By Glen Ess (The Cascade) – Email
Every year to mark and celebrate graduation, the bachelor of fine arts (BFA) program develops an exhibition for the work of those graduating students. This year’s exhibition, “Don’t Be Afraid,” will run April 29 through to May 20.
Visual arts professor Grace Tsurumaru’s Senior Studio II class were kind enough to describe some of their works.
Lena Yacyshen: “My project is called “Visions of Arcadia” and it’s a photo series that focuses on how radically different the West Coast electronic music festival scene is, how tight knit it is and how completely different it is from the every day. There’s a lot more than just the music to it, and that’s what I’m trying to show.”
Qahraman Yusuf: “I am working on a sculpture installation called “Prison Sale” and it’s based on my self experience on being in a prison in Syria in 1992. I was a political activist and I’m trying to bring this topic up in an abstract way. With Syria at the top of the news I thought it would be maybe something interesting.”
Brad Ott: “The work I’m doing is titled “Contact” and it’s taking a look at the shame that surrounds the queer community, it’s trying to normalize the idea of seeing a same sex couple.”
