Photos from students in COMM 1318/Photography 1
You never quite know what kind of art you’ll see perched, draped, or suspended from the ceiling on display inside SPC’s Christine Devitt Fine Arts Center on the Levelland campus.
Just before spring break the front lobby and main hallways were dotted with dozens of student art projects.
“It’s all just from classes from the last two semesters,” says Scotty Hensler, SPC gallery director and assistant professor of art.
Just inside the front windows, many ceramic pieces perched on pedestals.
“The 3D work will be ceramic coil pieces and 3D pieces that focus on small mass and large volume,” says Kara Donatelli, SPC professor fine arts.
Many other student art classes are featured down the main classroom hallway. These included drawing, 2D design, and watercolor painting.
SPC student Nayeli Ocampo is in the watercolor painting class. She says the paintings on display here were botanical illustrations of plants in the SPC greenhouse.
“We took a picture of whatever plant that popped out the most to us,” she says. “And then we went back to the classroom. The professor printed the picture out for us. That was a reference for what we had to paint.”
Next, she says students will be working on landscapes from Lake Brashear.
Earlier in the semester, different projects from Kara Donatelli’s 3D design class dotted the building’s front lobby.
Several of these pieces were both colorful and large. Each piece, Donatelli says, had to be at least three feet at its longest.
“The assignment was to use found objects,” she says, “to create a sculpture that has a strong sense (visually and psychologically) of movement and directing using only lines.”
You might want to keep checking the art space in and around the gallery. Hensler says a new art exhibit is scheduled to be open in the SPC Fine Arts Main Gallery at the end of March.
The SPC art gallery is open weekdays, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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