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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle - Page Nine Tuesday, January 21, 1992 (CAMPUS Feature Outstanding exhibits at U. museum of fine arts By expand ideas. Because he is aware of the Janet Golightly continuing changes in the art Chronicle Feature Writer market, Quensen functions with a For all those interested in the finer points of life, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah is offering several new exhibitions that have something to appeal to just about everyone. In addition to all the regularly featured exhibits, "The Big Print" is a traveling exhibition of lithographs created by an international group of artists, all of whom have been influenced one way or another by Ernst August Quensen of Quensen Lithography Workshop and Quensen Editions of Lamspringe, Germany. Quensen Workshop made the exhibit available to the Utah Museum. In order to fully understand and appreciate this exhibit, one must of an understanding lithography and the man who is responsible for the advancement of the creation of lithography. Quensen Workshop was created by many artists from over twenty countries including Germany, France, Switzerland and the United States. Quensen is responsible for have arranging seminars and art projects involving both the private and public sectors of the Lamspringe community. He also promotes artists from all over the fine-a- rt community. By bringing in Romanian pianists, German authors or Czechoslovakia mimes to perform in Lamspringe, he has always been an influence on artists. Quensen believes there is no future without art. He believes that art is not a luxury, but a necessity. Art, he says, is not peripheral to industry or society but an integral part vital to our own human existence. "The Big Print" exhibition is an exhibition of lithography. And the vast tradition of graphic arts is a part of Germany's long and rich cultural Although history. lithography is a German practice, Quensen says he has not let the geographical boundaries limit his and others vision to develop and the Persian Gulf, KUED, Channel 7, has been airing a variety of programs looking at various aspects of that war and its effects, "KUED provides perspective, look analysis and an at major world, national and local events," General Manager Fred Esplin said. "Viewers can depend on KUED for balance, independence and excellence in lielpi&g them better understand the conflicts that have embroiled the nation." in-dep- th On "Submarine," airing Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m., a The works represented in "The Print" exhibition are said to be witnesses to the importance of the print enterprise in Europe and by judging the scale and scope of each work that is shown, the assumption is clear. According to the artists and UTAH everyone who has seen the exhibition, "The Big Print" is one of the most innovative showings of the lithograph creations. "The Big Print" exhibition is created primarily by numerous contemporary graphics. With different media and .processes combined, the practice is now 1 7, " f Crafts Movement." The arts and crafts movement has been traced back to its origins in England as a against the furnishings of the The industrial revolution. ng movement spoke of the degradation of the worker and urged the return of creativity in the workplace. Arts and crafts artists sought to revitalize the spirit of the individual e craftsman designing utilitarian goods for the general hand-mad- population. As a social ideal, the arts and crafts movement was a failure because the hand-crafte- d objects were too expensive for the the movement Jieople. Artistically, of carefully designed NOVA film crew documents dramatic moments on the ballistic missile submarine U.S.S, Michigan, while the latest American doomsday machine is on active patrol, -Saddam's War on Wildlife," 28 at 7 airing Tuesday Jan. p.m., documents the struggle to save animals from the oil e spills and otherfrom the Gulf dangers resulting man-mad- War. On Thursday evenings at 8 pan., beginning Jan. 23, KUED series called presents a rt The War File," which covers 27-pa- everything from Hitler to Vietnam. s . - bmarine-th- e USS Michigan. :... . ' : , t .,.k.... r C'jji ?r " .:. The Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah is now displaying several new exhibits running through mid-Februar- y. objects. William Morris, who is regarded as the father of the arts and crafts movement, saw the industrial revolution as "mere subservience to machinery." He saw the worker reduced to an animated component the mechanical process, dehumanized, robbed of the responsibility and his creativity stifled all in the interest of of inferior to what E reducing products ad formerly been made by hand. Going on the belief, "We should have nothing in our nouses which we do not either know to be useful or believe to be beautiful," Morris put his ideas into practice and created the first Arts and Crafts Guild, producing art, wallpaper and textile designs, furniture, books, stained glass and metal work. Through Morris' success, the next 50 years experienced an increase in guilds in England, in Europe and in the United States. The creativity of artists, artisians and architects was seen largely in the United States. The American movement received its motivation from the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, where superior foreign arts and crafts Were shown. The American Arts and Crafts Movement was born in an attempt to create a national