Gifted scholar’s artwork on display at JC this week

Jamestown College fine-art and education major Jami Moore has her art work on display in the gallery of Reiland Fine Art Center until Monday.

The honors senior has followed her dream course through visual arts at a near-record pace. She’s maintained honors through her time at the college and has set herself apart as a student whose work is on time and enterprising. She never does just what is expected. She always goes the extra mile.

Moore’s studies in figure drawing have been a major theme through her college years. She loves color, especially the warm spectrum, and plays with the images she draws in a graphic and creative manner. She has assisted in this semester’s figure drawing class. Moore’s been doing student teaching there and also serves as gallery co-chairwoman with Elizabeth Schloegel, who in April will stage her own senior thesis art exhibit.

She used her summers while back home in Austin, Texas to take courses which she then transferred to JC’s art program. So over her three years of classes here in Jamestown, she managed to put in four years of credit and maintained her honors standing she had while still in high school. That in itself is not an easy thing to do. Couple those hours with various officer roles she fills and volunteer work she does, and it is an achievement to be saluted.

Moore is interested in getting experience teaching children with special needs and has volunteered helping them since high school. Art work has always been a component in her volunteer work.

She has already been accepted to graduate school near her hometown. She plans to continue graduate work in art education and children in need.

Moore’s deeply involved in her church and has worked with spiritual connections in Jamestown as well. She’s an active member of JC’s International Student Organization, entered JC with the women’s wrestling team, Grace on Campus, the JC Art Club, belly dance troupe and Habitat for Humanity, to name only a few of her organizations over the past three years.

She and a dozen JC students, during spring break, went to Georgia to help build a house near Valdosta. It’s typical of her, and actually nearly all JC’s scholars, that they dedicate some time each semester to civic volunteer time.

The 21 year-old, along with Schloegel, staged the All Student Show that hangs from March 23 until Easter. Following the All Student Show, Tara Sluik will display her Senior Thesis show followed by Schloegel’s exhibit.

All of those students, by the way, as well as Sarah Reely and Sarah Kalmbach, have spent off hours at the Arts Center downtown, where they’re working with youngsters enrolled in art classes. This array of students has given back to the city’s children in very important ways, and has helped to offset reduced funding for the arts.

Bravo ladies.

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