By NOAH PARKER
Tiger Media Network
Before Fall Break, the Moss-Thorns Gallery hosted “Wavelength,” an Interior Design student exhibition. Made up of senior pieces, the gallery was full of floor plans, student portfolios, and a few interactive and usable pieces.
Upon entering the gallery through the main entrance, visitors were greeted by the name of the gallery as well as colored blocks that they could sign with a marker as the “sign-in sheet,” as Instructor and Gallery Director Colin Schmidtberger called it. On the other side of the wall, there was another interactive piece, a circle with different aspects of interior design.
“On our opening night, any patron who came through was able to actually interact with it. So they would take the string, they’d start with a space they wanted to design, and they would run the string back and forth to different areas; accessories, color, what they wanted to do and create their own space,” Schmidtberger said. “It was a fun interactive piece that got everyone involved.”
In addition to the interactive pieces, the students also refurbished a few pieces of furniture for attendees to actually use and view.
“The students got to decide on what we were going to incorporate into this space itself, so they wanted to bring in a piano and found one that someone was just giving away for free, “Scmidtberger said. “It was beaten up and a little bit damaged, and so they wanted to kind of create an inviting, fun space that went along with the theme of all the colors… the students do a lot of work in class and outside of class creating these different objects, materials, and furniture pieces that go throughout the show.”
As the instructor for interior design, Schmidtberger got to see the creation of these projects firsthand.
“It’s always fun to see each little entity of the space slowly finish… it’s always a fun little experience for the students,” he said.
Schmidtberger said that while a lot of the projects from the students had been put out before from past courses, they got feedback for them from those showings and then took them back to fix the mistakes and improve them for this senior exhibition.
“It allows the community, their family members, and everyone who comes to really see what we do throughout the program,” he said. “So they’re always excited to have the stuff hung up because it kind of showcases who they are as a designer.”
While there won’t be another Interior Design exhibition like this one until the spring semester of 2025, Moss-Thorns is in no short supply of others. The next exhibition, Olivia Stinson’s MFA Thesis Exhibition, “Everything Changes, Nothing Dies,” a ceramic exhibition, is already open for viewing with the reception taking place on Saturday along with the annual winter art walk.
Stay tuned for a story covering that exhibition in the near future.
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