Objects Of Art

With Student Creations, It’s Talent Over Matter

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For SMU visual arts students, the act of creating is anything but neat. Paint drippings and inky blobs, pencil shavings, dried bits of clay, photo chemicals, metal chunks and plaster pieces – such are the substances that, in their hands and through their imaginations, become works of art. The Division of Art in Meadows School of the Arts offers study in six media: drawing, painting, ceramics, printmaking, photography and sculpture. Faculty members, such as Professor of Printmaking Laurence Scholder, are master artists who continue to create their own works. Students also can attend art classes at SMU-in-Taos or in Rome, Paris and London, among other European cities. Over the years, the SMU art program has produced nationally recognized artists such as John Alexander (’70), David Bates (’75, ’78), John Nieto (’59), Dan Rizzie (’75) and Yvette Kaiser Smith (’90). The Meadows School hopes to build new facilities that will provide space for the interaction of traditional art with new digital and video media.