University Daily Kansan, January 26, 1981
On Campus
TODAY
Open auditions for the UNIVERSITY DANCE
COMPANY will be at 6 p.m. in 242 Robinson. Call
855-773-9071.
MASTERS RECTAL by Mary J. Gooing
to the piano at 8 p.m. in Swarthout
Rectal Hall
CHRISTIAN UNITY WEEK sponsored by the Campus Christian Groups is January 25-30. Drop in lunches are from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Kansas Union.
THE ST. LAWRENCE CATHOLIC CENTER will have an organizational meeting for a discussion group on death and dying at 7 p.m. at the St. Lawrence Catholic Center.
OPERATION FRIENDSHIP will meet for a
conference on Tuesday, May 14, "1690
W. 19th, Bring a dinner of your choice."
THE DESIGN DEPARTMENT Student Craft
Museum will run until February 8 in the Union Exhibition Gallery.
VENICE OBSEVERED will be on display until p. 310 in the White Gallery of the Helen Foreman Museum.
HARRY CALLAHAN: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLLECTION OF HALLMARK
CARDS will be on display until March 1 in the Kress Gallery of the Spencer Museum.
TOMORROW
CHILDREN'S TREATRE presents "Androcles and the Lion" by Aurand Harur at 1 p.m. in the University Theater. This performance is for elementary school children in grades one through three.
TAU SIGMA DANCE CLUB will meet at 7 p.m.
in 242 Robinson.
MARANATHA CRISTIANNE MINISTRIES
meets at 7 n. m. at 1350 Tennessee
THE ACADEMIC COMPUTER CENTER (ACC) will host a seminar entitled "Introduction to the ACC" at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Computer Service Facility.
A BIBLICAL SEMINAR on Romans at 7 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
WESTERN CIVILIZATION FILM SERIES presents "Yankee Doodle Cricket," "Hamilton & Jefferson on Democracy" and "Lower than a week at 7 p.m. in the museum of Lippincott Hall."
WOMEN IN COMMUNICATION, INC. is sponsoring a seminar entitled "Entering the Journalism Job Market '81" at 7 p.m. in 205 Flint Hall.
Stained glass and salt pottery highlight local artist exhibit
By CINDY CAMPBELL Staff Reporter
Four area artists have combined their talents and put together a unique show of stained glass, salt-glazed pottery and watercolor paintings, on the campus Feb. 12 at The Gallery, 749 New Hampshire.
Staff Reporter
Jan Dalley, a native Kansan, has worked with stained glass for over six years. With the help of her husband, who designs many of her pieces, Dalley said she turns out about one piece per week. Many of her larger works, however, such as the painting *Gallery*, take more than three weeks, she said.
Several Dalley pieces combine layers of glass for a three-dimensional effect.
Pula Kjorie, a 1972 University of Kansas graduate with a master's degree in art education, takes her painting seriously. In her watercolor paintings she assesses the "spiritual feeling," she gets from nature.
"I use a lot of symbolism," Kjorlie said. "If I show you, I have success in nature in my paintings. I have success in my work."
Kjorlie calls her collection "Watercolors of Inspiration Theme." She tries through her
work to convey her environmentalist attitude. she said.
"If we don't watch out, we won't have any wildlife left," Kjorlie said.
Kjorlie utilizes contrast and a touch of Oriental detail in her works. Wildlife of various kinds appear in every one of her paintings.
Bill and Anne Bracker, the other two exhibitors, both work with salt-glazed nottery.
Salt-glazed pottery is not commonly produced by ceramic artists. It requires certain conditions that are not available to most potlers, including a dry clay and a large kiln, frequently costing over $5,000.
The Brackers work out of the old Tee Pee gas station in north Lawrence. The station houses a 50-cubic-foot kiln that meets their needs. The process solids dissolve the bricks in the kiln, requiring the Brackers to build a new kiln after every 100 firings.
