Student Organized Art Collective Hosts Student-Run, Shakespeare-Inspired Exhibition
The Student Organized Art Collective (SOAC) is an organization run by and for student artists, providing community and the opportunity to professionally display their work.
Meadows prides itself on its vibrant community, with organizations – both school-run and student-led – to support a variety of student interests. The Student Organized Art Collective (SOAC), now in its fourth year, is one of the newer student-led organizations on campus and provides student artists a space to gather with other artistic individuals and the opportunity to display their work in a professional environment.
SOAC hosts several exhibitions each year, where students of any major can participate and show their work. This allows for a more diverse exhibit, with variety of mediums and range of different student artists represented; the current SOAC show, now on display in the Jordan Gallery of the Owen Art Center, features computer science, biology, and art history students, as well as multiple art majors. In addition to providing a professional space for student artists across campus to show their work, SOAC offers its members an opportunity for leadership roles.
“As the president for this academic year, my responsibilities tie into every aspect of the club, but our officers work as a team on most of our endeavors,” explains senior studio art major and SOAC President Sophie Kim. “We are each personally involved with almost every branch of running an organization whether that's funding, marketing, physical installation and deinstallation of our shows, or running our general body meetings together.”
Kim and her SOAC officers have been busy preparing for their new fall exhibition, The End of a Midsummer Night’s Dream, an artistic retelling of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The exhibit’s theme experiment reinvents the ending of the play and will have artwork displayed with the ideas of love, loss, the imaginary and the mystery of human nature.
The End of a Midsummer Night’s Dream is now on display, with an opening reception being hosted on Friday, September 27 in the Jordan Gallery from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from the student artists displaying work in the exhibit and participate in an art-based networking event.
The exhibition will run through October 11, so stop by the gallery soon to see some Shakespeare-inspired artwork!