Students are selling guns, flasks and skulls in front of the Student Union.
They’re part of the University’s Ceramics Artist Student Association’s biannual pottery and ceramics sale held this week, where the items for sale are not limited to the dinner table.
The outdoor sale, held under white tents near Free Speech Plaza, started Monday and will run through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Video: CASA Art Sale
The sale includes pottery, ceramics and sculptures fashioned by undergraduate and graduate students as well as professors, according to Kim Howard, ceramics senior and public relations coordinator for CASA.
“It’s great to see people stopping by and showing interest in the art community here and engaging in the growing art culture of Baton Rouge,” Howard said.
Howard said 50 percent of the profits from the sale go toward funding programs the organization is involved with, while the other half of the proceeds goes to the artists.
The sale is instrumental in funding the Ceramics Department’s visiting artist program, an operation that brings accomplished artists to the University to teach a workshop and present a lecture, she said. The sale also funds CASA’s annual trip to the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts conference, a clay convention.
Beyond educational programs, Howard said the sale also provides ceramics students with real-world experience for selling their work to the community.
“They have a lot of things besides plates here,” said Laurel Keys, business management senior. “My favorites are probably the guns or the bird.”
Keys said she thought the sale would be a good opportunity to start her Christmas shopping.
Dylan Purvis, ceramics sophomore and CASA member, said the flasks on sale have been a particularly popular item.
“We have sold 15 to 20 flasks, and we just started the sale today,” Purvis said.
Students looking to take home some lighter student artwork may also stop by the “1 of 1” Printmaking Club of LSU’s art sale, located next to the CASA sale.
Students can peruse hand-printed shirts, books, paper and prints on paper at the sale.
“Come support your local student artists,” said Chance Taylor, printmaking senior and “1 of 1” Printmaking Club member.
 
____
Contact Josh Naquin at [email protected]