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Issue date: 9/28/06 Section: News

Media Credit: Nick Snyder Sarah Brisendine, Garden City, Kan., talks to viewers in the Beth Tedrow Student Center Portico about her art on display.

First a line is drawn. Then another and another until soon several waves, patterns and designs flourish into the inventive series adorning the portico of the Beth Tedrow Student Center (BTSC).

"I start out simple with one line, not a straight line but just a line that goes across the canvas," Sarah Brisendine, Garden City, said. "Then I expand the design element to form my art [piece]."

Brisendine is the artistic hand behind the series of acrylic paintings who had the privilege of displaying her artwork for others to enjoy in the portico of the BTSC.

"I have watched her progress in her work for two years now since we take Thursday night classes together," Wanda Stallings, Garden City, said. "I think Sarah's work is really unusual and striking."

After graduating from high school Brisendine took a couple of art classes at GCCC and then transferred to Bethel College in Newton, Kan., where she discovered her talent and love for art.

"I transferred to Bethel College on a track scholarship, but there wasn't a major in a field I liked, so I chose to major in art," Brisendine said. "I became fascinated and intrigued and could do this [art] all day, have fun and never get bored."

Dave Kinder, art instructor, was surprised when Brisendine returned as an art major.

"I was a little surprised when she came back and said she was an art major," Kinder said. "We started working this last fall to put together her senior exhibition at Bethel College."

Kinder said he was impressed with his student's interest in linear design.

"I try with every student to sit down and find their own personal interest and then help them pursue those interest with the work of other sources that show the same personality," Kinder said. "I saw she was interested in linear pattern and wow, she then came up with a nice body of work to constitute the senior exhibition show."

To finish her degree at Bethel College Brisendine is currently completing a series in line element and design, which she named 'descubrimiento,' meaning 'discovery' in Spanish.

"I originally wanted to name them individually but was advised to name the series, so I chose descubrimiento," Brisendine said. "I chose to name them this because I relate to it as a process of discovery for me."

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