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Show Page 3 SfafesmanCampus News Monday, Oct. /, 2007 Dark Metropolis brings new light to museum By LINDSAY ANDERSON staff writer Dark Metropolis, the latest exhibit at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, showcases artist Irving Norman, "an artist we've believed in for a very long time," said Victoria Roe, director and curator of the museum. Norman's wife, Hela Norman, along with curator of the Irving Norman pieces, Scott Shields, spoke to USU students Friday morning about Irving Norman's life and work. It took Irving Norman, a mostly self-taught artist, according to Hela Norman, two years on average to finish a painting. Irving Norman would first draft the painting in his mind, then pencil the image onto the canvas. He would then outline the design in ink. For the final step, "he would do a wash of complimentary color and decided it would be more wise with a green underneath, and then he would start on the top layer," Hela Norman said. "When he came to the end, he would probably prepare for the next one but would take a little time off between paintings, and during this time he was not too easy to live with," Hela Norman said. "That's when things would go on in his head, and he would have to plan for the next one. But once that was settled, he was sweet as pie " Art historians often describe Irving Norman as a social surrealist, but Shields said he doesn't think Irving Norman would have called himself a social surrealist, as he didn't really like the term. However, the exhibit is classified as social surrealism because "you can't look at his work and not think of social causes," Shields said. Hela Norman said Irving Norman's works reflect social issues because he was "very bothered by what was happening to people in the world. His intense caring for human beings made him paint these works." When Roe asked Hela Norman what life experience influenced Irving Norman to paint these pieces, Hela Norman said, "I think it was his war experience." Irving Norman fought in the Spanish Civil War with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and because of his experience with war, "he felt the need to show what war was so people would understand," Hela Norman said. "He came to the conclusion that our society was based on war. "He was a visual person. He just saw everything, and he was never bored. He knew his work was great." "It feels like he has been ignored," Roe said. "Because of the magnitude of his work, he hasn't received the critical acclaim that he should have earlier on." Irving Norman's work has only recently begun to be recognized; Campus & Community Clothesline Display created by victims H E L A N O R M A N , the widow of Irving Norman, spoke Friday about her husband's work that is on display at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Norman stands next to her husband's 1959 oil painting "The Palace." NOELLE BERLAGE photo people never knew what to think of his work because it didn't fit with his time, Shields said. "There are a whole generation of artists who are starting to work like Irving Norman. He just did it 40 years earlier," Shields said. "I think people are catching up now, he was just a bit ahead. I don't think he is ever going to be obscure again. When you're really talented, you have a sense that people are going to catch up." When asked what she felt the paint- ings conveyed, Hela Norman said, "I think he was trying to say, 'Look folks, can't we do a little better?' He had that hope that we actually could." Roe said, "At first glance, you realize how powerful and how much impact this artwork has. You will have to come back. The first time is not enough; it is somewhat overwhelming." Dark Metropolis will be at USU through Oct. 6 at the museum. -lindsay.anderson@aggiemaiiusu.edu Feet First: Some lose shoes for cause Understanding 01 continued from page 1 really raise awareness and that stuAfter walking barefoot Friday, Dan dents will participate in the drive. Allen, junior and member of Aggies This time of life, he said, presents the for Africa, said he learned how lucky best opportunity students have to people in America are and just how truly make a difference. many conveniences are readily available. Putting on his 50-cent flip-flops "It is a good thing, especially for after walking around campus shoecollege kids, to be involved. After we less, Allen said he couldn't believe the graduate, we get a job and get mardifference. ried and are enveloped in our own Allen said the drive is something in life. We are not really tied to anything now," he said. "We are kind of free which students need to participate. floating, and we can make a big difWhittier agreed and said he ference in whatever we choose to do." believes the drive can bring out the goodness and charity in people, Allen said he hopes the drive will something that today's society is lack- be successful, not only in collecting ing. shoes for the people of Zambia and "Some students would take their • raising awareness* of problem spacing • all of Africa, but also by increasingshoes off right there, and that is something we are seeing less and less ' aid to the struggling countries. of in our culture, doing something "All we can do is hope," Allen to make a difference. I think that is said. "We are not going to save all of being lost. Anything