Highlights

Campus News

Wildcat Weekly Minute for Nov. 17, 2011

A look at what's happening on campus this week.

Faith

Cleansed through the Cross

Dr. Quarles speaks on the efficacy of Christ's sacrifice at weekly chapel

Sports

LC hoops teams wrap up homestand with pair of wins

Off to Ozarks, UT-Dallas next

Organizations

LC media student give to Toys for Tots

More than 100 toys will help local charity

Campus Life

February is Heart Health Awareness Month

Stay healthy and 'God Red'

Culture

All the Shakespeare you could laugh at… and more!

tlc's adaptation of 'Shakespeare Abridged' pulls out all the stops

Special Coverage

LC brings another successful ‘Follow the Star’

'Christmas on the Hill' and 'Gala' add to festive weekend

Art students display work at first-ever sculpture show

by Al Quartemont

Campus display to run for next three weeks.

It started with an old chair at a local trading post.

But, LC junior Kayla Bustard, an art major from Alexandria, saw something in it that no one else had.

"It was overall a very feminine chair - very sophisticated," Bustard said.

So she bought it, brought it to her art class, and turned it into a sculpture that became one of the highlight pieces at the "LC Sculpture Invitational" - an event that opened Thursday at the Art Gallery in the Weathersby Fine Arts Building.

"At the time, it was the highest grade I’d ever given," Rondall Reynoso, LC's Assistant Professor of Art and Director of the Art Gallery, said of Bustard's final creation. "I thought we were getting really nice work (from the other students) and we needed to highlight it."

Thus was born LC's first-ever all-sculpture show featuring work done by freshman who are in first-year, basic courses all the way up to current and retired faculty.

The exhibit made its debut with a reception and gallery talk - a talk that included some of the students explaining their work - students like Bustard who had to work through some nerves to explain to the many student who packed the gallery for the opener what inspired her.

"This is my first time to ever do this," Bustard said. "But it’s very enjoyable too see everyone experience it and get what they want to out of it."

"When I was making (the sculpture), in my head I was thinking 'this is going to either go really well or really bad.' But I enjoyed making it so it was all worth it to me. I was definitely surprised getting the highest grade."

To see Bustard's work as well as the work of the other LC students and faculty, you can visit the LC Art Gallery on the first floor of the Weathersby Fine Arts Building during normal school hours. Reynoso said the exhibit will remain open for three weeks.

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