This 9 member panel discussed relevant "art" issues during the Fine Arts Kick-Off discussion
Friday, March 10, in the Commons Lounge. Area "artists" participated in the discussion and are
exhibiting works in the Commons Lounge and Concourse of the Humanities Building. Picture by
Brian Hanson.
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Art "Deepest
Expression of Man"
by Jenny Wood
Serving as a kick-off for the
March Fine Arts Festival, the
Fine Arts Board (UBG) spon-sored
a panel discussion on the
topic of "art" Friday afternoon
(March 16) at 4 p.m. in the
Commons Lounge. This was the
start of the first annual Regional
Art Show. Faculty artists from
SDSU, Dakota State,
SFC, and Augustana are ex-hibiting
an assortment of pain-tings,
drawings, prints, ceramics
and sculpture through March 31
in the Commons Lounge and the
concourse of the Humanities
Building.
The purpose of the panel dis-cussion,
as stated by Jim Cam-bronne,
moderator, and Gover-nor
of the Fine Arts Board
UBG), was "to educate, and
have people on all sides (music
and other areas of art) talk about
what they think art is, and what
artists think."
The panel consisted of nine
"artists" from around the area.
Some of those participating were
Palmer Eide (Augustana),
Joseph Stewart (Brookings),
Stephen Emery (Augustana),
Jon .Johnson (Augustana), Larry
Fergeson (Dakota State), Paul
Branum (Augustana) and K.
Jeffrey Dahlberg (Augustana).
One of the first statements of
the panel was the fact that Fine
Arts is one of the least un-derstood
phases of culture
around the area. Reacting to the
idea of what exactly art is and
how a man expresses it, Stephen
Emery said that art is "the
deepest expression of who a per-son
is. It represents this identity
which cannot be squelched no
matter what the circumstance."
Another point brought up in
the discussion was the rate of
change in our Society today. The
rate is so accelerated that people
don't really have the chance to
get into art. There are three
periods in recognizing a new ex-perience:
the periods of reaction,
assimilation, and acceptance.
These three phases are crucial in
the understanding of anything.
Today we still have the period of
reaction, but the periods of
assimilation and acceptance are
not nearly long enough. This fast
rate may have alienated the art
(artist.) from the public.
Today, more people are in the
arts, in a collective sense, than
ever before. Art is becoming that
means by which we realize our
full potential as human beings.
When someone buys a work of
art, she/he is buying a record of
an experience that a particular
artist has had.
One of the last points brought
up was that if an artist really
wants to do something to speak
to people, he had better do
something that speaks of God
and the universe. It will gain its
longetivity through this.
Although the turnout by
Augustana students and faculty
was relatively low, many area art
enthusiasts stopped by to hear
the discussion. Perhaps in future
years, more people will use the
opportunity given to them to
express their feelings about art
and artists.
Augustana College
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Vol. 55, No. 20, March 22, 1973
This metal sculpture, done by Russell Brabec, is one of many
being shown in The Humanities Concourse and Commons
Lounge. Brabec is a sculptor and teacher at SFC. Picture by
Brian Hanson.
Recognition for Volunteers
SVS New Experiences
by LaDonna Wattnem
and Diana Kary
In the spring semester ('71) a
group of students returned from
an Interim of experiential (social
action) learning in Rapid City.
These students were convinced
that their community service ex-periences
could not end with the
interim. They organized RUBE
and started a pilot program in
tutoring at Edison Junior High.
The success of this program led
to the expansion of RUBE during
the 1971-72 school year. New
activities included Foster
Grandparents, tutoring at the
elementary level, volunteers at
the Boys and Girls Club, Y-Teens,
Big Buddy, Sioux Voca-tion
"Smile with Us" program
and several others.
With the help of funding from
ASA, RUBE wrote and received
a Title I grant for this school
year. Today the name has
changed to Student Volunteer
Services and the number of
volunteer programs open to
Augustana students has greatly
increased. SVS is presently of-ficed
in SS-46 and can be
reached by phone, 5303, and
mail, Box 802.
The grant for this year con-tained
money for a statewide
workshop on youth
volunteerism. This Saturday
high school and college students
plus agency professionals will be
in attendance at this one day
workshop. The workshop is
designed to stimulate interest in
student volunteerism and
provide practical tools on
volunteer organizations for high
school and college students.
Morning sessions will be
devoted to volunteer programs
now under the direction of Stu-dent
Volunteer Services in the
Sioux Falls Community. (These
panels will be led by student and
agency coordinators of the
various programs.) Afternoon
sessions will center around the
problems of recruiting, training,
and retaining volunteers and
organizational problems. Agency
personnel and student
volunteers will be utilized as
panel leaders for these presen-tations.
Look for the SVS
column in the Mirror. The
Sioux Falls community needs
student volunteers — YOU.
***
Program: Student Volunteer
Workshop
8:00-9:00—Registration,
Gilbert Science Center.
9:00-9:30—Statement of Pur-pose,
Gilbert Science, Room 101.
9:30-12:20—Rotating Work-shops,
GSC Rms. 101 and 141.
9:30-10:20—Volunteer Service
to Youth, Rm. 101; Volunteer
Service to Aged, Rm. 141.
LaDonna Wattnem and Diana
Kary, Augie's SVS student
assistants, have received the
"Youth Service Award." The
citation was presented by the
Sioux Falls La Sertoma Club,
the feminine chapter of the Ser-toma
Club.
La Sertoma, which stands for
service to mankind, is a service
organization. The recognition for
LaDonna and Diana is meant as
an encouragement for them to
continue their service to the
community and a means by
which the public can know they
are providing a service to the
public.
10:30-11:20—Volunteer Ser-vice
to the Handicapped, Rm.
101; The Student Tutor, Rm.
141.
11:30-12:20—Big' Brother and
Big Sister Programs, Rm. 101;
Volunteer and the Court, Rm.
141.
12:30-1:15—Free Lunch, Com-mons
Dining Room.
1:30-2:00—Keynote Address,
GSC Rm. 101, Russ Cain, Direc-tor
and founder of Voluntary
Action Center and Supervisor at
Public Welfare.
LaDonna is in charge of
organizing new programs for
Student Volunteer Services. One
of which is the Alternatives to
incarceration which the ASA
recently funded. Some other
plans include plans for in-volvement
in day-care centers
and increasing the program at.
Crippled Children's Hospital.
Diana is in charge of
maintenance of on-going
programs. She sees that events
are organized and that people
get where they're going on time.
Both of them share in the other
duties and responsibility. Their
most recent undertaking is the
workshop this weekend.
2:00-5:00—Workshops on
Program Organization.
2:00-2:50—Creating New
Volunteer Programs, Rm. 101.
3:00-3:50—Recruiting, train
ing, the volunteer and building
commitment, Rm. 101.
3:50-4:20—Coffee and Tool
Kit Distribution, Rm. 101.
4:2 0-5:0 0—Forum on
Volunteerism; Open Discussion,
Rm. 101.
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