Graduate art show inserts new elements
There are whispering voices in the distance, but not voices in your head. They are the sounds one hears when entering the art-filled Ford gallery, now featuring the Graduate Student Show.
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There are whispering voices in the distance, but not voices in your head. They are the sounds one hears when entering the art-filled Ford gallery, now featuring the Graduate Student Show.
As students visit the current show in the Student Center’s University Gallery, they will be pleasantly surprised to recognize many of the artists’ names as the professors who critique them in class on a daily basis.
“It’s really exciting to see a piece exhibited because you spend a lot of time working with it, and you know all the mistakes you’ve made, but then to see it in a gallery elevates it to a good piece of artwork and all your hard work has paid off,” said Madison Chuhran, 21, who is double majoring in art and creative writing at Eastern Michigan University.
For centuries, people have actively searched for relationships with other bodies. Bodies are studied, criticized and sought out. This can be illustrated in The Figurative Works exhibit on display from Jan. 5 to Feb. 12 at Eastern Michigan University in the University Gallery located in the EMU Student Center.
Beginning in the summer of 2011, single parents will be offered more funding and support to earn higher education from Eastern Michigan University through a program called “Keys to Degrees,” funded by a $400,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. “Keys to Degrees” allows parents to live on campus in University apartments and attend classes year-round, enabling the parent to earn a bachelor’s degree in three years. With an on-campus program, the hope is to eliminate distractions and barriers single parents have when attempting to earn degrees.
With the colder weather and upcoming holidays, people might be looking for something to do indoors other than going to the usual old movie. With the holidays coming, there are many ballet performances, but most of them are of the same tired ballet, “The Nutcracker.” Eastern Michigan University has decided to put a fresh spin on the December ballet performance by performing the more unique, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream Ballet.”
Traditionally, Thanksgiving is a day to spend with family or friends and be thankful for all we can and do overstuff ourselves with. This day comes once a year and while all the logistics are the same, each year can bring a new story to tell. A few weeks ago I asked my friend Shelby Brown, 21, an Eastern Michigan University student who is studying abroad in Japan for the year, if she had any Thanksgiving plans. “Well, actually I already did two weeks ago,” Brown said.
Fibers can be found in all the fabrics of our lives. Whether in our clothing, carpet or blankets, fibers are the strands that hold material together. Fibers are crucial to the textile industry and are a famous, but often underrated, medium of art history.
In the past two years, enrollment for winter semesters has been significantly lower than enrollment for fall semesters, according to Eastern Michigan University’s Institutional Research and Information Management website.
A visitor, thinking he or she is simply going to look at art at the New Faculty Exhibition, will be confronted with a different kind of experience.
Besides their fame, Oprah Winfrey, President Obama, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck all have one thing in common: They were all members of a forensics team. One must wonder if forensics has helped these celebrities become who they are.
This past Wednesday in room 247 in McKenny Union, Joan Rose from Michigan State University spoke to an audience of approximately 30 students on whether individuals should be concerned with the state of our water.
This week “The Social Network,” a film loosely based on the creation of Facebook directed by David Fincher was released into theaters. This movie was screen written by Aaron Sorkin and is based off the book “Accidental Billionaires: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal” by Ben Mezrich, who was a consultant of Eduardo Saverin one of the co-creators of Facebook.
Walking into the art gallery on the lower level of the Riverside Arts center, located at 76 North Huron St. in Ypsilanti, a person would find himself or herself surrounded by the “On the Wild Side: Art of Nature.”