The time has come for underground art to see the daylight on campus.Notes from the Artistic Underground, an art exhibit that will feature various pieces of low-brow and pop art, opens Friday in the Foster Hall Art Gallery with a reception at 5:30 p.m.The art is considered “underground” because it is not typically found in major art galleries, said Darius Spieth, the exhibit’s curator.The exhibit, which is sponsored by the Union Art Gallery Volunteer Committee, runs from Friday through Dec. 4 and will feature local artists as well as works by current University students and faculty like Hunter Roth, LSU design shop manager and artist. Roth has multiple interactive pieces in the exhibit, like a fertility-themed Plinko game, skull bobbleheads and a 3-D train car display.”[The interactivity] makes my art approachable and touchable,” Roth said. “It’s not some boring old landscape.”Admission is free, and the exhibit is open to the public. The gallery is located on the first floor of Foster Hall inside the library-facing entrance and the exhibit will be open 10 a.m to 4 p.m. on weekdays and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays and Saturdays with home football games. “[The exhibit] is geared toward student interests,” said Judith Stahl, Union Art Gallery director. “We are going to have breakdancers, Delta Journal readings and free food [at the reception] on Friday.”Some of the works included in the exhibit have totalitarian, street and nature influences as well as local Louisiana inspirations, Spieth said.Spieth chose the 11 artists included in the exhibit, but the artists chose the artwork themselves. In addition to the art exhibit, a collaborative art wall demonstration featuring artists from the exhibition will be held Sunday, and students from The Delta Journal will read inside the exhibit Nov. 11, 12, 18 and 19 at noon. Notes from the Artistic Underground is being held in conjunction with The Invisible Populations Project, a series of exhibitions, lectures, digital displays and service-learning events in collaboration with the Capital Area United Way, Spieth said.Invisible Populations Project events will run through mid-December.- – – -Contact Alex White at [email protected]