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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

LC students show talents at juried art show.

by Al Quartemont

Chance to give students taste of "the real world."

Bob Howell is a retired faculty member of Louisiana College. But he hasn't lost his touch in recognizing quality artwork.

Howell was asked by LC art instructor Rondall Reynoso to judge the department's annual juried art show, a format in which only one person serves as a judge.

At last week's opening of the show, Howell invited to attend and gave some insight into the purpose of the show and the quality of the students' work.

"It turned out to be an excellent show," Howell said. "The whole purpose of these shows is to show students what it's going to be like as an artist once they get out into the real world."

Howell said this type of show is what the students will compete in regularly once they move on from college whether at the state, regional, or national level.

Howell also said he expected more submissions when he agreed to judge and that made the job harder because he didn't want to include work just to fill spots. Although he stressed the works which were not selected were not left out because of a lack of talent, he said he simply wanted to show a broad range of work. The toughest part of the job was picking the best in show.

"Understand that in a juried show, it's just one person's opinion," Howell said. "(Awarding prizes) is even harder because one you've chosen the show, then you have to decide what's the best piece in the show."

This year, that honor went to LC junior Han Le, who won for her shirt and mirror sculpture. Le is an exchange student from Vietnam.

"I think (Le's) piece was probably the most difficult piece to execute successfully," Howell said. "But you don't give a prize because it was hard to do. The aesthetic quality warranted the prize as well."

Le said the sculpture has meaning on spiritual and psychological levels.

"The mirror is a symbol - a reflection of abstract truth. The mirror does not lie to you," Le said. "The shirt is something you use to cover up yourself. Sometimes people can physically cover up themselves and hide from other people. But they still reflect their image to themselves.

"I spent a lot of time on this work. It reflects myself a lot in this picture as well as the idea. I'll keep going with more like this in the future."

Le said that when she came to LC she thought of art as just visual. Now she sees the philosophical and psychological meaning of it.

"You can't hide yourself," she said.

Howell said one of the challenges of judging a show is knowing not everyone will see it his way.

"As long as they disagree for the right reasons," he said. "That's okay because there will always be a difference in opinions."

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