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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, APRIL 30. 2007
SPENCERMUSEUM
Classes introduce children to African art
BY BETHANY BUNCH
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Michelle Lenhan guided a class of six children through the "Sufi Arts in Urban Senegal" exhibition in the Spencer Museum of Art, explaining what "Muslim" meant. The group stopped to study a reverse glass painting of Noah's Arc.
Liam Hoey-Kummerow, 5, of Lawrence, works on an art project during a children's art appreciation class in Spencer Art Museum. Saturday's class was entitled "Art in Nature." The students learned about different approaches to art and then created their own masterpieces.
Children ages 5 to 14 gathered Saturday at the museum to learn how contemporary African artists performed reverse glass painting. After the lesson, the participants had a chance to create their own paintings based on the techniques they learned.
Lenihan, Overland Park graduate student, explained that reverse glass paintings were paintings on glass that required the painting process to be performed backward with detail first. The class painted rainbows, faces and animals on their individual pieces of glass.
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"Be careful because the paintings have eyes and they watch wherever you go," 11-year-old Tienna said.
Lauren Kernes, youth and family outreach coordinator for the museum, said the classes were important because they introduced art concepts to children in a way they might not learn otherwise.
Two Saturdays each month during the school year and every Saturday during the summer, participants are invited
to the museum for children's art appreciation classes like this one.
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The teachers are visual art students who are employed by the University of Kansas.
The museum offers scholarships to children to help pay for the classes, which cost $12 and last two hours.
The children's art will be on display in the museum for Family Day on May 12.
Kansan staff writer Bethany Bunch can be reached at bbunch@kansan.com.
Edited by Ashley Thompson
Iran joins effort to curb violence
WAR IN IRAQ
BY QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD — Iran agreed Sunday to join the U.S. and other countries at a conference on Iraq this week, raising hopes the government in Tehran would help stabilize its violent neighbor and stem the flow of guns and bombs over the border.
In an apparent effort to drive home that point, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told an Iranian envoy that the persistent violence in Iraq — some of it carried out by the Shiite militias Iran is accused of arming — could spill over into neighboring countries, including those that are "supposed to support the Iraqi government."
Iraq's other neighbors as well as Egypt, Bahrain and representatives of the five permanent U.N. Security Council members have agreed to attend the meeting Thursday and Friday in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheik.
The conference will also include Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, raising the possibility of a rare direct encounter between high-level U.S. and Iranian officials.
In Washington, Rice would not rule out a meeting with the Iranians, whose delegation will be led by Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki.
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Members of the Experimental Balloon Society, a KU aerospace engineering club, test a high altitude balloon system near the intersection of 23rd and Iowa streets Saturday morning. Austin Harper, Wichita junior who helped with the launch, said the balloon would eventually land somewhere in Missouri. Harper said the launch was part of the testing for a Mars glider that Richard Colgren, a KU associate professor of aerospace engineering, was conducting.
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