Open House to be held April 19

Each semester the Department of Art and Design has its own Open House during the school week so that prospective students and community members can see WCU's studios in full use. This semester's Open House will be Thursday, April 19 from 9 a.m. until noon.

Event Locations

FPAC - Fine and Performing Arts Center (including Art Museum exhibits) Belk Building - one building north of FPAC
MHC - Mountain Heritage Center across from west entrance of FPAC -- tall white building “HFR”.

Event Schedule

• High School or Community College Student Portfolio Reviews/Feedback by WCU Faculty. Please bring 10-20 actual works or photos.
  10 a.m. - 12 noon.
  Art Museum, FPAC Lobby - East
  
• Undergraduate Juried Exhibition
  Also on display: Cleveland Rocks: The Rock and Roll Photographs of George Shuba; Davy Arch - River Cane Installation
  Fine Arts Museum
  
• Youth Art Month Display
  Selected works from K-12 Jackson County Schools
  Fine Arts Museum, North Hallway
  
• Interior Design: Open Studios and Classrooms
  See Interior Design students demonstrate Universal Design Kit and show accessible housing designs for the disabled/elderly.
  308 Belk Building
  
• Ceramics: Work in process; upper level, wheel-based student work
  FPAC, Rooms 151-156
  
• Sculpture: Advanced sculpture students' work on display; results of inaugural iron pour casts on display.
  FPAC, Rooms 134A
  
• Printmaking/Book Arts: Make a print novelty while supplies last!
  9 - 11 a.m.
  FPAC, Room 163
  
• Intermedia/Graphics:See classes in session and intermedia displays including demonstration of video-editing computers in Room 258.
  9 a.m. - noon
  FPAC, Room 248 and second floor hallways
  
• Art Education: Create a low-relief clay tile to be installed outside WCU library in Fall 2007!
  9 a.m. - 12 noon
  FPAC, Room 150
  
• Photography: Refrigerator box camera obscura!
  9 - 11 a.m.
  FPAC Room 154
  
• Painting: Student work on display and students working!
  FPAC Rooms 236, 246
  
• Drawing: See an Advanced Drawing Class in Action!
  9 a.m. - Noon
  FPAC, Room 236
  
• Open M.F.A. Graduate Studios
  10 a.m. - 1 p.m. throughout FPAC
  
• The work of Cherokee Potter and MFA Student Joel Queen
  9 a.m. - noon
  FPAC, Room 242
  
• Graffiti Mural & other short, interactive arts activities
  FPAC Hallways, all day
  
• Cherokee Baskets and Woven Coverlets Exhibit
  Mountain Heritage Center
  
• Theater in Education Production: "Dogwood's Search - Respect for Nature and the Environment." A fabulous production based on a Cherokee Myth with student-designed costumes/sets.
  Approximately 40 minutes in length.
  11 a.m. and 1 p.m. showings.
  For latest details, email ghensley@wcu.edu