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Art Center to host a costume party/contest
The Advocate
The Visual Arts Center will host two seasonal celebrations on Thursday: a Halloween costume party Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and a cultural exhibit focusing on the Dia de los Muertos holiday.
There will be costume contests with prizes for best of show, best use of fangs, best monster, best use of recycled material, most artistic, and more. Light refreshments will be provided.
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There will be plenty to look at, from the hand-made altar welcoming the guests into to the party to the art displayed on the walls created by students.
Janet McIntyre, the dean of integrated media and visual and performing arts, said, "(the event is an) artistic and unusual get-up put together with an effort to encourage more participation in the gallery shows with the students at large as well as the staff."
Almost every department in the Visual Arts Center has been working on something to do with Halloween.
Participants from the Visual Arts Center costume contest may also want to get over to another costume contest at the Town & Gown Room later that night.
The winner there will receive $100.
The ceramics class recently had a guest artist lecture about cultural information connected with "Day of the Dead." They also completed a project with mask casting on student's faces.
Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos, is a holiday celebrated in Mexico where the living cherish and remember the lives of the dead. It takes place Nov. 2 and is sometimes mistakenly seen as similar to Halloween. The families and loved ones of the deceased decorate the tombstones with altars made from sugar skulls and marigolds.
"It's cool how a singular concept can be expressed through so many different mediums," said Georganne Watters, the visual arts instructor for printmaking and drawing.
The Visual Arts Center is located on the east side of campus by parking lot "J". Their office can be reached at (503) 491-7309
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