From: LAS VEGAS SUN
By Becky Bosshart
They toiled for a year. Spent countless hours on assignments. They studied artists and designers to hone their craft.
Art Institute of Las Vegas students will have their recognition and gallery time at the school’s annual juried student show beginning this week. It features works in design, media arts, culinary arts and fashion.
The Jan. 20 to Feb. 23 exhibit will feature the top 35 submitted pieces, said Anne Dean, the school’s director of public relations.
The winners will be announced at the 6 p.m. Thursday opening reception at the Gallery at the Art Institute of Las Vegas, 2350 Corporate Circle.
Dean said the best in show pick will receive a $1,000 scholarship. Second place will receive $750; followed by $500 for third. Fifty pieces were submitted this year, ranging from a faux cake covered in a green fondant in an enchanted garden design, from the culinary art program, to an animated character sculpture of two gas station attendants.
This will be the last show for Landry Blume, a graphic design student. He graduates in June. He submitted “Imagination,” a digitally illustrated poster created for his design capstone class. He clocked in about 48 hours over two weeks on the assignment, he said.
Blume worked with the Las Vegas Office of Cultural Affairs to create an ad design for its Target Children’s Book Festival, which was in November 2008. The poster shows a child sitting on a chair made of books. The child is envisioning all the wonders found in a book: adventure, knowledge and exotic travel.
“Being a photo visual person myself, when I read my brain is full of pictures,” he said. “So, I wanted to translate that into a piece of artwork that shows, when someone is reading a book, it’s not just the words on the paper, it’s the ideas in their head.”
This project opened up potential freelance work with the city, Blume said.
WHAT: Annual Art Institute of Las Vegas student art show
WHEN: Through Feb. 23, with reception 6 p.m. Jan. 22
WHERE: Art Institute of Las Vegas, 2350 Corporate Circle, Henderson
COST: Free
INFO: 992-8453
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