MAC Gallery

WVC MAC Gallery

September 4—October 30

First Friday Reception:  September 4, 5:00—7:00

The MAC Gallery opens the ’26/’27 school year by showing off the fruits of WVC Art Department faculty members’ professional artistic practices. The group exhibition includes creative works across a variety of media by Art Instructors Scott Bailey, Natalie Dotzauer, Arius Elvikis, Ellen Bruex, Linda Lyons, Elena Payne, Edgar Smith, and Sarah Sprouse, as well as Instructional Technicians Nik Penny and Denis DuBois.

It is an important characteristic of WVC Art Department faculty members that, in addition to being excellent, caring teachers of their disciplines, they are also high-level practitioners of their crafts. This exhibition displays the fruits of the professional art-making activities that make our art faculty members the fine artists and professors they are.  They teach with authority from a perspective of knowledge and experience, having developed and refined their various crafts over many years.  They are all practitioners of what they preach.

These are instructors who care as deeply about their artistic integrity as they do about being educators. They recognize that their studio work provides the solid platform upon which to present their course content, but they don’t impose their personal styles and artistic decisions upon the students.  They are caring and nurturing in the classroom, striving to develop students with excellent fundamental skills with individual goals for their own work.

The exhibition includes pieces by Scott Bailey (Painting, Drawing, Art Appreciation), Natalie Dotzauer (Sculpture, Drawing, Printmaking, Art Appreciation), Arius Elvikis (Graphic and Digital Design), Ellen Bruex (Art History, Art Appreciation, Drawing, Figure Drawing), Linda Lyons (Digital Photography, 2D Design, Art Appreciation), Elena Payne (Graphic Design, 2D Design), Edgar Smith (Drawing, Figure Drawing, 2D Design, Art Appreciation), and Sarah Sprouse (Ceramics), as well as pieces by Art Department Instructional Technicians Nik Penny and Denis DuBois. Through the consistent high quality and the broad variety of styles, media, and conceptual concerns on display here, viewers can see the breadth and depth of artistic experience in the WVC Art Department.