Photo Gallery: Celebrating the Arts Event (09/05/22)

“Bittersweet” (2018?) by Kaiola Sooman is on display among other works at the River Campus. The Celebrate the Arts event included student sales and an auction to benefit a new art building that will bring all art and design together under one roof. (Photo by Matt Morey)

Ceramic senior Seraphina McAteer sells vases at the ceramic kiosk. Next week, she will perform the opening reception for the BFA exhibition at the Catapult Creative house. She said she sold nearly all of her vases from a salon last semester. (Photo by Matt Morey)

Art and ceramics teacher Benji Heu spins a ceramic vase. He said there isn’t always a financial incentive to pursue an arts education, but it can be rewarding either way. “You have to find a job. No one can do things just for fun! (Photo by Matt Morey)

Photos show rooms created in interior design classes. The bottom photo shows a “pre-rendered” part, while the top one shows a fully rendered one. Professor Dr Mitchell said students are sometimes inspired by popular media, but “there’s a lot more to it than the HGTV fantasy”. (Photo by Matt Morey)

“When the Heart Paints” by Amber Huckaba is on display on the first floor of the Cultural Arts Building on the River Campus during the art sale. Huckaba is a senior painter from Fredericktown, Missouri, who won Best Show at the annual Student Art Show in April. (Photo by Matt Morey)

Art and design instructor Jeremy Griffin demonstrates virtual reality to an auction visitor, who explores the mountainous environment created in the first interactive media course with VR. She said she felt dizzy when she fell at what Griffin described as “terminal velocity” in the virtual environment. (Photo by Matt Morey)

Zoie Mathews pirouettes on stage in ‘Variation’ from Boris Asafyev’s ‘Les Flammes de Paris’, a ballet about the French Revolution which originally premiered at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. (Photo by Matt Morey)

Evie Rodenbaugh performs “Not Ready to Make Nice” by The Chicks. According to MC Ramos, the song was written in response to the group’s ousting from the music community in 2003 when they criticized the war in Iraq. (Photo by Matt Morey)

Musical theater senior Aliegha Ramos sings David Kirshenbaum’s “Fly Into the Future” from the play “Vanities.” It’s about chasing your dreams with reckless abandon. She was one of the emcees along with Diamon Lester. (Photo by Matt Morey)