Last year's Art Ball included a cross-campus parade.
Anything can happen and usually does at Sacramento State’s annual Art Ball, which rolls across campus from 5:30 to 9 p.m., Friday, May 15, at Kadema Hall, the Art Sculpture Lab, the Library Annex Gallery, and other venues on the University grounds.
The free event celebrates the Art Department’s graduating seniors and master’s students with special showings of their works and those of other students, along with live music, food, and performance art.
Celebrants have been known to don wild costumes, march in parades around the campus, or stage brief dramatic performances.
This year, revelers will want to catch the Traveling Road Show and Celestial Blue Thunder in the Kadema breezeway beginning at 6:30 p.m. The road show is a performance art presentation based on body extensions and created by Professor Andrew Connelly’s students.
Celestial Blue Thunder is an art car created by Professor Robert Ortbal’s students. This could be the vehicle’s first stop on a summer tour to include the State Fair and possibly the Burning Man celebration in Nevada.
The Graduate Show receptions will be held 6-7 p.m., in the Witt Gallery, and 7:30-9 p.m., in the Library Annex Gallery. The Senior Show reception is 5:30-9 p.m. in the Else Gallery.
More art—paintings, ceramics, sculpture—will be exhibited throughout the evening in Kadema 131, 264, 266 and 268, and Art Sculpture Lab 106, 108 and 110; Art and Art History presentations will be held 6:30-8 p.m. in Kadema 145; and a New Media Exhibition will be held 6:30-8:30 p.m. in Mariposa 1007.
For more information on the Art Ball, contact the Art Department at www.csus.edu/art or 278-6166.
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Sacramento State’s Craig Koscho can be reached at ckoscho@csus.edu
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