Senior art history major Cindy Ladner along with other students and faculty applaud as  Morgan Methvien introduces  Kappa Pi’s first art show. Brianna Hawkins/The Lion’s Roar

The Kappa Pi Honor Art Society had their first art show to help promote members’ artwork to the community here on campus.

The art show was held on Wednesday, Nov. 1 in Clark Hall. Students in the fraternity were able to hang up their artwork and talk to the faculty and staff of the art department about how they came up with the ideas for their artwork. Attendees could view artwork while Morgan Methvien introduced everyone to the art show.

Methvien also explained how she became the speaker of the art show.

“I’m one of the art history students, so I kind of volunteered for it,” said Methvien. “They kind of asked who would want to do something, and they really wanted to get the art history students involved. We’re not really studio artists, so we’re not as creative as the studio artists are when it comes to creating artwork.”

President of Kappa Pi Elisa Gauthreaux explained what Kappa Pi is and what it does for emerging artists.

“Kappa Pi is an honor society for the arts,” said Gauthreaux. “Basically, we are to promote scholarship through our works and our encouragements to other students. We’re hoping to build a student body overall at Southeastern and focus on art that encourages a community of artists.”

Gallery Director and Professor of Sculpture Dale Newkirk shared his thoughts on Kappa Pi’s art show and how it is helping art majors on campus.

“I think it’s good to see the students get an event like this organized,” said Newkirk. “I’m not aware of Kappa Pi doing a show before, so this is a more formal thing for them to do. So that means to me that they are getting organized, and so they’ll be able to do more events as an organization on campus and in the department. So, all that is positive and then making a contribution to the students’ education and their own experience.”

Senior art history major Cindy Ladner also shared her perspective of what it’s like to be in Kappa Pi.

“It’s an organization of artists who are in school, and its purpose is to keep art strong and alive within the community,” said Ladner. “And we do a lot of community service. We’re doing a high school day in November where there’s going to be high school students coming in, and we’re going to be doing demonstrations.”

Ladner is also featured in the art show where she shares how she came up with her art piece “Context Series.”

“What I was trying to do was take ordinary objects out of their context and kind of put them in a different light one that kind of magnifies,” said Ladner. “And these other objects, something that makes you look at them again and realize that these are things that we do see every day. But there’s so many different perspectives that you can view them, and I feel like photography is like a great medium to express that perspective.”

Senior art major Danielle Jones also explained the inspiration behind her piece.

“This piece is called ‘Turned Around,’ and I’m interested in the hostage ways of both internal and external systems of urban and rural landscapes,” said Jones. “So, this one is urban landscape, so I decided to take all these words and kind of put them together in this unusual form making all these strange passage ways.”

Gauthreaux also explained how the application process works to get into the Kappa Pi.

“Some of the things that are required are a GPA of a 3.0, an art major and a completion and passing of sophomore review,” said Gauthreaux. “Those three qualifications make this organization somewhat elite like any honor society would be.”