Dina Marie Lucia wants to make you feel like a child again.

Lucia, a senior art student at NIU, will have an exhibit of drawings opening on Sept. 23 in the Holmes Student Center Art Gallery called “At Play” which features “games you enjoyed as a child,” Lucia said.

“If you were ever a child, I hope you will be again when you leave my show,” she said.

Lucia said the show consists of 11 pieces illustrating various types of board games. They are divided into four types of games: youth, luck, strategy and skill games.

Lucia said that the subject matter of the show should automatically make observers think like a child because they will be contemplating games they played when they were children.

“I want to make people feel like children because I know that that’s when I was happiest,” Lucia said.

NIU graduate student Tim Bleck will also have an exhibit opening in the gallery called “Animal Logic.” Black said the show consists of a series of paintings dealing with endangered species.

“If we use logic we’ll realize that we can’t be killing these animals for useless items that can be replaced with man-made items,” Bleck said. “Thats the point of my show.”

He said the killing of elephants for ivory is one example of mans killing animals for useless items. “The elephants are being killed just for the ivory. But we’ve got plastic which is a suitable replacement for ivory,” he said.

Both shows will open Sunday at 3 p.m.