Update: The Art Club now has a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/RWU-Art-Club/
Sitting in one of the many conference halls of Global Heritage Hall, creativity flowed through the air as art was the main topic of discussion. The Hawks' Herald sat down with Miranda Smith, a senior visual arts major at Roger WilliamsUniversity. We met to talk about the new art club, called The Art Club, which she has started on campus. TheHawks' Herald: Why did you want to start The Art Club?
Miranda Smith: As a visual arts major, I feel that there's really a lack of art on campus and you don't really get the feeling of the artistic community, so we really want to find a way, through this art club, to bring that presence to campus.
HH: What kind of art is it going to contain and what's it all about?
MS: Well what we're going to do is [we really want to] have joint events with groups on campus for the students. I've been talking with the President of the Musician's Guild, Ryan Treppedi, and we really want to join together to put on a student art show as well as concert. So we want to do that and just have discussions and share work with each other so that we can foster creativity.
HH: That's very cool. The whole joint club thing is very interesting.
MS: Yeah, I really want to join with other groups too, like Writer's Anonymous and Dance Club and see what we can do together. We want to create a creative community.
HH: So other than activities with other clubs, do you have anything else planned for the rest of the semester or year?
MS: Well we're still in our beginning stages of starting up the club. We actually aren't having our first meeting until Monday (September 26) [But] what I want to do and what I'm working with my board members to do is to create a logo contest so that people could submit ideas for a logo for The Art Club and then the winner will become the official logo. So that's one of our ideas. And then we also want to show movies, like art related movies. I was thinking Exit Through the Gift Shop would be a really good one. And then in the future, when we get funding, we want to have sponsored events where we would go the museums and other creative places.
HH: Why should people join The Art Club?
MS: A lot of people I've talked to about it just feel like coming to college, they kind of lose their creative and artistic urge to create and they kind of get lost in all the academics. And for those who aren't visual arts majors, they don't really have that much opportunity so this
will be a great way to really get back into it and let you imagination run wild.
Already 23 people are signed up for The Art Club and Miranda and the other board members are hoping for a big turnout for this new and exciting club.
