An art exhibit featuring works by students in the Sweet Briar College studio arts senior seminar opens Friday, April 13 in Pannell Gallery with an artists’ reception from 5 to 7 p.m. The public is invited and admission is free. The show will be open through May 12.

Wendy Nash's photography will be exhibited in Pannell Gallery.Wendy Nash doesn’t graduate until 2008, but her photography is part of the show because she took her senior seminar this year. A “Turning Point” student at Sweet Briar, she went to college after raising a family. She works part time in the bakery at Wal-Mart while pursuing her degree in studio arts.

Growing up in Amherst County, Nash spent summers on her grandfather’s farm. Today she shoots in black-and-white film because, “I see what is in the picture, and I am not distracted by color,” she wrote in her artist’s statement.

“I hope to convey to the viewer the simplicity of times long ago. … Fast disappearing are the small towns that are left. Through my work I try to stay in touch with life as it used to be in the ‘good old days’ and show the ruins and decay that come with time.”

Kylene Hayslett will show her photography exhibit, "Bodyscapes."Kylene Hayslett’s photography exhibit, “Bodyscapes,” takes its subject matter from the human form. “My female nudes are a combination of skin textures, angles, light and shadow, beautiful and sometimes puzzling subjects,” she wrote in a description of her work.

Born in Covington, Va., Hayslett traveled the world from an early age with her mother, who was in the Air Force. Going to school in places such as England, Germany and Florida, she says art classes were required throughout elementary and high school, but photography was never offered.

“I had to feed my own interest until I was 21, when I attended my first 101 class,” she said.

Kim Wadelton's bottle sculpture is among the work she is exhibiting.Kim Wadelton grew up in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., and is a graduate of Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville.

One of her works, a sculpture tentatively called “Bottle Sphere,” seems to suggest her self-professed interest in installation and conceptual art.

Wadelton will receive her Bachelor of Science in both studio art and mathematical physics from Sweet Briar in May.

Gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Monday and Friday and 1 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday. Admission is free. For information, e-mail rmlane@sbc.edu or call (434) 381-6248.

– By Jennifer McManamay, SBC staff writer