Dominic Brown
Lantern Staff
For the last three weeks, the Art Department has been preparing for their March art show. It is a split show held in the E.B. White Gallery of Art in the 700 building on the El Dorado campus, consisting of an interactive art installation by the 3D design students and original pieces by books and tuition scholarship students. Despite being pushed back on schedule on the Butler Community College calendar, the show was set up Wednesday, March 7.
In the beginning of March, the gallery hosted guest artist Tim Stone and his show, “Invented Landscapes.” Stone filled the gallery from Friday, Feb. 2 until Friday, March 2. During this time, the 3D design students brainstormed a piece to compliment the student art show.
“The other half is an opportunity for our 3D design students to do installation work,” Lecturer of Art Trisha Coates said. “They get to explore elements and principals of design on a scale that they normally don’t get to. We turned it over to them, and they came up with a concept, an idea and materials.”
Sophomore Sam Brazell pitched the idea of a secret forest. The artists went out to his land to harvest saplings and paint them. Once they are set up, viewers of the galleries would be given invisible markers to write secrets or make drawings that other viewers can see under black light.
The second part of the installation exhibit is a transition from winter to spring with the focal point being a black hole in the corner, with black cones sticking out from which lighter values transition from.
Apart from the installation, the scholarship students will be submitting two works that they were required to create outside of class work. Students have submitted drawings, paintings, ceramic pieces and other works.
“They ended up having kind of a strange timeframe for March,” Coates said. “There wasn’t long enough to bring in an outside artist, but it was too long to shut the gallery down.”
The reception was held Friday, March 9, and will be open throughout the month, excluding spring break. It will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.