you can do to Africa, by all means, but we can do bring it out, that desire, is a positive little things to help one person at a experience," he said. time." Allen said he expects Feet First to -arie.k@aggiemail.usu.edu Briefs The Women's Center is having their annual Clothesline Display Oct. 1-3,10 a.m. - 9 p.m. Monday & Tuesday and 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Wednesday. The display will be in the TSC International Lounge The Clothesline Project is a visual display of shirts with messages and illustrations that have been designed by women survivors of violence, by their friends, or families. The Clothesline may also contain shirts made to honor women who have died as a result of violence. The purpose of this project is to increase awareness of the impact of violence against women, to celebrate a woman's strength to survive, and to provide another avenue for her to courageously break the silence. Survivors, family and friends are invited to join in "breaking the silence" as the first step in trying to end the vicious cycle of abuse by designing a shirt. For shirt designing sessions, call or email the Women's Center, 797-1728, womenscenter@usu.edu, to arrange a time and location to design a shirt. Appointment times are available for Oct. 1 and 2, between 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. Confidentiality is respected. Interior Design lecture human's series begins this week learning key to teaching Penny Bonda is the opening speaker in the Interior Design Program Lecture Series at USU. She speaks Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 9:30 a.m. in the Kent Concert Hall of the Chase Fine Arts Center. The lecture is free and open to the public as well as USU faculty, staff and students. "The Incredible Green Growing Machine" is the title of Bonda's lecture. Bonda works in the field of environmental communications and is a prominent writer and lecturer, said Darrin Brooks, a USU interior design faculty member and lecture series coordinator. She is eco-editor of "Interior Design" magazine and a monthly contributor to the magazine's online resource "The Green Zone." She is the founding chair of the U.S. Green Building Council committee for LEED Commercial Interiors and the ASID Sustainable Design Council. She is the current co-chair of the Green Residential Renovation and Interior Remodeling Program. Bonda attended the American University in Washington, D.C, where she earned degrees in education and interior design. A practicing interior designer for 27 years, she has headed her own firm and served as the interior design director for leading design and architectural firms. In 1996, Bonda served as the 21st national president of ASID, a 30,000-member organization that is the oldest and largest professional association of interior designers in the world, representing practitioners in all design specialties. For information on the interior design program at USU or the lecture series, contact Brooks at 7974559. The Interior Design Program Lecture Series is made possible by a grant from the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation. He also said he began looking at literature on human learning while he was doing the study, and he noticed the books and the teachers he was studying Understanding human learning and talked about many of the same ideas. challenging students to break down However, Bain said good teaching their misconceptions is what makes a does not just come from literature. good teacher, said Ken Bain in a lecture, Students are individual cases and often Friday in the Eccles Science Learning already have a conception of what they Center. think is right in their heads. Good Bain, author of the book "What the teachers must break through that paraBest College Teachers Do," spoke to a digm. Bain said. crowd of about 150 people as part of Bain used the story of two physics a series of lectures that will be given teachers as an example of this phenomthroughout the year, hosted by the enon. Bain said the teachers gave a Force Provost's Office at USU. . , Content Inventor)' to 600 students at Bain, who is a history professor as the start of class on how they perceived .well as a vice provost for instruction at motion. After students went through Montclair State University in Montclaii, the course, the professors brought them N.J., said many factors influence what back and gave them the same test. Bain makes teachers great and there is no set said the results were shocking because formula for teaching effectively. the teachers found virtually no change "If you came expecting a few simple in the students' ideas about motion. It dos and don'ts, you will be disappointwas not based on grades. A students ed," Bain said. "It's not that simple." were just as likely to retain the same In order to understand what makes ideas as C students, Bain said. a great teacher. Bain said he conducted "In every subject, students are a study in which he handpicked 63 reluctant to give up prior knowledge," teachers who he thought met the qualihe said. "Before teachers even begin to fications of a good teacher and studied address this issue of deep conceptual them intensely. learning, you must create a complex "We wanted to identify people who learning environment." fostered deep learning in their stuBain gave some key ingredients in dents," he