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University Daily Kansan, April 27, 1982
Spare time
By DAVID HENRY Staff Writer
An alternate space for artists opened in Lawrence recently, and the combined library offers two residential spaces of two families.
Scissors/Paper/Stone, $101.1$ massachusetts,
features artwork that is a little bit adventurous
and avant-garde, according to co-owner Christie
Mondell. "We're dealing with work that evokes a
response in people and not investment-type art,"
Mondell said.
Mondell, together with her partner, John Gimblet, began planning the gallery two years ago, shortly after they both moved to Lawrence. Although Gimblet was born and raised in Lawrence, his interest in art galleries began elsewhere.
"After I graduated from KU," Gimbel said, "I lived in Denver for three years, where I learned about a business."
mondell moved to Lawrence in 1979 as a freelance caterer and food consultant.
From the outset, Gimblet and Mondell decided Scissors/Paper/Stone should be a space-behind device.
"Although this is really a capitalistic venture," Mondell said, "we want to make the place accessible to the needs and desires of the Lawrence community."
THE GALLERY can be converted into a small performance space or be used for criticisms of student work, Glimblist said. However, the main purpose is to display works by local artists.
"People in Lawrence are doing fabulous work," Mondell said. "Most of the art is reasonably price, and some of it is really underpriced, compared to a big city market."
Gimblet and Mondell understandably consider their current show, "Women's Work I," a good example of their goals as gallery owners. The works of 10 local female artists featured in the show, which runs until May 19, are very diverse. Mondell explained. Different media are used for each work, including photography and painting—and each artist brings a different viewpoint to her work. Sylvia Stone's prints and Pat Gateley's pastel drawings are among the works featured in the current exhibit.
THUS FAR, the partners have been pleased with the public's response to Scissors/Paper/Stone. The gallery has generated a lot of enthusiasm, Mondell explained, because of its unique approach to art in Lawrence.
And, despite an uncertain economy and area competition, Gimblet and Mondell remain leaders in the market.
"We've invested a lot of time and energy into this project. It took us five months just to renovate the space," Mondell said while hanging paintings with her partner.
"A lot of people told us that it'a bad time to be opening a small business. Maybe so. But at a time when things are depressing, you have to create opportunities for yourself," Mondell explained. "Hopefully, with Scissors/Paper/Stone, creating opportunities for other people as well."
Scissors/Paper/Stone, above the Flower Shop at 11 a.m. and Massachusetts streets, is open Tuesday-Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and by appointment.
John Gimblet, left, and Christie Mondell, co-owners of Scissors/Paper/Stone Art Gallery, prepare to hang some of the pieces in their new showroom. The gallery, 1101% Mass. St., which opened Sunday night, specializes in adventures and avant garde art work.
Jazz pianist to play Hoch
'Corea and Friends' to benefit KANU
By CYNTHIA HRENCHIR Staff Writer
Chick Corea, renowned jazz pianist, will be
in attendance for the "Corea and
Friends" April 12 at 8pm. Audiotest:
The concert, beginning at 8 p.m., will feature Corea returning to a more lyrical style of contemporary jazz with a touch of Latin flavor. Alor, a treatment director at KAUAN radio, said recently.
"He had expressed interest in doing a concert here before," Berman said, "and we had a vocal commitment with him to do a homecoming concert.
"we know what we are doing this for. We were given this date over many other promoters," he
"But one of his band members had to cancel, so he had to cancel out on the tour."
BERMAN SAID THE PIANIST had set up a different tour with different players and had chosen to appear on the KU campus because he appreciated the importance of KANU.
"KANU is a public radio station and broadcasts all over northeast Kansas. It is one of the strongest signals in Kansas," he said. "With the cuts in funding, we are $35,000 low on funds."
THE STATION HAD a record-breaking funding
of $20,000 to equal last year's budget. Berman said.
"With this concert, as well as others, we hope you will fill in the gap," he said.
Corea, Berman said, will play only to miracial audiences where no segregation is allowed. He will be joined on stage by vocalist Gavin Moran and trumpeter Ali Vizuti.
