Coleman’s quarry drawings at Cornell’s Orange Carpet Gallery

MOUNT VERNON — Pastel drawings of the old stone quarry in Mount Vernon are on display Feb. 28 through April 28 in the Orange Carpet Gallery of The Commons at Cornell College. Admission is free.

This series of works by Mount Vernon artist Susan Coleman is based on points of view from the quarry, also known as Nature Park.

Coleman has been gallery coordinator in Cornell’s art department for six years. She received master’s degrees in drawing and painting from the University of Iowa and has shown widely throughout the Midwest and Eastern United States. Her work is based on landscape themes encountered in her local environment. In addition to Cornell, she has taught at the University of Northern Iowa, Kirkwood Community College and Dartmouth College.