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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Nov. 7, 1963
MOON FLOWER—This sculpture, by Bert Keeney, Pittsburgh, is one of the most popular works in the Designer Craftsman Show. It won $50 in prize money.
SEATED FIGURE-An honor award was given to this seated figure composition. It was made from metal by Jim Hinkhouse, Lawrence graduate student. The photograph is a detailed study of the top part of the sculpture.
Art Work on Parade
Bv Bob Jones
In the lobby of the Kansas Union is a large poster bearing the letters "KDCS." The sign is both an advertisement and a sample.
The sign is a sample because it has been carefully designed, intended to reflect what it advertises. It is an advertisement because it calls attention to the Kansas Designer Craftsman Show in the music and browsing room of the Union.
The 137 pieces on display are all craftwork: and includes ceramics, silversmithing, sculpture, jewelry, weaving, textiles, glass, and furniture.
All of the artists who entered objects in the show have lived in Kansas at least one year, and their work now on display was chosen in a preliminary contest.
Twenty-nine individuals and companies donated 1965 in prizes to the winners in each division.
The judge for the Designer Craftsman Show was Robert von Neumann, professor of art at the University of Illinois.
In a statement about the show, Prof. Neumann said, "This 10th exhibition of the Kansas Designer Craftsman Show has been a difficult and delightful show to jury. It was difficult because it was a delight to view. The consistent high level of concept and execution in all media made selection and award-making a process of refinement rather than of selection."
PROF. NEUMANN gave high praise to entries in the sculpture and fabrics divisions.
Commenting on the sculpture division, he said, "It was indeed refreshing to view such a broad range of material approaches. Everything was not welded steel or styrofoam-aluminum casting. The excellence of bronze casting--in a country where it is prohibitive to use a foundry--indicates that Kansas sculptors develop soundly from the ground up."
IN MAKING REMARKS about the fabric division, he said, "All varieties of this category were of high quality. Truly inventive ideas were carried out in appliqué forms, but the most sound and handsome were represented in the many fine, handwoven rugs."
Prof. Neumann also said that many of the entries in the fabric division reflected a strong influence by recent famous rug designers. He said a weaver has difficulty finding and injecting unique personality into his work.
The craftworks displayed in the Browsing Room are identified by number, and a catalogue for the show, obtained at the information desk, must be used to identify the art pieces.
THE SHOW is sponsored by the KU design department, University Extension, Kansas Union Activities, and Delta Phi Delta, honorary art fraternity.
All of the craftwork will be on display in the Browsing Room until Nov. 30.
Winners and their entries in the show were:
JERRY CAMPBELL. Linvonia, Mich., a covered jar entered in ceramics; Wendell Castle, Rochester, New York, furniture with an adjustable piano bench; Angelo Garzio Manhattan, ceramics with a flower pot and holder; Ronald D. Hickman, Emporia, a mint bowl in silversmithing; and Maria Kazazis, Bloomington, Ind., with a wall hanging, "Sunflower in Kansas".
Also receiving awards were:
Bert Keeney, Pittsburg, a sculpture, "Moon Flower"; Mary Kretsinger, Emporia, "Twig", a jewelry pin; Ellen Krucker, Independence, Mo., "Fall Tundra", a wall hanging; Curtis LaFollette, Royal Oak, Mich. a flask in silversmithing; and Mary McCammon, King City, Mo., a flossa rug weaving.
DAN K. RALSTON, Palo Alto, Calif., a sculpture wall relief; Cynthia Schira, Seattle, Wash., a wall hanging, "Tapestry"; Roger Thomason, Norton, a set of two pillows in weaving; Dorothy D Tillotson, Topeka, ceramics with a stoneware bottle; Dr. Victor Timmerman, Brussels, Belgium, a sculpture, "Man and Woman"; Alan Kent Vanderplas, Phillipsburg, silversmithing with a set of four salt dishes; and Mrs. Lottie Wortman, Chanute, weaving with yardage of silk and cotton.
LOOK CLOSELY-Charlotte Almquist, Bridgeport sophomore, looks at an example of the silversmithing entries in the Kansas Designer Craftsman Show. On either side of the silver bowl are examples of ceramics.