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Hey I'm Paul and you're watching
Bulldog Bites! I'm here literally surrounded by art
from local area high school students which means it's that time of year again,
the annual Regional High School student art exhibit is underway
here in the art department at SSC, and I have with me the art department chair
Jack Kirkpatrick, it's a pleasure to have you. Thanks Paul it's good to see ya.
So tell me a little bit about this event, you know what is so exciting
about having this here at SSC.
Well for me I love to the see the passion and the expression of these high
school students, there is an
incredible variety of talent and
really when you take a look at the exhibition there are three hundred
artistic visions in this, in this area and it's just fabulous.
Every year the show gets a little better in this year the show is even
better
I hope people come by see it. I hear there's a festival
on the 28, what is that particular event about?
Well thats are Festival where
all the high schools bring the students and they come by to our Performing Arts
Center
and we have a keynote speaker, a fairly well-known artist, speak with him, we will
have an award ceremony where
we present best of show awards, and then after that we have a
what we call, a studio crawl, we bring students up into our department
and they get a chance to see each others work, which is really probably one of the
most exciting things.
Also a part of that is we have a bronze poor and we have all over studios open
for instance, if you want to come to ceramics studio and get dirty
teach you how to make a pot. If you've never made a pot, it doesn't matter
you'll have made a pot of one shape or another by the time your
done. Can anyone attend this or is it
only for high school, the high school students? Oh no it's open to anyone
you know we would request that the someone's trying to bring fairly large
group that they would
give us advance notice but if it's just the person or two that wants to stop by there is
always a little bit
room to come in, hear the keynote, and gallery the crawl is open to anybody we see a
lot of people come through with that.
I imagine with an event like this there's gotta be some memorable things
that happen,
can you tell us you know like something that really sticks out to you
having this here? Yeah there are a few things to come mind,
the first time we did that the pot-a-thon, the mud-a-thon,
whatever you want to call it, kind of started, I was throwing pots for students
in this sort of very static demonstration
and one of the kids wanted to help, okay fine your willing to get dirty,
and all of the sudden we had 20 kids like jumping on the potter's wheel, was like mud
everywhere and it was,
that was a lot of fun, and ever since then we don't, I don't do demonstrations
anymore, it's like come on in guys you're gonna make pots and they just get dirty and
have a lot of fun.
It's really really nice, great, I love doing it.
Well thank you so much jack for being on the show, we hope you'll stop by the fourth
floor
and look at the Art and Design department where the artwork is on
display throughout the galleries
and display cases. I'm Paul and we'll see you next time right here on
Bulldog Bites!