Wake up with art in the CUB

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Wake Up With Art! features the art in “Songs of Whales (endangered species) made by Hiromi Okumura. The event begins at 9 a.m. Saturday in the CUB Gallery.

Chocolate and peanut butter, dust pans and brooms, roller coasters and throwing up: Some things just go together. This weekend, the classic pairing of coffee and art will come together yet again with Wake Up With Art!.

The event is a great opportunity for people to see interesting artwork and wake up for game day, said CUB art gallery curator Kyla Lakin.

Live music as well as free coffee and scones will be available Saturday in the CUB Gallery during the “Songs of Whales (endangered species)” exhibit. Cider and tea will also be available for those who enjoy art but not coffee.

“I’m really excited for it because it’s a new event that we haven’t really done before,” Lakin said, “and I love seeing how they go.”

Unlike the gallery’s other events, Wake Up With Art! takes place on a weekend to hopefully attract more viewers, she said. SEB members will dress up and go down to the game-day alumni trailers to pass out flyers for the event, she said.

“Everyone loves free coffee,” Lakin said.

Angel Nava, WSU Student Involvement arts and programs coordinator, said she is excited for the debut of Wake Up With Art!

“I thought it was an awesome concept, and Kyla ran with it,” Nava said.

The students working with the space are doing a lot of interesting and challenging work in the CUB Gallery, she said.

“The arts are a really powerful tool for connecting people and sharing ideas,” she said.

People can easily forget how effective the arts are in communicating with each other, Nava said. SEB purposefully puts together unique events to stop other students in their tracks and get them to think in new and different ways, she said.

“One of my hopes is to be able to connect more people with the space,” Nava said.

Many people walk through the space every day, and she said hopefully the coffee and live music will get people to stop and really see what’s there.

Charise Deberry, WSU Academic Success and Career Center staff assistant, will provide live music during the event as dj isis.

“The kind of music I tend to do is funk, soul, Latin breaks, afrobeat, rare groove, reggae, some psychedelia,” dj isis said. “You know, hip hop.” 

She said mainstream music from both today and her youth doesn’t accurately reflect her soul and disc jockeying is a musical outlet she can relate to.

Typically her tracks are designed to reflect the exhibit. However, dj isis said, “For Saturday I mostly want to wake people up to some bumpin’ tunes.”