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Artwork by Matthew Helton, a fine art and photography student at Wright State, will be displayed at the Dayton Art Institute as part of the Yeck College Artist Fellowship from May 10 through Aug. 19.<\/p><\/div>\n

When he was a boy, his artistic-minded parents would take him to the Dayton Art Institute, where he was dazzled by the paintings, sculptures and photos of world-class artists.<\/p>\n

Today, Matthew Helton, a fine art and photography student<\/a> at Wright State University, is about to have his work displayed in the same space as the artists he looked up to.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many big names and pieces; to be a part of it is very emotional for me,\u201d he said.\u201d I feel like I\u2019ve been on the outside looking in for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n

Helton and two other Wright State students \u2014 Nanci Payne and Nancy Shuler \u2014 will have their artwork displayed at the museum as part of the Yeck College Artist Fellowship<\/a>. The show runs from May 10 through Aug. 19.<\/p>\n

The Dayton Art Institute opened as an art school in 1919 and has been called \u201cDayton\u2019s living room.\u201d The museum\u2019s collections contain more than 26,000 objects spanning 5,000 years. Notable works include those by Monet, Rubens, Degas, O\u2019Keeffe, Hopper and Warhol.<\/p>\n

The Yeck fellowships are supported by the Yeck Education Endowment Fund, which promotes and enhances the development of promising young artists. In addition to creating a body of museum-class work to be displayed, the Fellows are required to teach art to a dozen selected high school students from eight different school districts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe college students also learn how to teach, using that as a skillset they will probably need as working artists later in their career,\u201d said Christine Fleming, museum educator for school programs at the institute.<\/p>\n

But she said the Yeck programs are designed to cultivate a passion for the arts whether or not participants pursue art as a career.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s fellowship program began in September with the college students planning their artwork and developing the curriculum. The classes were then held weekly at the institute from January through April. About a dozen Yeck scholarship winners from area public and private high schools took part in the classes.<\/p>\n

Four college students were selected from a pool of 10 applicants following interviews and a review of their portfolios. Each Wright State student excels in a different media \u2014 from photography to painting to a painting\/drawing, ink-brush mix.<\/p>\n

\u201cWright State has a great art program, and it\u2019s a great group of students,\u201d said Fleming.<\/p>\n

Helton, a native of Fairborn, was drawn to photography at an early age.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always had a camera growing up. And I was the guy always taking pictures on my phone no matter where I went,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

However, it wasn\u2019t until he took his first photo with a professional camera that he realized photography could be far more than just taking family and vacation snapshots.<\/p>\n

And so when he began his career at Wright State in pre-health, Helton quickly gravitated toward photography and ultimately changed his major to fine art with an emphasis on photography<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was able to sharpen his techniques and began creating artwork with depth, where the images actually stood for something or represented something else.<\/p>\n

Helton plans to pursue his master\u2019s degree and would like to teach photography at the college level. But he also aspires for a career as a photographer for National Geographic magazine.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are really immersed in the cultures and the things you are photographing, which I think is amazing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Helton said the Yeck program has taught him how to build curriculums and mold students, pushing them to achieve their potential.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very rewarding,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard not to be excited when they\u2019re so excited. They become more and more vocal and engaged.\u201d<\/p>\n

The students did drawings, paintings, sculptures, origami and photography. In one class, Helton taught art history by requiring the students to walk through the museum and identify artworks that represented art-related words and concepts like chiaroscuro \u2014 or contrasted light and shadow.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea was to open their minds as they make their artwork, get them to look at something they may not have really examined,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The high school students will get a chance to display their artwork during the opening reception for the exhibit May 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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