Chowing Down on Chocolate and Art

Bryn Dotson, assistant editor

Faculty, staff, students, and visitors swarmed around a variety of pieces of art with chocolates and ice-cream cups in hand. The once lifeless walls came alive in the V. Earl Dickinson building on Friday, April 19, in honor of the Annual Student Exhibition and Seventh Annual Chocolate Chow Down.

Inside the building, people handed out small cards to explain more about the artwork and the chow down. Despite the rain that day, the hallways were stuffed with people, and it was hard to navigate through them to see the artwork.

The chocolate was almost completely gone by 5:30 p.m. but by that time, the parking lot had thinned out and there were a significant number of parking spots remaining for those coming later in the evening for the Free Movie Friday event, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.

“I had only ever heard about this event through Piedmont students,” said Claire Mills, a student from the University of East Anglia.

This year’s art included a variety of mediums from printmaking, painting, drawing, graphic design, digital photography, art history, ceramics, and more. Each piece of artwork on display was unique from the others and had a variety of colors, textures, styles, and emotions.

“I think it is a great idea to showcase young artists’ work. I am also not one to say no to artwork and chocolate,” Mills said.