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Show Page 10 The Thimderbxrd Monday May 20, 1985 Arts EnterMiummt ' Braithwaite loves art vSvly.. C ' Annette Grooms by Arlene Braithwaites office is like a small art studio, with three beautiful pastels pinned up in her office. The drawings, Utah desert scenes with plateaus and mesas, use blue and grey tones to give a calm feeling to the observer. They reflect her calm and easygoing personality. Braithwaite, assistant professor of art, said she has always loved art. She chose art as her career despite her fathers suggestion to take up typing, because she wouldnt make a living otherwise. She points out that she has only been unemployed two weeks since she was out of school. Braithwaite, a native of Salt Lake City, went to the University of Utah for her art degree. When she graduated, she got a job in the art and photography departments at the Deseret News which lasted for seven and one-hal- f years. She and her husband, Robert, chose Cedar City as their new home after searching for the perfect community. They looked for a medium-sizecommunity with a college, somewhere in the west. They even went as far as Oregon to look for the community. They finally picked Cedar City, because I went to the Shakespearean Festival a couple of years ago and loved Cedar, she said. Braithwaite has been at SUSC for three years now and she says that the art department is making changes that will better the department. I have a lot of confidence in the department. Were moving to a new building soon so there will be more studio space, said Braithwaite. I think the art department has a lot to offer students because they can receive specialized instruction, which is important in art, she said. Braithwaite said all students can benefit from art classes. I would like to encourage students to take some studio classes, she d said. think art is very similar to music. Most people can learn to play a piano; we can teach someone to draw, Braithwaite said. What people do with their art skill is important and with the correct attitude they can do what they want. 1 feel very fortunate in doing something I enjoy; some people arent as fortunate, Braithwaite said. Braithwaite seems to lead a double life. She likes to work with students, but she also enjoys the summers because she can work on her own art. I think it allows me to be fresh on both parts. Many of her students have art work in the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery. She says that even students who are not art majors participate in the annual student exhibit. The gallery was named after her father-in-laRoyden Braithwaite, SUSC president emeritus. Fie was the president of the college for many years and he had a lot to do with art, so they named the gallery after him, she said. Braithwaite believes that art is individual. I see art as a . continuous growth and evolution, she said, One art piece leads to another, like a story. vr. I Assistant art professor Arlene Braithwaite feels that everyone should take an art class. She stated that art is similar to music in that just about anyone can be taught to play the piano, and anyone can be taught to paint. SUSC chorale to perform d A program Southern featuring the Utah State College chorale will be held this evening at 8 p.m. in the Thorley Recital Hall. Selections will range from a contemporary arrangement of The Lords of Prayer and several Broadway numbers to the spiritual Salvation Train and on to the jazz arrangement of Sesame Street. SUSC Chorale Director Ron Aden will direct the performance. The public is invited to attend the free concert. The chorale does a formal concert in the fall and a major work in the winter, Aden said. Its in the spring that the light-hearte- -- uhf,SLSC Chorale wil1 Psent its Spring Fling Monday at 8 p.m. in the Thorley Recital Hall. The concert is free to the public, and will be directed by SUSC Chorale Director Ron Aden (second row, center). group can let up and do some lighter types of things, and while this is still a major concept, the Spring Fling will be an informal, laid-bac- k affair. Baritone Mike Michie, Cedar City, and soprano Denise Bailey, Orem, will be featured soloists, Michie in Victor Herberts Gypsy Love Song, and Bailey in Herberts Italian Love Song and Kiss in the Dark. Several other incidental soloists will be featured, Aden said, in numbers ranging from the spiritual Let Me Fly to the Gene Puerling jazz selection Sesame Street. |