for a printmaking open studio night. Thursday Dec.1. , 7-9 pm.

11/07/2016

Thank you, Larry Peters and Michael Bradley for the gorgeous donations to the Hesston College Art Collection!

10/26/2016

While Ceramics One-sies may not think this is accurate right now (we just started the wheel), this rings true to me! - Hanna

  The art of pottery is oftentimes described as therapeutic and relaxing. While spinning clay, your mind and body are in natural synergy, wrapped around your creative ambitions and goals. This thoughtful, artistic activity can open up the mind and relieve you of outside worries. Here are the top 10…

10/01/2016

Charles Elam, 3D Design, (Architectural Engineering and a minor in business, class of 2017) Floral foam, reductive technique, light, shadow, context.

09/29/2016

Christy Kauffman, 3D Design, (disaster management and graphic design, class of 2017). Color, texture, context, light and shadow, and additive techniques. Floral foam, reductive techniques, color theory. Fun!

09/27/2016

For this week leading up to Homecoming 2016, we're going to post pictures periodically of current students' work from this semester.

Today: 3D Design work from Monica Plank (graphic design, class of 2018). Color, texture, context, light and shadow, and additive techniques.

09/15/2016

We are doing finishing touches on the Dual Alumni Art Show right now! Come check it out!

Here it is!!! Make your plans accordingly! I will share that the breakfast at HHS on Saturday is donuts/coffee/free and probably best suited for HHS grads. There is also a community breakfast--full meal--at the Hesston Area Senior Center that morning.