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CARDalogue Art Exhibit
Where did the card catalogue go?
In this day and age of technology, ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ Illinois University art professor Susan Czechowski's Art 101 students are giving the traditional card catalogue system a rebirth. The Intro to Design students created visual images celebrating the "old" card catalogue system for an exhibit that is currently on display in ´ºÓêÖ±²¥s Leslie F. Malpass Library.
"The CARDalogue project stemmed from the ever-present use of technology and the extinction of the card catalogue. These cards used a few short years ago in the WIU Library now sit boxed in a basement," Czechowski explained. "The only parameters given to the students were the elements of design learned during the Fall 2006 semester -- line, shape, color, texture and size -- and correspond their ideas to the information on the cards."
The following students artwork will be on display: Emily Grothus, a junior art major from Davenport, IA; Steven Sommers, a freshman graphic communication major from Quincy (IL); Tyler Casson, a senior art major from Williamsville (IL); Maria Montalvo, a senior art major from Macomb; Mary Brooks, a freshman art major from Cuba (IL); Jenni Chambers, a freshman general orientation major from Macomb; Leann Shryack, a freshman graphic communication major from Macomb; Princess Alexander, a sophomore human resource management major from Olympia Fields (IL); Derek Lauritzen, a sophomore graphic communication major from Sterling (IL); Allison Hunt, a junior biological sciences major from Lake Zurich (IL); Yoshinori Izumi, a junior graphic communication major from Japan; and Skan Jolly, a sophomore construction management major from Quincy (IL).