Director praises collection
Students not interested in art exhibit
By MIKE FREDERICK
Kansan Staff Writer
Cobwebs may begin to clutter the door frames at Spooner Hall as disinterested students wander by.
Bret Waller, museum director, said the current art exhibit is the best of its kind KU has had, but few students have bothered to view it.
"A University Collects" is on loan from the University Art Museum of the University of California, Berkeley.
Peter Selz, museum director at Berkeley, writes: "Our
collection on contemporary art reflects an attempt to be broad in scope, and to identify the good rather than to glorify the fashionable."
Despite the quality of the exhibit only a handful of students trickle into the museum each day. Waller expressed concern about this. He said if more students would become actively interested the museum might reciprocate with more good exhibits.
With the exception of Joan Miro's "Composition" of 1937, the collection includes a large representation of painting since World War II. Included in the
exhibition are paintings from such noted artists as Hans Hoffman, William de Kooning and Paul Jenkins, Waller said.
Waller explained: "The exhibition is important for two reasons. It gives the student a
chance to see works by some of the best known artists. It gives the student a chance to see a university collection of a different nature."
Arranged by the American Federation of Art, New York,
Art teachers to attend meeting
About 200 art supervisors from the kindergarten through the college level are expected to attend the 18th annual Art Education Conference, Feb. 28, in the Kansas Union.
the collection is being circulated while the Berkeley campus is building a new museum, Waller said.
Scheduled to visit the KU campus, Selz will give a lecture entitled "Art and Academia" at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 24 in Dyche Auditorium.
Featured speakers at the conference will be: Eliot W. Eisner, Stanford University professor, who will speak on "Can Art Be Taught?"; Russell Woody, New York painter and author, who will discuss "Painting with Synthetic Media," and Raymond Bachura, Black Hills State College, Spearfish, S.D., who will speak on "Photographic Silk Screen Processes."
Kansas, what some people call the cultural desert of the nation, has little time left to view this exhibit. March 9 is the last day the display will be shown.
Don't wander by, go inside.
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