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from the issue of April 5, 2007
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Quartet of student artists featured in MFA Thesis II exhibition
The Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition II is April 9-18 in the Eisentrager•Howard Gallery in Richards Hall.
Organized by the Department of Art and Art History, the exhibition includes work by MFA candidates Wendy Bantam, Jennifer Brant, Xioamiao Wang and Rhonda Willers. A reception is 5 to 7 p.m. April 13 in the gallery.
Gallery hours for the MFA exhibitions are noon to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Bantam's exhibit, "The Pixie, the Demon, and the Unsuspecting Love Innocent," features etchings and oil works.
Bantam is the recipient of the Kimmel Fellowship at UNL. Her work has been in exhibitions overseen by the Carnegie Museum of Art and she completed a residency in Bali, Indonesia, where she studied Balinese painting.
Brant's exhibition, "Beautiful Objects," features ceramic influenced by historical Persian pottery and organic forms such as the body and botanicals. She is the assistant director of the Eisentrager•Howard Gallery.
Brant is the recipient of a Hixson-Lied Fellowship at UNL.
Willers' exhibit is "Precious Space" and includes sculptural ceramic vessels, graphite drawings and mixed-media pieces.
Willers is also the recipient of a Kimmel Fellowship at UNL. She also served as President of the Clay Club in 2005-06 and was a student docent at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in 2005-06.
Information on Wang's thesis exhibition was not available at press time.
For more information, call 472-5025.
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