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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Nov. 5, 1954.
Design Department Has New Multi-Color Face
Ey Audrey Holmes
Alumni returning to the campus for homecoming won't recognize the design department. It's sporting a new multi-colored face.
Since this time last year the third floor of Strong Hall has been redecorated. The walls are now pale pink and blue and the woodwork is deep pink. Fancy colors, however, aren't the only things new in the department. Freshmen roam the halls, and alumni will see samples of student designs which could match some of the best professional work. In the class-rooms students of commercial art, fashion, ceramics, sculpture, jewelry, weaving, textile printing and other crafts apply their knowledge of design to the fields they are studying.
The atmosphere is one of confusion. The instructors' offices look like art shops. Desks are stacked with books and piles of colorful "problems", the creative work of the students, waiting for praise or
disapproval. The walls are lined with examples of student art and display effort.
Fires blaze in the jewelry room which looks more like a machine shop than a classroom. Students are hammering on sheets of silver using special tools and anvils that resemble those used in old blacksmith shops. Here, crude materials take shape and become finished products.
Ceramics students, in smocks to protect their clothes, work on lumps of clay moulding them by hand and by machinery. When the clay has been shaped, it is baked in a kim. After this process, the pottery is ready for glazing, the final step. Around the room are finished samples.
Everywhere in the department there is activity. Students are chiseling on mounds of stone and wood, the weaving looms hum busily, and brushes move quickly and accurately.
FIRM NO. 1— Floyd Wayne Smith, fine arts sophomore, is putting the finishing touches on a head made of limestone in a sculpturing class.
CUFF LINKS—Ann Mattocks, fine arts sophomore, is making a pain of cufflinks in a jewelry class offered in the School of Fine Arts
When In Doubt, Try It Out—Kansan Classified Section.
CLAY MODELING—"It's nice but what is it?" could well be said of some of these clay shapes modeled by students in ceramics. After creations are molded to the artist's satisfaction, they are dried and glazed in the department's kiln. —Kansan photos
POTTER AT WORK—Maryln Austin, fine arts sophomore, is shown in the act of "throwing a pot" on the potter's wheel in the ceramics department. Two minutes before this picture was taken, the pot was nothing more than a lump of wet clay.
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