Celebrate the Arts event

“Bittersweet” (2018?) by Kaiola Sooman is displayed among other works at River Campus. The Celebrate the Arts event featured sales from students and an auction to help benefit a new art building that will help include all art and design under one roof. (Photo by Matt Morey)

Ceramics senior Seraphina McAteer sells vases at the ceramics kiosk. Next week, she will perform the opening reception to the BFA exhibit at the Catapult Creative house. She said she sold nearly all her vases from a show last semester. (Photo by Matt Morey)

Professor of Art and Ceramics Benji Heu spins a ceramic vase. He said there is not always a financial incentive to pursue arts, but it can be rewarding anyway. “You gotta get a job. Nobody can do things just for fun!” (Photo by Matt Morey)

The photos show rooms created in Interior Design courses. The bottom photo shows a “pre-rendered” room, while the top shows one that is fully rendered. Professor Dr. Mitchell said students are sometimes inspired by popular media, but “There’s a lot more to it than the fantasy of HGTV.” (Photo by Matt Morey)

“When the Heart is Painting” by Amber Huckaba is displayed on the first floor of the Cultural Arts building on River Campus during the art sale. Huckaba is a Painting senior from Fredericktown, Missouri, who won best in show at the Annual Student Art exhibition in April. (Photo by Matt Morey)

Art and design instructor Jeremy Griffin demonstrates virtual reality to a visitor at the auction, who explores the mountainous environment created in the first interactive media course with VR. She said she got vertigo when she fell at what Griffin described as “Terminal velocity” in the virtual environment. (Photo by Matt Morey)

Zoie Mathews pirouettes across the stage in “Variation” from “The Flames of Paris” by Boris Asafyev, a ballet about the French Revolution that originally premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. (Photo by Matt Morey)

Evie Rodenbaugh performs “Not Ready to Make Nice” by The Chicks. According to MC Ramos, the song was written in response to the band’s ousting from the music community in 2003 when they criticized the Iraq War. (Photo by Matt Morey)

Musical theater senior Aliegha Ramos sings “Fly Into the Future” by David Kirshenbaum from the play “Vanities.” It is about pursuing your dreams with reckless abandon. She was one of the masters of ceremony along with Diamon Lester. (Photo by Matt Morey)