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Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:35 p.m.

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Obama’s face, your art

Contributing Reporter
Published Friday, November 14, 2008

The day after the election, Sam Messer instructed his drawing class to create portraits of President-elect Barack Obama. When the students finished, they posted their art on an empty wall in Green Hall.

“It was totally spontaneous,” said Messer, who is currently Associate Dean of the School of Art. “I had my class the day after the election, and it seemed like the thing to do. We all made portraits, and continued it from there.”

Just a week later, that wall has become evidence of the power of collaboration: drawings, clippings, printouts and collages have joined the...

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