MC seniors’ artwork displayed at Clayton Center

The work of four Maryville College senior art majors is on exhibit this week in the Clayton Center for the Arts’ Blackberry Farm Gallery.

A closing reception will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday in the gallery.

Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday.

These are the artists:

• Anna Glass, an art major from Gallatin, is showcasing a collection of oil paintings titled “Anna’s Animal Art.”

Her exhibit includes several large oil paintings that depict images of pets.

An oil painting of a chicken, titled “Rosemary,” is based on a photograph taken by Glass, which recently won an honorable mention in Photographer’s Forum magazine’s 31st annual “Best of College Photography” contest.

• Laura Maestas, an art major from Rockford, is showcasing a collection of fairy tale costumes.

The show, titled “Once Upon a Time,” includes three outfits, each based on an individual fairy tale heroine.

Maestas used fabric, including cotton, linen, wool and gauze to create the pieces. She is also displaying preliminary design sketches, as well as finished display sketches for each outfit.

“In contrast to the typical fairy tale ‘costumes,’ I wanted to create more modern and wearable clothing for fairytale heroines,” Maestas said.

“Using an overall aesthetic of loose silhouettes, mostly-natural colors, and a focus on texture rather than pattern of fabric, I created three outfits, each made up of multiple garments.

“In order to make the outfits as close to my designs as possible, I learned and used a variety of methods to manipulate the fabric, including dyeing, smocking, and various other types of decorative stitching.”

• Lee Steenbergen, an art major from Columbia, is displaying a collection of 10 digital photographs. his exhibit is titled “A Foray into Photojournalism.”

Steenbergen said the images “come from everywhere:” an area known as Sodom & Gomorrah in Accra, Ghana; a Tibetan nunnery near Tagong, China; a nonviolence protest of the School of the Americas in Spencer, Ga.; and “everyday happenings right here in Maryville.”

• Lee Craft, an art major from Nashville, explores the history of automotive design through several different types of media.

“These pieces are an exploration into the history of automotive design, seen through a 21st-century scope,” Craft said.

“They are modern designs that give a nod to the past without sacrificing my creativity to do it.”