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NEWS
| November 10, 2004
Class
Contributions
An Arlington art exhibit showcases
student talents this month
By Tristan
Vawters
The Shorthorn Assistant News Editor
A conglomeration of dark green triangles
sat upon a triangle base splashed with hints of turquoise.
The clay sculpture, the “Triangle Vessel,” was art senior
Rhonda Oliver’s contribution to a class art exhibit.
Associate professor Benito Huerta’s Professional Practices
class exhibited its creative talents Friday night at the Special
Blend reception at the new Local Color Gallery. Students mingled
and celebrated their innovative abilities and achievements by presenting
their art work at a gallery.
The gallery has showcased the students’ art since Nov. 1 and
will continue to do so through Nov.29. The gallery, located at 208
Main St. across from the Arlington Museum of Art, opened Sept. 20.
“I started out with a triangle theme, and when I had another
assignment, I did another triangle piece,” Oliver said.
The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to noon. The
gallery will have its grand opening Dec. 4.
“This is a place that just opened, which wants to add to Arlington’s
art scene,” film senior Frederick Trevino said. “We
wanted to do an art exhibit and talked to different galleries, but
we decided to do it here.”
Art seniors prepare for life after graduation by gaining the experience
of displaying their art at an off-campus gallery.
“The idea is to put on a show off-campus so the students will
gain the experience of finding a gallery to present their work,”
Huerta said. “I’m very proud of the students. This experience
is to get them used to the real world.”
Clay sculptures, oil and acrylic paintings and collages filled the
two rooms of the gallery. Paintings hung on the dimly lit walls,
while sculptures no more than 3 feet tall stood in the gallery corners.
Amidst the visual display, Trevino viewed his two short films he
completed in 2003.
His first piece, Sing for Me, is a six-minute film focused on the
discrimination against middle easterners in America. The lead character
is a young adult from Pakistan who left home in search of his romantic
vision of the American dream. Two FBI officials mistreat him in
the film during an arrest and interrogation because he is from Pakistan.
The Pakistani character stresses to the FBI agents, “I love
America. I don’t do anything. I just work hard.”
The film ends as the FBI agents slam the Pakistani against the wall
shouting to him to sing the National Anthem.
“I wanted to have a video to show people what’s happening
to a lot of people who are viewed as different in this country,”
Trevino said. “I plan to make more movies, keep writing and
speak my mind.”
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