The firing process is important because it produces the huxy texture and earthy colors characteristic of salt-glazed pottery, Bracker said. The salt-glazing produces unique characteristics and personality to each piece. This uniqueness seems characteristic of the entire show.
By KIRK TINDALL Staff Reporter
A little rain does not hinder artist
Staff Reporter
The highway was stewed with worts of art. It was pouring rain and a long-haired, 24-year-old Gary Brown was draped across the hood of his car. He moved quickly to a career in painting pasting before his eyes.
It was 1965 and Brown, who now resides in Lawrence but was then a student at the University of Nebraska, had been transporting a load of student and faculty artwork to the Mid-American exhibition at the Nelson Art Gallery in City Mills. Mr. Wood boards of his truck blow in a thunderstorm.
The artwork that was laying all over the highway belonged to Brown's teachers and other students. One of the paintings that had blown out of the truck was his. He didn't know it then, but painting would take first place at the Mid-American, irrespective of medium, of 8,000 entries.
But on that storm swept day in 1868 Brown couldn't imagine going good out of his hats.
"We had tied this big, ugly, bird, that was made out of welded car parts, to the cab of the truck and it had fallen and smashed the chairman of the art department's framed and glassed water colors," Brown said. "It was pouring rain and my wife Tria was crying, and there was all this art lying all over the highway in the middle of nowhere. It was real deering.
Winning the Mid-American in 1965 didn't hurt Brown's career as a painter, but it still took him more than a decade to begin making his living as a painter. Brown's work now is being handled by the Foster White Gallery in Seattle, the Corporate Art Source in New York and the Walt Disney Francisco. He now is in a situation where there is more demand for his paintings that he can supply.
From 1965 to 1967 Brown was a graduate student at the University of Kansas. Shortly after he presented his Masters thesis he found an email from someone teaching course and was out of the graduate program.
when I turned in my thesis proposal one of my graduate committee members said, quote 'I can't make heads or tails out of this,' " Brown said. My proposal was a little more subjective than my colleague's students do things like special, experimental, conte crayon on peat moss, that sort of thing.
"They thought I was some sort of latter day artsy-crafty Timothy Leary." Brown said. "I had done LSD wice and I didn't make any secret of it," he added. "When did I hit it and I wouldn't recruit it to anyone."
Brown also was having trouble reconciling his art to the constraints of an academic company.
"What I wanted to do was advance my ability as a painter."
Gary Brown readies another painting.
After falling his painting course at KU, Brown went to the University of Washington and received a master's in painting. But because he didn't continue, he won't transfer he had to start plying on his degree.
Brown came back to Lawrence after he graduated from the University of Washington.
"I had my thesis show in Seattle. It was moderately successful until the last few days of the show when someone marked almost all of my comments with "I don't know." No one at the theater knew anything about it."
Brown said he was somewhere in Wyoming in a moving van with all his paintings when representatives from a Seattle bank came in to claim the paintings.
"They hadn't been able to find anyone in authority at the gallery and had thought that marking them sold would be sufficient," he said. "I was working in a head shop for a dollar an hour when I found out what had happened. But it worked out in the long run because I later sold
the paintings for more than I would have gotten from the bank.1"
Brown said that from 1791 to 1973 he only painted four or five paintings a year.
"I had a bedroom literally filled with paintings stacked on top of each other," Brown said. "It just didn't make much sense to paint when I didn't have an outlet for what I was doing."
"He bought a painting out of my thesis exhibition, and then asked me to send him some of my work in 1973 after he became connected with the Foster White Gallery," Brown said.
It was in Seattle that his work was noticed by a critic for the Seattle times. John Voorhees.
Right now Brown says that he is painting exactly what he wants to paint but a time may come when his style changes and he will have to worry whether his painting will still sell.
"I think I'll still paint what I like even if it doesn't sell." Brown said. "Art is like life—it has a certain permanence."
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