STUDY CASTING
Sculptors to confer
An international group of sculptors will meet at KU for the Fourth National-International Sculpture Casting Conference May 5-7.
The conference, sponsored by KU's design department and the Hallmark Educational Foundation, will count participants from three continents, eight countries and ten American universities.
It has been held at KU biennially since 1960. However, this will be the first year the conference will have full international participation.
"A NUMBER OF other countries were represented at the 1964 conference. Encouraged by this foreign interest, it has been decided to make the 1966 conference an international event," said Elden C. Tefft, professor of design and coordinating chairman for the conference.
This year's conference began taking shape about a year ago when Tefft went to Japan, the Philippines, Hawaii, Alaska and San Francisco to find out the interest foreign sculptors had in bronze sculpture casting, the topic of this year's conference.
Tefft, designer of KU's Centennial Medallion, said sculpture casting is the technique of transforming a piece of plastic or clay into permanent material such as bronze.
TEFFTS DESIRE OF holding a casting conference was born with the Carve-Direct Movement, a crusade which asked the sculptors to do their own work.
As a result of this movement, he said, the sculpture medium, bronze, was relegated to a secondary place among creative media, especially in the United States.
"I strongly feel that if casting technology could be returned to the studio where the sculptor would have creative control from the conception to the completion, bronze would regain its rightful place among sculpture media," he said.
Teft's belief seemed to be well justified in 1960 when he as well as other KU sculptors decided to share their technology with others.
"Our first conference was successful beyond our hopes and it has continued to gain momentum in 1962 and 1964." he said.
THE PURPOSES OF the conference are:
- to encourage international participation.
to examine the eastern tradition of sculpture casting and
to begin consideration of general problems of the sculptor. During the conference, an exhibit of small bronzes will be displayed in the Museum of Art, while the Kansas Union will offer an assortment of photographs on the "Exploration of the Great Budda," "Japanese Bell Founding" and "Primitive Founding."
Art to be shown in the park
The fifth annual "Art in the Park" show will be held in South Park in Lawrence May 8 by the Lawrence Art Guild and the city Recreation Commission.
Last year 118 artists displayed some 400 exhibits in painting, prints, ceramics, textiles, silver-smithing, enamel, sculpture, woodcarving, screen dividers and theater design.
Chairmen for the event said they hoped all KU artists who had displayed works before would do so again this year. Registration chairman is Mrs. Jimmy Brooks.
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Bookstore not hurt by smut ruling yet
The Union Bookstore has not yet been affected by the smut ordinance, according to James H. Stoner, manager.
The ordinance, officially called an indecent-materials ordinance, was passed April 12 by the Lawrence City Commission. It is directed toward the sale, exhibition or display of pornographic literature or pictures to persons under 18 years of age.
"The ordinance has not been challenged yet," said Stoner. "We don't carry anything specifically designed to promote pornography, but under the ordinance, even some classics could be interpreted this way."
Stoner said the law is bound to cause concern in the area of bookselling, and that it is bound to be contested.
"I personally object to it," he said, "because it doesn't define who will judge the material, or how it will be interpreted."
WEATHER
Cloudy tomorrow with scattered showers and thunderstorms tomorrow evening is the forecast of the U.S. Weather Bureau. It will be partly cloudy tonight with a low near 50. Tomorrow night will bring strong shifting winds and sharply colder temperatures.
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