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Senior Trish Amato, a student in Lisa Lerner's 2-D Dimension Design class, reported the artwork stolen from outside a classroom in the Holy Spirit Library. The picture, a mosaic portrait of Chuck Close, was taken sometime between 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 1 and 9:35 a.m. the next day.

by Nick Luchko staff writer

Once again, Cabrini College has been hit by the crime bug.

Between 4 p.m. on Monday Feb. 1 and 9:35 a.m. on Tuesday Feb. 2, Trish Amato, a senior, felt the effect.

Amato, who is registered in Lisa Learner's 2-D Dimension Design class, had her piece stolen from the Holy Spirit Library.

The picture had been sitting outside of room one on the lower level section of the building where her class takes place.

"I think it is very nasty that someone would steal Trish's artw-0rk,"Learner said.

When she was going to class on

Tuesday, Feb. 2, Amato passed the room and found that the painting was not there. She proceeded to go to Learner and ask her where her picture was.

Learner said she did not know where the picture was and asked Amato if she knew what had happened.

This went on for about five minutes, until they finally came to the realization that the picture had been stolen.

The piece that was seized from the library was a black-and-white portrait of Chuck Close.

The assignment for the project was to pick a famous person and reduce it to mosaic form using small images of paper.

This kind of artwork requires the individual to place different pieces of paper on the board by using tweezers to get the right angle. that the thieves were after, but also the frame, wh,ich was worth money.

Both Learner and Amato have stated that no other picture was stolen or has been reported stolen from the library.

-Lisa Learner, Amata's art professor

Amata's piece had a maroon frame and, according to Amato, took between eight and 10 hours to complete.

Learner is under the impression that it was not only the picture

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Adding insult fo injury, in Amata's view, was that there was another Chuck Clqse artwork in the hallway that w~s bigger then Amata's, but it was not stolen or even touched.

Amato said about the person who stole her artwork, "I hope they like it enough to steal it. I spent a lot of time on this piece and it was really good. I don't know why someone would want to steal it."

"It is a compliment in a negative way," said Lerner Amato finished by asking anyone with information on her stolen artwork to step forward. "I would like my artwork back, if anyone knows where it is," she said.

In addition to Amata's work, Learner has reported that a large sign from this past week's art show was stolen from outside the library.

If anyone sees or hears anything about the whereabouts of Amata's artwork or the art sign, please contact either Amato or Learner. Amata's mailbox number is 303A. Lisa Learner's office is in the lower level of the Holy Spirit Library in room two.