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by BETH HENRY
reporter

Sculptures, graphics, weavings and illustrations will adorn the Birke Art Gallery Sunday.

The work of senior graphic design and art education majors will be displayed as the last exhibit of the semester.

Jay Chu, Kara Dudley, Jennifer Johnson and Stephen Spencer will open their show with a reception at 2 p.m. Sunday.

"These graphic design seniors are well-equipped with computer-based as well as design knowledge and self-motivation," Anja Bruggemann, gallery director, said.

"They should all find personal careers in graphic or Web design thanks to the vision of their professors and their own skills," Bruggemann said.

The show is to contain work including Marshall Basketball posters, illustrations for children, sculptures, and weavings.

"It's something I've been looking forward to," Spencer, a graphic design major whose work will be displayed, said.

"But now that it's here, I wish I had more time to work on stuff, to re-mat and re-mount my work," he said.

Spencer said he will display two or three sculptures: a plaster carving, a metal obelisk and Egyptian monuments.Ó

However, he said most of his work will be graphic designs, such as posters and ads, and a few of his pieces have won awards.

"I try to use vibrant colors and textures in as much of my graphic design work as I can get away with," he said.

Kara Dudley, also a graphic design major, said a lot of her work are illustrations for children.

"It's mostly pigs or cooking or work for children," Dudley said.

She also plans to display a Marshall basketball poster and a variety of other pieces.

Dudley said she is graduating in December and the show means she's almost finished.

"It's kind of like a closure for me," she said.

Chu, a graphic design major, and Johnson, an art education major, were unavailable for comment.

Bruggemann said "Graphic design is an exciting and important part of contemporary visual culture and economy.

"Graphic design often feeds off its own traditions -- from its roots in the development of printmaking to the more recent elements of recycling, manipulating and assembling images with electronic media," she said.