150-plus high school students attend Art Day

On Monday, the art program on campus hosted an art workshop for high school students. The workshops that students had the opportunity to participate in were graphic design, drawing, ceramics, printmaking, photography, crafts, mixed media, and ledger art. These workshops provided experience for students from smaller schools who may not have access to certain art mediums due to school size. Students were able to do things like throw clay on a wheel, use a dark room to create ray-o-grams, or work in Photoshop on a layered illustration.

It also allowed students to experience and see art studios at the college level as well as interact with the CSC art majors. The event isn’t geared as a recruiting day, but it does help. Professor Mary Donahue said, “It does help with recruiting students so they can start to envision art as a viable major, see our college students working in art and imagine themselves as a future CSC art student.” 

With 157 high school students attending this day of workshops, many students were able to experience, not only the art studios and memorial hall, but they were also able to experience the campus during their lunch break. Sixteen different schools participated, 12 from Nebraska and four from South Dakota, and these high school students were able to create different projects within each workshop they were able to experience.