Senior Art Exhibition - 2011

Kateri Tolo is a graduate of Belhaven University in 2011 with a major in Visual Art. She grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota at the other end of the Mississippi River, not knowing that God would have her follow it southward. As an artist she seeks continually seeks to create as a manner of worship and bring the viewer to a greater knowledge of God’s plan and promise for his people. She hopes that through her work she can help others to see, not only in the tangible sense, but also in the spiritual. “Everything I make breaks at one time or another in the making,” she says. “My hope is that as I work, toil, fail, and succeed, those who come in contact with me would see God’s provision and strength in all my weaknesses.”

Kateri was honored as the Freshman Art Major of the Year her first year at Belhaven; in 2010 she received the Research Club Scholarship Award from the Visual Art Department. She currently works as the elementary art teacher at Jackson Academy.

Should I Forget

oil, acrylic, ink, gold leaf, wood

Recount

ink, gold leaf, wood

New Name

oil, acrylic, gold leaf, stone

Partake

acrylic, wood

Forgo

oil, acrylic, ink, gold leaf, pigment, wood

Kept

acrylic, gold leaf, wood

Recall

oil, acrylic, ink, gold leaf, wood

Recompense

oil, acrylic, ink, gold leaf, wood

Recollect

ink, gold leaf, wood

Tried

oil, acrylic, ink, gold leaf, muslin, pigment, wood

Limp

oil, acrylic, ink, gold leaf, wood

Restitution

oil, acrylic, ink, gold leaf, wood

Ardor

oil, acrylic, ink, gold leaf, wood

Bind

oil, acrylic, ink, gold leaf, pigment, wood

Farther Along

oil, acrylic, ink, gold leaf, wood

The Toil It Brought

oil, acrylic, ink, gold leaf, wood

Redress

acrylic, ink, gold leaf, muslin, wood

Sorrow and Love Met

oil and wood

Recovered

oil, acrylic, ink, gold leaf, wood

More Than Years

oil, ink, gold leaf, wood, paper

Remnants

oil, ink, gold leaf, wood, papyrus