San Antonio College - El Alamo Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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Practicing the fundamentals of drawing and figure construction in charcoal and other media, Raymond Guzner and Gail Jones, have found a way to model for one picture as they sketch another in their life Art Department Displays Aclorn Foyers drawing class. Diana Camp and Brian Keuper study the oil paintings hung in the Fine Arts Building foyer. These paintings were done from the models in casein by sophomore advanced life drawing classes. Displays change as proiects are com- x.. Anything from screen wire and cleansing pads to fabrics and cellophane is ideal material tor the 250 students enrolled in the ART DEPART- MENT. Classes, extending into the second floor foyer of the Fine Arts Building, are divided be- tween three instructors, Mrs. Margaret Peavey, Mr. Melesis Casas, and Mr. James Colley. Creations of art students are displayed in every conceivable area ot that building, as well as in the Student Center. These creations consist of Iapidary art fstone cutting and polishingj, lite drawing, ceramics, pottery, graphics, and wood in abstract designs. pleted. Maria Coronado, Edward Douglas, and Mr. James Colley design the 1962 Christmas window featuring three singing angels with instruments. This picture, a traditional offering of the Art Department, is constructed of large cellophane panels mounted on cardboard. 92

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Funeral Home Designs Reveal Talent TA Y tP '5 k-Al Department Chairman Vernon Helmke states that SAC is the only Junior College in Texas boasting a completely accredited two-year Archi- tectural curriculum. A new subiect entitled His- tory of Architecture has been added in response to popular demand. For this course, students made more than l,OOO slide reproductions from pictures of various types of architecture from Greek to the present. Other courses include Architectural Design, Architectural Engineering Design, and Building Construction Estimating. In addition to using a full-time staff of four instructors for 75 day students, the Department also offers courses in the Evening Division to meet the growing need. In the freshman free hand drawing class, Kirby Whitehead studies ex- amples of ink drawings clone by stu- dents in past years and Kenneth Sprawl production of a contemporary build- ing. Contemplating the difference be- tween modern and contemporary architecture are Daniel Musquiz and Rudy Lopez. The two ideas are con- trasted in these scale models of a Frank Lloyd Wright house and the Basille in South America. - i iti'ii'iiiiitl'iiJliit fiii5,iiititfiiitliii li li lll.iAilliiiii!lill Studying a proiect showing rectangular planes in a speci- fied square volume in the Evening Division of the Architec' ture Department are Charlie Dye and Talley Taylor. 9l K works on the scaling down of a re-

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Courses Increase T Students choose from i5 sections of Art, History, Commercial Art, Design, Life Drawing, Ceramics, Art Education, and Painting in the Day Division, Arts, Crafts, Lapidary Art and Silver- srnithing in the Evening Division. Transformation is not an unusual skill for the art students. Colored cellophane, wood strips and tape are worked into a double-story Christmas mosaic covering the west window of the Adminis- tration Building. Spring finds the art rooms evacuated and the Annex invaded as students clamor over a structure of wood and wire to con- struct the Fiesta float. With Enrollment Through his six-hour credit course in pottery and clay sculpture Edward Douglas is learning to apply some of the special techniques which must be combined while using the potter's wheel in shaping a ceramic vase. hdfde Studying ,a new graphics press that produces a picture from an etched plate are Sharon Anderson, James Blodgett, and Nancy Hug. This process can print as many pictures as desired, and these are all called originals. Offered only in the Evening Division, Lapidary Arts and Silver smithing attracts many students who find fascination in cutting and polishing gem stones and in mounting semi-precious stones Instructor Owen Davis watches Edward Fox exhibit his skill