identity in the arts. Diversity was achieved through regionalism. Artists in New York focused on the home, while pottery in Cincinnati was a noticeable part of the movement. Chicago was another major art city, as was the state of California. Furniture was one of the decorative arts that was used. Pottery, metal work, fabrics, lighting and paintings were all created according to the arts and crafts credo "Handmade, beautiful and utilitarian." The "Arts and Crafts Movement" will be shown through Feb. 16, in the Hansen Gallery, as a precursor to a larger exhibit of arts and crafts objects in Utah collections scheduled for 1993. Opening on Jan. 19, the "Salt Lake City High Schools" is an annual exhibition that features the best art work created by students from three different Salt Lake City high schools. This exhibition will be shown through Feb. 9, in . Gallery One. The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is open 10 a.m.-- 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, ana 2 p.m.S p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Overcrowding a continual problem have documented the crowded By Chandra Graham Chronicle Feature Writer Assistant professor Charles Hunt is calling upon students to protest the overcrowding problem within the sociology departments and others. He feels that students can make positive changes. A lack of funding is the root of the problem, according to Hunt. "The sociology department hasn't had its budget for materials increased in 10 years," he said. In 10 years we've probably lost 50 or 70 percent of our budget just to inflation." "What ends up happening is that when I teach Sociology 101, at a certain point over about 150 or 200 students, every student that is added starts to cost the department money. It costs between five and seven thousand dollars just to reproduce the exams for that huge class," he continued. "My department has said that I'm not allowed to let in more than about 420 students. That's a huge class. They can fit in the hall, some of them sit on the group down into 10 sections, we an unprecedented - 1 I want discussion sections. When we break that ballistic raixsile m "1 steps, but wa on the latest American . OUtONIOf PHOTOVonSim - Thomas Galleries. Also on exhibit at the Fine Arts Museum is the "American Arts and rebellion A i of Fine Arts in the Michael and mass-produci- , ; lilifl 1 ? that the lithographic workshops have become the forerunners in the endeavors to find new courses for perfecting the work of lithography. "The Big Print" exhibition can be seen through Feb. 2 at the Museum i V,. enlarging to include granular plates and the possibility of better transfer methods for the print paper that is allowed. According to Quensen, "The Big Print" exhibition is a testimonial "it' NOVA takes ; v Big r x :V;" community. examines effects of Gulf War ar .i"". '. clear independence of the trendy and the "in" movements, to compete in the contemporary art market He is regarded as one of the more creative individuals in the cultural KUED In conjunction with the one-yeanniversary of the war in ? can't find enough rooms to meet in or large enough rooms." Hunt and fellow instructors discussion sections and even rooms photographed the overflowing with students. "We have 35 or 40 people in a conference room that should only fit 15," he said. "The students are sitting all over the floor, the table and out in the hallway. It's absurd." "I hate to turn people away," Hunt added. "But if the fire marshall comes in, we would have a problem. The university would be prosecuted. The department has set a limit on how many students I can let in. But when I say no, they have to take Basket weaving 101 "rather than the courses they need." Hunt feels that students' time in school is elongated by a lack of available classes. "Students may have to be here an extra year to get the classes they need. That's an extra year of loans. It's crazy." Hunt is also dissatisfied with the funding he receives from the department for travel to conferences and other activities. However, he indicated that the students' concerns are more important. "This place is here because the students are here. Students really can make a difference with this problem. Students are Utah residents, their parents are Utah taxpayer and they have state representatives in the legislature who they need to talk to," he said. "Those representatives need to know what it's like to spend an extra quarter or year getting what you need. They need to know what it's like to sit in a classroom that holds 20 people with 40 people in it. And they need to know that you have to do that. They need to know that their funding has results," he said. "You also need to let people at the university know," he said. a "There is university ombudsman. We have a for academic affairs. They need to hear. A letter to the president wouldn't hurt. These vice-preside- nt problems are unacceptable." Hunt would like to see a student organization which lobbies for higher academic priorities. "Start raising hell," he said. "It's the only way to do it. Students don't realize that 25 years ago when I was in their seat, we had 15 teaching assistants instead of the five we have now. Discussion sections were 15 or 20 people at most, not 45. The only way to change the problem is to get adequate funding and an adequate teaching staff. Students need to have a voice. They can make a difference." "I'm a moldy activist from the '60s," Hunt said. "But I'm not asking for revolution, just a little change." left-ove- r, |
