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University Daily Kansan / Friday. April 10, 1992
ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT
HAPPENINGS
BARS
Benchwarms, 1601 W. 23rd St.
Friday: S D.I. opening for the River
Valley Festival; 9:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.
Saturday: That Statue Moved
9:30 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.
Bogart's of Lawrence, 611 Vermont St.
Saturday; Tormee and Timber
Ratters; 9:30 p.m. -1:30 a.m.
cover charge: $3
The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire
Friday: *Sim City Disciples*
10 p.m. -2 a.m.; cover charge: $4
Saturday: *Baghdad Jones*
10 p.m. -2 a.m.; cover charge: $4
Monday: *open mike; 9:30 p.m. -2 a.m.
no cover charge*
Wednesday: Chris Smither and the
Parlor Frogs; 10 p.m. -2 a.m.
cover charge: $4
Thursday: Big Wheel with Harm Farm
10 p.m. -2 a.m.; cover charge: $4
Flamingo Club. 501 N. 9th St.
Friday/Saturday; toppless tasting
noon-1 a.m; cover charge: $2 or a two-
drink minimum
The Brass Apple 3300 W, 15th St.
Tuesday: Karake night
9:10 - 1.30 a.m.; no cover charge
Henry T's, 3520 W. 6th St.
Thursday: Karaoke night
p.9.m. 2.a.m.; no cover charge
International Club 21, 106, N. Park St.
Friday: Monterrey Jack
cover charge: $3
Saturday: Big Toes with Shower Head
cover charge: $3
Sunday: Reggae with Ras Mike
no cover charge
The Jazzhaus, 935 1/2 Massachusetts
Friday: Idxplosion; 10 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.
cover charge: $3
Saturday: Guerilla Theater
10 p.m. - 1:30 a.m.; cover charge: $3
Tuesday: Jimmy Thackery Band
10 p.m. - 2 a.m.; cover charge: $3
Johnny's Tavern 410N 2nd St Friday/Saturday: Fastcharge $9. p.m.-2 a.m. cover charge; $1
The Power Plant 901 Mississippi St.
Friday/Sunday: Alternative Music
Night
Riverside Bar and Grill, 520N, 3rd St.
Friday. Karaoke, 9.p.m.-1 a.m.
cover charge: $1
Shiloh 1003E. 23rd St.
Friday: Honeycreek. 9 p.m.-1 a.m.
cover charge $3.
Saturday: Dancelessons
7-45-8-45 p.m.; Band: High Caliber
9 p.m.-1 a.m.; cover charge $3.
The Yacht Club 530 Wisconsin St.
Tuesday: Karaoke night
9 p.m.-1 a.m. no cover charge
MUSIC
Friday StudentRecital: Pamela Schulz, piano; Swarthout Recital Hall 8 p.m. free
Saturday: Master's Recital: Kathy Rich, piano, SwarathoutRecital Hall 8pm, f.m.
Saturday: Visiting Artists Series: Karen Hutchinson, piano, 8 p.m., Swarthout Rectal Hall, free
Saturday: University Dance Company
Spring Concert; Yardley Hill; Johnson
County Community College; 8 p.m.
admission: $5-students
Sunday: SpringConcert; Symphonic Band; Crafton-Preyer Theater 3:30 p.m.; free
Monday Student Recital: Eric Stomberg, bassoon; Swarthout Recital Hall; 8 p.m., free
Tuesday: Student Recital; Lindsay
Winnets, tombrone, and PaulHaar,
saxophone, Swarthout Recital Hall
8:0 p.m. free
Wednesday: Undergraduate Honor Music Recital, Swarthout Recital Hall 8 p.m.; free
**Thursday:** Graduate Music Honor
Recital; Swarthout Recital Hall
8 p.m.; 9 p.m.
