University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 12, 1988
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Fine Arts hires chairmen
New department heads have high praise for art, design
By M. Meredith Relph Kansan staff writer
Joseph Zeller wants to reassert the professionalism of the design department within the School of Fine Arts.
"The design department has been productive although it is a somewhat low-profile program." Zeller said.
He has discovered that making changes within the department does not come easily.
Zeller is the new chairman of the design department this semester, one of two new chairmen in the School of Fine Arts. Zeller replaced Lee Mann as chairman of design this fall.
"The University is kind of like a glacier," Zeller said. You can't speed it up or slow it down. Some difficulties and difficulties arise, but it's not too difficult.
Zeller said the craft sequence, which also is his focus as an artist, had a visible reputation on a national level with many of his contemporaries.
Zeller comes to KU from Ohio University after teaching at the Cleveland Institute of Art as well as at public universities. He said he wanted to use some of the arts schools to develop the KU design department.
"The recent involvement of Hallmark has helped put kU design on the map," he said. "The symposiums are not limited to Hallmark."
"Art schools are very focused," he said. "I would like to see the department develop into as many areas as possible."
Robert Brawley is the other new chairman in the school
and will steer the art department, which he said was a well-operated system at KU. Brawley replaced Phillip Blackhurst as chairman this fall.
Brawley, an impressionist painter, was a visiting artist at KU several years ago. When he heard that the University was in the market for a fine chairman, he was anxious to return to the Midwest.
"I was really charmed by KU when I was here before." Brawley said. "It's a good system with good artists."
Before coming to KU, Brawley was the chairman of the arts department at Lone Mountain College in San
Francisco Brawley said that he did not see a need for changes within the department but that he would like to publicize the quality of KU students' work.
"People on the West Coast know it is a good program here, but they don't see a lot of what is done," he said. "I want the work to get out. The urban environment in Kansas City is weak because there is not a large support of patrons and collectors."
He said KU's Spencer Museum of Art was one of the best university museums in the nation.
"What I'm most interested in is getting in touch with people and letting them know about the indigenous artists we have," he said. "I'm working on disseminating knowledge of the quality of work done by the faculty and students here."
a say it compares with other college museum's
the local interest in art is what Drawley wants to
culturalize.
HALO conference scheduled for KU
With hopes of forming an umbrella organization for Hispanic American Leadership Organizations at six Kansas colleges, KU's HALO is inviting its counterparts to Lawrence for a leadership workshop.
By a Kansan reporter
The seminar is scheduled for Feb. 25.
The seminar's four sessions, open only to statewide HALO members, will focus on ways of enhancing HALO's role on campuses, said Eladio Valdez, HALO president and Kansas City, Kan., junior.
The first workshop will discuss assertiveness for group members and ways to increase membership. Valdez said the second session would relay specific information about
running HALO meetings effectively.
Finding Ibex meetings effectively
After a keynote address during lunch, members of the six groups will share experiences they have encountered in their groups.
out in the last session, we're all going to get together and try to draft a common constitution, to form an umbrella organization for all of the HALO groups in Kansas." Valdez said.
By forming an umbrella organization, HALO hopes to foster statewide support.
KU will act as host to a leadership seminar for Hispanics at Midwest colleges in 1990, and Valdez said he hoped that members of the proposed umbrella organization would help.
Gerald Early, a former research fellow in the English department, won $5,000 last week for two essays in which he finished in a KU literary magazine.
Ex-student wins prize of $5,000
Early received $5,000 from the General Electric Awards to Younger Writers program. The nationwide contest has competitions in three categories: poetry, non-fiction and essays.
By a Kansan reporter
Early and George Wedge, associate professor of English and editor of Cottonwood, the magazine that published Early's essays, last week traveled to New York for the Dec. 5 awards ceremony.
The essays, "Some Notes Toward the Geneology of Afro-American Life: A Conversation with Audrey Jones" and "A Review Essay of Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Mathias appeared in theILL Journal 1984 with Cotton Wood. The issue was released in June 1987, making it eligible for the 1987 calendar year contest.
"He appeared in the New York Times Book Review," Wedge said. "We hardly ever make that. We are extremely proud."
Early, assistant professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, was a research fellow at KU from fall 1855 to June 1867. He will return for three days in early March as a visiting English scholar and will give at least one public talk, Wedge said.
Monday
Non-Traditional Students Union. The topic will be exam study Organization will meet from 7 to 9 p.m. skills in the Daisy Hill Room at the Burge
Tuesday
Stop Day. No classes
Stop Shop - No Masses
The Hispanic American Leadership Organization will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Daisy Hill Room at the Burge Union.
Maranatha Campus Ministry will meet at 7.30 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room at the Kansas Union.
Wednesday
The University Forum will have a planning meeting for the spring semester from 11:30 a.m to 1 p.m. in Alcove F at the Kansas Union
Disorders will meet from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Watkins Room 7.
The Art History Club will meet at 4:30 p.m. in the Eastern Seminar Room at the Art and Architecture Library.
Arnold Architecture Library
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Dungeons and Dragons will meet at 6 p.m. in the Pioneer Room at the Burge Union.
The KU Chess Club will meet at 7 p.m. in Alcove A at the Kansas Union.
Thursday
GLSOK will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Daisy Hill Room at the Burge Union.
KU Christian Science Student Organization will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the
- Canterbury House will offer the holy eucharist at noon in Danforth Chapel.
The Champions Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. in Parlor A at the Kansas Union
occur at HIN or INHA Library
The Baptist Student Union will meet at 5:30 p.m. at the American Baptist Center, 1629 W. 19th St.
Campus Crusade for Christ meets at 7 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room at the Kansas Union.
Sunday
■ Caroling. All students interested in Christmas climbing meet at the ECM building at 5:30 p.m. to college to retired faculty and shut-ins near campus. Hot
chocolate and donuts will be supplied after the singing.
KU Bible Study will have worship services at 10:30 a.m. in the Jayhawk Room at the Kansas Union.
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