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Thursday, October 28, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Sculptors' activity pervades hut
By LEROY JOHNSTON
The rusty Quonst but behind Bailey Hall may look like a relic from World War II, but it is actually Bailey Annex, home of KU's sculpture department.
An atmosphere of intense activity is contained inside the building, which is filled with students, all working away at large plaster blocks. Plaster chips are flying and, from somewhere, a chainsaw adds to the din.
SCULPTURE IS taken seriously here. A janitor comes in to complain about the condition of the floor to Richard Gillespie, assistant professor of sculture.
Gillespie agrees to do something about the floor, but says, "I'm not concerned about how the floor is. I'm concerned about making sculpture."
The chronic problem, Gillespie says, is lack of space. He said he was looking forward to moving into the new Visual Arts building when it was completed. The department of art is the department of art and the department of design, is to be completed in two years.
GILLESPIE SAID he had no complaints about the equipment available because it
"In a studio," he said, "space is first choice, equipment is secondary."
Equipment of all sorts crowds the studio, ranging from furnaces for bronze casting to a vacuum-forming machine for handling plastic. But there are only 10 students majoring in sculpture this semester. Most of the students in the crowded studio are majoring in ceramics or jewelry and silversmithing.
MIKE GLEASON, St. Louis, Mo., junior,
said he was taking sculpture to gain more
experience in three-dimensional work.
Gleason is a jewelry and silversmithing
major. He said he liked the easy-going
teaching style used in his class.
“This isn't high school any more,” he said. “The studio is here and the teacher is here. If you're interested, it's up to you to do work and get as much out of if you can.”
Because KU doesn't offer graduate degrees through the department of art, students who want to earn graduate degrees design or do through the department of design.
ONE STUDENT following such a course is Akrom Vorajnina, Bangkok, Thailand, graduate student. Vorajnina said he was the first Thai artist ever to study bronze casting abroad. His work consists of lyrical bronze sculptures by the Italian futurist, Umberto Boccioni.
Voraindha said that being from Thailand
has a unique and objective view of
Western art.
"One characteristic of American art is that it is more mechanistic," he said. "I am now seeking an artistic synthesis of East and West."
ELDEN TEFFT, professor of sculpture and director of the National Sculpture Center at KU, said he encouraged all sorts of approaches andques in his students.
Telft, who specializes in bronze casting, is working on a 10-foot statue of Moses for Smith Hall, which houses the School of Religion.
Tefft said there were many problems with
Vandalism decreasing for vending machines
Vending machines at the University of Kansas are 'nudalized at nearly the rate that they were a few years ago. Forrest McGraw, a spokesman for Union Vending service, said last week.
"It seems that about five years age it was a "it seems and, we'd be fixing machines every day. Not too much vandalism goes on in the dorms anymore," he said.
But last week some vending machines in the basement of the military science building and in Stouffer Place were broken early that month. $30 in merchandise were lost, he said.
Repair costs for damaged machines vary according to the type of machine.
"1 think most of the vandalism is committed by people from off-campus in the area."
JOLLY SAY IT UTILly costs about $30 to fix a cigarette machine, but a refrigerated machine such as a soft drink or sandwich machine will cost $13 to repair, including parts and labor.
"It's never less than the amount of merchandise taken," Darold Hutton, a vending machine repairman, said. Repair expenses are "way down" from what they were five years ago, he said, even with price increases on spare parts and labor.
"Costs for repair were about triplied from what they are now. We use to spend about $100 to $300 a month on repair work alone." Hutton said. "Over the last two years, vandalism has been on a dramatic decline on campus, and that's a good thing to see."
Dennis Tyril, warehouse manager for Coca-Cola Bottling Co., 646 Connecticut St. agreed that the amount of burglarized machines on campus had decreased.
"THERE'S VERY little vandalism going on up on the hill now, but there used to be quite a bit," he said. "It's very sporadic."
However, two soft drink machines were recently vandalized at the Ramada Inn, Sixth and Iowa streets, he said, and about $50 in cash and merchandise were taken.
"Some machines we try to bend back into shape if we can, but the ones at Ramada we'll have to replace. They'll cost about $450 each." Tyrll said.
Jolly said that the majority of vending
machines had slug rejectors in them, and that the machines also wouldn't accept bent
"That's probably the best protection because that it just ensures the machine doesn't break." It will
He said that he had experimented with protecting vending machines by putting sirens on some of them, but the sirens had too sensitive and went off inadvertent.
"WE TRIED BELLS too, but they sounded just like the ones on elevators and stairs."
Tyrl said that it would be a "wasted effort" to try to catch vandals, because of the many other people who use the machines legitimately.
"We put steel-hardened padlocks on the machines, but they just cut right through them. If someone really wants to break into them, it's pretty hard to stop," he said.
When vandalism does occur in residence balls, the loss is charged to the balls' library funds, which pay for all concessions, Jolly said.
"We never remove the machines completely," he said.
The majority of soft drink machines are emptied of currency as often as possible, because they are so expensive.
Both men said they hoped that the trend awards less vandalism would be a per-100K award.
"You're talking about an awful lot of money to be made for vandals, and at a loss to us," Tyrl said.
the public's acceptance of large outdoor public sculpture.
"Later on, when they get used to the piece, often defend it."
"PEOPLE, when they're put on the spot, think they have to make some kind of comment about a public piece, and what they say is usually derogator." he said.
The public isn't educated in the appreciation of modern sculpture aesthetics, Teft said, and more public sculpture is needed to prevent this attitude.
was through the technical aspects of art work. He said his sculpture of Moses was an example of this.
"The public is always behind in what's happening in art," he said.
-Allowing the technique to become a part of the creative process makes sculpture more accessible.
TEFFT SAID one way to reach the public
Phil Blackhurst, assistant professor of sculpture, said he expected much more activity from the sculpture program in the future.
"WHEN THEY approved the new building, it was the first time I felt really optimistic about the potential of sculpture in UU," he said. "I'm looking forward to it."
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