Links to personal art sites, exhibit pages and articles about Hesston College visual art alumni
Anna (Emerson) Friesen , 1966 — 2009 Hesston College Friesen Gallery show
Paul Friesen , Academy 1942, 1944 — Mennonite Life interview , spring 2007
Ken Gingerich , 1971 — 2011 Friesen Center Gallery show
Philip Hershberger , 1973 — Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Paintings (Flickr site by Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library)
Randy Horst , 1979 — 2010 Hesston College Gallery show
Mark Horst , 2007
Lynn Lais , 1975 — spruceforest.org , Village Pottery
John Mishler , 1969 — Bilhenry Gallery
Doug Miller , 1970
Joseph Shetler , 2002 — 2009 Hesston College Gallery show
Isaac Shue , 2007
Gwen Stamm , 1977 — The Printery House
Asako Takigawa , 1989, and her husband, John, own Interculture Art , Inc., a design firm that specializes in interior design for hotels and commercial buildings. After a year at Hesston, Asako transferred to the Art Institute of Chicago, where she completed her degree in interior design and met her husband, who is from Korea.
Brittni Wegmann , 2003 — Brittni’s Florida State Ceramics page
Royce Yoder , 1974
Sarah Boyts Yoder , 2000
Alumni works in the fall 2008 alumni exhibit
Platter, ceramics, by Royce Yoder
“Zechariah and Elizabeth,” digital composition by Merrill Miller
“Horizontal Universe I,” manipulated photo collapsed onto paper by Anna Friesen
“Faith,” mixed media by Gwen Stamm
Carved Porcelain Lanterns, ceramics by Marena Nachtigall
“The Greatest Commandment,” charcoal by Elizabeth Eberspacher
“The Charca, Early Morning,” painting by Esther Graber
“Fisherman,” painting by Joseph Shetler
“Forgiven,” monotype tryptic by Isaac Shue
“Framed Quilt,” stoneware by Jane Fry
“Americanan III,” ceramics by Jane Graber
stoneware platter by Lynn Lais
“A River Runs Through All Time,” encaustic by Phil Hershberger
“Specimens for Closer Examination,” porcelain, glass jar, water mixed with sea salt by Brittni Wegmann
untitled painting by Ashley Miller
“Love,” acrylic, oil and thread on canvas by Stephanie Danker
“Not So Fast,” mixed media on canvas by Sarah Boyts Yoder
“A Look of Despair, Lira-Palaw IDP Camp, Pader, Uganda,” digital photograph by Greg Ebersole
“Xiabalba,” mixed media on canvas by Chris Johnson
wood and soda fired stoneware vase by Layne Wyse
“Synteresis Voluntatis,” Colorado alabaster by David Foncannon
“Piscean Song,” aluminum and paint sculpture by John Mishler
“Wormwood Bowl,” stoneware by Steve Fry