STERLING — After a one-year hiatus due to COVID, Sterling College Art & Design students once again have a chance to show their work this year. The 2022 Student Juried Exhibition is in the Sterling College Art Gallery now through April 15. Works were selected by college art faculty Libby Reimer and Sia Joung. 

The works on exhibit range from digital photography, painting, printmaking, digital painting, and drawing.

“We’re excited to open this exhibition especially since our last student exhibition was canceled when our campus shutdown two years ago,” said Joung.

“We have a good quality of works in diverse mediums,” Joung explained. “Some of the works in the show are artworks that were produced outside of class works. It’s exciting to see students teach themselves and produce works on their own, not just for course assignment.” 

A total of six students are included in the exhibit this year. They are: Valerie Weis, Little River; Acacia Haspels, Nairobi, Africa; Nicole Marin, Caracas, Venezuela; Monte Powell, Laurel, MD; and Nadong Panwong, San Sai, Thailand. 

“Seeing students improve techniques as well as their ability to deepen conceptual elements in their work is the best part of teaching,” said Joung. “It’s difficult to judge one’s improvement or quality of work with one work on the wall, but we as faculty can see how much the students have worked hard to improve themselves over the last few semesters.”

The Student Juried Art Exhibit is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Sterling College Art Gallery at the corner of Washington and Eighth Street. There is no admission cost.