News/Events

RAKU BBQ An annual  event held on the campus near the Ceramics classroom, this traditional Japanese way of kiln firing of small pottery has become one of the campus’s most unusual and fun evenings. Hot dogs are roasted and music plays while the pottery fires. Most fun of all is seeing the various glazes after the pots have cooled.	"Recalling Ophelia", pastels on museum board, Helen Vaughn ©2000 [ http://www.helenvaughn.com ]
FIDDLER CONVENTION POTTERY WHEEL ACTIVITY During the first weekend of October, the ASU Art Club and other interested individuals lead children in a hands-on experience on the potter’s wheel. Money from this activity goes towards the Art Club Scholarship fund.
MONTHLY ART EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTIONS Rotating exhibitions in the Student Union Art Gallery on the campus of ASU open with a noon time reception where refreshments are served.
HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL Each year the Student Government Association  host the Annual Halloween Carnival! It’s the perfect time for Art faculty and students to show their creativity in making costumes !
ARTCLUB 2011 The “Chili Challenge” is a major fundraiser for Hospice of Limestone County, and this year the ASU Art Club made a paper mache’ long horned bull, by request, for the table of the winning chili, of our very own computer science professor, Dr. Amos Confer.   Amos has a long history of winning public cooking events, and if you want to talk good food, talk to Amos Confer.
On April 7th, the Art Club collaborated with the Athens State University Student Government Association in setting up a booth to create clay bowls for an “Empty Bowls” event in May.  With the help of students, faculty and friends, eighteen bowls were produced for this upcoming event.
The art club painted the “Founders Pride” rooster for The Carnegie Arts Trail, a fund raiser for the Carnegie Visual Arts Center in Decatur, Alabama.  A silhouette of Founders Hall dormers and a bright blue sky run diagonally along each side of the metal sculpture.  The sculpture can be found across the from the future North Alabama Center for  Art.
ART CLUB Leah Pierce, the art teacher at James L. Cowart Elementary School, designed a mosaic as part of the mission of becoming a “lighthouse” school, which reflects the teachings of author, Stephen Covey.   Mr. Covey is scheduled to visit the school in late April.  The Art Club used mosaic tiles to mirror that positive vision and it is now on permanent display in the school entrance way.