Five students of the Antigua Barbuda International Institute of Technology based at
Coolidge hosted a small exhibition of their semester’s work.
The exhibition provided an opportunity for the students to display their creativity
and display much of what they learned over the course of the first semester.
The students and the focus of their presentations are Odessa Hazelwood who
presented on a history of packaging. It emphasized how the packaging of goods
changed through the years, as a vehicle to boost the confidence of the consumer in
their products and the demand to know the ingredients used in the production
process. Another student, Anthony Spencer, presented a collection of masks
representing various cultures. Spencer has expressed a desire to ‘take the world by
storm’ using his skills at reimagining.
The third display was presented by Terissa Burton who utilised her visual arts
skills to focus on clothing design. Burton explained that her designs were done
digitally or were hand painted. Her vision is to extend her ‘bloom’ line
internationally.
The fourth artist presenting her work was Jamil Charles who has channeled her
creativity into cards, both traditional and digital, as well as stencil art. Her stencil
art for a start is done on T-shirts. “We are confident that with her creativity, she will
find other ways of incorporating her skills. Also presented were picture frames and
paper lanterns, the latter she said, is her favourite,” shared one of her
contemporaries.
The fifth student in the exhibition was Tyler Deazel who has focused his energy on
digital drawings. “Pictures they say tell a story. This young budding cartoonist we
are sure will have lots of stories to tell visually. Manga and Anime (manga is the
term given to Japanese comic books and graphic novels, whereas anime is the
name given to Japanese animation) have taken the world by storm and why should
young Deazle not ride the crest of this wave? Animation is no longer confined to
the drawing board, but with the aid of high-powered graphic cards, so the
imagination of the creator is without bounds,” another contemporary noted.
