Seasonal art spruces up the counseling center window with a new design every few months. This past winter, the window was decorated with whimsical snowfall, and the updated artwork for spring includes beautiful flowers and detailed deer. This spring three artists, Zoey Zervos, Elizabeth Yamnitz, and Brynnja Doty worked together to brainstorm and come up with a new design idea.
“We just worked with the idea of spring stuff and spring vibes. Last time, we did a forest scene with winter stuff and snow, and this time, we were just kind of picking forest animals and flowers to do,” Zervos said.
Another artist, senior Emma Adams, did last year’s spring window display. She was presented the opportunity to do the art during her secretary hour.
“I was student secretary for the Counseling Center at the time, and I helped take down the winter mural and I halfway volunteered myself to do it because I just mentioned that I like to paint. And then it was, ‘Well, if you come with an idea, you can paint it.’ So I did,” Adams said.
While this current display was created by three artists, Adams decided she would complete the window mural by herself.
“It was just me. I could have asked other people in my art class to help me, but I prefer to work on my own stuff alone. It took me a month or so—maybe two months. I worked up until almost the end of the semester because I just kept adding stuff,” Adams said.
This spring, it only took the three artists about three weeks to complete the painting, and one of Zervos’s favorite parts is hearing people’s comments about her art.
“Just seeing it and seeing all the people that like it…I think people like it. I get a lot of compliments on it,” Zervos said. “It’s maybe not as positive as some people might think; I always spot the flaws in my work that other people don’t see.”
For Adams, one of her favorite parts about completing the mural was how her artwork uplifted the space around it.
“It doesn’t feel like you’re in a hospital by the counseling center because the walls aren’t as super white, you know? I can’t really speak for anybody else, but for me, I think it does make me feel like this is a place that I want to be,” Adams said.
