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them with a final submission form to submit photos of their work. There isn’t a limit on how many pieces of art students can send in or how many students can submit and there’s no maximum limit on art sizes. So far, over 30 pieces of art have been submitted.

“For mediums, we also included a fourth ‘other’ category on the interest form,” Moore said. “That’s something we’re thinking we’ll collapse into other categories on the official submission form, but we wanted to go ahead and leave it open in the beginning because we didn’t want anyone to open the form and be like ‘Oh, my art isn’t represented here,’ because we didn’t imagine it.” initiative in Fall 2021.

Goodwin said the SU and the Student Affairs Committee are still considering possible layouts for the gallery to accommodate digital art, 3D art and other non-traditional art mediums, including looking into installing a TV or iPads, expanding the gallery to another area of the SU and getting display boxes for 3D art. Once the gallery is set up, students will be able to vote for their favorite art through a QR code at the unveiling. Competition winners will choose from a list of prizes that SG is still compiling, including art supplies and subscriptions.

“Coming in as Student Affairs Chair, one of the things I wanted to do was work on promoting student art,” Moore said. “That was something that [the previous Student Affairs committee] talked about during COVID, but we didn’t know about the Blank Space Project or anything. Our idea at the time was just to host an event where we’d display art around campus in empty spaces… but then we talked to our student government advisor, as an art gala to show off the gallery in a grand re-opening.

Because the SU is a high-traffic building where students from departments across UTD regularly congregate, Moore said the space already reserved in the SU is perfect to start off with. Her plan going forward is to try and expand the art to other buildings –such as JSOM, Founder’s, Green Hall, the SSA, Jonsson or the McDermott Library – depending on how many submissions they get.