Embers - the first exhibition by graduating students from the new fine art degree offered jointly by Charles Sturt University (CSU) and TAFE NSW Riverina Institute - opens in Wagga Wagga this evening Tuesday 28 November. “This is a great opportunity for the public to see a large number of works by students specialising in painting and drawing,” said Head Teacher, Arts and Design School, TAFE NSW Riverina Institute, Steve Williams. “The drawings and paintings explore a diversity of themes and media. Teachers Denis O’Connor and Errol Fielder have pushed the students to interrogate and question themselves and their environment.” The exhibition will be opened by CSU’s Head of the School of Visual and Performing Arts, Associate Professor Andrew Keen, tonight at 6pm.