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FROM THE WAR FRONT
iraiq envoy accuses U.S. of plotting war
UNITED NATIONS—The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations walked out of a debate on the Iraq war yesterday after Iraq's ambassador accused the United States of trying to exterminate the Iraqi people.
"I did sit through quite a long part of what he had to say but I'd heard enough," said U.S. Ambassador John Ngropone.
Iraq's U.N. envoy Mohammed Al-Douri charged that the United States had arranged for contracts to rebuild Iraq in 1997, six years before the U.S.-led war began last week.
Negroponte walked out as Al-Douri continued speaking, accusing the U.S. of a military campaign to wipe out the Iraqi people.
Al-Douri was the last of more than 80 speakers at the first open Security Council debate on Iraq since the war began last week. About a dozen countries that not on the council supported the U.S. position, but the majority expressed regret that Iraq's disarmament could not be achieved peacefully.
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Design professor's works on display in Kansas City
Artwork influenced by heritage, nature
By Lauren Bristow
lbristow@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
While rummaging though the attic of his newly purchased home in 1979, David Vertacnik, associate professor of design, found an old garden ruler. The ruler, a promotional tool from a hardware store, helps gardeners space the placement of their plants.
A dusty athletic. A previous owner's forgotten trinket. Inspiration.
"On the ruler it said, 'Soil will feed you,'" he said. "I thought, 'Far out.'"
Vertacnik was taken by the message because it helped explain the inspiration behind his artwork, he said.
Vertacnik is a second-generation Slovenian-American and his artwork partly draws on that heritage, as well as his upbringing on a small farm outside of Indianapolis.
"I was taught to have respect for the land," Vertacnik said.
"When I saw that ruler, it was an affirmation."
Vertacnik is currently displaying about 26 pieces of his work at the Dennis Morgan Gallery,114 Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City,Mo.
His exhibit, "Kinetic Bouquet" features pieces composed of materials such as clay, cast bronze and iron and other mixed media, such as apple wood from his orchard at home, he said. A floral theme is represented in many of the pieces.
"When you see the exhibit, you have to realize that you're not going to see flowers," he said. "At least not in the literal sense."
Vertacnik also likes to use items that he has picked up or found throughout his life in his artwork.
"I love found objects just for what they are," he said. "The mechanic in me appreciates a tool for what it did. The artist in me appreciates what the tool represents."
In his piece "Pink Cobbler," Vertacnik used a cobbler's shoe form as a model to create ceramic reproductions and then grouped those together in the shape of a blossom, he said.
"I like to taking mechanical
"When you see the exhibit,you have to realize that you're not going to see flowers. At least not in the literal sense."
David Vertacnik Associate professor of design
things and making them look organic," he said. "I like to make them look like they are growing from the soil."
Dennis Morgan, director of the gallery showing Vertacnik's work, described the pieces as whimsical and humorous.
"The titles of his work all elude to his connection to nature and his heritage," Morgan said. "His humor shows through in the use of found objects in the creation of a new piece."
Vertaenik's show will be on display at the gallery until April 26. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Edited by Ryan Wood
David Vertacnik, associate professor of design, has approximately 26 pieces of art on display at the Dennis Morgan Gallery in Kansas City, Mo., through April 26.
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