ART EXHIBITIONS
Spencer Museum of Art
Tuesday-Saturday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday, noon-5 p.m.; closed Monday
Cameras as Weapons: German Worker Photography Between the Wars Kress Gallery until May 10
Friday/Saturday: University Theater
Series: Carmen; Crafton-Preyer
Theater; 8.p.m.
THEATER
Albert Bloch, South Balcony Gallery until May24
Ceramics by J. Sheldon Carey North Balcony Gallery until August 2
Christine McEnland / MAA CAAI
Peagav Woods/KANSAN
In the top photo, Janet Hughes, KU graduate student, poses beside a series of collages made from acrylic on wood with foam and plaster. Some of the art she used in her master's thesis is being displayed at Artists En Masse, 803 1/2 Massachusetts St. At bottom, Hughes makes a statement about women's roles in marriage. "I wanted to present an awareness of a hierarchy of content in which the daily gestures of a woman appear unimportant. I wanted to make those activities important," she said. Hughes performed Tuesday at the Lawrence Arts Center.
The road of experience
KU graduate student art describes a woman's journey through life
"She has rocked the cradle and the boat but has never ruled the world," reads a sculpted, painted foam book hanging alone and open on the wall, allowing a glimpse into the inner thoughts of its creator.
The book, along with other wood and foam art works like it, shows images and words from the mind of Janet Hughes. But the stories they tell are not just women. They belong to all women, and, indeed, all humans.
Hughes is a KU graduate student who completed her master's degree in fine arts this week. But the road that has led to her degree and her current art exhibit at Artists En Masse gallery, 803 / Massachusetts St., has not been that of a typical student.
Sitting in the gallery, her blonde hair and bright eyes enhanced by her black skirt and blouse, the color scheme of her clothing is much the same as the one she uses in her art. The dark, somber tones and poignant feminist messages contrast with the red lips of the women in the art—lips suggesting that there are ideas wanting to escape from beneath the thick layers of socially acceptable lipstick. Ideas most definitely have escaped Hughes' lips.
"Art has always been a part of me. My art is all about me," she said.
"I do not necessarily see the art as just pro-women," she said. "It is about the human experience."
The dominant message in Hughes' art is that in the past, women's freedom of speech has been suppressed and their are fighting to have their voices heard.
Hughes said that she always had been interested in art, although her undergraduate degree was in English, which accounts for the emphasis on words in her art. She said that her parents preferred that she major in English with a minor in art because it was more practical.
She said she never gave up on art, however, and draws on the past 15 years of her life heavily for her current exhibit, "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth," which is on display at the Lawrence gallery until April 18
"The people I portray in my work are people I love, family members," she said.
Roger Shimomura, KU professor of art who has taught Hughes, agreed.
"It's autobiographical, like all of Janet's work. She uses herself and her own experience to relate stories of women."
Although Hughes had taught high
school art and done performance art video during the years, she had never performed her art in front of a live audience until Tuesday night, when the group Women's Experience, which she formed, performed "Caught in the Act" at the Lawrence Arts Center.
Her performance, one of eight individual pieces, featured Hughes, in a white bridal dress and red Converse hightop sneakers, methodically hanging clothes on a clotheline. A monologue she wrote played in the background. Hughes said she had not expected the audience to understand all of it, but had hoped they would focus on women's roles in the institution of marriage.
"I hoped that the repetition would allow the audience to hear what I was saying," she said. "I wanted to create this sort of trance."
The monologue, which featured the voice of a woman relating events that had occurred in her life, commented on the monotony of women's lives. Juxtaposed with Hughes' acting, it also presented a picture of the female role of wife.
Hughes said that there were multiple interpretations, but that her message was a tough message.
"We all think the same way, which is what the WE (Women's Experience) presentation and my exhibition is all about, the experience of women," she
Hughes said it was difficult to point out one strong artistic influence because her styles were always changing.
"Irun with a style for as long as it engages me," she said.
