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AP Art visits TCU

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Sarah Dancer

Anthony Bergamini, 11, looks on while Jack Russell, 11, inspects a robotic printmaker.

Fifteen of DJ Perera’s AP Art students visited TCU’s art department on Dec. 2.

Associate Professor Nick Bontrago led the Pioneers on a tour of the art facilities to explore possibilities for art in their future.

After the tour, all of the students made a 3D scan of themselves and created 3D artwork on a program called Tinkercad. The Pioneers also made their own pins and viewed a laser cutter in action.

“It made me realize there’s so much more than drawing on a sheet of paper,” Brianna Christiansen, 11, said, “many more ways of being an artist.”