Massachusetts College of Art and Design - Palette and Pen Yearbook (Boston, MA)

Text from Pages 1 - 90 of the 1963 volume:

TT “In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences, and out ©f this mixture he makes a work of art. Creativity has been man’s key to the future relying primarily on his ability of transcending conventional patterns of thought. St springs not only from the conscious but from the subconscious as well, the subconscious being the most active of tho creative imagination from whence comes the arrangement end correlation of ideas into a pattern. The concept that the organizing power of life, manifest in the mind as well as in the body, is the truly creative element in which creativity thus becomes an attribute of life. With dedication to one’s work, the mastery of the medium passes from the conscious to the subconscious — only then can one give the impression of spontaneity. An artist is an explorer: he has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that there must be no evidence of constrain! in his work. The class of 1963 dedi- cates this yearbook to Miss Marguerite R. Franklin, who joined the Massachusetts Col- lege of Art faculty in 1946, teaching psychology at first, and later when the oppor- tunity came, sociology. Miss Franklin graduated from Wheelock College, then known as Wheelock School and went on to Columbia University to obtain her Bach- elors and Masters degrees. From this point on she taught at many different colleges: Wheelock, where she was first supervisor of practice teaching and later appointed Dean; Mills College in New York; Lesley College, where she was appointed President. Outside of the teaching field she has come in contact with many diversified occu- pations — hospital work, business work, speech work, and settlement work. With all this in mind, one can come to know and under- stand this woman who com- mands respect from students of present and past years — a woman who gives freely and willingly her time and concern to anyone who de- sires it. The appearance of the 1963 Annual of Massachusetts College of Art is, as always, an exciting and joyous accent in the life of each of those who appear on its pages. It is an anxious document of success achieved and of unknown vistas of accom- plishment yet to be. In an excitingly unpredictable world with unknown and fascinating opportunities the leadership of the creative mind is unassailed by thinking men. Our era, in many ways like the Renaissance, is one in which every discipline is seeking the creative, constructive and ordered methodology of the arts. For the students and alumni of this college, rigorously prepared in the ways of excellence, it is a most auspicious time. Your college will listen to hear reverberations of the praise you will attain and i n these echoes if will know its own success. For the past four years your goal has been the mas- tery of skill and expression in art. Perhaps you have dis- covered that the search for such mastery has been charac- terized by a restless alterna- tion between statement and judgement, between construc- tion and criticism. These years have been rich in that inter- action — a process resulting in sharpened awareness of what is mere entertainment for the eye and of what can be enrichment of the mind. If such discernment has led to continuing re-examination of what is considered true in life, then your efforts and those of your faculty have been re- warded amply. For most of us, college education is a combination of the discovery of new ideas and of the awakening and developing of our latent talents. Another aspect of education, however, is that it opens vistas of all that is still to be learned and thereby makes us realize the vast stretches of man’s ignorance. The more we know, the more we become aware of what we do not know. The angry young man of today’s society, so often depicted in contemporary literature, expresses his contempt for ignorance and its evil manifestations: injustice, prejudice, and complacency. Although he fights against them violently, he is somehow powerless to destroy them. Perhaps his failure is due to the fact that his i valuable to society and Dean of Women Charles o. abboll david berger alf braconier john butler Calvin burnett kaJhryn a. coghlan mary s. collins muriel r. cooper arfhur copplesione arthur cortini floyd covert Charles demetropoulos russe!! douceffe joseph w. fulten carl gibson infield bruce c. hawthor robert e. 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