"He is a fabulous trumpeter. Vizuti did a concert for those in the department while he was here," he said. "He is known as the 'musician's musician.'"
Vizuti was at the University two and a half weeks ago teaching graduate classes, Berman
Corea also bostes impressive credentials, not the least of which is that he began playing the piano at the age of four. His father was an Italian-American jazz trumpeter and bassist and wrote and arranged all the material for his own band during the '30s and '40s. Corea got a
grounding in classical piano music from his student's studio. Sullo, a well-known jazz pianist in Rioters
THROUGHOUT HIS COLORFUL career, Corea has recorded more than 30 albums. The 41-year-old musician recently recorded an album, "Acoustic World," which has expanded his range in contemporary jazz.
Tickets for the concert are $5.50 for main floor, $7 for main floor rear and first balcony, and $6 for second balcony. KU students with proper LD. receive a $1 discount. Tickets are now on sale at Kief's Discount Records and Stereo and at the SUA office in the Kansas Union. They will be available at Hoch Auditorium the night of the show.
Special to the Kansan
Chick Corea
"It just we played very well," McCurdy said. "I was played as well, we ever played. It's just a lot of fun."
Last year, the jazz band lost to Wichita State University's band by the narrowest of margins. Last week, McCurdy's band met the same fate. This time, however, it was EmporiaState University that took top honors among the 15 bands.
"I'm not going to let this festival spoil our whole year," he said. "I think this is the best jazz band we've ever had at KU. We have a lot of stuff there that it's more important than winning festivals."
McCURDY HAD SPECIAL PRAISE for saxaphonist Thomas Lipscomb, Baytown, Texas, senior, who arranged one of three songs the band played in Wichita. McCurdy said Lipscomb's arrangement of "The Song is over well with the judges and the audience."
"Some people from the Army Jazz Band were so impressed with it they asked us for a copy," McCurdy said. "Now they will be playing it all over the world."
THE WICHITA STATE JAZZ Festival was the last major event of the year for the Jazz Ensemble I. All that remains, McCury said, is to make some recordings for future festivals.
Despite the disappointment, McCurdy stressed he had only praise for his band.
"This has been a very good year for us," he said. "We made a lot of people happy."
Jazzers second in festival
"I was very surprised with Emporia State," McCurdy said. "I did not think they would be a contender. It's a very subjective thing. The judges happened to be more impressed with Emporia than they were with us."
BEFORE THE FESTIVAL, McCurdy said a performance friday increased his confidence.
Included in the festivities will be medieval games, music, dancing and storytelling. Medieval food and drink will be served free of charge. There is no admission charge to the revel, and the SCA suggests participants wear costumes to enjoy the full effect of the celebration.
Last week, members of KU's chapter demonstrated medieval combat skills on the lawn in front of Flint Hall. Clad in homemade armor and using a variety of wooden weapons, the "knights" surprised the crowd with some forceful blows to each other's heads.
A dessert revel, devoted to the study of Medieval culture, will be sponsored by the Society for Creative Anachronism Inc. at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Potter Pavilion.
FOUNDED IN Berkeley, Calif., in 1865, the school is an international non-profit education institution.
WEDNESDAY'S REVEL promises to be more peaceful, however. The evening's activities, expected to conclude about 10 p.m., will be related to the more aesthetic side of medieval culture.
For the second straight year, director Ron McCurdy and his KU Jazz Ensemble I had to settle for a second place in the Wichita State Jazz Festival.
arts and sciences of medieval Europe. There are almost 300 SCA chapters in the United States,
Medieval revelry at Potter Pavillion
THE NON-TRADITIONAL STUDENTS ORGANIZATION will sponsor a Dutch lunch for members at 11 a.m. in Cork II of the Kansas Union
on campus
TOMORROW
THE TAU SIGMA DANCE GROUP will meet at 7 p.m. in 242仁bonion Gymnasium.
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THE KU SAILING CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in the Kansas parlorors.
THE CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST will meet at 7 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
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