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Monday, February 22, 1971
University Daily Kansan
Creates 10-foot Statue
Prof on Busy Sabbatical
By CARLA HENDRICKS Kansan Staff Writer
Elden Tefft is on sabbait, but his schedule has left no room for the quiet, contemplative life of a man who 'word 'sabbait' suggests.
A professor of painting and sculpture at KU, Tefft spends his time in the sculpture studio in Kuala Lumpur working on the National Sculptures Conferencees or researching his favorite topic, bronze foun
Elden Tefft
. . . sculptor stays busy
Unique Art Forms To Be Shown, Sold
By SHARON HUNSAKER Kansas Staff Writer
After seven months of work
with unconventional art forms,
two University of Kansas faculty
members will have their art, a
touch of KU's art history and
sold FEB 28 through March
28 at the KU Museum of Art.
The two artists, Michael E. Ott and Roger Shimomura, both born in Tokyo, will be honored at an informal reception at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 19.
The work in the show, made possible by a University General Manager's research of artists' research of the technical possibilities of the silk screen
Through the use of lacquer and vinyl ink and materials of felt, vinyl, clear acetate, graphic paper and molded plastic sheets decals, banners, bumper stickers and comic-style cartoons.
The artists emply un-
creative forms as a ex-
pression of their belief
on the commercial, everyday
signs and symbols of the Mid-
west.
By taking common visual shapes and forms out of their environmental context and using them as a tool for art, they said they thought the novelty of these images would be greater than that they paraded are the sunflower road marker of the Kansas Turnpike Authority the artist had built.
Tuesday and Thursday nights are reserved for his "life work," a giant bronze Moses that will stand on the wall of the sculpture, along with the stained glass window that depicts a burning bush, will illustrate the scene of Moses before the burial. This is which is on the University seal.
"We had quite a number of interesting problems, in which the bus should relate to the building as a total and take his correct place before the bush. Also, the statue will be viewed mostly from a distance."
THE SCULPTURE is the result of years of planning and design by Mr. Burnett, Edwin Brown, former director of the KU radio station, credit for the idea. William Moore, former chairman of the radio station also was involved in the planning.
THESE CONSIDERATIONS dictated the 10 ft. height of the canopy, so that it would be naturalistic to a certain extent, "so that you can tell it's a house."
But contemporary ideas in sculpture also influenced the work Moses will be an open book. Moses' frater rather than a solid figure.
Chicago Bus Was Hijacked By Aerophobe
"The people who want to see Moses can," the sculptor said, "and the people who want to look
an anrial view of the Kaw River,
a tornado, a Colt. 45 pistol and
their own handprints.
CHICAGO (UPI) — A gunman who said he was afraid of airplanes boarded a Chicago Transit Authority bus station, held a pistol to the driver's head and shot him in the chest so he could dolel, less than 40 miles away.
Ot received his bachelor's degree from Colorado University and his master's degree from California University of Oregon. He attended Nations and Sculpture Second Century at Wichita are among the 35 exhibitions in which he has appeared.
CTA officials said the gunman got off the hijacked bus at a truck stop on Interstate 55 and Illinois Route 53 in Holbrook镇, in Will County. The officer was a CTA spokesman said the gunman released unharmed.
Shimauro Mura received his bachelor's degree from Emory University at Stakele and his master's degree from Syracuse University in New York. He has received 21 awards equipped in 40 national exhibitions.
A CTA spokesman said the driver was released unharmed. The "bitacker" escaped.
Aptitude Tests In Engineering Are Saturday
more than 40 high school students will participate in the National Engineering Aptitude Test from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. Saturday in Fowler Hall.
The testing program is designed to help students determine their aptitude and qualifications for engineering college level. The test is available to 11th, 11dth and 12th grade students.
Although the deadline for application has passed, a limited number of additional students can be accommodated by contacting Hauman, professor of engineering at the University of Kansas.
through Moses can do that too.
Tefft's肤亮 hair and brown business suit contradict the stereotype of an eccentric artist. He answered questions quietly, came much more animated when he presented a full-size model of Moses. Students are working with Tefft on the model building up the form with pieces of styrofoam over a base of foam blocks, clay and wax will be added.
This is an unusual concept in armature, Teft said. An armature is a metal skeleton, usually of flexible lead piping.
"YOU USEUALLY find us working on Moses on Tuesday and Thursday nights." Teff said. "We're working on a leg, another on an arm, and I'll be walking around worrying all of them."
SCIENCE FICTION FILM SERIES
The students gain valuable experience, Tefft said, because they are beginning to proactively a project of this scale. They have to consider the figure in relation to the space around it and how that will affect them. They will have to face the same problems whether they work in classrooms or abstract sculpture, he said.
Smiling and shaking his head,
Tell said he'd been working on
the project "too long" and had no
idea when it would be finished.
Children Of The Damned
THE WORK IS done in the students' and his spare time. Tiffin said, because the School of Art is a department of someone to devote all his time to the sculpture. It's taking a long time to build those under these circumstances.
Sequel to "Village of the Damned"
"When we take it over and put it in place, that's when it will be done," he said.
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Sororities Rig for Rush
Ends Tue.
Eve 7:35 & 9:30
Adults 1.50
Dates for sorority rush have been approved by the University Events Committee, according to Pankhemiic Representatives.
Hillcrest
This year half the sororites will hold open house March 27 and 28. The remaining half will hold open house April 3 and 4. All sororates will hold institutional parties April 23, 24 and 25.
An orientation period for all rushes will be 2 p.m. Feb. 28 at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas University. Anyone interested
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