Magazine accepting student submissions

Student artists and writers looking to have their work published have the opportunity in Canvas, the Union Board-sponsored fine arts magazine.\nPhotography, paintings, poetry and short fiction pieces are typical submissions to the magazine, which comes out once a semester, but the publication isn't limited to that type of work, said senior Karolyn Steffens, assistant director of Canvas.\n"We'll consider any kind of visual art that people want to send in," she said.\nThe magazine is completely student-run and a selections committee comprised of several students, not just art students, decides which submitted pieces will run.\n"We look for creativity," Steffens said. "We look for whether or not it will grab people's attention."\nStudents whose work is accepted will be invited to a Canvas premiere party, at which those involved in the publication can pick up copies for their friends and family and see their work in print before it's available to students, Steffens said.\nLast year the Union Board held a poetry reading open to the public featuring some of the work submitted to Canvas. "We're hoping to do that this year too," Steffens said.\nWork should be submitted via e-mail to canvas@indiana.edu by Friday. Steffens said this semester's issue should come out in late April. For more information call the Union Board office, 855-IMUB.