When figure drawing, an artist depends on movement for their drawing to take shape; the opposite is often true for their subjects. In Green River College’s Salish Hall, the intermediate and beginning drawing classes take to a silent focus, aside from the scribbling of pencils and new age music emitting from a boom box. Their live models only job is to stay still. Odie DeBlume, a professional art model and previous Green River student, sits still on a chair while a handful of eyes study her every detail. She has worked as an art model for over nine years. “I…
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The Artist’s Portfolio student exhibit comes to a close this week, holding its closing ceremony this Thursday, December 1, in the Helen S. Smith Gallery. The exhibit is the final project for ART180, a capstone class for students pursuing degrees in art or, in some cases, careers as an artist, art tech, art teacher, or simply chasing the passion. As part of the class, students assemble portfolios, websites, and eventually the design of the Artist’s Portfolio exhibit. Throughout the quarter, they are taught how to choose their best work, and arrange an effective gallery. Each of the artists featured in the…
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The Fine Arts Faculty has elected Ao Hu, a 20 year old photography major, as the Artist Spotlight for the month of October. Ao Hu was raised in China and moved to Washington in the fall of 2013 to attend Green River College. He lives on campus in the Campus Corner Apartments and is hoping to transfer to another university to continue his education at schools like the School of Visual Arts in New York, or the California College of The Arts. Aside from photography he spends his free time playing computer games or studying. Hu has been interested in photography for about a year…
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Espial is a literary arts journal. Art is taken from the students of Green River to be put into a journal that shows off that year’s art as a sort of time capsule. The class itself is only available once a year during spring quarter and is run and led by students, with Trysteen Tran and Sarah Dillon Gilmartin working as co-instructors. The class itself has “So many life skills students can distill from the class” as Tran explains. She goes on to talk about how students learn how to work together, they learn about marketing and curating, and they…
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Green River College offers a variety of clubs to its students, although not all of them get the same amount of attention. In fact, one club in particular tends to remain in the background, despite high involvement with students and the college community. This is the Criminal Justice Club headed by club president Amanda Bentz, a GRC student in the criminal justice program. Mary Jane Sherwood, a teacher in the same program, advises the club. The club was reformed during winter quarter by a few students involved in the criminal justice program in response to a teacher’s suggestion, according to Bentz.…