I’ve been an art major at Wesleyan for three years now. I’ve taken classes with the majority of teachers in the department, and I go to all of the shows and lectures I can fit on my schedule. Yet the circle of artists I know on campus has barely expanded from the students I took painting with my freshman year. Maybe this is because it’s easy to make artwork and then stash it under your bed without showing it to anyone. Maybe it’s due to the small size and exclusivity of the Art Department, or the design of the Center for the Arts that segregates creative people by strictly defined disciplines into separate limestone blocks. But for whatever reason, I haven’t met you yet, and I want to see your art. Public Arts Initiative would like to invite Wesleyan’s creative community to join us for an un-juried, open forum art show on May 2. If you have work you’d like to show in any medium, we’d like to help you display, perform or install it. If you’re curious about what other students are making, come enjoy the show. We’d also like to invite any other student groups (arts-oriented or otherwise) to set up an event on the same day and let’s have ourselves a festival. To contribute work or for more information, please contact Kate Gavriel at cgavriel@wes or Elizabeth McClellan at emcclellan@wes.
Toward an active arts community
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