She said she was pleased with the style of art she had developed for her current exhibition, one where somber colors were used to highlight the brighter red details. The image of an open art gallery, in its own art, embellishing both the opening up of one's inner thoughts and the power of words.
Hughes said she would try to find a job teaching art at the college level, and perhaps work with painting or printmaking, as well as expanding the themes presented in her current exhibit.
In the written introduction to her exhibition, she said, "Women are dealing with unresolved issues of self, which are not explicitly female issues, but that women, thanks to society's unrelenting conditioning, know best and most completely."
Story by Cameron Meier
INSPIRED
Pianist to perform music KU student composed for her
By Ranjit Arab
Kansan staff writer
Christopher Bryant watched a concert pianist in Swarthwout Rectal Hall two years ago and was mesmerized by her technical skills.
Christopher Bryant, Columbia, Mo., sophomore, spent seven months
writing a musical piece for pianist Karen Hutchinson.
Derek Nolen/KANSAN
Not only was Bryant impressed, he also was inspired.
He wanted to write a musical composition and dedicate it to the pianist who introduced him to the complex world of modern piano composition.
But there was one problem—he could not remember her name.
Instead, he told his friends and co-workers of the enlightening, yet nameless, pianist.
Luckily for Bryant, he told a lot of people.
A year after watching the pianist perform, Bryant was in the break room at a copying center where he worked.
he returned from his break, his co-workers showed him a flier that had been brought into the store. They thought it might be the mysterious pianist of whom Bryant spoke so highly.
They were right. Bryant,
Columbia, Mo., sophomore, realized that the pianist was Karen Hutchinson.
He found out that the man who
dropped off the fliers was Hutchinson's manager, Bill Drummond.
When Drummond returned to the store, Bryant told him how much he admired Hutchinson's performance. He also told Drummond that he was a pianist who wanted to write a piece of music for her.
Drummond encouraged him to do so, but it took Bryant seven months to complete the composition.
The result was a piece titled, "Integral." which in November he
sent to Hutchinson's house in San Francisco
This time, it was Hutchinson who was impressed.
"It was so complex it did not seem like something a student would write," she said in a telephone interview from her home in San Francisco.
Hutchinson said she had liked the piece so much that she agreed to play it when she performs a free concert at 8 p.m. tomorrow in
Swarthout Recital Hall.
She also will perform works by Felix Mendelssohn, Bela Bartok, Claude Debussy and Ely Sigmeister.
Hutchinson has appeared with orchestras such as the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the State Orchestra of Szczecin in Poland. In recitals, she has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and the Orchestra Hall in Chicago, among other places.
Bryant said he had to coordinate the Saturday performance because Drummond left to study in Russia.
Enough money was raised only to cover Hutchinson's expenses, Bryant said, but she agreed to waive her fees for performing.
Although Student Union Activities and the School of Fine Arts both expressed interest in financing the concert, they did not have enough money in their budgets, Bryant said.
However, he said the executive vice chancellor's office had donated money for the performance.
Shankel said he had praised her willingness to play despite low funding.
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, said he had seen Hutchinson perform on campus this spring and met her afterward at reception.
"The fact that she is going to play a composition by a KU student is a double benefit." he said.
Bryant said he had written the rhythmically oriented "Integral" with Hutchinson specifically in mind.
"It is very technically taxing on the performer," he said. "She was one of the only pianists who is dynamic enough to perform the piece as it should be performed."
Although Bryant said he had never met Hutchinson, he said the two had spoken by telephone on several occasions. Most recently, the two talked about coordinating the performance.
Hutchinson said the two often had discussed musical interests during the phone conversations.
She said she not only had seen herself as a mentor for Bryant, but also had considered him a friend.
"It is like meeting a kindred spirit," she said. "It is rare to find people who share the same ideas."
Hutchinson said that she may play the piece at other performances and that she would like to work with Bryant in the future.
She said his initiative and talent would make a future collaboration likely.
"I think he will go far because he also has enthusiasm," Hutchinson said.