Walking into the McCarthy Recital Hall, no one expects to see larger-than-life noses on the wall, but there they are. The Nose Exhibit was created by Professor Gregg Blasdel's Sculpture I class.

"There's something really humorous about them," he says. "They catch people off guard."

The pieces were inspired by a reproduced plaster cast of the nose from Leonardo Da Vinci's David masterpiece. Though he also has the casts of David's lips, ears and eye's,lBlasdel chose the nose because it is the most prominent feature of the face, he says.

"I really had to sell it to the class," Blasdel says. "But, in the end, they were all very pleased. I enjoy the diversity of them, how they are all so different."

The cardboard noses will be on display until the end of the semester.