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Show 1 r'K i L - nun,, -r - - TM-Y" " ' iliiilM rll r-"-' ' ' ' -"- " - - - Art Above, art students prepare to float their designs in the duck pond. Photo by Larry Jensen. Pictured right is a sculpture by Scot Jenerik titled "Color One or Something Like That." Photo by Maria Jenerik. If it were possible to compare the WSC art faculty with those of Utah State University and the University of Utah, "we have a greater divergence of degrees right here," said Richard Van Wagoner, chair of the visual arts department. The faculty is extremely active, he said, noting that national as well as local exhibitions were not unusual for many of them. Van Wagoner exhibited his work in Springfield, Missouri last November and will do so again this June. He will show his work at the Myra Powell Gallery at Union Station in a one-man show this June as well. Van Wagoner is noted for his work in watercolors. David Cox added several hundred new 35mm slide images to a personal slide library for teaching HU101, Introduction to Art. The collection includes cartoons on art and artists, explanatory drawings on media and architectural elements, and examples representing diverse cultural and ethnic origins of works. He has held several exhibitions in Ogden, Logan and Salt Lake City during the past year. Susan Makov does quite a bit of freelance work in between exhibitions in Salt Lake City, Stephens College in Missouri, Texas A&M University and a residency in Wyoming starting next November. She's done illustrations for Syntax Music, the Novell Corporation, and a poster for Ririe Woodbury Dance Company'. - Arthur Adelmann spent time jurying the stale Sterling Scholarship Competition at Bonneville High School this year, coordinated a lecture-slide presentation by WSC women students at the WSC Women's Educational Resource Center entitled "Women Artists," and displayed his work at a one-man show at the Eccles Community Art Center in December. Angelika Page! served as one of three curators for an exhibit entitled "Focus on Women: Ten Utah Artists" at the University of Utah last November, was the discussant for a monthly film series on art and artists at WSC, juried the Davis County Competition Show in Bountiful last May, and she and Jim Jacobs served as guest scholars for a Utah Endowment for the Humanities-sponsored project showing "Shock of the New" film series at art centers throughout northern Utah last April. Jim Jacobs exhibited his work in Salt Lake City and surrounding areas as well, and was awarded a grant from the Utah Endowment for the Humanities for the Weber State College Film Scries on Artists in 1987. There arc two new additions to the art staff: art curator Henry Barends, and Drex Brooks, who will be in charge of photography. The three professors currently studying include James McBelh, Mark Biddle and Kurt Fishback. "We have a very fine undergraduate program," Van Wagoner said, "and we consider the gallery to be the most important program. We don't read or write papers as do other areas of discipline. We hang student scholarship on the wall," he said. Top student artists were recently recognized at the Annual Student Art Exhibition. Ninety-three pieces of art work were judged in thirteen categories. Best of Show went to Jerry Bishop's work "Untitled," a low salt fire ceramic. Scot Jenerik's print "Spontaneous Thought and Other Shit" took first in the Mixed Media category and Bill Dcrmody's acrylic painting "Statement 4" was a first-place winner in that medium. "This exhibition is the finale for the students because they display all of their work and what they've worked for; especially the seniors," said WSC Art Guild secretary Maria Jenerik. Six of the 22 graduating seniors received awards for their outstanding creative works: Elwin L. Staplcy, Patricia Hughes, Margaret Rcimschusscl, Michael Tyler, Scot Jenerik and Christopher Griffis. "There is a great diversity of ideas in our student work," said Van Wagoner. "It represents what's going on in the world today, a sort of avuiu urdc point of view," he concluded. Linda R. Nimori |