The first thing to catch the eye upon entering the gallery is a large, two-part print project created as a collaboration by printmaking students. A series of black and white prints - they look like etchings or woodcuts - fill two good-sized, unframed and unstretched canvases. The images range from Northwest coastal Indian masks to Beavis from the TV show Beavis and Butthead. It's a strong and impactful graphic image.

The other drawings and prints in the show are inconsistent: some pretty good, some lame and everything in between. The photos, some of the sculpture, and the commercial graphic arts projects are much stronger.

Ali Abedi's "Spring," wood, paper and plaster, is disturbing and impossible to ignore. It is a blood-splattered plaster hand with cut-off fingers. A powerful image.

Read Alec Clayton's full review of the Student Art Exhibition in Northwets Military's Music & Culture section.

STUDENT ART EXHIBITION, through June 13, noon to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday, Tacoma Community College, Building 4, entrance off South 12th Street between Pearl and Mildred, Tacoma, 253.566.5000