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Art exhibit to highlight diverse student talent

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Rex Magana
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February 7, 2017
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Joshua Watts
Joshua Watts brought his 3D prints to the Multicultural Student Art Exhibit. The process involves three weeks of modeling, two weeks of lighting test prints and roughly a month to combine all the images. (Rex Magana)

Artwork celebrating the diversity of Salt Lake Community College students will be on display this week at Taylorsville Redwood Campus.

Metamorphosis
This painting titled “Metamorphosis” is one of contributions to the 9th Multicultural Art Exhibit. (Rex Magana)

Student Life and Leadership and the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs will sponsor the ninth annual Multicultural Student Art Exhibit on Feb. 8 and 9 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Doctor Abio Ayeliya, exhibit organizer, says all SLCC students are encouraged to participate, whether they are artists or not.

“This [exhibit] is open to all the students at the college to showcase their creativity that depicts cultural meaning,” Ayeliya says. “Bring your cultural art piece that you’ve created and come and display it because we want that diversity.”

Students who submit artwork can win a cash prize worth up to $300. Ayeliya says he will tally votes from students who come to the exhibit to determine prize winners.

In addition to students, SLCC faculty and staff were also invited to contribute their artwork. Each artist can enter up to three pieces for the exhibit.

Using canvas to convey emotions

SLCC student Phoebe Davenport submitted three watercolor paintings, each representative of herself and her past.

The Monsters in My Head
“The Monsters in My Head” by Phoebe Davenport. (Rex Magana)

“My pieces are more about — I don’t want to say the struggle — but the challenges that I had throughout my life growing up,” she says. “And I think a lot of those go back to me being a black woman.”

Davenport, a Southern California native, has lived in Utah on and off for ten years. A model, mother and stylist, she describes her paintings as reflections of herself.

Davenport says her piece entitled “The Monsters In My Head” deals with “all the insecurities, all of the issues that come up that are subconscious things that tell you are not good enough.”

To Davenport, the works are both personal and cultural.

“Growing up and being only one of a few black people in Salt Lake … I think it affects all of those aspects of my life,” she says.

The Multicultural Student Art Exhibit will be on display in the Oak Room until Thursday at 3 p.m. The exhibit is free and open to everyone.

Frida
Frida, by Maria Victoria Alvarez, is one of many works of art submitted by SLCC students for the Multicultural Student Art Exhibit. (Rex Magana)
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