Students streamed into Lerner Roone Arledge Auditorium to cheer on their peers as they walked the runway in DAWANG brand jumpsuits, dresses, and patchwork hoodies on Sunday.

With the click of a button, artificial intelligence art technology can produce an elaborate painting prompted by only a word. Though this technology promises to make everyone an artist, it has been the center of a long-term campus debate.

In the quiet stillness of the studio, reference photos, artmaking tools, and art in progress are arranged organically. Most notable is the giant sheet of paper taped to the wall, with ghostly etchings of trees, roots, metamorphosed cows and bodies, mountain-like tessellations, cells, fingerprints in graphite, and a hint of yellow dye.

Hazel Lu, CC ’24, gleams in a navy longline wool coat as she walks into the sunset-imbued lobby of the Whitney Museum of American Art. With black hair and short bangs, a relaxed and friendly aura surrounds her as she glides down the concrete tilings past the museum security. This air of nonchalance speaks to Lu’s carefree personality.