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Student Work

A white wall displays a grid of sixteen small, varied abstract sculptures made from materials like wire, foil, clay, pom-poms, and plastic.

16 sculptures based on material relationships to opposing formal contrasts
Kate Propst

Stacked, curved silver metal shapes balanced on small dark spheres.

This image features the word “ECO” constructed entirely out of discarded cigarette butts.

Wordplay
Juliana Maurer

Interior of a dimly lit restaurant with dark green walls, leather banquettes, hunting-themed artwork and taxidermy mounts, pendant lights, and a fully stocked bar in the background.

A black-and-white portrait of a person with streaks of light swirling around their face.

Print of a reclining nude figure in bright yellow and orange with white floral patterns on the skin, framed in black paper.

Three framed Synergy Lab posters mounted on a gray wall, promoting print services and a photo expo with QR codes and high-contrast color palettes.

Posters for Synergy Lab
Chloe Cooke and Mason McCaffety

A screenprint titled "In Motion" of a dynamic, dancing figure rendered in overlapping layers of red, green, blue, and gold, creating a blurred sense of movement against a white background.

In Motion
Lulu Nowicki

A textile artwork resembling a worn American flag, made from stitched strips of aged tan and blue fabric. The stripes are screen-printed with rows of small black horses in various poses, and the star field is a blue cyanotype-style panel.

Residual Frontier
Brendan Hazle

A unique ceramic sculpture presents an abstract, organic form with two distinct face-like profiles emerging from opposite sides. The sculpture has a mottled texture with hues of reddish-brown, dark brown, and a dripping, semi-glossy pale green or off-white glaze, and a tangle of black wire protrudes from its top.

Three colorful cosmetic droppers suspended against a gradient background.

Color-coded transit map of the AppalCART bus system in Boone, North Carolina, showing multiple routes connecting Appalachian State University, downtown Boone, and surrounding residential areas. The lines are labeled by color—such as red, green, gold, and purple—with bus stops, landmarks, and route names clearly marked. The title “AppalCART Schedules & Routes” appears vertically along the right edge in red text.

Appalcart Route Map
Raphael Wenger

Two students pose in front of Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans at a museum, each can painting framed in a grid on the wall.

Students with Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans during trip to New York

A ceramic stoneware bust sculpture of a rabbit-human hybrid with long upright ears, a humanlike face, and shoulders, finished in mottled blue and tan acrylic paint, displayed on a white pedestal. A label reads "Hannah Castro, Bunny Bust."

Bunny Bust
Hannah Castro

Museum educator leading a small group of students in discussion beside a large framed landscape painting with towering mountains and a reflective lake.

A blurred figure moves through a busy commercial bakery kitchen lined with stainless steel counters, mixers, ingredient bins, and shelves of tools.

A digital composite of a giant combat boot descending over a small girl running away from a tiny cabin between huge mushrooms in a forest.

Wide view of a student graphic design exhibition in a bright gallery space, with people viewing graphic design projects displayed on walls, pedestals, and screens, and interacting with various installations.

Gallery view of Second Floor, a Graphc Design Senior Exhibition

Logo for the Internationalist Prison Books Collective
Kameron Neal

Decorative plates featuring leaves and animals mounted to wall in gallery

Poster for the Russo Brothers Film Festival featuring overlapping geometric letterforms in red, blue, white, gray, and black. Text at the bottom reads “New York, New York | Dec. 4–6.” The design has a layered, bold typographic style.

Film festival poster
Nick Oerter

Graphic presentation of a display typeface named "Astro" by Katie Randall. The image showcases the full character set, including uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numerals, and common punctuation/symbols. The font is presented in two different styles: a solid blue fill and a blue outline, both featuring a distinct Art Deco or retro-futuristic style with stylized serifs and squared forms.

Type specimen for Astro
Katie Randall

A painting of a jumbled pile of shoes and boots rendered in cool blues, grays, and warm tans, the worn footwear heaped together from an overhead view.

We Collect Dust
Abby Hauser

A quilted fabric wall hanging spelling "TAKE ME HOME" in large black letters across a green-and-white patterned center, surrounded by blue-toned screen-printed photos of houses and buildings, with embroidered text reading "Welcome to West by God, Wild & Wonderful" and "Leaving West by God, Broken & Rotten."

Take Me Home
Mia Finelli

A low outdoor sculpture combines a smooth, curved concrete form emerging from a mound of grass on a campus lawn.

Museum of Spoons logo
Spencer Berling

Woman standing on the roof of a car at dusk.

Students stand in a gallery listening to a speaker during, surrounded by artwork and signage.

Students visiting the Hickory Museum of Art

A large oil painting of five young people playing a card game around a low table in a living room, each figure painted in a different saturated monochrome color, including purple, blue, yellow, and red. A small dog and green beer bottles complete the casual scene.

Logo for Full Moon Farm
Valeria Homayden

A group of people gathers in a gallery, listening to a speaker discuss artwork that combines patterned fabric and wooden frames, with a colorful skull installation on the adjacent wall.

Students at ReHappening at Black Mountain College

A whimsical hand-built ceramic lamp sculpture of a tall, lanky black-and-white cat with large green eyes and wispy whiskers. A tiny mouse on a chain dangles from its mouth, and small paws line the base.

Open artist's book with blue and white covers patterned with ceramic and kitchen objects, and white interior pages with blue print.

Book Arts
Allison Walter

A person with a striped backpack stands in a gallery reading wall text beside framed artwork displayed on a textured brick and plaster wall.

Student at ReHappening at Black Mountain College

A light-wood tiered structure resembling stairs, featuring abstract cut-outs, painted shapes, and small blocks resting on the steps.

Haylee Pleasant

A concrete stairwell wall with exposed metal conduit, two utility boxes, and a large sign reading “3 Stair No. 2.”

What Flows Between
Hannah McKee

A hardcover book titled The Books: A Survey of Bible Design surrounded by various Bibles and religious texts on a wooden table.

The Books: A Survey of Bible Design
Joshua Knapp

Hanging fabric banner featuring an abstract geometric design in blue, orange, yellow, and burgundy color blocks.

A young woman in a vintage-style pink patterned dress stands with her hands on her hips against a pale blue wall beside an outdoor metal staircase. Sunlight casts strong shadows across the concrete ground.

A surreal poster featuring black, headless clay vessel figures with human limbs and colorful eye-like patterns, arranged dynamically against pale blue and beige backgrounds with the text “High Country Clay.”

Poster for High Country Clay
Jacob Fluharty

Classroom scene with a student presenting a slide showing close-up photos of a metal casting project, while peers sit and watch attentively.

A visitor wearing a black jacket and cap views a ceramic artwork mounted on a gallery wall.

Students viewing exhibition at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts

A young woman wearing sheer white lingerie and hair rollers kneels on a carpeted floor, pressing an unplugged iron against the carpet in a softly lit, wood-paneled room.

A cream ceramic candelabra holding three sage-green taper candles, shaped as a ring with cut-out pink flowers and crowned with sculpted olive branches, flanked by smaller matching candle holders and blue floral cups.

Growing and Gathering [Detail]
Ava Kate Graham

A dimly lit workspace where a person in glasses and a striped shirt focuses on hand-sewing fabric under a bright desk lamp.

Stylized print of a sandwich or burger with meat and fried eggs, depicted as melting and dripping with outlines.

Stylized painting of a purple patterned bag tangled with dark looping cords, set against a bright yellow and orange background with organic flowing shapes.

Hailey Whitehead