University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 18, 1986
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Mark Porter/KANSAN
Wes Hunting, professional glassformer from Chicago, shapes a piece of glass in propertie for an exhibit today
Chicago craftsman displays glass art
By CRAIG HERRMANN
Three fiery furnaces burn loudly behind the craftsman as he works without a word. Several students gather in silence to watch him bend and shape the red-hot glass strands into brightly colored spirals.
Despite the intense heat in the room, he looks up and smiles.
The silence breaks.
"Isn't this glass incredible stuff?" he asks with a laugh.
The craftsman is Wes Hunting, a professional glassformer from Chicago.
Hunting was forming glass in Chamney Barn for a display yesterday afternoon. He is displaying his works and his glassforming talents in the exhibition at the barn today.
Chamney Barn, located on 15th Street, one-half mile west of Iowa Street, is the home of the KU's glassforming studio.
"Boy, it's hot in there," he said.
Hunting, standing outside the barn, wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked back into the studio at the furnaces.
Hunting knows about heat. He said he's been forming glass for about nine years — ever since his college days at Kent State University. He said he studied painting before he got interested
in glasswork.
Hunting's background in painting seemed to show in his work displayed on benches and tables around the inside of the studio. Many of the pieces feature bright colors and irregular patterns.
'People should know this place is here. This is one of the nicest studios I've ever been in.'
Hunting praised KU's glassforming program and its studio, but said he thought the University should pay more attention to it.
Hunting said he became interested in glassforming just because it was an enjoyable pastime.
— Wes Hunting professional glassformer
He said about 30 galleries and five large museums across the country were displaying collections of his work.
Academic Computing Services will sponsor a seminar on the IBM VM Conversational Monitoring System at 1 p.m. today in the auditorium of the Computer Center.
On campus
"Working with glass is so much fun," he said. "I love it."
The KU Soccer Club will practice at 5:30 p.m. today at the University soccer fields, 23rd and Iowa streets.
The KU Women's Soccer Club
will practice at 5:45 p.m. today at the University soccer fields.
The Study Abroad Club will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union.
Campus Scouts will meet at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Douthart Hall, 1345 Louisiana St.
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Candidates want routes saved
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TOPEKA — Democratic gubernatorial nominee Docking yesterday urged citizens in southeast Kansas to join forces in an effort to save bus service being threatened with elimination.
Meanwhile, Republican gubernatorial nominee Mike Hayden made public a letter he sent to Kansas Corporation Commission Chairman Michael Lennen. In the letter, Hayden urged the commission to look at ways to retain bus service throughout Kansas.
Trailways has proposed elimination of all its routes in Kansas except one which serves Kansas City, Topeka and Wichita.
It would eliminate service to 56
The KCC has ordered Trailways to show cause why it should be permitted to discontinue the routes.
Kansas communities, leaving 38 of them without any public transportation.
As part of a proposal he made, Docking said he wanted the KCC to gather more information on the cost of serving rural communities.
"Through reporting procedures, we will prove that the cost to our citizens, our communities and our state outweigh the corporate savings that would be derived from route cancellation." Docking said.
In another proposal, Docking said, he wanted to get residents and communities affected by the cutbacks, to submit their ideas to save this bus service. He urged citizens to write Trailways with their ideas.
Hayden also said he would ask Trailways and other bus companies seeking to cut back their service in Kansas to talk with community representatives about ways to increase bus usage.
"We must consider scaled back routes around which senior citizens, organizations could plan for trips, and also the possibility that smaller, more efficient equipment could be assigned to these rural routes." Docking said.
Hayden said Kansas could not afford to sever the bus services that joined Kansas communities.
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