National Louis University - National Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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On October 26, 1966, Nationals art department sponsored a lecture on Art and the Environmentv by Karl Linn. Presently a private consultant to the Presidents Committee on Recreation and Natural Beauty in Washington, D.C., Mr. Linn is considered a psychologist-landscape architect. Born and raised in Germany, he studied child analyst. in Switzerland and later practiced as a lay analysis. After imigrating to the United States, he began to combine his training in psychology with his interests in art. Now living in New York, Mr. Linn is professor of Environmental ANS at Long Island University. While at the University of Pennsylvania, he initiated a national self-help movement for neighborhood parks. This grew out of an action-teaching program at the university, in which students organized into a design corps to give leadership to neighborhoods. After an informal meeting with faculty members, Mr. Linn gave a provocative lecture before the stu- dents. Presenting a different perspective of the arts, he supplemented his lecture with colored slides on American and European environmental art. He ex- plained that, Environment is a social force. What concerns me on one hand is what can we who build physical environment do to strengthen and reinforce all that which we aspire toward . . So much of our environment is concerned with space and the utilization of space for functional pur- poses. Space is to me a non-human catalyst. We cannot rely only on ourselves. That is what art is all about. I'm trying to bridge the gap between the artist and the psychologist. It is the importance of synthesizing physical space with psychological en- joyment which Mr. Linn tried to make the students visualize. In closing he stated that, The artist on a certain level is a visionaryf, He combines anthropological concems and social concerns in environmental space. Space dictates behavior. It provides a framework in which people meet and react to one another. Therefore, we must co-ordinate the use of space with emerging social pattems and cultural patterns ac- cmately, if we wish to avoid the creation of useless art relics. In the discussion group that followed the assembly, Mr. Linn told how our college could function as a demonstration area for neighborhood enviromnental improvement programs. Because a college is a gen- erating center of ideas, said Nlr. Linn, it can de- velop a center of invention and schedule both its physical plant development in conjunction with the kind of curriculum and kind of resources that it has. Thus, the college should be a center which produces new and fresh ideas for using functional art in the environment li.e., public and private facilitiesl. It should create within its social framework a more ef- fective feedback to its community. From Mr. Linnis stimulating lecture, many of the students are attempting to initiate National College's own community demonstration center program for environmental art. College Council is now discussing the possibility of building a creative playground for the children's school with the use of student ingenuity and labor. Only time will tell if we at National are able to accomplish Mr. Linn's idea of creating functional art in an environment. 1 i

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