Student artists’ works lined the walls of the Ivan Wilson Center for Fine Arts’ gallery for The HER Exhibition Thursday.

The HER Exhibition aims to provide a platform for artistic expressions of the feminine experience and provides awards to participating artists, including cash prizes for Best In Show and Best In Show Runner-Ups.

“I was doing a lot of thinking about femininity,” said junior printmaking and graphic design major Shelby Reardon, whose work was displayed in the exhibition. “(Creating this piece) was kind of my way of showing how I feel about femininity and how I want to show mine.”

Reardon’s displayed work, “Forbidden Fruits,” depicts several hands reaching towards a basket of fruit perched on a swing. Reardon described the fruit as symbolic, representing femininity, sexuality and fertility.

 “A gust of wind or the slightest nudge could topple that fruit over… but it’s just a little bit too far away. It’s always out of reach,” Reardon said.

“Forbidden Fruits” is a work of relief printmaking, a technique where the artist carves an image’s negative space out of a block, creating a stamp that can reproduce the image multiple times.

Roselyn Cabrera, a junior graphic design and visual studies major, covered similar themes in her sculpture “What do you bring to the table?”, which depicts a pair of upside-down legs seemingly protruding out from their display.

“It’s essentially just focusing on the objectification of women, and how everything just revolves around what they bring to the table,” Cabrera said.

“What do you bring to the table?” was made from foam lamination, metal armatures and wire. Cabrera cited the leg lamp from “A Christmas Story” and her own personal experiences as inspiration for the piece.

Reardon and Cabrera each received awards for their works. Reardon won a Judge’s Choice Award, and Cabrera won the Gold Award for Sculpture and Second Runner-Up for Best In Show.