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NEWS MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN KANSAN.COM
CARS (CONTINUED FROM 3A)
been offered and it was a thoroughly thought out, yearlong project. The groups had to research every piece of their car, understand their niche market and sell their cars for sponsorship. This helped them back up their car's claims, optimize designs for the average user and pay for their cars, Depcik said. Their research mirrors the current car industry.
In the future, these cars could be the next "classics" and have a song with their name in the lyrics.
"If Ford, GM or Chrysler came out with a car that just blows everyone away based on these different technologies, then yes it will become a classic," Depik said. "But it has to be in mass production, something everyone sees on the road."
Neither the little electric Corvette nor the parallel hybrid Chevy driving to the levy have hit the charts just yet, but the possibilities keep inching their way to reality. The remote control cars are on course, enough so that AMP's group members—Jessica Lamb, a senior from Prairie Village and Kyle Combes, a senior from Overland Park—said they thought that they would sit behind the wheel of an electric vehicle like their own someday.
"Hopetally the students who have gone through this program will see a car coming out in the future and think, 'Man, I worked on that 20 years ago at the University of Kansas,'" Depcik said. "To me that would be really cool."
Edited by Drew Anderson
Cars on display for public show
The Ecohawks are hosting a show-and-tell event today from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.at Old Chicago,2329 Iowa St.The students will show their yearlong efforts on their remote control cars and the 1974 Volkswagen Super Beetle.The professor, Chris Depcik, will be available from 6 to 7 p.m.to answer questions about the cars as well. This is also a fundraising event for the EcoHawks and their projects for next year.
Brenna Long
African culture on display at event
BY ROSHNI OOMMEN
CULTURE
roommen@kansan.com
In a mix of fashion, dance and food, the members of the African Students Association at KU had the chance to show the community what being African is all about.
The program was titled "Sisimuka Afrika," or "Arise, Africa" in Luganda, a language spoke in Uganda. Khanh Trinh, a junior from Liberal and secretary of ASA, said the show was the group's biggest program of the year. More than 100 people attended the event.
"It's important to be culturally diverse," Trinh said. "College is a great opportunity to do that; see lots of other cultures and understand them."
Cynthia Oben, a junior from Cameroon and president of ASA, served as the main coordinator for the event. She said it was important to educate and empower the community with knowledge of African culture, especially to dispel stereotypes.
"I really want to break the stereotypes people have of the African culture." Oben said. "I want them to realize that Africa has modern city life, and a lot of
things like that."
Food from several regions of Africa was also provided by the ASA, as well as members of the local community. Meron Herouy, a junior from Ethiopia, said the group spent around two days cooking for the event.
"Events like these are important because they give everybody a chance to get together," Herouy said. "In ASA, you have people you can relate to, because you understand a similar cause. It's like home away from home."
Edited by Becky Howlett
ARTS
Student and local artists display, market work at festival
Channing Taylor, a junior from Wichita, displays vintage jewelry outside the Spencer Museum of Art Saturday afternoon. Taylor makes her own vintage necklaces from antique artifacts from flea markets, ebay, garage sales and estate sales.
BY NANCY WOLENS
nwolens@kansan.com
Chance Dibben/KANSAN
Saturday was a day of music, dance and art endeavors.
Performance art, including the KU African Dance group, Les Belles and the KU African Drum ensemble; live music by local bands; face painting; sidewalk calligraphy and local and student artists displaying and selling their artwork.
The Spencer Museum of Art Student Advisory Board hosted its third annual Spring Arts and Culture Festival on Mississippi Street Saturday. Artists from the University and the Lawrence community paid $10 and $20, respectively, for 10 feet by 10 feet booths at the festival.
From 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., local and student artists manned their booths, ready to show off — and hopefully sell — their creations to the public.
SARAHTAGGART
"With these I was kind of on this art history tinge and I did a series of the Statue of David," she said. "I took an image of the original statue and would change it somehow."
and screenprints, she had created throughout the year — all for $10 or less.
On Sarah Taggart's table lay the drawings, photographs, spraypainted and splattered T-shirts
Taggart, a senior from Overland Park, said her motivation for what she creates varies. She pulled out her sketched rendition of an iconic piece of Grecian artwork.
Some of Taggart's most colorful pieces used a technique known as lithography.
Wichita, began creating and selling her unique vintage style jewelry, which ranges from $30 to $60, about three years ago.
In order to make a lithograph, Taggart said, she takes an image, places a piece of glass over it and then paints over the glass along the outline of the image. She lays paper over the painted glass and presses a weight onto it to pick up the color.
"I've always loved antiques and I dabbled in beading when I was younger." Taylor said.
"I lift it up and do the next layer of color and keep doing that until I like what I see," Taggart said. "You can tell where the black and blues overlap."
CHANNING TAYLOR
Taylor searches for all different types of antique and vintage artifacts at flea markets, garage sales, estate sales and antique hardware stores. She uses old chains to create layered necklaces and attaches the antique pieces she finds.
Taylor said she loved searching for the vintage items she uses and often finds it difficult to part with some of her creations.
Channing Taylor, a junior from
But it wasn't until her first year of high school that her passion for photography began, and she had plenty to show for it on Saturday.
vounger.
"They're all one of a kind but sometimes there are some things I find and I know I'll never see anything like it again." Taylor said. "I probably need to sell it but I just can't part with some of these things."
"I was really good at shooting portraits and then I branched out doing things that are absent of people", Johnson said. "This year my concentration is silent communications, the idea of what people try to communicate with leaving things behind."
Johnson's photo spread ranged from smaller portraits to larger, framed scenic stills.
Although Emily Johnson is only a junior at Lawrence High School, she said she had been drawn to creating art since she was much
EMILY JOHNSON
Johnson said she gets inspiration from everything around her.
"I just shoot all the time," Johnson said. "My camera is always with me. It's in my car right now."
A series of her photos were displayed at La Prima Tazza, a coffee shop downtown, a few months ago. Next for Johnson is a summer photography program at The Art Institute of Boston in July.
MADISON RHEAH
Madison Rhea's collection of paintings incorporates a wide range
of color with acrylic paint, watercolor and oil. Rhea, a 2009 KU alumnus from Dallas, said his art was the result of a recent interest in Henri Matisse, a French painter known for his use of color.
Rhea's style is a combination of still life and interiors, he said. He usually paints on very large canvas but decided to scale them down for
the festival. The original pieces are priced between $50 and $100.
Rhea said he used other paint- tings as models for his work.
"Some of them are compiled from thoughts in my head and from photographs of other paintings artists have done," Rhea said.
— Edited by Ashley Montogmery
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