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University Daily Kansan, April 1, 1982
JOHN HANKAMMER/Kansan Staff
Susan Davis, Topeka senior, pounds out a copper bowl at the silversmith shop by the art and design building.
Students create sterling designs
By GINA THORNBURG
Staff Reporter
Four people sit on stools around a cluttered table, each in their own work space. Lamps and blow torches are attached to the table at about three-foot-tall.
One person sketches a small design, while the others intently and delicately bend or polish small, shiny pieces of metal.
Is this Santa's workshop?
No, but the fine crafts made here would delight anyone who enjoys handmade precious and semi-precious ornaments, tableware or sculptures.
The four students are part of the jewelry and silversmithing department, which is part of the School of Design. The department is in the old broadcasting hall next to the art and design building. For three hours, three mornings a week, these students come here to work on their metal projects.
"The hardest part is thinking up things to do," Sharon Hughes, Lawrence freshman, said recently as she sketched a project that must have five moving parts. Her ideas usually come from nature.
MARK McNOWN, Lawrence freshman, said he experimented with drawings and cardboard or aluminum models for his assignments.
As he talked, McNown delicately bent a brass wire to fit into the frame of a brass box. He explained that if he bent the wire too much, a dark mark would show at the best possible angle; the patience these students need to complete a project.
McNown said there was a lot of waiting in between the different processes of metalsmithing.
"You can work and work and work on a piece and then you can melt it." The Bruce
Michelle Babcock, New Orleans said metalmithing was frustrated.
She used a blow torch to anneal her sterling silver piece. Annealing is a process that softens the metal to make it more workable.
Karl Palmquist, Lawrence freshman,
was also working with silver.
AS HE MADE a mold for an interlocking ring project, he held up a rough silver ring. This ring had a small chip in it.
"I have to redo it," he said, holding up the green wax mold that he was working on. "It gets expensive. This is $20 worth of silver."
Most students work in copper and brass, Jeanette Bair, Leawood senior, said.
"It's expensive to work in silver," Baire said, "so every woman of holds off a knife."
Bair held two shiny, silver smooth pieces with gently curving sides. These pieces cost her $40, the student. Saws and drill machines are student-run supply store in the department.
THE SILVER pieces will eventually be a cocktail dish that Bair is entering in the Sterling Silver Design Competition this year, which is sponsored by the Sterling Silversmiths' Guild of America.
Gary Mennchock, associate professor of design and head of the jewelry and silversmithing department, is one of the inodes in this year's competition.
The University of Kansas had five students in the national competition last year. Nemchock said.
Nenchock, who has been with the metalmithing department for 11 years, said that he and the other two
professors in the department, John Havner and Oli Valiannue, associate professors of design, tried to personalize the courses for the students.
KU was the first public university to have a jewelry and silversmithing workshop敲 said. The program was started in 1846 by Carlyle Smith, KU professor.
Nernchock said he taught students the fundamentals of basic design and smithing technology and then the students focused in the direction they
A STUDENT has several options after graduation, including opening his own shop, or teaching or designing for a company, Nemchock said.
"We give the option, and the students centralize," he said.
Nernchock, Haven and Valanne each have their own area of expertise as well as skill and instruction in the rest of the metalsmithing field.
Havner works directly with metalmismithing, Valanne concentrates in enameling, and Nemchock works with optronics and developing new materials.
John Peters, Lawrence graduate student, is one of the two graduate students in the department. Peters will be serving as mentoring student to design electronic pieces.
The students are exposed to more than one opinion on problems and projects as a result of this variety, Nemechock said.
PETERS USES light emitting diodes to make flashing pinpoints of light in some of his artwork.
*Peters held up a colorful, brass jewelry pin. He opened the back of it and revealed a watch battery and an intricate network of fiber optics. These
"With three LED's, I can get 96 light sources." he said.
fibres produce clusters of pinpoints of
flashing red light on the face of the pin
Peters, who is working toward a master's degree in metalsmithing and jewelry design, also teaches graduate courses.
courses.
"I teach them to be competitive," he said.
Although he does not like com-
parison, it was necessary in the
implementation it.
"I don't like competition because there's a lot of backstabbing," Peters said. "I'll still go ahead and compete, though. I'm going to try to go into the design business, which is really competitive."
"When it becomes competitive is when you go out and try to sell your piece and you're appealing to Mr. X's sense of esthetics." Sindt said.
"You don't find that at home. Very few people have a studio at home. You have to do your work here, so everyone else knows what you're doing."
Developing your own artistic sense and abilities is the object of solving problems experienced while working on a piece. Sindt said.
Working on individual pieces, instead of common assignments such as compositions in English classes, takes away the competitive element, sheb
IN ADDITION to the 25 undergraduate majors, such as Sindt and Peters, there are a variety of nom majors in the program, Nemchock
In Valanne's night class, 90 percent of the students are non-art majors and they are doing a very good job, Valanne said.
Group to stress nuke effects
A group of five KU faculty members against nuclear arms expansion has proclaimed April 4-10 Ground Zero a nuclear war on the United States.
The week, which will feature speeches by nationally known anti-nuclear activists, films and a panel discussion, was organized because of growing worldwide discontent over nuclear arms, Allan Hanson, Ground Zero committee member, said yesterday.
"There is a general increasing malaise in the world about nuclear war," Hanson, professor of anthropology, said. "This has become even more serious with his policies favoring nuclear war."
possible nuclear war and was not against all uses of nuclear energy.
"We think that nuclear power is
"But a nuclear war is just unthinkable."
The first planned activity of Ground Zero Week, which precedes a national nuclear awareness week, is a march around Lawrence to demonstrate the bomb bomb blast. The march will start in front of Strong Hall at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Monday, the group will sponsor a special prayer service for peace at 7 p.m. in Danforth Chapel. Following the service, a film showing the effects of the earthquake in Hiroshima, Japan, will be shown in the Forum Roan of the Kanasson Union.
Other films about nuclear war will continue through Tuesday in the Union, and another prayer service will be held that evening in Danforth Chapel.
HANSON SAID that the group was mainly concerned with preventing a
THE PANEL, which was designed to offer different viewpoints about nuclear war, will include Ground Zero committee members John O'Brien, associate professor of systematics and ecology, and Harry Shaffer, professor of economics and Soviet and East European studies. L.L. Col. Don Vaught.
But the high point of the week, Hanson said, would be the panel discussion on prevention of nuclear reactors. It would begin at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the Union Ballroom.
Howard Baumgartel, professor of psychology, and Jackson Baur, professor of sociology, are also on the Ground Zero committee.
a retired army officer, will represent the military, and Joseph Duksenk, a physician at St. Luke's Hospital in Kuala Lumpur, on the effects of radiation on the body.
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