| Show Arts & Entertainment Friday May 21 Standard-Examin- er 1 Theaters 999 Features Editor: FINAL FINAL' James MacBeth a visual arts professor at Weber State University discusses the final exam projects created by his design class MacBeth who is retiring this year after teaching at WSU for 34 years had assigned all students to invent a contraption that would move a ping-ponball through five operations in one minute Below MacBeth and class study a device designed by student James Read 625-427- 0 Quick TAKES al g MARTA STORWICK James MacBeth is retiring but he's not exactly the retiring type BEST BETS Theater Sundance has announced its summer season for its outdoor 3C stage Movies The Star Wars can truly break out now as a documentary about Trekkies hits the big screen 6C Standard Examiner HOT TICKETS By AMY PRAY See Page 2C for details on this and other events: Lo Fidelity Allstars June 15 Salt Lake City Vans Warped Tour Featuring Cypress Hill Suicidal Tendencies Ice T Blink 182 Pennywise July 10 Salt Lake staff Standard-Examin- some ping-pon- g balls some paint plywood a couple of two-litpop maybe some duct tape you were a student in one of James art classes scraps like these scavenged from the garage and arranged just so might have earned you an A on your final exam Forget memorizing lists and scribbling answers These students built "contraptions” for their academic credit MacBeth required his Weber State University students last semester to construct a design that moved a ping-pon- g ball through a series of five distinctly different operations within one minute’s time The project had to be both functional and aesthetically pleasing But it couldn’t cost more than $20 and the ball couldn’t be altered MacBeth disagrees with one student’s remark that those in his class “didn’t even have to study” He insists that such a project with its time space and money dilemmas takes much more effort and creative thinking than picking multiple-choic- e answers or writing another essay “It involves a whole lot of study talking figuring thinking reading they find ideas then they have to check them out to see if they work It’s the most rigorous type of study” said MacBeth who gave students the final assignment so they could begin that thinking process “As artists we’ve got to be stirring things up and looking at them anew backwards turning things -upside down” MacBeth said “Problem-solvin- g that’s really what art is” The art professor who made it a point to approach life from a different way and who taught his students to do the same is retiring after 34 years at WSU With him go the quirky projects such as making the largest design possible for $5 or creating a chair from one-pl- y cardboard that can hold a person or seeing who could make the tallest design using two sheets of paper and 12 inches of tape or making a pair of shoes that play music when you walk in them” Many students groaned at such assignments A few didn’t bother trying But those who took an idea and ran with it were the ones w ho kept MacBeth inspired and made teaching fun “If I can have students surprise me that’s exciting Even though people have two eyes and two hands every project is different from the next” he said “You wish you could give advice say something really meaningful and significant Mostly you just hope they learn how to think “Thinking feeling making good decisions -that’s what it's all about” MacBeth makes his decision to retire from teaching at age 65 but he has no intention of See MacBETH4C Take er City Rockfest 99 With Bad Company Billy Squire Blue Oyster Cult Aug 6 Salt Lake City Barenaked Ladies Aug 24 West Valley City Lyle Lovett Aug 24 West al Valley City er Seileck hopes for a western next time d Living Traditions Native artist features folk art food jasses on Heritage to apprentice Standard Examiner staff - Rios PERRY mass-produce- LAKE CITY - Visitors to this Living Traditions Festival can the sights sounds flavor and of other cultures by watching master artisans at work from noon to 8 pm Saturday and noon to 7 pm Sunday The 14th annual festival brings together an array of folk groups - ethnic national rural religious and occupational They live in Utah but their heritage spans the globe Artisans will perform demonstrate their work and talk about traditions under tents at the Salt Lake City and County Building 450 S 200 East More than 20 food vendors also will offer a variety of ethnic fare Many items produced dunng the festival will be on sale at the Living Traditions Craft Market open during festival hours Among crafts featured will be Armenian needlework and pile carpets bits and spurs silverwork bobbin lacing Chinese paper cutting Lcuadorian carving Luropean decorative painting horsehair hitching Japanese calligraphy Mexican paper flower-makin- g Pueblo pottery Scottish tartan g and Tongan knitting weaving Food offerings include traditional-styl- e dishes from Italy Hawaii LI Salvador Lebanon Vietnam Switzerland Scotland Columbia Philippines Bolivia Ireland France Japan Greece Native American cultures and barbecue from America's Southern region Proceeds from food sales go directly to support arts activities of each ethnic organization SALT By AMY PRAY Pacheco deftly up tiny beads onto a needle held between his and forefinger and begins stitching them into canvas Over three stitch up three stitch he explains seated at a work table in the Indian Trading Post south of Brigham City on US 89 Rows of white blue pink and black beads begin to form a pattern that to the untrained eye looks like an interior d decorator’s Southwestern motif To Pacheco and fellow Native Americans patterns like these sewn onto leg coverings moccasins and dancing outfits are much more than decoration They represent culture heritage and traditions Learning the skills of beading tanning hides and featherwork - and passing that knowledge onto younger generations - is the only way to keep alive that way of life Pacheco said “When Mother's gone and your It seemed inconsequential to Tom Selleck that his latest movie the romantic comedy “The Love Letter" is opening same week as the “Star Wars’ prequel The business side of show business bores the Selleck who is so philosophical about his profession he sounds more like Don Quixote than Thomas Magnum the playboy private eye he portrayed for eight years on television “I like to act but I'm not fond of the business of acting" he said in his trademark growl “Actors have this sense that there is a noble quest to their profession that you're looking for some truth or beauty to what you do” Selleck and others associated with “The Love Letter’ are counting on attracting older audiences not interested in a space opera being Force-feSelleck said he has no specific plans for what he II do next except for the offhand shrug followed by “I think I'd like to do a western" He's eager for a hit with "The Love Letter" which also stars Kate Capshaw But he says previous success has given him the comfortable position of working for enjoyment rather than survival ALAN MURRAY Standar4£xamner Pacheco who owns the Indian Trading Post in Perry and makes Native American regalia teamed traditional skills of tanning hides beading and featherwork from his parents relatives and classes at the Institute for American Indian Art He will be one of the featured artists at the Living Traditions Festival in Sait Lake City MORE THAN DECORATIONS: Rios stone-carvin- aunt those who provide for you are gone you must do for yourself If you don’t pick it up there won’t be anyone left to teach you and you lose the tradition" he said master artist of The Native American regalia will be one of See PACHECO12C L- PREVIEW WHAT: Living Traditions Festival WHEN: 5 pm to 1 0 pm today noon to 1 0 p m Saturday and noon to 7 pm Sunday WHERE: Salt Lake City and County Building 450 S 200 East Salt Lake City TICKETS: Admission is free jsm am $ TOP RECORDS These were the top dance tracks of the week according to Billboard 1 “Got The Groove” Trax 2 “Unspeakable Joy" Kim English 3 “Got To Dance Disco” H OG Presents Groovelines 4 “Sexual (U Da Di)" Amber 5 “Let It Rain" Soul Solution (featuring Carolyn Harding) 6 “It’s Over Now" Deborah Cox 7 “When I Grow Up” S-- Garbage 8 “All Night Long" Faith Evans (featuring Puff Daddy) 9 “She Wants You" Billie 10 “Strong Enough" Cher - 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