Photos by Garrett Nowlin, COMM 1318/Photography 1
It may already be December, but SPC art students recently showed off their skills with a Halloween/fall theme.
Art Professor Kara Donatelli’s Ceramics 1 and Design 2 students pooled their skills to create a combination exhibit in the Christine Devitt Fine Arts Center on the Levelland campus. Students’ work is often displayed there.
“I had my students think about funerary art throughout history,” Donatelli says, “and create something inspired by them.”
What is funerary art? “Funerary art is any artistic creation that honors, celebrates, or contains the dead,” Donatelli explains.
Student Adriana Castillo was inspired to create a two-piece headless dog. On this day she worked on building a structure for the two pieces to rest in.
“I really enjoy art,” says Castillo. She is an English major who says she is taking this art class for fun.
Student Sam Hodge, who appears to be finishing up an urn, is enrolled in Ceramics 1 this semester too.
“It’s been a fun experience,” he says, “and it is cool seeing the ideas that come to people’s minds, and what they want to do.”
Design art students worked on something different for the hallway exhibit. “The design class is creating everyday objects out of fabric”, Donatelli says, “and enlarging them by at least four times.”
Design student Trisha Sharpe is finishing up a scary looking mask that hangs on the wall.
How will these artists finish up the semester? It’s hard to say.
“The next project for ceramics is to create a box that looks like food,” says Donatelli.
But at this point in the semester, the next design project hadn’t yet been decided.
“I don’t really plan the next project until I see how they are working with the themes and materials of their current project,” Donatelli says.
Donatelli’s Ceramics 1 class, ARTS 2346, and Ceramics 2 class, ARTS 2347, are both offered this spring. So is her Design II class, ARTS 1312.
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