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Tri-College show
highlights best of
student art

Art becomes alive when it’s experimental,
and student artists produce the most
diverse works to be found.

Some of the best in local student art will
be on display at the fourth annual Tri-
College Art Exhibit at Douglas College
from June 3 to July 16. Thirty students in
fine arts programs at Kwantlen College,
Capilano College and Langara College are
contributing works to the show, which
organizer Mary Boname says is one of the
most diverse shows yet mounted in the
Amelia Douglas Gallery.

“Student art is the most alive, because
students are trying to apply new
conventions to old standards. That’s why
it’s so eclectic and why so many different
media are used.”

Award-winning works include
watercolours, charcoals, collages and
sculptures using materials from styrofoam
to tree stumps to tin cans. Boname says
the experimental nature of student art is
what makes it so popular.

“It’s important that students at Douglas
College see what their contemporaries are
doing, and what their themes and
concerns are. These are the up-and-
coming artists,” says Boname. A

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High school students good news for Other
Press

Staff turnover is a problem for many college student newspapers, and Douglas College’s
Other Press (OP) is no exception.

First-year students are busy adjusting to a new environment and workload, so most
volunteers come aboard during their second year. They learn desktop publishing, learn how
the darkroom works and hone their writing and editing skills. And then they’re gone -- to
university or into the workplace.

 

 

 

Penny wins dollars

 

   

 

 

 

Librarian Penny Swanson won ~
$492.00 in the Douglas College
Foundation’s May 60\40 draw.
$328.00 goes to student aid.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eight students from area high schools are helping out with Project High this summer at
the Other Press, including Kristi Kenyon (right) from Port Moody Senior Secondary.
Other Press office manager Tim Crumley (left) helped organize the project.

To help solve that problem, the Other Press is bringing high school students onto campus
this summer to produce an edition of the monthly paper. The purpose, says OP office
manager Tim Crumley, is to help orient them to the post-secondary atmosphere, to help
them learn the skills needed to publish a newspaper and to let the OP tap into those skills if
the students come to Douglas College in the future.

“{t’s difficult to maintain a healthy paper when the majority of your staff is only around for
a year,” says Crumley.

Other Press staff came up with the plan, called Project High, and approached student
councils and ran ads in high school newspapers in the College region as well as Queen
Elizabeth in Surrey, and Britannia and Van Tech in Vancouver. Eight students are helping
to write, edit and lay out a newspaper with support from Other Press staff. If they choose,
they can become members of the Other Press collective and stay involved all year round.

While working on Project High, students will attend writing seminars, get feedback from
OP staff on writing and editing and the opportunity to work in a well-equipped darkroom.
They will also get a taste of the collective atmosphere that the Other Press fosters, says
Crumley.

“Because the Other Press is an autonomous organization, students have more freedom than
some high school student newspapers. We’re not here to control subject matter or censor
material,” says Crumley. “Our role will be similar to a faculty advisor.” A