Porche continues to handbuild a clay pot as a beginning exercise in ceramics.

Art is described as a feeling or an emotional expression put on paper, written out in words or drawn out with a pen and pad.

For us art students here at N.C. Central University, it is a way of describing ourselves.

Different media — pen, ink, bristol board, paint, clay, even computers — are what we use to describe our everyday experience at any given moment in time.

We use these tools to imitate how we see reality in its rawest form: alive ... passionate ... ugly ... beautiful.

I use the camera to express these forms capturing the intensity of an art student’s passion.

We aren’t afraid to be dirty, or to work on a single composition in the studio for hours on end.

Art is a gift we all possess. Some express it through song, some through poetic words, and some through paint, clay, sculpture, or pen and ink. Me, I express it through the eye of the lens, as an artist’s perspective.