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Each spring, the Baylor Art Student Exhibition (B.A.S.E.) provides art and art history students with the opportunity to submit their artwork to a competitive, juried exhibition held at the Martin Museum of Art. This year’s B.A.S.E. exhibition will be on display at the Martin Museum of Art from March 26 to April 18.

Baylor graphic design students are making a name for themselves by putting their creative blueprints to the test. On Thursday, three students in the art and art history department earned multiple awards at the Dallas chapter of the American Advertising Awards (ADDYs), including the coveted best of show.

Madelyn Gregg pursued watercolor and yearbook design as a hobby while primarily focusing on athletics in high school. Art was always present in her life, but it wasn’t until her senior year that it bloomed into something more intentional that has now become a side hustle and passion for Gregg.

Although she graduated as a painting major, Olsen said she actually started off as a pre-med major and then switched to a math major before she circled back to her artistic abilities. She said the dissociation and isolation she experienced during COVID-19 in her freshman year paired with the influence of an art class she was taking at the time really allowed her to see she was meant to create.