Art students will be given a chance to show off their class projects to their peers, faculty and the general public in an art show that promises prizes and more.
The 75th Annual Student Art Show is free and will open at 9 a.m. Friday at the Ball State University Museum of Art. The opening ceremony and awards ceremony will begin at 6 p.m.
This event is not only a way for students to get prizes and display their work; David Hannon, assistant professor of art and organizer, said the show is important for students to get real-world experience.
"This is testing student's abilities," he said. "It is a chance to see how a real show works."
Every year at least 300 works are submitted, 93 of which made it into this year's show. Hannon said he encourages those who may not have gotten into the show this year to try again next year.
"You have to participate," he said. "The work is not necessarily bad, and in order to be successful you have to participate."
Freshman Jaimie Wilson had a piece selected to be included in the show. She said she found inspiration for her work in the Architecture Building.
"It was almost exactly what I pictured in my head for the assignment," she said. "From there everything just seemed to fall into place."
Wilson used a technique called stippling in her piece, titled "One Point Perspective." She described stippling as making a picture out of millions of dots using pens of various thicknesses. Finishing a piece like this took more than 35 hours to complete, she said.
Shane Eagan, a freshman visual communications major, had two pieces accepted into the show — a nude figure drawn in colored pencil and a self-portrait.
While Eagan described the nude figure study as only taking 30 minutes to do, the portrait was quite an endeavor, he said.
"There were a lot of late nights in the studio," he said.
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