Chicago State University - Emblem Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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(opposite top) Mrs. Jane Neale. Chairman of the Art Department, (opposite middle left) Mr. James Bowden instructs student in pot- tery class, (opposite lower left) Even test re- sults contain an artistic curvature, (opposite lower right) Doctor Gopal Mitra helps give shape to an artistic concept, (upper left) Miss Jane Wesolowski softens clay for a student. (left) Mr. Ausbra Ford takes attendance at the start of his class, (above) Mr. David Sharpe prepares to evaluate a student paint- ing, (upper right) Miss Janie Shackel. instruc- tor in Art. (right) Mr. Charles Askew. Faculty assistant in the Art Department. A new innovation is the studio show, in which graduating seniors presented their pro- jects of the past year. This new program climaxed with the All College Exhibit and the Festival of Arts Week. Among the inhabitants of the earth man alone has a spirit. He IS the only creature whose essence has beauty when por- trayed in symbols

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Art Department plans all college exhibit Over two thousand years ago, Plato perceived that reality existed not in physical forms, but rather in the realms of ideas. In our contemporary world people are not believers in a definite form of reality, consequently, the accent is on doing our thing. The ex- pression of mankind ' s ab- stract ideas with vivid sym- bols is what we call art. The Greeks of Plato ' s era ex- pressed art with the beautiful human forms of classical sculpture. Today we do our thing with a manifestation called modern art. To fully experience art, says Mrs. Jane Neale, Chair- man of the CSC Art Depart- ment, one must be a skilled craftsman and a student of man ' s culture. The Art De- partment is expanding to in- corporate into the curriculum the aestheticism that ema- nates from the diverse peo- ples of the world. New courses offerings are the history of African, American, Oriental, and Contemporary Art. A stu- dio course in Black Arts will also be offered.

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(above) Tom Mathias shares his sculpture of Malcom X, (above right) Nancy Kirksey checks for imperfections before firing, (bot- tom right) Janice Niepsu] plans a mobile.