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The Loss of the Ceramics Area Head Shattered the Department, Leaving Students to Pick Up the Pieces
One year after professor Brian Snapp’s retirement, students within the ceramics area fear a domino effect could dismantle the area.
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May 6, 2024
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Angela Guertler • May 9, 2024 at 10:28 am
For more accuracy, you might look at what Brian Snapp didn’t do during his time at the Fine Arts Department. Whittling down the ceramic department and then leaving it in ruin. There are a lot of factions to the issues happening for Fine Arts. Between complacent heads to overworked faculty. We need advocates and those willing to look at what has been done to bring the Ceramics department to where it is now and then work on a vision of where they want it to go. It is a problem when where it looks to be going is in the ground. I am ADA and the most frustrating part about my time in the Fine Arts building is lack of access. I fear the Fall semester with no access to the upper floors except stairs I cannot use. It’s a joke. No matter what Martinez says…