said. creating this environment, including Bain said he interviewed the teachputting students in a situation where ers, sat in on their classes and videotheir existing paradigm did not work taped them in order to observe common and making them interested in learning variables that made them superior why it did not work. teachers. The central quality, Bain said, One problem advanced educators was their ability to understand human face is being able to ask advanced queslearning. This was a new concept to tions, he said. In order to do this, teachBain, who said he had never thought to ers must dig deep and find questions study the way humans learn in order to MEMBERS OF AGGIES FOR A F R I C A are collecting shoe donations for Feet that students will find important, he teach them better. First The club also hosted Barefoot Friday. Club members said they were surprised said. by the number of students who joined them in sacrificing their shoes for a day. "It took 20 years of teaching before it "Each student has curiosity," Bain Donations will be sent to Zambia with Mothers Without Borders. DEBRA HAWKINS occurred to me to look at literature on said. "You just have to spark it." The Community Abuse Prevention photo human learning," Bain said. ~amanda.m@aggiemail.usu.edu Services Agency (CAPSA) was awarded a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Contact USU Police at 797-1939 Justice to develop a program for "Education, for non-emergencies. training, and enhanced services to end vioAnonymous reporting line: 797-5000 lence against women with disabilities". EMERGENCY NUMBER: 911 The grant is part of a three-year cooperative agreement between CAPSA and the Monday, Sept. 24, 2007 Golden Toaster on a motorist assist call. The vehi• USU Police investigated a two vehicle accident. Office on Violence Against Women (OVW). cle had stopped at 1200 E. 600 North due to a flat One vehicle stopped in the lane of travel when the The Vera Institute of Justice, a non-profit • USU Police are investigating a criminal mischief tire. The driver of the vehicle was able to have her secondary vehicle backed into it. Police had the located in Manhattan, N.Y., will provide case that occurred in the USU Trailer Court. Police husband come and handle the problem. There was drivers exchange information. technical assistance and a framework for the believe this incident may be related to a previous no further action taken. team to follow in developing this program. criminal mischief case. Friday, Sept. 21, 2007 The goal of the program is to create • USU Police trespassed an individual from the stameaningful and sustainable change resultSunday, Sept. 23,2007 dium for having alcohol inside the stadium at the • Police responded to a fire alarm at Davis Hall. It ing in more effective services for victims of violence who have disabilities, with a USU Football game. was determined that a blow dryer had set off the focus on systems change through knowl• USU Police responded to a report of a medical alarm. edge and policy. This will be achieved by assist at Valley View Tower. Logan City Fire and • USU Police responded to Mountain View Tower EMS also responded. Upon arrival, it was discovwhere an individual was stuck in elevator. Police • An individual who was stopped for a traffic stop helping communities and service providers understand some of the distinctive barriered that a resident suffering from various medical were able reset the elevator and it resumed normal was booked into jail for outstanding warrants. ers for people with disabilities who are also problems had passed out, but was conscious and operation. victims of domestic violence, and providing alert upon police arrival. • Police responded to Wasatch Hall on a report programs that will result in effective and • USU Police responded to the Aggie Terrace that a bicycle tire had been cut by a knife. Police enduring improvements in the services • USU Police responded to the Widstoe emergency Parking in one minute for an emergency phone are investigating. available to these victims. phone for an activation of that alarm. No one was alarm. No one was found in the area needing assisCAPSA was chosen as one of six award found in the immediate area. tance. • USU Police received a delayed report of a rape recipients out of 50 applicants nationwide. that allegedly occurred at the University Inn. CAPSA is a non-profit organization in • USU Police responded to an agency assist on a • Police responded to the area of the Student Logan that is dedicated to providing safe, suspicious incident. After an investigation, it was Center on a report of individuals on unicycles • Police responded an emergency phone alarm caring, and confidential shelter, advocacy determined that the report was a prank. There was bothering pedestrians in the area. They were no at the Tennis Court. No one was found needing and support for victims of domestic violence no further action taken by USU police. longer in the area when police arrived. assistance. and sexual assault By AMANDA MEARS staff writer CAPS A receives grant from Dept. of Justice Po//cvBlotter Saturday, Sept. 22,2007 • USU police responded to the west side of the • Police responded to the Trailer Courts on a citizen assist. Police assisted a resident in removing items from their trailer. UCompiled by Arie Kirk UCompiled from staff and media reports |