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Living with the Arts
Arts Village residents collaborate in Turlington to promote the arts, share interests
Brittany Reeder
Issue date: 9/21/07 Section: Features
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As a living and learning village continuously exposed to different modes of artistic expression, residents spend time immersed in the arts.
"It's going great actually," Sharon Moore, the director of Center Stage and Arts Outreach, said. "They've started kind of with a bang."
The village is a collaboration between University Housing and Arts N.C. State.
Residents have attended "Ain't Misbehavin'" at The Kennedy Theatre, browsed photography exhibitions at the Gregg Museum of Art and Design and had lunch with Da Chen, author and 2007 convocation speaker.
"The Arts Village is giving them a home base to be involved with students with similar interests," Moore said. "It's a pretty social group."
She said she is optimistic about the future of the Arts Village and with resident involvement.
"We've got a great group of students [who are] very interested and excited about promoting the arts at N.C. State," she said. "Our goal is to have Turlington be the Arts Village residence hall."
Yulisa Lin, central campus coordinator for University Housing, said she works to help residents "develop the Arts Village."
"The Arts Village is a great addition to what N.C. State is," Lin said. "It brings diversity to the student experience."
Lin, who said she is "leading the development of the village," is working to make sure resident input is a part of the process.
"Everyone has a voice in this. The students definitely have a voice in this -- it's their village," she said. "I'm definitely there to support them."
Lin said hopes that residents of the Arts Village "not only succeed in their majors, but give back through the arts."
Randall Rehfuss, a sophomore in First Year College, said he has big plans for the Arts Village.
As one of only two students who sit on the Arts Village Council, Rehfuss expresses the collective ideas of residents to the council.
"[We] want to start an Arts Village student council," he said. "We're trying to get the whole village involved and campus wide."
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