“Help a starving artist” read the sign posted above an art display at the Columbus College of Art & Design’s student art sale on Saturday. The show featured over 2,000 art works displayed and sold by students and alumni.With lines of people waiting to get a first glimpse of the items on sale, the biannual student art sale opened with a full crowd.The artists displayed and sold items from 10-foot, welded-metal statues to neatly tied packages of handmade paper stationery. A caricature artist greeted the incoming crowd with comical sketches of Jay Leno and Spock from Star Trek.Sharing a booth at the show, Mandy Rose Henderson and Sarah Baker, both Columbus artists, displayed a collection of energizing teas, bath salts, soaps and candles.”We have useful arts like home stuff, bath stuff, tea and wearable art,” Henderson said. The display also included T-shirts with artistic, sewn-on words and pictures.Many artists included works with an international focus, such as photography from Vietnam and Chinese cartoons and calligraphy.Senior Emily Kitturah-Westenhouser displayed a wide variety of sculptures made from various materials. “I use beeswax for some and alabaster and clay for the others,” Westenhouser said.Janie Cockerill, a visitor to Columbus, attended the art sale for the first time this year. “I noticed a wide range of creativity and talent. Most of the art works were value-priced. It seems very beneficial to the students to help get their names public,” Cockerill said.As the sale reached the halfway point, most of the tables were bare, a sure sign of success for the students and alumni.”Everything went so fast, and so I am glad I got here early,” Cockerill said.Some items will be on display at the ROY G BIV Gallery in the Short North this month including stone sculptures by Duane Grantham, a college alumnus. “I will be showing some of the items I brought here today as well as some others I have been working on in my studio,” Grantham said.The next student art sale will be held in December.