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Art Fest ’96 encourages variety of entries
By John LeBas
The Battalion
T he MSC
Visual
Arts Com
mittee is spotlight
ing student artists
in Art Fest ’96, its
annual visual arts
competition.
Kathy Aceves, chair of the
visual arts committee and a
junior marketing and man
agement major, said the
competition allows any
Texas A&M student to pur
sue interests in visual arts.
“Art Fest is a student art
competition — the only one
on campus,” she said. “It’s
open to all Texas A&M stu
dents. It gives people who
are still continuing their
work (from high school) a
chance to display their work
and get some money.”
Artists can enter almost
any kind of work in Art Fest
in any of several categories.
“We have six different
categories: drawing, paint
ing, mixed media, sculpture,
and color and black and
white photography,” Aceves
said. “It’s $5 an entry, up to
four entries per category.”
Students should bring
their entries to the Visual
Arts office, located upstairs
from Rumours in 227 MSC
between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Entries can be made now
through April 1.
include art supplies.
Aceves said Art Fest helps
awareness of visual artists at
A&M, where they may other
wise go unappreciated.
“A lot of people around
campus think that maybe
art isn’t important or does
n’t relate to their lives,” she
said. “This really gives peo
ple a chance to see that
everybody does art and that
it can relate to everybody.
“People from all types of
majors enter, from engineer-
"We welcome all kinds of entries, and it doesn't
has to be stuff that they've done while they've
been at Texas A&M."
— KATHY ACEVES
chair of the Visual Arts Committee
At a reception planned for
April 3, a panel of three
judges will view the entries
and select a best overall work
and first, second, third places
and honorable mention en
tries in each category.
These works will then be
displayed in the Visual Arts
Gallery, next to the Brows
ing Library on the second
floor of the MSC.
In addition, the best over
all winner will receive a
prize of $60, and the first,
second and third place win
ners in each category will
win $30, $20 and $10, re
spectively. These prizes will
ing to economics.”
Aceves said Art Fest lets
students who may have been
very involved with art in
high school continue to ac
tively pursue their interests.
“We welcome all kinds of
entries, and it doesn’t has to
be stuff that they’ve done
while they’ve been at Texas
A&M,” Aceves said. “It can
be works that they’ve done
in high school — anything
they would like to submit.”
Lalaine Little, adviser for
the Visual Arts Committee,
also encourages all student
artists to enter Art Fest, espe
cially considering its coinci
dence with Parent’s Weekend.
“I think the timing is
good with Parent’s Weekend
because it’s a good chance
for students’ parents to view
their work if they haven’t al
ready,” she said. “We’d like
to get as many students in
volved as possible.”
Brent Maxwell, an artist
and an art instructor at
A&M Consolidated High
School, was a judge for the
contest last year.
He said it was important
that entries invoked a “good
gut reaction” and demonstrate
application of art elements
and principles of design.
He said he was impressed
by the artistic talent repre
sented by the entries and
would like to see expanded
participation.
“I enjoyed it,” he said. “It
shows a certain intellectual
vitality among the students
at Texas A&M. I would like
to see it grow — to see stu
dent involvement increase.”
He does, however, stress
the importance of prepara-'
tion for the competition.
“Get started ahead of
time, do your best work, and
' fcthhsult your instructors for
help and advice,” he said.
Aceves offered the following
advice to prospective entrants.
“Be as creative as you
can,” she said. “Don’t worry
about something not being
good enough to enter. Don’t
be intimidated.”
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By Rachel Barry
The Battalion
D ennis Renner likes
the smell of dirt.
Fortunately, cav
ing, one of his favorite
pastimes, offers him sev
eral opportunities to sur
round himself with the
fragrance of the earth.
Renner, president of
1 the Aggie Speleological
Society and a senior
wildlife fisheries major,
said he became interest
ed in caving when a for
mer professor of his
talked about grottos, or
caving clubs. Soon after,
he said, he began caving
almost every weekend.
“It’s neat to be able to
go somewhere and see
things you don’t see
above ground,” he said.
“It’s like a different world
down there.”
Robert Ljetton, advis
er for ASS and a profes
sor of civil engineering,
said exploring this other
world, filled with geologi
cal formations, tight pas
sageways and an occasion
al waterfall, can be an ex
citing adventure.
“It’s mountain climbing
in reverse and in the
dark,” he said.
Stephenie Rinard, trea
surer of ASS and a junior
bioenvironmental sciences
major, said she had al
ways thought caving
would be fun and joined
the club without having
ever been caving before.
She found one particular
aspect of her personality
added to her adventure
while caving.
“I’m a touch claustro
phobic, so it’s also a chal
lenge ,” she said.
Although her fear of
small spaces sometimes
keeps her from feeling en
tirely comfortable while
inside a cave, Rinard said
once the occasional fear
passes, she is able to
stand back and enjoy her
surroundings.
“It’s an unbelievable
feeling you can only know
when you are there and
looking at it,” she said.
Rinard said each cave
offers a new experience for
spelunkers, no matter how
many times they have ex
plored them.
“It’s quite a unique ex
perience,” she said. “Every
time you go, it’s different,
even if you go back to the
same caves.”
Renner said caving is
relaxing and exhilarating
at the same time. He said
the serenity of a cave is
enough to lull him to sleep.
“You turn out your
lamp, and it’s pitch black
and completely silent,” he
said. “It’s the best place to
sleep. It’s just so peaceful.”
Lytton said his caving
experiences give him an in
sight to a part of the earth
many people never see.
“It’s an unusual high,”
he said. “Every time you go
around a corner, you see
something brand new and
you know you are the first
person to see it.”
Lytton said ASS’s ac
tivities are not limited to
simply climbing around
in caves. The group is
also responsible for sur
veying some of the caves
it explores.
Renner said many of the
caves the group travels to
are located on private land.
The people who own the
land allow grottos to ex
plore the caves, even
though they do not neces
sarily stand to gain any
thing from doing so.
“There’s not any benefit
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