Indiana State University - Sycamore Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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-v Qt? SHCW' just. ART DEPARTMENT It's true, art is not just deco. Current trends might indicate that art deco is back Iand subsequently 'in7 while other art is out. But that is not the case. A t ISU, for example, the Art Department was invoived in a number of projects, exhibits, and showings, some deco and some not. N Whitney j. Engeran, chairman of the Art Department at ISU, Opened a one-man exhibit of 75 A tmospheric Drawings at the BarnweII Art Center in Shreveport, L0,, on fan. 4. The exhibit, his 77th one-artist show, ran through jan. 23. The drawings were made on a special high quality porous paper using layer upon layer of brightIy-colored acrylic enamels in a spray technique which creates iIIusions of depth. Engeran, a native of Louisiana, was chairman of the Art Department at Loyola University in New Orleans for several years before joining the ISU staff in 7977. Engeran's main artistic training has been in art theory and criti- cism with research work and studies in studio art at Spring Hill College, Mobiie, and at the Art Students League in New York. N The visuai art of Willis Bing Davis, assistant professor of art at DePauw University, was featured in a one-man show in lSU's Turman Gallery in October, 7974. Davis, who entitled his show, Oh, Say Can You See, described the exhibit as contemporary ritual images from a black experience. In his works, Davis took a given medium like clay or cloth and made out of it a personal artistic statement based on responses to his totaI environment. He emphasized the totaI impact of his completed visual images rather than the technical aspects of the processes he employed. In terms of subject matter, Davis stated, I address myseIf to the unlimited resource ofpossibiiities of my existence. The conscious inclusion of social commentary in my works is the first step deCQ toward speaking to a universal condition. The rich artistic her- itage of African art with its religious, social, and magical sub- stance is what I select as an aesthetic and historical link. N Twenty IS U students had their paintings on exhibit at the Spring- field IIIIJ Art Association Gallery for three months beginning lane 8, 7 974. The exhibition represented one semesters work by students enroIIed in art classes taught by Charies Reddington, IS U assistant professor of art. Freshman through graduate level work was included in the collection. The diverse group of paintings ranged from the abstract to the realistic and from the serious to the bizarre, according to Reddington. Types of media used in- cluded oiis, acrylic, acetate paper, and various combinations. Many of the pieces were for sale, with price tags ranging from $ 30 to $400. N IS U 's popuiar Saturday morning art classes for youngsters began a new session on Feb. 7, 7975. The program was designed for third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grade pupils and attempted to provide those young people with stimulating creative art experiences that go beyond the regular classroom experience. Instructors were five graduate students, most of whom already had teaching experience in the public schools. Miss Patti Cox, a master's degree candidate, coordinated the program. Lessons ran for eight consecutive Satur- days. Areas of instruction included candiemaking, batik, tie- dyeing, ceramics, printmaking, macrame, weaving, and painting. Students were able to try their hands at their choices of the activities offered. ART 21

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Food is the prime fOCUS for those who make the SWitCh from Back in the dorrnV dishes were simple , . . just stack them on dorm life. Sometimes the menu gets boring - - - hOW mUCh the conveyer belt, and someone else did them. Now, suddenly bologna and peanut butter can a person take? Here we see the the sink is fun and your parents are coming and the teast of preparation of spaghetti . . . Ragu style. your worries is dishpan hands. Making hospital corners may not be your forte, but the time Shag carpets are nice. until it comes time to sweep. Those comes when even the most casual apartment owners feel the long shag loops seem to clog the vacuum faster than you need to straighten up. Here the duty is bed making, and it can clean them out . . . and it never seems to fail, just when isn't as easy as it looks. your carpet's its dirtiest, you can't find a bag. CIean-up CIose-u ps 20 APARTMENTS

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anr 8' ICIEnCEI The College of Arts and Sci- ences was established in 1962 and it includes a total of 23 de- partments and centers. Those include Anthropology. Art, Chemistry, Criminology, Economics, English and Journa- lism, Foreign Languages, Geog- raphy and Geology, h History, Home Economics, Humanities, Library Science, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psy- chology, Center for Science Edu- cation, Center for Social Science Education, Sociology and Social Work, and Speech. In addition to the liberal arts program and the professional and vocational curricula, the Col- lege is responsible for the aca- demic programs required of all students in secondary education until their admission to the School of Education. Some professional and voca- tional curricula offered by the College are interdepartmental in character. Many of the courses required to meet the Indiana State Univer- sity General Education program are also offered by academic de- partments in the College. Other areas of the university that are an indirect part of the College of Arts and Sciences in- clude preprofessional and special curricula tpredental hygiene, predentistry, pre-engineering pre- Iaw, and premedicinetv medical education Uncluding preoptom- etry, prepharmacy, preseminary, and preveterinary medicinetv Afro-American Studies Program, Program in American Studies, Military Science, Latin American Studies Program, Special General Education Program, and Urban- Regional Studies Center. e ARTS 8: SCIENCES What do asparagus, wild hickory nuts, and pine trees have in common? 22 ARTS 8v. SCIENCES