The Female Artists consist of all the fantastic pieces created by women that are a part of the Goshen College Collection of Art. These are just a few of the great pieces that make up the Goshen College Collection of Art.
1
Messenger Bag
Carol Ann Carter
Print making
2008
Basement Ad. Building
Development Office
Carol Ann Carter, originally from Indiana, is an artist that works in many media: printmaking, digital imagery, mixed media painting, fiber construction, video, and installations. She conceives her work as a map of shifting relationships between individuals, between cultures, and between memories and the present.
2
National Park
Naomi Limont
Print making
1980
2nd Floor Science Building
Naomi Limont is a printmaker and painter born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. She studied at both the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Tyler School of Art. Her prints are noted for their technical challenge and their rich use of textures.
3
Judas
Katherine Bartel
Sculpture
NA
3rd Floor Wyse Building
Katherine Bartel makes art that communicates on a very personal level. Her sculptures and installations weave personal experiences, histories, and objects into pieces that are both intimate and emotional. In Bartel's "Judas", the figure curls up in silent, personal defeat as his actions entrap him.
4
Nocturnal Landscape
Elaine Jennings Buerge
Painting
NA
1st Floor Good Library
South Stairwell
Elaine Jennings Buerge is a painter originally from Goshen, Indiana. She graduated from Goshen College and studied painting further at Pittsburg State University in Kansas. Her abstract landscape paintings, influenced by modernism, amplify the energies and colors of nature and light.
5
Untitled
Erma Martin Yost
Painting
1975
2nd Floor Good Library
North Stairwell
Erma Martin Yost is an abstract artist known for her paintings, drawings, and most recently art quilts and felting. Yost's work is inspired by nature, both grand and small. "Untitled" captures the subtle colors and hazy shapes of the misty mornings of Yost's Indiana childhood.
6
Mama Watu
Judy Wenig Horswell
Drawing
1996
1st Floor Good Library
Reference Room
Born in Woods County, Ohio, Judy Wenig Horswell is an artist who works in a variety of media, including jewelry, sculpture, drawing, and watercolor. World travels have greatly influenced her work. "Mama Watu" shows Wenig's interest in African costuming and patterns. She was a long time art faculty and now professor emeritus at Goshen College.
7
Narciss and Echo
Vera Klement
Drawing
1997
1st Floor Music Center
South Hallway
Born in central Europe, Vera Klement's paintings, drawings, and prints explore the duality of life in its largest context: good vs. bad, redemption vs. loss, nature vs. human-made, unity vs. diversity, and process vs. product. Klement is a long-time professor of art and now emeriti at the University of Chicago.
8
Windows : Ascension
Juanita Yoder Kauffman
Print making
1996
1st Floor Music Center
Juanita Yoder Kauffman specializes in silk paintings for liturgical spaces. Her large-scale pieces, which take on the vibrancy and presence of stain glassed windows, use color to infuse the imagery with spiritual energy. Her work has been used as processional kites at national Catholic and Presbyterian conventions.