Starting outside the doors of Hopkins Hall and continuing throughout the gallery, graduate students in the Department of Art place their works for display.Co-sponsored by the art department and the Hopkins Hall Gallery, the Department of Art Student Exhibition is now open for the public to view until Jan. 30.”The Department of Art at Ohio State has a really strong graduate program,” said Georg Heimdal, Department of Art chairman.The student exhibition, organized by Paul Chambers and Patrick Weber, has eight areas of concentration. They are ceramics, glass, painting and drawing, photography, art and technology, print making, sculpture and art critical practices.”This year we divided the different types of work into eight categories and made a separate section for each, which is different from past exhibits,” said Prudence Gill, curator of the exhibit.Shannon Eakins, an OSU art student specializing in glass art, looks forward to the graduate shows more than faculty shows because the two groups reach different age groups.”The graduate exhibitions are the strongest because they are from our generation which makes the works easy to relate to,” Eakins said.Paul Chambers, a second year graduate student in painting and drawing, displays a work entitled, “Where do you want to go?” which is named after Microsoft commercials and advertisements.Chambers’ exhibit at the gallery consists of British and American television heroes, in particular Tinky Winky (British) and Bevis (American).”Living in Birmingham has given me a great British angle,” Chambers said.Chambers said art can come from many angles, such as sound and photo, not just from the traditional drawing and painting.”You just can’t pull an idea out of the air,” said Erika Carey, a second year graduate student.Putting parts together and stepping back to look and using trial and error are a part of the process before a work is completed, Carey said.Krista Grecco, a second year graduate student in ceramics, gets many of her ideas and work from mass produced ceramics.”People are more familiar with commercial ceramics,” Grecco said, “I am always looking and thinking of ways to play off ideas from mass produced ceramics.”The works of the graduate students can be viewed at Hopkins Hall, 128 North Oval Mall.