VIU Student Art Show Featuring Steamroller "Big Print"

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Friday, April 24th, 2015
5:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Students in Vancouver Island University’s Visual Art program have created art work that ranges from very small to impressively large, and they are ready to share it all in their annual year-end show titled Progressions 2015. Largest among the art works will be huge woodblock prints created with a steamroller in a public demonstration between 6:45 and 8:30 pm. Students in the Advanced Printmaking course, along with VIU Arts Club members, collaborated to design and carve a woodblock print measuring four by eight feet. With the donation of a steamroller and driver by Hub City Paving for the outdoor printing demonstration, this will be an exciting culmination to the student project. The Progressions exhibition is a special celebration this year because it is the first held since VIU began to offer a four-year major in Visual Art. Progressions 2015 offers students a venue to showcase the best of their recent work in a professional capacity. Adjudicating faculty aim to select for display pieces that represent the full array of disciplines offered through the Visual Art program, including multimedia, paintings, photography, prints, drawings, sculpture and ceramics. The exhibition of senior student art work will be displayed at the Nanaimo Art Gallery on the VIU campus, while first year students’ work is installed in the Art building. The public is invited to attend the Visual Art Student Award ceremony from 5:30 to 6:30 pm in Building 320, Room 120, and view student work between 7 and 9 pm.