Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Jay Hopkins, an artist residing in Aberdeen, SD is exhibiting her "Nature's Playground" show in the Presentation College Wein Gallery from December 30-January 31, 2019. Jay grew up on a farm east of Havana, North Dakota. Jay states that "Nature and its inhabitants fuel my creative process." in 2003 and her Master of Fine Arts degree at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colorado in 2008. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at MSU of Moorhead, MN Jay has been teaching Art History courses and The Art of Being Human at Presentation College, Aberdeen; as well as Art Appreciation at Northern State University, with the experience of teaching Foundations of Drawing. Jay feels her "subject matter employs figures, animal and/or human, that float, interface and connect this organic and geological world."