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\ By Marta Kupper Staff Whitep By mid-afternoon, frej&hly dyed shirts danced in wind, dangling from the twine stretched betw een thahudding oaks of Jic|;e-Cox's lawn, beckoning passersby to peruse the second annuarArt fair,' held on April 4. The fair included a variety of booths, including face painting, tie dying, silk screening, fork sculpturing. Hula Hoop making, a DURI Y interactive art swap wall, book binding, a ceramics wheel, pin-hole camera making, and paper making. The four - bands —- Two Planes, Not Dead Yet, Surgery Vision and Luna Glazer — played throughout the day under the blue spring fir mament. "The Art Fair is more fun than Serendipity," said sopho more Molly Spadone. "IPs great to spend the day being cre ative, working with your hands." Junior art major Gillian Galdy organized the fair this year for the second time. She received Sl,300 from Senate and food donations from the cooking club, \blunteer students ran the booths, and all the bands offered to pla\ free, but Galdy wanted and was able to contribute to them. ^ "ibis event is a little bit of lo\e, creativity and music, throv\ n up together on the lawn," Galdy said. Although she will not organize it next year due to her senior thesis requirements, she hopes that other students take the torch, so the Art Fair will become a tradition, simi lar to the Draw-A-1 hon. She explained how seeing alurn- na Kay Kelley's success with the Draw-A-Thon inspired her to start her ow n event. "What is especially great about the Art Fair is the va riety of creative activities that students can participate M in," Galdy said. She also highlighted how the live mu sic helps attract non-art students to come check out the fair. Students expressed how the Art Fair allowed them to experience new crafts. -q ajx, not an art major, but f am excited to learn new skills, especially silk screening," said first->ear Courtney Mandeville. "This twent is great because you can't always do crafty things by yourself," .said senior Julia Kartman, who organized the pa{)er4Making 4tati6n. '.'People come together a,s a community to share their kno^^dge." -y TCarlrfian described how many materials you can put into the pa per, such as grass seeds, flowers, scrap paper, laundry room lint, and any other material that can enhance its aesthetic value. Slu- dehts at the paper station plucked clusters of soft pink floweis frehn nearby treesf^, put into the paper pulp. Other booths, also exemplified a use of recycled and re-used materials. Senior Suzannah Goodman, who organized the pa per-making booth, emphasized how they found all recycled materiaLs, many of wlrich, such as the wallpaper, came from Uie Durham craft exchanges Also, the pin-hole camera booth used recycled soy milk containers. this year, Galdy made a point to attract people from outside the Guilford community. Ihe DURTY artist co-operative drove all the way from Durham, Their nascent non-profit organiza tion intends to build a local art community by sponsoring events for eveiy one, and displaying youth artwork. Their art- sw ap wall reflected their mission. "I don't think people realize they can take the art," said fl|H Patrick Phelps-McKeown, a DUR'FY volunteer and high school friend of Gaidy's. "The idea is to take something and fiHH create a new’, cooler piece, and put it back on the wall." ShH "1 think we should plan to do events like this back in Durham," Phelps-McKoewn said. "It's a gestalt experience. I've just enjoyed listening to music and seeing evcryf>ne interacting and engaging w ith the different stations." Other attendees pointed out the importance of having artistic community events. "I he Art Fair is a vehicle for putting out good energy into the surrounding comnui- nit)'," said Gaidy's father, Elliot Galdy, the percussion player for Not Dead Yet, "Creativity is a good thing; hu- mans need it. People die if they don't create." By late afternoon, the booths came down, but stu dents left with shirts, paint-covered faces and fork sculptures — mementos of the sun-soaked, convivial spirit of Guilford's day of creation. 'This is Guilford personified," Galdy said. jasi "Students love to be outside and be creative.' •* A—
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