Featuring work from over 100 art students, the 67th annual Student Art Show moves into a new venue in the Department of Art Gallery in the Art and Journalism Building.
In past years, the Student Art Show was held at Minnetrista Cultural Center, but this year's show is in the recently completed gallery located in AJ 101. The show will run from April 5 through April 28.
"Not only does it celebrate the creative efforts of the students taking classes in the Department of Art, but it inaugurates the first year of the stellar Art and Journalism Building," said Adrian Tio, a chair professor in the art department at Northern Illinois University. Tio was one of the jurors who picked this year's winners.
One winner for the foundation courses was freshman Patrick Wasson.
Wasson constructed a project for his class out of wood and plastic. The assignment was to put together a self portrait from the waist up.
Wasson said at first he was nervous about the project.
"I started out by doing a pose about how stressed I was about the project," he said.
Wasson said that later on he felt more at ease with the assignment and decided to try and capture some other emotions he was facing when putting the self portrait together. Part of the portrait captured his elements of frustration and stress, but there was also a sense of relief shown in the sculpture as well, Wasson said.
Wasson also said he was excited when he found out he had won an award for his project. The award's ceremony took place April 5 at the show's opening reception.
"I guess I was pretty pleased being a freshman and all," Wasson said.
Freshman Joanna Stair also won an award for her self-representation sculpture.
"We were told to make a sculpture representing us but also an abstract," she said. "I submitted a plexiglass, wood and metal sculpture."
Stair said she worked on this for three weeks to a month. Stair's project is a collaboration of different poses she took and molded together. Part of her sculpture had hands in the air and one in front.
"I just took different pictures of different poses, and then I got the materials and put it together," she said.
A teacher suggested Stair enter her project into the gallery show. The teacher wanted to keep the sculpture if she wasn't going to submit it.
"I was very ecstatic because I had no anticipation of winning," Stair said about her award for her work.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Admission to the gallery is free.
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