The downtown Dallas skyline is about to be lit up with local students’ art.
The Omni Dallas Hotel will show digital artwork by University of Texas at Dallas students on its LED display starting this weekend, according to a report from KXAS-TV (NBC5).
The LED display will feature 16 projects created in the college’s projection mapping lab, taught by UTD associate professor Andrew Scott.
“I always look for opportunities to take projects that we are doing in class and get them out into the community,” Scott told NBC5.
Doing so gives his students a chance to apply skills from the classroom in the real world, he said. “It shows them that while they are in school the potential for the types of impact they can have in the community as an artist.”
Students are excited about the opportunity.
“As soon as I heard it immediately I thought, ‘There’s no way,’” said Michael Bentley, a UT Dallas senior.
“It’s a really weird and cool feeling to be able to have the opportunity to have our work go past the school borders and really like be a part of the Dallas community.”
The displays begin Sunday and run 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. They will continue on certain nights through the end of the month.
