Preschoolers — including finger painter Carter Laska — enrolled in the Amy Wise Children's Creative Learning Center at BC3 work on the acrylic painting “Winter” in February. The painting is part of the “Multiple Perspectives” exhibit.

The exhibit “Multiple Perspectives” features artwork created by students as young as 4 using materials acquired through donations honoring Lynn Huseman.

Huseman, herself a painter, was 72 when she passed away on April 23, 2018.

Colleagues of her husband, David, a professor of humanities and social science who has worked at Butler County Community College for 52 years, contributed funds to the BC3 Education Foundation.

Financial gifts allowed BC3 fine arts instructor David Ludwick to purchase canvases, paints and brushes used by students in his introduction to painting class, and by preschoolers in the Amy Wise Children's Creative Learning Center at BC3.The idea for the exhibit is that each generation motivates and mentors the others, according to Ludwick.Seventeen preschoolers from the Learning Center created “Winter,” a 5-foot by 4-foot acrylic painting that is part of exhibit.Also on display is “Goblin Market,” a 5-foot by 4-foot acrylic work created by students in Lindsay Lanigan's literature class and led by Jasmyn Murdie.“Multiple Perspectives” also features “Abstract Challenge,” an acrylic painting from Eileen “Tyke” Vaughn of Butler, a nontraditional student who has studied art at BC3 for the past decade.

Lynn Huseman's five paintings, all untitled, were made from 1963 to 1980. Two depict flowers, two, seashells and one, a pineapple and pears.Huseman attended Penn Hills High School and was accepted at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. She instead studied elementary education at Edinboro State College and taught in the Karns City School District and at St. Paul's Catholic School in Butler.The 13 paintings in “Multiple Perspectives” will continue on display in the Mary Hulton Phillips Gallery on BC3's main campus in Butler Township through March 27.A reception will be from noon to 2:30 p.m. March 20.The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays.For more information, visit www.bc3.edu.

Lynn Huseman

This untitled painting of a pineapple and pears created by Lynn Huseman is part of “Multiple Perspectives,” an exhibit that continues through March 27 in Butler County Community College's Mary Hulton Phillips Gallery. Huseman passed away April 23, 2018. She was married to David Huseman, a professor of humanities and social science who has worked at BC3 for 52 years.