University of Nebraska Kearney - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Kearney, NE)

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The Art Department The Art Department has three purposes. The first is to develop an appreciation of art; the second is to develop skill in art; and the third is to train art teachers. In order to accomplish these purposes it is necessary to have efficient instructors. Miss Marion C. Smith is the head of the department and has had extensive art training. She has attended the Art department of the University of Nebraska, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago Art Institute, Minneapolis Handicraft Guild, and New York Art League Landscape School, and she is a pupil of Anshultz, Parker, Chase, Hawthorne, Breckenridge, Carlson, Batch- elder, and J oh on not. She received her B. F, A. degree from the Nebraska State Teachers College, Kearney, in 1932. Miss Smith came to Kearney with the opening of the State Normal. She is assisted by Miss Minnie E. Larson, who received her A. B. degree from the Nebraska State Teachers College in 1924 and her A. M. degree from the University of Chicago in 1931. It is very interesting to browse around in the art rooms and study the drawings, designs, pictures, and portraits which are made by the students. We are proud of our art department and the type of work it is doing. Many of the art students are good amateur artists, in fact, we have pictures in our library which have been painted by our students and others which are painted by the art instructors. Miss Smith informs me that nothing ever happens in the art department; that there is never a smile or a chuckle. This leads me to the conclusion that the art students are very industrious and never have time to waste by taking their attention from their work. However, Miss Smith realizes that all work and no play makes jack a dull boy” and calls time out for a few' minutes giving the students a much needed relaxation and tells them about some of her experiences which she had on the way to school or something about her pets (animals, not students), or relate a new joke which she just heard or read. After this short breathing spell the students recover their paint brushes, scissors, and other useful paraphernalia and resume their artistic duties. s; Marion C. Smith Minnie E. Larson Pane Twenty