The artists in the brightly-lit makeup room transformed ordinary students, parents and even kids into terrifying or hilarious clowns, for an exhibit during Multicultural Day.

Today, PAC 134 was transformed into an impromptu clown-makeup station by Theatre Arts professor Haleh Risdana and her students of THA M28, Production Makeup to express counterculture.

“I think what appeals for clown culture is you can look one way and act another,” Risdana said. “It allows people to be quirky and funny and scary. It’s a counterculture, it’s almost maniacal, people have a fear of clowns and they also love clowns.”

The previous year, Risdana’s students transformed students into zombies.

Nathan Weinstein, 21, theatre arts major, said he was excited to do this kind of makeup for the first time, using latex and blood.

“It’s been really cool, I’ve done my own makeup before for shows, [now] I’m a bit better at it,” Weinstein said.