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Show New Staff Member at Art Center Seko feels the Kimball Art Center "has a role to play in the community. It , has a direction and it serves a community need." Seko' s job will be to help broaden and publicize the existing creative and educational opportunities the Kimball Art Center has to offer. Alan Seko is 26 and a Salt j Lake native. "My goal for the Kimball Art Center" is to bring more people in, whether it is to watch a play or take a look at a display. I'd like to create a greater awareness for Kimball Art Center and for the arts themselves." Alan Seko, a 26 year old graduate from the University of Utah's journalism department, depart-ment, this week has joined the staff- of the Kimball Art Center. , Seko's job will be in the areas of education and public i relations for the Art Center. ' He would like to see a student internship program worked out in conjunction with colleges colleg-es and universities locally. That way, a student could be earning credits and valuable :. on-the-job training and the Art Center would gain some enthusiastic, captive "volunteers" "volun-teers" to help in specific areas. C; :K :' ' Most recently, Seko was the assistant director of admissions admis-sions for Westminister College. Col-lege. Many weeks averaged 80 hours and involved not only the applications to the school, but the recruiting of students as well. Helping to develop programs for the Kimball Art Center school was a large pull v for Seko to take the job here. "I never really want to break completely away from education." educa-tion." During his own education in journalism and mass communications, com-munications, Alan Seko found himself helping out on the radio station, KUER, at the University of Utah campus. As a graduate student, Seko had been asked to "help out" with the station and for a year and a half, he found himself in charge of the news portion of the program. |
