Bricowlage Literary Magazine held a collage night on Sunday, Oct. 13 at 2 p.m. in the Center for Research and Writing.
The event was organized by Bricowlage’s president, junior Evan Parker.
“We wanted to do a variety of things that have to do with art, especially since Bricowlage isn’t necessarily just for writing,” he said. “It’s about digital art or painting, sculptures, that kind of thing.”
“We wanted to get a wider audience by catering to wider creative interests,” he added. “It’s just about creating something and sharing that with other people.”
Parker said the event was meant to be a casual environment for talk and creative work.
“I feel like a lot of what we do is just celebrate creativity in any means,” he said. “Sometimes we even are just talking about what media we’re consuming. So like podcasts, movies, shows, anything of that sort.”
Parker said Bricowlage hopes to do more events like the collage night in the future.
“We really want to do a paint night in the NOC [Night Owl Café] at some point,” he said. “And also something to do with blackout poetry. We were thinking of just incorporating that into a meeting, of giving people random book pages and seeing what they can make and having fun with that.”
Parker also said he had an idea for a “painting literature” event.
“Someone writes a paragraph and then someone brings in an art piece and you swap them,” he said.
This semester, Bricowlage plans to focus on outreach and recruiting new members. For the spring, the magazine has had a budget approved to print.
“We’re going to make copies of the journal to distribute for free around campus,” Parker said.
Parker said any student who wants to submit their work to Bricowlage should.
“Anything goes,” he said. “It’s whatever you want. It’s a student-led journal, I think first and foremost. So it’s really whatever the student body submits, what they make it, which I think is really cool.”
Senior Moses Fisher, Bricowlage’s secretary, said he joined the magazine in support of what they stood for.
“I’ve always been enthusiastic about having a place for students to have their voices heard,” he said. “I think it’s really difficult, especially as a young person and as a student to get your writing published, so helping Bricowlage grow bigger is really important to me.”
Fisher praised Parker’s leadership of the club.
“[Parker] did a great job planning this [the collage night],” he said. “[Parker is] a great president because he really wants to make a space not just for writers and artists to be heard but also a place for everyone to be comfortable and to have a good time.”
“He does a really good job building up camaraderie in the club,” he added.
Bricowlage member and senior Sawyer Culberson said he joined the club after seeing their table at the Student Involvement Fair.
“They said they were going to publish stuff in a journal, and I’m a graphic design major, so I wanted to do some art,” he said. “And a couple of my friends run it, so I was like ‘Hey, why not?’”
Culberson said he enjoyed the event.
“It’s really really fun,” he said. “I like just yapping with people and cutting out stuff and making silly collages that you can just hang on your wall.”
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