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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2005
NATION
Reporter complies gets early release
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A federal judge yesterday granted a television reporter early release from the home-confinement sentence he was serving for failing to disclose the source of a videotape that showed a city official taking a cash bribe.
U. S. District Court Judge Ernest Torres found that Taricani had complied with all the conditions of the home confinement. The order frees Taricani from probation or any further court supervision.
Jim Taricani, who works for the NBC affiliate WJAR-TV, was originally scheduled to be released Saturday, four months after he was held in criminal contempt for failing to disclose the source of the video.
Taricani is among a small but growing number of reporters who have became ennared in the legal system for defying judicial demands
to disclose where they got information. At least 16 reporters and 14 news organizations are involved in legal fights.
The Associated Press WORLD
SRINAGAR, India — Two gunmen attacked a government tourism complex yesterday on the eve of the first bus service across divided Kashmir in nearly six decades, but the waiting passengers escaped unharmed and both India and Pakistan vowed the buses would run as planned.
Authorities said the two suspected Islamic militants died in a gunbattle with Indian security forces and six people were reported injured in the clash, which set off a fire that destroyed the main building along with historic documents and photographs of the divided Himalayan territory.
The Associated Press
Go fly a kite
Stepbanie Farley/KANSAN
Sean Burch, Wichita sophomore, tries out his power kite Monday afternoon on the field beside Watkins Memorial Health Center. "I like the thought of flying, and this is the closest thing I can get," he said. Power kiting is different from regular kiting, because the person has to hold on to the kite at both ends.
ART
Artists look for creative work
NEIL MULKA
nmulka@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
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While Adrianne Meckel progressed through her art education, her grandfather encouraged her to go a different route.
"My grandpa always wanted me to take bookkeeping or accounting," the Payette, Idaho graduate student said.
Beth Sarver, Kansas City, Kan., nontraditional student, scrapes plaster from her wax mold, which will then be used to make a bronze sculpture tentatively called "Autumn Wednesday Afternoon," in the base-ment of the Art and Design Building. She is teaching art to children, has a studio in Kansas City, Kan., has her own T-shirt business and will soon go international.
Because of his volatile farming career, her grandfather wanted Meckel to pursue a career with a steady income, she said.
Despite kind advice from relatives and the image of starving artists waiting tables at a greasy spoon for the rest of their lives, Meckel and her fellow art majors are heading into the art world to find a living.
"I'm a recent retiree from the restaurant industry," Beth Sarver, a nontraditional student from Kansas City, Kan., said.
Sarver owns Human Revolution Clothing Company, a T-shirt company that was an offshoot of her performance art.
She made and wore shirts for her art with slogans like "Pray for a secular government" or "My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
She decided to sell them after people started to ask where they could buy the shirts that she was wearing.
“It’s basically me creating a job where I can make money.” Sarver said. “It’s something that is in line with my ethical and moral self.”
About 250 shirts have been sold since March 15. she said.
Everyone here is working toward the same goal: Making art, Meckel said.
Getting it on the wall
"But as far as work goes, everyone has different professional aspirations," she said.
If an artist wants to get their work displayed in a gallery, they have to be professional, said Jill Kleinhans, owner of the Olive Art and Supply, 15 E. Eighth St.
Kleinhans recommends that an artist puts together an artist packet to submit to galleries.
An artist packet can include an artistic statement, press clippings, an autobiography and slides of their work.
People who just walk in with actual work don't get displayed, Kleinhans said.
A lot of getting work displayed and sold is networking, advertising and looking out for open calls for work, Meckel said.
"If making and selling your work is your living, that's something you have to be on top of," Meckel said.
A different way artists are getting their names out there and making revenue is by making stickers, cards and T-shirts similar to how a band works to get its name out, Kleinhans said.
Also a thick skin is needed in the art world to face rejection
"We simply have a letter and
"I if making and selling your work is your living, that's something you have to be on top of."
Adrianne Mickel Payette, Idaho, graduate student
a lot of people want more feedback than that, but that's not our job," Kleinhans said. "I'm sure people get offended all the time. You got to let go of your feelings, you can't be offended. It's simply business."
Getting the job
While some artists pursue a life where there isn't a paycheck every two weeks, Kelly Sands, Alamogordo, N.M., junior,
wants a job on the coast.
As an illustration major, building a portfolio of work is necessary to get an internship or a job
sary to get an internship or a job. "There are people who don't have a degree and have jobs because they have an amazing portfolio," Sands said.
While there are opportunities to freelance, most illustrators launch their careers working at a company or a magazine, Sands said.
Meckel found her calling as an art teacher while working on her undergraduate degree.
In an art history class she had to do a presentation on a self chosen topic. During her presentation of Christ Pantocrator, a Byzantine era monastery, she knew teaching was her career path.
"I just kind of came to life while doing it," Meckel said. "Showing something new to people is something I am comfortable with."
— Edited by Nikola Rowe