The Art Students Left Behind: New Exhibit at Angelo State University

SAN ANGELO, TX - Angelo State University is hosting a new exhibit of artworks left behind by departed art students that will run through Friday, July 24, in the Carr Education-Fine Arts (EFA) Building, 2602 Dena Drive.

Titled "L'Abandon d'Oeuvres d'Art" (Abandoned Works of Art), the exhibit of paintings and sculptures is on display in the Carr EFA Building's Gallery 193 and is open for free public viewing on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

At the end of each semester in the ASU Department of Visual and Performing Arts, works of art are left behind by departing students. Some are unfinished. Some are deemed unsuccessful by their makers. Some are simply too large, too inconvenient or too easily forgotten. Others may represent ideas that were abandoned before they could fully emerge.

"But, these objects are more than just remnants of classroom assignments," the university stated. "They are evidence of risk-taking, learning, aspiration and the courage required to create. They reveal the unseen labor that accompanies artistic growth and remind us that every accomplished work is built upon countless attempts that may never be recognized."

This exhibition brings together a selection of these forsaken ASU student artworks so they may be viewed for the first time.