<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/2026-08-21/magazine/fall-2010/open-house.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Open House</title><excerpt>Step inside Adams Center for the Visual Arts and take a first look at the spacious Westmont Museum (above), which opened in September with a show by longtime professor John Carlander. In his 31 years at Westmont, he has seen the art department grow from one room upstairs in Reynolds Hall to a facility any art department would welcome. “The students love the new painting studio,” he says (right). “The biggest change is the elbow room. It was hard to work large in a small space — our one studio kept getting smaller as we added offices.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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