Literary work to be published

Today is the last day for students to submit their personal artwork to the Union Board's bi-annual creative arts magazine CANVAS.\nThe magazine, suffering from underexposure in the past, has generally been the medium of only a handful of creative students who realized the magazine's existence.\nStudent Voice Director Amy Wanninger said she is hoping to break that tradition this year with more copies, better marketing and more student submissions. Instead of the magazine-style format it had in the past, this year's CANVAS will more closely resemble an alternative weekly newspaper, which will allow for a larger production.\nWanninger compared the new format to issues of Punk Planet and Ryder.\n"It's going to go from this high-end program look, which is really nice, with a shelf life quality, to more along the lines of this underground raw, edgy look," Wanninger said, "to maybe get more student exposure and student interest."\nThis year 10,000 copies will be made instead of the standard 800 copies that have been printed in previous years.\nA group of eight or 10 students will make up the committee that decides which entries are eligible for publication. \nStudents can have more than one entry and it is possible that an individual student could have multiple entries in this spring's issue, based on the quality of the work. In the 2002 fall issue, a couple of students had as many as four pieces. \nJorge Rios took the front and back inside covers of the fall issue with illustrations, while also landing a drawing entitled "Death" near the end of the magazine. Junior Kellen Ressmeyer had four written pieces on three separate pages in this same issue.\nDirector of Union Board Marketing Claire Tramm has noticed a pattern of a talented few in the past and would like to see something different this year.\n"In the past there's usually been a few people submitting with a ton of entries," Tramm said.\nStudents can submit any two dimensional work they feel has artistic merit. It doesn't matter if they have been published before and the amount of training they have had is irrelevant.\nRyan O'Connell, director of the Films Committee, was showcased in last fall's CANVAS before he became a member of the Union Board.\n"It was just a picture I did for one of my photography classes," O'Connell said. "I just popped it in there and didn't think it was going to get picked, but it was put in."\nStudents interested in submitting work to the magazine should drop their artwork off at the Union Board office in Room 270 of the activities tower of the Indiana Memorial Union. Written submissions should be e-mailed to canvas@indiana.edu.