Chalking on sidewalks, painting on windows and selling student artwork are just a few ideas the Student Art Gallery is planning to grab the attention of Ball State University students this year.
The Student Art Gallery is a group of students in the Department of Art formed to create awareness about art on campus. In reaction to construction on the art gallery in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center, the organization is finding alternative ways for students to display their art.
Members of the Student Art Gallery said they hope to recreate famous pieces, such as Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night"
and Leonardo DaVinci's "Mona Lisa," by displaying murals of the art in sidewalk chalk at different places on campus and painting the windows of Walnut Crown Apartments, which is currently being renovated.
"[The group would] like to bring some culture to campus and make students aware of the timeless pieces that continue to have an effect, even on today's society," Laura Klopp, the leader of the Student Art Gallery and creator of the project, said.
The art gallery in the Student Center is undergoing renovation to move the student organization offices out of the basement and into a better location to increase student participation, Bruce Morgan, director of student center and programs, said.
He said the project is scheduled to be completed Dec. 16, 2005.
The gallery provided an opportunity for students to showcase their artwork to friends and professors. The students wrote grants and sold original art, calendars and baked goods to fund the gallery, assistant professor of art Mary Jo Andersen said.
These students will still be able to show their work in the Ball State Museum of Art and Bracken Library, Andersen said.
"It was a place that fostered interdisciplinary activity and collaboration as well as a place for visual arts," Andersen said. "This is vital for building campus culture,"
Building campus culture is the main goal of the art awareness project, Klopp said.
"Art is visual communication. It's a way of showing an emotion of thought that words can't adequately express," Andersen said.
Andersen said she advises students to think outside the box by using their imaginations and picturing how something creative could spice up a place people consider boring.
"Art makes the invisible visible. It is visual poetry and metaphor and helps people understand the experience of being human," she said.
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