The Department of Communication, Media and the Arts within the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences will present this year’s art and design senior showcase entitled Emanon, a palindrome of the phrase “no name.” A virtual reception for the exhibition will be held over Zoom on Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 5 p.m. to kick off the opening of the exhibition. Following the Feb. 17 reception, the senior showcase will open in the Performance Theatre Lobby on the north side of the Don Taft University Center.
“I don’t think there will be any big difference [from last year’s showcase]. Especially now with COVID-19, I think we’re just gonna keep it simple. I think one difference between this year and last year is that we’re putting together a little introduction video, which I don’t remember seeing last year. So, that will be something,” said Gianna Allison, senior art and design major.
The exhibition will feature studio art and graphic design works from various senior art and design students at NSU.
Emanon is “a showcase of work from other senior [art and design students], five of us, and we started preparing last month for the opening exhibition Wednesday,” said Allison. “I will be showcasing a couple of photographs. But mostly paintings, drawings and two sculptures. [We are all] different artists from different backgrounds coming together to make this show everything is like a little bit of everything.”
Allison is one of the five senior art and design major students whose work will be featured in the art and design senior showcase and exhibit, alongside Dyane Oliva, Juliana, Speranza, Amanda Glaser and Sol Santecchia. According to Allison, there is not a central message between the works of each artist. However, Allison described her pieces as whimsical and dreamlike.
“I think the whole art department, in general, can be pretty underrepresented and underfunded, to be honest sometimes, and so it’ll be really cool to have the support. Especially the seniors get our work appreciated before we go out to the world and kind of like start to make a name for ourselves. I thought people would just like to see what we’ve been working on to show the exhibit,” said Allison.
The art and design senior showcase, which is free and open to the public, and exhibit will be open in the Performance Theatre Lobby on the north side of the Don Taft University Center on Feb. 17 until April 16. For more information contact the Department of Communication, Media and the Arts.
