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Aggielife
Wednesday » April!7,1M Ve( | nes d,
Art hobby pays off for Okafor
By Rachel Barry
The Battalion
W hen Emmanuel Okafor Jr. was
seven, he folded under peer
pressure.
His weakness at the time has created a
skill that lead him to being awarded the
Best of Show at Art Fest ’96.
Okafor, a sophomore environmental de
sign major, said it was his friends’ ability
to draw that made him want to try his
hand at art.
“All of them could draw, and I was one
of the few who couldn’t, and I wanted to
fit in,” he said. “After a while, I got good.
I just kept practicing. Finally, it came to
a point where it actually became a part
of me.”
He was in the library of his high school
when his future art teacher approached
him and suggested he enroll in his art
class. It was his influence, Okafor said,
that started him working with pastels.
“From the first day, he started work
ing with me and pushing me,” he said.
“If it wasn’t for him, I would have never
tried pastels.”
Okafor’s pastel drawing, “Mama
Africa,” was awarded Best of Show at Art
Fest. Dark greens and rich browns frame
the face of the woman who Okafor says
was inspired by a book he was reading
about racial tensions in South Africa.
Okafor said the eyes are the key to his
drawings, which are usually of people.
“I try to put a lot of emotion into my
art,” he said. “The eyes are what I think
set my paintings apart from the rest of
the paintings.”
Although some artists are out to get a
message across to the audience, Okafor
said he doesn’t begin a painting with a
specific message in mind for viewers.
“People can read into it whatever they
want to,” he said. “I just want them to
look at it and let the painting give them
the message. I don’t set out to put a cer
tain message into it.”
Okafor said he just sits down and be
gins to draw with no plan in mind.
“Sometimes I am surprised by what I
do,” he said. “My main goal is just to draw
and whatever comes out, or however it
ends up — I like it.”
Okafor, who said spent he more than
half of each day last summer drawing,
described the process of creating one of
his pieces of art as being something out
of this world.
“It’s relaxing and exciting,” he said.
“Nothing bothers you. It’s like you’re not
on this earth. Your mind is focused on
your work, and nothing around you really
affects you.”
Okafor said he wants to make the best
of his talent and use it to better himself.
“Through art, I have really matured,”
he said. “It has taught me a lot of pa
tience. If it’s not done right, I work with it.
If it’s not going right, I am more patient. I
keep trying.”
Okafor’s patience paved the way to
his drawing being selected as Best of
Show in Art Fest ’96.
Sponsored by the MSC Visual Arts
Committee, Art Fest is an opportunity for
students to enter their art into a competi
tion in which the winners are displayed in
the MSC Visual Arts Galley.
Okafor said he was looking for a way to
have his work displayed when he was told
about the Art Fest.
“My main goal was just to get more peo
ple interested in my work,” he said. “So I
figured, ‘Why not give it a try.’”
Katie Fox, one of the judges and a
graphic artist at the Bryan-College Sta
tion Eagle, said that since A&M doeffiEfl^
have a strong art program, Art Fji||
gives students a chance to be introdt^B
to art they normally would not
been able to see.
She said student artists can learn a lot
form the experience of the competition.|||||
“It’s a good way to get your art 1|||||
tiqued and let others see what is con^fel
ered good art,” she said.
Lalaine Little, adviser for the Visl
Arts Committee, said there were 1%
tries in the competition. |||
“People who come here don’t have &n
opportunity to show how creative they
be,” she said. “When they enter the
tition and attend the reception, they meet ;
other people who do the same thing
do. It’s almost like they find a kind||||
spirit at the school that they didn't:
existed before.’
Now that the competition
Okafor said he has no inieta^^l
putting his pencils or pastel^^Mj
leaving art.
He said because this kin(i|l
included in his major studHi^^
cutting back on his
on studying, but to
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“Community
Recreation" Course.
Attentioo Aggie Parents!!
Bring your kids to Kinder Fest!!
Saturday, April 20th,
10:00am to 5:00pm
at Sue Haswell Park in Bryan!
The theme this year is “Kinder Fest At the Movies.”
This free event will feature children’s games, activities,
entertainment, community awareness organizations, arts Sc
crafts, strolling characters, clowns, demonstrations, pool
activities, vendors, concessions, and more!
AIho, a free trip to Disney World will
lie given away to one lucky family!
1997 AGGIELAND
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