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'Uidu.ad shirts Helen Frances Patton, Acting Chairman B.S., Peabody College; M.A., University of Chicago Monticello's art program is directed toward the aesthetic development of the individual through a sound program which stresses individual growth through creative activity, and the development of a personal discrimination of great art of the past and present. In addition, Monticello provides a variety of courses which give the student a sound foundation for advanced achievement in the arts. The activities of the Department of Visual Arts have been many and varied this year. Frequent exhibits from the Museum of Modern Art have included Look at Your Neighborhood, What is Modern Painting? , One Hundred Years of Portrait Painting, and also an exhibition of lithographs and prints. Several illustrated slide talks have been shown in the evenings for those interested in the subject. A trip to the St. Louis Art Museum in the spring is always planned by the department to help students evaluate art forms in their traditional and contemporary applications. This excursion has proved to be very interesting and helpful to the art students. The art courses offered to Monticello students include Basic Design, Interior Decoration, Sculpture, Commercial Art, Drawing, Weaving, Painting, and Dress Design. The Acting Chairman of the Department of Visual Arts is Miss Helen Patton, instructor in Art History. Other members include Mrs. Margaret Foster, who instructs in Commercial W. Vladimir Rousseit Bulgarian National Gymnasium; L'Ecole de 1'Assomption, Varna, Bulgaria; Art Institute of Chicago
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m UdlC Robert Oldham Music B., Music M., Yale University; Pupil of Bruce Simonds, Harry Jcpson, David McK. Williams, Tobias Matthay, London Elizabeth Ware Sly Studied with Irma Seydel, William H. Reed, Harrison Keller, Werner Lywen. Special student in conducting of Ethel Leginska in Europe. Debut with Boston Women’s Symphonv Orchestra in 1928 Prudence F. Bussey Music B., Oberlin Conservatory; Pupil of Louise Homer, Olga Averino, Carl Wernich, Hugh Porter The choir participates annually in the performance of the “Messiah” given by the community of Alton. A large group of students attends the St. Louis concerts of such artists as Horowitz, Helen Traubcl, and Krcislcr. The tickets for these performances arc provided by the college. The function of the Music Department at Monticcllo is that of every other department— education. With this education, which is an education in one of the most refined and beautiful of the arts, goes an understanding of beauty in the things about us.
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'Uidual Irts Hillis Arnold Sculpture B.A., University of Minnesota; raduate study, Minneapolis chool of Arts Margaret G. Foster Art, Assistant in Residence B.S., M.S., University of Wisconsin Art and Dress Design and who works with the Drama Department in designing and assembling costumes; Mr. Hillis Arnold, who teaches Sculpture and who, besides having the distinction of being commissioned to do the sculpturing for the St. Louis War Memorial, also is responsible for making a variety of wood-carvings that will be installed in the College library; and Mr. Vladimir RoussefF, instructor in Drawing and Painting, who also works with the Drama Department in designing and constructing stage sets for the theater. Mr. Roussel!' designed the scenery for the college productions of “Little Black Sambo and Arsenic and Old Lace.
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