OCTC Student Art Exhibited in Team Kentucky Gallery
Owensboro, KY (07/26/2021) — As a student JC White was a familiar site around campus and he remains active in the OCTC Art Club, and takes additional art courses. As a graduate his art continues to speak to others. He was recently selected to participate in Gov. Andy Beshear and First Lady Britainy Beshear's Team Kentucky Gallery, which is located in a main hall of the state Capitol in Frankfort.
Selected artworks are displayed for one six-month rotation in the Kentucky Capitol and on a Team Kentucky Digital Art Gallery with each artist's contact information. After the six-month rotation, artworks will be returned to the artist. The first rotation will be from July 1 to Dec. 31, 2021.
As part of the ART 290: Survival Skills for the Artist course, OCTC Art Faculty, Dave Wilson, relayed that students earn additional points by submitting a class project to be considered for art exhibitions, outside a 60-mile radius of Owensboro. White submitted Pandemic Panorama for consideration to the Team Kentucky Gallery exhibition.
"Not only does this build student confidence with their creativity, it also validates their art educational efforts with the art world. JC is a tremendous artist and advocate for art education. But most importantly, he is a true mentor for students at OCTC" added Wilson.
When asked to reflect on this opportunity White said " I have learned many things in my art curriculum that have helped me to be a better artist but two classes are directly responsible for this recognition. My piece Pandemic Panorama was an assignment in my color theory class in analogous painting, and I applied to the Governor's exhibit to satisfy an objective in my artist survival class".
As an artist, White is passionate about land, sky, and water. The Pandemic Panorama piece focuses on all of these and combines them with an urge to escape. The work is portrayed by utilizing an analogous band of color between blue and yellow. White has been creating art for over sixty years.
The Team Kentucky Gallery installation will be open through December 31, 2021. For more information about OCTC's art program please contact davidw.wilson@kctcs.edu.
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Owensboro Community & Technical College is one of the sixteen community and technical colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System. OCTC serves the KY counties of Daviess, Hancock, Ohio and McLean. OCTC has three campuses in Daviess County and a Center and Annex in Hancock County. OCTC strives to serve the communities in the service area by providing associate degree education for transfer, state of the art technical education for students focusing on entering the workforce, customized business and industry solutions through the Workforce Solutions division, and adult education and business and industry testing through the SkillTrain unit.
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The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is the Commonwealth's largest postsecondary institution with 16 colleges and more than 70 campuses. We also are Kentucky's largest provider of workforce training and online education. Through partnerships with business and industry, we align our programs to meet the needs of local employers. We help students fulfill their dreams of creating a better life through programs that lead directly to jobs or help them transfer to one of our four-year partners.
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