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University Daily Kansan, August 20, 1981
Aerobics, tap dancing, Zen meditation taught
Lawrence Arts Center holds interests for many
By DIANE MAKOVSKY Staff Reporter
The Lawrence Arts Center is a people building, it is not a museum, the center's director Anne P. Evans said.
With a tight $50,000-a-year budget,
only four people on its paid staff and
one more position being added this fall,
the team will be with the help of
"lots of volunteers."
Affection for those volunteers is apparent by the huge smile that spreads over Evans' face as she talks about them.
THE VOLUNTEERS have included members of the University of Kansas graphics department, who created the center's new logo. The graphics department has also made two banners to hang in the front entrance and have helped develop the layout for the center's class brochure.
The KU architecture department and members of the Helen Spencer Art Museum have also aided the center at various times.
There are also "community service volunteers" who are at the center to work off fines levied by the county for their first legal offense.
Some are at the center because they could not afford to pay the fine, Evans said. Some were because their parents thought it would be better if they worked for their reprieve.
'They are real nice young people and they work hard.' Evans said.
The center, which is seven years old,
is housed in the city-owned former
Carnesie Library at Ninth and Vermont
streets. It offers classes, workshops,
two galleries and fine arts events in
the performance hall.
THE ORIENTATION of the center toward people is exemplified by its friendly, non-sterile atmosphere, she said.
According to Evans, 90 percent of the functions are open to the public. The few that are closed are privately arranged affairs.
"The floors are sometimes dirty, and one can find traces of clay dust and make up in some of the rooms," Evans said.
Almost all the rooms in the building are filled each night when the class sessions start.
The base fee for classes this fall will be $20, according to Shelia Bender, the center's class coordinator. The fee pays the instructor, as well as contributing to the center. There are four sessions annually. If a class does not reach an adequate enrollment level, the course is dropped for that session.
Classes for adults in the past have included aerobics, tap dancing, drawing, beginning, intermediate and advanced guitar; yoga, painting; Zen meditation music; bass. Bobin lace teaches a traditional French lace-making technique.
One-day workshops have included "Basic Quilting-making," "Gathering, Drying and Working With Wild Plants" and "An Evening With the Dulcer."
This fall, there will be a class in beginning dulcimer.
"The mountain dulcimer class grew out of a summer workshop," Bender said.
to fill it," said Bender, recalling the large turnout for the workshop presented by two Boulder, Colo. women.
Children's classes have included drawing, folk music, weaving and yoga.
"I saw a community need and I tried
Most of the center's activities, according to Evans, aim to be affordable. However, if there is a problem with fees, people are encouraged to talk to Evans. There are some scholarships available for the center's classes.
Evans tries to show the best of what's available in the center's galleries. The galleries, with shows every month, only emphasize work by local artists.
A committee of community members meets annually in the spring to decide what will be shown the next year.
IN THE SEARCH for variety and the best, many artists are rejected, Evans said. But, she added, many are rejected on the basis of the proposal, not the work. Anyone may submit or re-submit or the committee to review each year.
Showing their work in the galleries in the upcoming season will be KU faculty
members Cima N, Katz, assistant professor of art, Valerie Dearing, assistant professor of design, and David J. Vertacnik, assistant professor of design. They will be displaying prints, fibers and ceramics, respectively.
Evans takes care of the galleries, a hall and call day-to-day activities for the center.
The Seem-To-Be Players use the hall first the three Saturdays of each month from September through December, and February through May, at 1:30 and 4:30 p.m., in the children, and Evans described their work as nice, fun and non-sexist.
THIS FALL, the Lawrence Community Theatre, which also regularly uses the center's performance hall, will present the 'Walsh Bain Winning Street' from Sept. 24 to 27. On Dec. 12, in Golden Pond" will be presented.
On Oct. 3, the Lawrence Potter's
Garden and its annual sale on the
center lawn.
The center is funded by the City of Lawrence, which pays the utilities, the
And on Dec. 6, the Lawrence Art
Guild Holiday Art Fair will be held.
Kansas Arts Commission,
a business/information membership drive
The National Endowment for the Arts has cut $5,000 from its support of the center because of Reagan administration budget cuts. Evans hopes to make up the loss with the center's membership drives.
Evans said that most of the support he received came from customers, so the loss is not a major concern.
A student may be a member of the center for a $5 annual fee. Single adults may join for $15, and families for $25.
MEMBERSHIP SUPPORTS the center. It includes a 10 percent reduction in class fees and exhibit purchases, a reduced rental fee for the performance hall and it places a member on the center's mailing list.
The center is open Tuesday through Friday from 5 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
Enrollment for fall classes begins on Saturday, Aug. 29, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will continue until Sept. 8, the day classes begin.
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