About the Artist

I grew up on a farm near Haskins, Ohio and attended Bowling Green State University where I earned a BFA in painting with teaching certification and an MFA in jewelry.

After 6 years teaching art at Northridge High School in Middlebury, Indiana and some evening classes here at Goshen College, I became a member of the Goshen College Art Department in 1976 where I continue to teach. At Goshen my primary teaching responsibilities have included drawing, design, art history, jewelry and the team-taught Arts in London class. I have also served as Gallery Director and Department Chair.

My more significant art activities include the Pinchpenny Press publication of a series of drawings in Drawing: Côte d’Ivoir and being the ‘observed’ portion of the exhibit ‘Old Africa, New Africa, Africa Observed’ which also had a full color cataloque. Along with numerous other jewelry commissions, I was commissioned to design and make the president’s medallion for Goshen College and a sculpture for The Lion and The Lamb Peace Arts Center at Bluffton College. Two chess pieces will soon be returning from a traveling exhibit that has been shown at three venues in the United States and three in Great Britain. Two of my ‘trophy’ rings were recently published in 1000 Rings by Lark Books and are part of another traveling exhibition. Travels to Europe, Japan, Africa and Central America have been a great visual stimulant as has observing the plants and creatures in my garden.

~ Judy Wenig-Horswell, September 2004

Contact the artist

1700 S. Main St.
Goshen, IN 46526
(574)535-7594
Email: judymw@goshen.edu/