The Hastings College Jackson-Dinsdale Arts Center (JDAC) recently hosted a unique collection of art from another Nebraska private college. The faculty of Concordia University of Seward put together a stunning collection across a multitude of media from ceramics to embroidery. 

The collection resided in JDAC for most of the month of September and was utilized as a teaching tool for professors and an interesting new perspective for students across campus. One such student was junior secondary art education major Liam Sites. 

While Sites was not required to view the gallery for any of his classes, he was able to use his academic knowledge to look at the art from a scholarly point of view. Sites also enjoys looking at a gallery’s collections live as opposed to in pictures. 

“You see it differently when it’s there in front of you,” He said. The pieces Sites found the most “visually striking” in the collection were the paintings by Don Robson, but he also enjoyed the paintings by Seth Boggs and his children, with “Iguanidae” being his personal favorite. 

“I really enjoyed the special collaborative quality of them, it’s cute,” Sites said. Another piece Sites and other students alike found very intriguing were the embroidery and textile pieces by Jennifer Bockelman. “I think because it’s the media I’ve been exposed to the least, I don’t see a lot of that,” Sites said. 

While Concordia’s faculty collection has left the building, the month of October brings the JDAC an opportunity to play host to the talents of our own professors as they curate their own collection to share with the Hastings College student body and community. 

This collection, much like Concordia’s, will also display a wide variety of different types of art work and cover a variety of themes. The Jackson-Dinsdale Arts Center gallery is open to the public from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. on weekdays and 12 P.M. to 3 P.M. on weekends.