From Oct. 22 to 26, , an exhibition entitled “Forks, Knives and Spoons” will be held in the Ameen Art Gallery in Talbot Hall. It is the second exhibition held by the Zeta Alpha Zeta chapter of the Kappa Pi fraternity. Last October, the exhibit was entitled “The Box Project.”

For that exhibition, a large box filled with small cardboard boxes used to wrap video tapes mysteriously appeared by the art office in Talbot Hall. An accompanying sign said students could do anything they wanted with the boxes.

The art students followed suit with 32 submissions. They used the boxes in various creative ways, including painting, drawing and laying graphic design on them. Some students used them as frames for photographs, incorporated them in larger works and even destroyed them.

“When we had an exhibition last October, we gave out prizes, and it was a great way to advertise the success of this new honor society on campus. The students decided to follow up this year with a second exhibition. This time the concept is forks, knives, and spoons, where you can take a fork, knife or spoon and use it, photograph it, draw it, or actually have the object incorporated into the work,” Dr. Deborah Cibelli, assistant professor of art, said.

Winners will be selected by an assigned judge Oct. 24 at 2:30 p.m. in the Ameen Art Gallery.

The unique aspect of this exhibition is that students from the culinary arts department will be involved as well, producing food sculptures for the exhibit.

“The art students thought that they could better plan the exhibit by involving other students on campus. The forks, knives and spoons theme lends itself to opening the show to students in culinary arts on campus. A (culinary) class on campus had agreed to participate. They will bring food to the reception, and in addition, some will make edible art exhibitions, so we are looking forward to that with a lot of enthusiasm,” Cibelli said.

On Nov. 3, the culinary arts students met with the art students to discuss the project.

Shellina Falgout, art sophomore from Thibodaux, was one of the students at the meeting.

“I think, especially collaborating with the culinary arts institute, it will be very big this year. We will draw in more people than usual, I think everything will work out great. I am really excited, especially after going Wednesday night to the culinary art institute meeting, they’re really enthusiastic about it, and very talented as well,” she said.

Cibelli said that the art faculty will participate as well.

“We are also going to have some faculty participation where the faculty will submit work for display, but not for jury prizes, and that causes a lot of enthusiasm,” she said.

Falgout said the theme does not have to be taken literally. Participants are allowed to interpret the project as liberally as possible.

“We don’t have to have a picture of a fork, knife and spoon. If it’s made with a fork, knife and spoon, that’s just fine. It just has to be implemented in some kind of way. It can be as abstract or as realistic as you want it to be,” she said.

Falgout also said the art department is very creative, and she looks forward to the submissions.

“We have a great art student body, very creative, very intriguing I think, everyone has his own view of the world, their own style, and I really can’t wait for this to fall into place,” she said.

Cibelli said she hopes this exhibition follows the success of the boxes of last year.

“The box project was a tremendous success. We had the students submit an article reviewing the show for the Kappa Pi sketchbook journal,and it was accepted for publication with three of the artworks being reproduced. We have high hopes that the work will be of good quality for this one as well,” Cibelli said.