Students are using the campus as a giant art studio through Dec. 16, with the installation of five works in an exhibit called Where Here Is. One project, Meeting Place, comprises some 2,800 pieces of scrap terra cotta that the artists nailed into a circle pattern at the center of the Quad, for a work that is reminiscent of a concrete circle that once stood at the same spot. The photo at right shows a section of Farmscape Death Star, patches of cloth in the courtyard of the Social Sciences and Humanities Building, commonly called the Death Star. "Our vision ... is to bring life and color to its exterior and to embody the landscape of California's Central Valley," the artists said. Another work, Shelter, outside Shields Library, serves as a place where people can escape the public eye, the artists said.