As art students, we have definitely lost classes because teachers couldn’t be paid to teach them. Furthermore, because of this drop in class availability and because of the way art students are treated by faculty and administration alike when they try to speak out against negative changes in their program (a pat on the head and an eye roll), the art department at NAU is CERTAINLY not the best in the state.

ASU has three galleries where students can hang their material, and word is that their work is insured. Student work at NAU isn’t insured specifically BECAUSE its produced for a class at the university, meaning that everyone else’s work is insured if they’d like to show at Beasley. Just not ours.

So, to wrap up, because we are art students we do not get our work insured if we show in OUR OWN gallery. We have to protest just to keep the gallery open for OUR OWN shows, and when we do we get patronized by the staff in OUR OWN department. We are working ridiculously hard just to get treated fairly WHILE AT THE SAME TIME producing original work to be shown at a school that increasingly fails to act like it cares. “Best department in the state”? I would like to see the justification for that.