By Bailey Garza
Student Reporter
Every month the NWOSU art program has an artist come and stay for one month. The artist stays and works with the art students and then at the end of the month the artist holds an art show showing their work they worked on while being in Alva.
The artist in residence this month comes all the way from Brooklyn, New York. Her name is Madeleine Bialke. The 27-year-old artist, who is a painter, will be residing in Alva for November.
Bialke was born and raised in Ithaca, New York. She attended college at Plattsburg State University and Boston University.
She earned a bachelor in fine arts at Plattsburg University and a masters in fine arts at Boston University.
She said that she has been an artist and creating art ever since she was a little. Bialke isn’t the only artist in her family. Bialke’s mother is also a painter. “It was a creative household,” Bialke said.
Bialke’s work is mainly paintings of landscapes. Bialke said that she is very interesed in the American landscape.
She doesn’t have a favorite artist but there are artists she is currently interested in and is studying.
Those artists are Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, and Amy Sillman.
Art professor Kyle Larson also attended Boston University invited Bialke to come be the artist in residence this month. “We are from the same painting community,” Bialke said.
Bialke said the she likes being in Alva and it’s nice to have space to work in. Her art show will be held in the Jesse Dunne Annex on Dec. 7 from 3-5 p.m.