Their carnival booth at Seton Hill University’s (SHU�s) annual Night on Haunted Hill used 50 square feet of plastic and 144 ounces of brightly colored tempera paint.
Students in the Arts (SITA) has long been a staple among SHU student groups, but this semester under enthusiastic student leadership, they�ve made a bright splash on campus.
By Megan Ritter,
Staff Writer
Their carnival booth at Seton Hill University’s (SHU�s) annual Night on Haunted Hill used 50 square feet of plastic and 144 ounces of brightly colored tempera paint.
Students in the Arts (SITA) has long been a staple among SHU student groups, but this semester under enthusiastic student leadership, they�ve made a bright splash on campus.
�SITA’s always been around, but it hasn’tbeen very active. We�ve just got a feeling that we want people to be excited about it and we want to leave something behind that people will want to be a part of,� said Jenny Hill, a senior and president of SITA.
This semester SITA hosted two movie nights, showing �Holy Mountain� and �Art School Confidential,� attended a Friday Night Gallery Crawl in Pittsburgh’s Cultural District, and visited a show at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts featuring Carol Brode, SITA advisor and assistant professor of art at SHU.
Their carnival booth offered paint-filled balloons for carnival-goers to toss at canvases with staples embedded.
Those who visited the SITA booth participated in creating three colorful abstract murals. The group plans to donate one mural to hang in the newly-redecorated Griffin’s Cove, and sell the other two as a group fundraiser.
�I joined to make friends with other art majors, and just working at the carnival booth I met five new people,� said Katie Milligan, a freshman.
�It (SITA) gives me new things to do besides what the school is offering,� added Dave McGhee, a senior. �I want to help get more recognition for the arts.�
SITA is planning one more movie night before the end of the semester, but their big project is an art sale to be held in the second floor Maura solarium during finals week.
Club members will sell their own art and keep the proceeds for themselves, and the club will sell art that was never claimed from the gallery in previous years.
They will meet to discuss their upcoming projects and elect officers for next semester on Tuesday, November 28, at 5:30 p.m. in the Greensburg Room. They encourage anyone interested to bring their suppers to the meeting, and invite anyone to come who is interested in the arts, regardless of majors.
�Right now we have a lot of visual arts people in the group, but we�re trying very hard to find meeting times that work for music and theater majors too,� said Laura Fleming, a senior.
�We�d love to go to a play or a concert, but we don’tknow how to pick one. We need all kinds of fresh voices to get involved,� said Fleming.
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