FAAH Student Projects Adorn West Hall in Annual Art Exhibit

Studio Arts course work on display

Pools of students, faculty, and staff bustled around campus to visit the annual art exhibition organized by the Department of Fine Arts and Art History (FAAH) on May 29 and 30. Student projects that had been completed over the fall and spring semesters were on display at different stations across campus. The participating students included those enrolled in ceramics, sculpture, painting, drawing, conceptual art, and stage design.

The primary gallery, which was in the Common Room in West Hall, housed a selection of realistic oil paintings and charcoal drawings, colorful glazed ceramic pieces, vases, and teapots. To accommodate the large number of student works, additional paintings, drawings, and sculptures were on display in their respective art rooms on upper campus.

The stage design projects intrigued many spectators in their creativity and ingenuity. For those, the students were required to choose a play and sketch props, costumes, and an appropriate set design that was both elaborate and practical in terms of being realized. Then, they had to create a model stage design based on the original sketch. Similarly, in the conceptual art projects the students had come up with innovative creations for otherwise mundane objects. One such project consisted of a phonograph with the vinyl record replaced by a simple loaf of traditional pita bread.

The students expressed much enthusiasm in working on the projects-and gratitude to their instructors who taught them different techniques and trained their "artistic eye."