Rochester Institute of Technology - Techmila / Ramikin Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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When you hear “art” or “artist” mentioned, do you see your roommate bending over a “hot” drawing board, or your best girl with paint on her chin? Do you sec a painting in a gallery or a dis- orderly Bohemian? In all this variety of pictures concerning the “profession of pictures” none is the picture of art in all its aspects. What lies behind the paint and the people? Thought that goes into every line. W hat is revealed to you? Not only the obvious images cited but the whole world as artists see it. Smell the plasticenc and hear the whir of the potter’s wheel. The walls beam down in colored splendor with the products of many hours of classwork and research. The Art and Design building that is Alice Bevier’s memorial truly plays a part in the world today. A good deal of living goes on here. Personalities of all kinds come together like threads in a tapestry and run side by side for awhile creating their design. Finally, they track off in search of someone else with whom to employ their talents. Twen y-tuv

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The world around us has changed drastically since the day this school was founded. But it is the way of man that his feet cover more ground at each step. As yesterday’s graduate artists helped make life what it is today, so today’s artists will make the life of tomorrow. As education expands, their creations improve propor- tionately, but they may also change radically as the artist experiences the thinking and advancements in other fields. As thought changes so must action. The proof of the artist has been in his action. He designs new shapes and forms, new ways of seeing things, and new' things to be seen. Everything you are wearing, reading, eating, or dodging in the street was designed for your use and pleasure. Thus, the artist molds our present and future. T watiy-lbree