Northwestern College student’s art exhibit honors fallen law enforcement officers
By: Dolly Butz, siouxcityjournal.com
ORANGE CITY, Iowa — Up until three years ago, Jaycee Vander Berg avoided drawing people’s faces and stuck to sketching tigers.
“A tiger doesn’t have to be recognizable, but a person’s face — you have to make look right,” Vander Berg said while seated in a chair facing a tall, white wall tacked with charcoal drawings of celebrities, such as Michael Jordan, Johnny Depp and Heath Ledger. “I would always draw my friends to try. It didn’t even look like them.”
Eventually, Vander Berg’s practice paid off. The Northwestern College senior, who is double majoring in art/graphics and criminal justice, recently had a dozen lifelike charcoal drawings of faces that aren’t familiar, but to the family members, friends and coworkers who grieved their loss, displayed at Northwestern’s Te Paske Gallery.
