THE THUNDERBIRD BY REBECCA WINSOR It's 11:30 p.m.; rehearsals for 7 776 have just ended, and most everyone has gone home. Sandra Kay Stiglinski, however, is in the costume shop and expects to be for hours longer, putting the finishing touches on the costumes. She adds ribbon, and attaches the sleeves to Martha Jefferson's dress, which will be worn by Wendy Johnson. Stiglinski came to SUSC eight years ago from working three jobs in California. She wanted to just work one. So that she would have more free time. She applied at colleges all over and accepted SUSC's job offer. Stiglinski, who holds a B.A. degree from Californa State University at Fullerton, is a special instructor at SUSC. She teaches costume design, as well as actually designing and building the costumes for the theatre department. She got in to design kind of by "I started out wanting to be a high school teacher. But after taking my first education class, which was statistics, decided that it wasn't teaching. When quit teaching didn't know what was going to do so just took of general education classes." Her philosophy when she was still going to teach was know a little bit about everything, which turned out to be to her advantage. A teacher had noticed her design talent and encouraged her. Although, she hadn't been active in theatre until her senior year in high school she got interested in scene design. "I started out as a scenic designer and it just kind of evolved from there," she said of how accident. I I fR Even after rehearsals end, costumer Sandra Stiglinski expects to put in several more hours putting the finishing touches on SUSC's theatre costumes. Utah is 9, 1987 PACE she got into costume designing. "My favorite period to design is the bustle," she said, as she weaves the ribbon through the lace on the neck of Martha's dress. "Since I've been here, there are so many shows that I've designed that really can't pick a favorite. enjoyed designing The Royal Family because it was so elegant. The Crucible was a challenge because the costumes were simple and had to be similiar but also individualized. In The Wtz and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, had to capture a style. The Wiz was one of the most difficult shows had to do because there weie 99 costumes, and they were a certain style." This year also promises to be a difficult and busy one in the costume shop. The Lite and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is this year's biggest production, and with a cast of 193 characters, the costuming will be complicated, said Stiglinski. Because Scrooge: The Stingiest Man in Town also takes place in the same costume period, Stiglinski is designing costumes that will do double duty. like sleeping," she began, "Mostly, as the clock struck midnight. "I also like to paint, and right now am in the process of trying to paint my house," she said. Stiglinski also enjoys weaving in her spare time and currently, is working on a tajiestry. "But, never do it again. I'll stick to clothing and scarves which enjoy. Cher Christmas break she plans on spending some time sewing for herself. One of the things she will be working I I I I I (continued on page 12) likened to cultural island HOWELL "Of course, art can change our lives!" Frank Sanguinetti, director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, said emphatically as he answered a question that he himself asked. "Can the arts truly change our lives?" was the topic of Sanguinetti's speech at the annua! "Friends" dinner, which was held in the Student Center Small Ballroom, Wednesday, for supporters of the Frank Sanguinetti referred to Utah as a cultural island which is separated from other states. Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery. The guests were afterward invited to preview the annual SUSC Art Faculty Exhibition which didn't open to the public until the following night. Sanguinetti began his dinnerside lecture by e apologizing for his solemn, serious and sermon-likfeel and think "I he explained, "Yet," speech. NOVEMBER Stiglinski traded three jobs to sew SUSC's costumes I BY LISA MONDAY strongly that art should be taken more seriously, especially in Utah." He called Utah an island culture, due to the geography which separates Utah from outside culture. "I feel that Utah should create a cultural climate to connect the island culture to the outside world," he said. Art, in this sense, would become a and way to enhance Utah's added culture, Sanguinetti. Sanguinetti expressed to his audience that art can change individuals m certain unique ways. This art first being in a experience comes in two fashions: the communal or social way and the second is through the individual experience. The individual experience is that which we value most since it is more personal to us, said Sanguinetti. To have art change our lives, we must first approach it with an open spirit. We must open ourselves to information, advised Sanguinetti. Sanguinetti closed his address by again answering the question, "Can the arts truly change our lives?" with the statement, "Yes, it can if it seems desirable to us and if we really want it to." non-politic- al Frank Sanguinetti, before his lecture to 'he ' nends" dinner and gallery showing, talks with Anton Rasmussen, art department chair. 11