Work from Kern County college art instructors will be highlighted starting Sept. 15 in a Bakersfield Museum of Art exhibit called Convergence.

The show will feature pieces by 20 Bakersfield College and Cal State Bakersfield art department faculty members.

“The art department chairs contacted my predecessor with content and proposed the idea of merging work from the two colleges’ faculty members. There have been many changes to the staff in the last few years, which have strengthened the art department programs with very notable working artists,” said Vikki Cruz, curator for The Bakersfield Museum of Art.

The exhibit came about because of cooperation between the Bakersfield Museum of Art, BC, and CSUB.

“This show is a result of a conversation between Joyce Kohl, chair of the Art Department at CSUB and myself. We decided to approach the Bakersfield Museum of Art with the idea of the show, and we were delighted when they accepted the idea and scheduled the exhibit,” said David Koeth, art professor and chair of the BC Art Department.

Convergence includes a wide range of classic art forms such as painting, drawing and sculpture as well as disciplines like assemblage and multimedia work.

“I am showing three mixed media citrus spheres, which are part of a series that I’ve been working on for the past few years,” said Koeth.

There is no central theme for Convergence and faculty members were responsible for choosing the work they wanted to display. “We were asked to create something or show our most recent work,” said Kris Stallworth, instructor of photography at BC, who contributed photographs to the show.

Convergence will also coincide with the California Art Education Association’s annual conference being held in Bakersfield this year.

“Our exhibits are constantly changing and we try to offer a variety of exhibits annually. I don’t know if this will be a repeated event for next year, but maybe further down the road we might consider hosting this exhibit again,” said Cruz about the possibility of the show becoming an annual presentation.

Convergence runs from Sept. 15 to Nov. 20.