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Students Create Magic Out of Clay

As any preschooler can tell you, clay is a magical compound out of which imaginations can grow into mysterious and colorful objects.

Cal State Northridge art students are going to help some elementary and high schoolers take that magic a larger scale on Thursday, April 9, as they create massive sculptures as part of an inter-generational claycreation project.

Imaginations will run wild beginning at 9 a.m. in the ceramics area of the university's Art and Design Center on Halstead Street east of Etiwanda Avenue.

Graduate students from the university's art department will assist students from Monlux Elementary School in North Hollywood and Grant High School in Van Nuys in creating clay structures and forms several feet high, and clay coils up to 100 feet long.

"This project will introduce younger students to different and inventive ways of creative expressionÉand they'll all have a great time making the clay squish and ooze," said Joe Lewis, chair of the art department.