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Photos by Chelsea Van Baalen/The Advocate
Students from the Visual Arts Department display their work around the Visual Arts classrooms. Various mediums are represented including sculpture and paint.
An unofficial exhibit
The Advocate
Around the Visual Arts classrooms, there is a year-round, ever-changing gallery of student art on display.
“They start to get feedback from other artists or from people who just walk by and say, ‘Wow, that scares me. I don’t like that at all’ or ‘I like that’ and they immediately respond to it,” said ceramics instructor Stephen Mickey. “I think it feeds their need to know how their work is perceived.”
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The art is made by students from various MHCC art programs, including sculpting and painting.
“A large part of art is the display,” said Nathan Orosco, sculpture instructor. Orosco said it also provides an environment to talk about their work outside of the classroom.
“(The students) take a great deal of pride in their art,” said Orosco.
Painting instructor Lori Lorion said she encourages the artwork being shown because it “expands our awareness” of art. “It’s visual language,” said Lorion.
Lorion also said she likes to see art becoming integrated into everyday life.
Asked if she thought the students appreciated having their work displayed, Lorion said, “I think they do.”
Orosco said that the student art “adds to our art village.”
Mickey adds, “What I feel about it is that the students immediately get to have their work exposed to public opinion.”
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