THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 2013
PAGE 7A
LAWRENCE
Downtown Final Fridays showcase local art, history
KRISTINA MAUDE
kmaude@kansan.com
On the last Friday of the month, the streets of downtown Lawrence are filled with artists, musicians and Lawrence residents coming to celebrate the month's Final Friday.
It's not just for art walking, it's also for eating great food and
getting people downtown who might otherwise go out of town on the weekend." Meredith Moore, curator for the Wonder Fair art gallery, said.
Each month features new artists and brings something new and exciting to Lawrence. This month is no exception.
month is no exception.
"It's not just for art walking, it's also for eating great food and getting people downtown who might otherwise go out of town on the weekend."
The group featured this month at Wonder Fair, located at 803 1/2 Massachusetts St. above The Burger Stand, is Tugboat Printshop, a print making company from Pittsburgh, has come all the way to Lawrence to participate this month.
Moore said that Tugboat Print-shop is the most well-known print-making studio in America.
"They don't usually do gallery shows, but they're making an exception to come to Lawrence this month," she said.
Wonder Fair isn't the only store participating. Scott Lloyd, Final Fridays coordinator for Au Marche, said their featured artist this month will be Emalee Schaumburg.
Schaumburg, a photographer from Lawrence, is displaying her
work at two locations.
"She'll have three pictures here and then she has an event in North Lawrence at her studio," Lloyd said. "It will all be circus themed. There will be cotton candy and fire-breathing and things like that." Final Fridays typically attract those who are interested in art and culture. This month, historical enthusiasts can feel at home at Final Fridays as well. Abby Magariel, education and programs coordinator for Watkins Community Museum, said that Watkins and The Percolator, another local art gallery, are working together on a project to
MEREDITH MOORE
Wonder Fair curator
commemorate the 150th anniversary of Quantrill's Raid.
"We came up with a list of questions to pose to artists around Lawrence and the surrounding area," Magariel said. "This is a serious day in Lawrence's history, but it is also the event that Lawrence recovered from and built from, so we wanted to think about what that means to local residents today."
Quilts, paintings and poems embody the sadness for lives lost, a love of Lawrence and a passion for the Kansas-Missouri border war.
Students and residents can mingle downtown to look at art, get some deals at local stores and listen to entertainment this Friday.
Edited by Emma LeGault
Tugboat Printshop, a printmaking company from Pittsburgh, will display their artwork at Wonder Fair, 803 1/2 Massachusetts St., as part of August's Final Friday.
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CAMPUS
New University Career Center website offers online interviews
csisk@kansan.com
ICALEB SISK
campus-wide initiative to universalize the design of university services and programs online. The site has been in the works since early March of this year and the final tweaks are currently being made.
The University Career Center has launched a new and improved website that boasts a large number of new features. Students attempting to visit the site at the URL kucarehawk.com will find that the site has moved to career.ku.edu.
This move was prompted by a
"We hope to provide students with comprehensive web resources that are available 24/7 and compliment the face-to-face services we provide," said Erin Wollfram, assistant director of the UCC and head designer of the new website.
The new services will include an online appointment system through which students can schedule meetings. Students can also find job and internship listings that are directly related to their respective majors. Through the Careers and KU Majors page, students find listings that are updated in real
time so as to provide the most up-
-to-date listings.
Once students find a listing, they will be able to practice their interview skills in the new mock interview program called "Impress." With this program, students can participate in practice interviews and get feedback on their results from a professional at the career center.
dealing with the center.
Although the move has been made to the new site, the officials at the UCC have decided to revamp the old site and convert it to a weekly informational newsletter focused on student career opportunities.
Wolfram and the rest of the UCC hope that these new tools will help to promote a more personalized and communicable feeling when
"We're real people that are here to help students succeed," Wolfram said.
— Edited by Jessica Mitchell
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