There are whispering voices in the distance, but not voices in your head. They are the sounds one hears when entering the art-filled Ford gallery, now featuring the Graduate Student Show.
As students visit the current show in the Student Center’s University Gallery, they will be pleasantly surprised to recognize many of the artists’ names as the professors who critique them in class on a daily basis.
Undergraduate artists’ works are on display for the Student Juried Art Exhibition showing at Ford Gallery until Feb. 12.
For centuries, people have actively searched for relationships with other bodies. Bodies are studied, criticized and sought out. This can be illustrated in The Figurative Works exhibit on display from Jan. 5 to Feb. 12 at Eastern Michigan University in the University Gallery located in the EMU Student Center.
Beginning in the summer of 2011, single parents will be offered more funding and support to earn higher education from Eastern Michigan University through a program called “Keys to Degrees,” funded by a $400,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
With the colder weather and upcoming holidays, people might be looking for something to do indoors other than going to the usual old movie. With the holidays coming, there are many ballet performances, but most of them are of the same tired ballet, “The Nutcracker.” Eastern Michigan University has decided to put a fresh spin on the December ballet performance by performing the more unique, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream Ballet.”
Traditionally, Thanksgiving is a day to spend with family or friends and be thankful for all we can and do overstuff ourselves with.
Fibers can be found in all the fabrics of our lives. Whether in our clothing, carpet or blankets, fibers are the strands that hold material together.
In the past two years enrollment for winter semesters has been significantly lower than enrollment for fall semesters according to Eastern Michigan University’s Institutional Research and Information Management website.
A visitor, thinking he or she is simply going to look at art at the New Faculty Exhibition, will be confronted with a different kind of experience. The exhibit will be hanging in the Ford Gallery located inside Eastern Michigan University’s Ford Hall until Nov. 10. It features four of the newest faculty members of EMU’s art department: Jason DeMarte, Jason Ferguson, Brian Spolans and Gregory Tom.
From left, Jason Ferguson, Gregory Tom, Jason DeMarte and Brian Spolans stand inside the piece “Showtime,” which Tom created out of two-by-fours. Tom wanted the piece to challenge those entering the New Faculty Exhibition in the Ford gallery.
From left, Jason Ferguson, Gregory Tom, Jason DeMarte and Brian Spolans are standing inside the piece “Showtime,” which Tom created out of 2-by-4s. Tom wanted the piece to challenge those entering the New Faculty Exhibition in the Ford gallery.
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