4The Daily Tar HeelMonday, April 16, 1984
Weather drowns Springfest in sun, then rain
MF A candidates' art
show various styles
For the third straight year, showers interrupted
Henderson Residence College's Springfest on Saturday.
Gray clouds covered the sky and bolts of lightning
shimmered in the distance as PKM left the stage after an
encore version of Larry Williams "Slowdown," a song
recorded by the Beatles.
The crowd was already trickling away when Mitch
Easter of Let's Active announced that his headlining
band would not be able to play because of the lightning.
The show was over after only three of the seven schedul
ed acts had appeared.
Springfest Program Director Mike Beverly said he
thought the decision to end the show was good, con
sidering the lightning and that it began raining shortly
afterwards. "I think it was an excellent concert," Bever
ly said. "Out of the four major acts, three of the four
went up."
From the beginning, however, the day was marred by
delays and confusion. Panic, the first band, slated to
come on at noon, arrived on time; the band's equipment
did not.
Johnny White and the Elite Band were called on to
open the show. The necessary equipment moves and
sound checks forced the show to begin a full hour late.
Sound problems also occurred. At one point, Johnny
White started a rapping introduction that suddenly fad
ed as his microphone died.
Twenty minutes passed before the eight-piece band
with horn section started playing.
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Review
The Elite Band performed a selection of recent R&B
hits, including Lionel Richie's "Running With the
Night," Michael Jackson's "Beat It" and Midnight
Oil's "Power and the Passion."
The band's horn section was superb, adding a mellow
touch contrasted by bongos. The band's selections pro
vided an unobtrusive R&B sound that was well-suited to
the audience.
After stage changes, Panic, a new music cover band,
took the stage. The sun shined through most of the
band's set as the blond lead singer jumped around from
the center microphone to the drums. Among the band's
selections were Reflex's "The Politics of Dancing" and
The Fixx's "One Thing Leads to Another."
Panic closed with Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell," a song
that brought a number of people to their feet dancing in
front of the stage.
The band's bass guitar seemed disproportionately em
phasized, and the group is merely a cover band with
some average original material. Nevertheless, Panic
entertained.
With minimal delay, PKM followed. A three-piece
heavy metal band from Raleigh, PKM played loudly
and, as hard rock goes, well. A long-haired crowd of
fans in front of the stage jerked their raised arms to the
music as PKM assaulted them with driving guitars, drum
solos and harsh vocals.
PKM's hit "It Don't Take Much to Keep Me Happy"
was good and nearly melodic. The band's version of Ed
die Cochran's "Summertime Blues" rang with the
rawness it is meant to have.
Country-flavored Bruce Frey, 70s-sounding rock band
Vanguard and comedian Chris Lancaster were missed
because of rain. Frey later performed for HRC residents
in the Connor lounge.
Since scheduling so many acts in an outdoor concert
usually does not run smoothly, Beverly did not think the
delays prevented Let's Active from performing. As he
explained, the scheduled times were not expected to be
firm, and each of the three bands that performed played
shorter sets due to the imminence of rain. Bruce Frey
would have performed before Let's Active anyway,
Beverly added.
Springfest was six hours of fun in the blinking sun for
what Residence Hall Association president. Mark Staf
ford estimated as a crowd of more than 3,000 students, a
figure double that of Director of Housing Wayne
Kuncl's desired capacity and nearly three times last
year's attendance.
Long-awaited '83 'Yack' is all it was promised to be
Skeptics may stand aside now. The
1983 Yackety Yack has arrived, and
distribution begins today at 9 a.m. in
room 218 of the Student Union.
As for claims made by Yack staffers
about the book's quality, they are not ex
aggerated. If anything, they are not ex
travagant enough, for this Yack truly
documents the student experience at
UNC.
The book's introductory section gives
general views of the campus. The Bell
Tower is prominent here there are
views of it at sunset, in fog and by
moonlight.
With "Town and Campus," a look at
everyday happenings in Chapel Hill, the
Yack strengthens its already good start.
There are shots of classes meeting out-
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on field trips and beer trucks unloading,
their wares on Franklin Street.
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last year working on a painting of South
Building? He's here, too.
"Student Life" follows, with remem
brances of freshman orientation, registra
tion and classes. One particularly amus
ing photograph shows two students,
seated in the back of a class, reading The
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Daily Tar Heel; the professor, visible in
the distance, is tellingly out of focus.
"Celebrations" is a collage of Spr
ingfest, Apple Chill, Festifall and holiday
celebrations, with special attention to
University Day and the Beat Dook
Parade. Graduation tops it all off.
Portraits of University administrators
fill in the next Section, which followed by
Performances."
Performances" covers everything
from street musicians to Broadway on
Tour. Graphically, these shots feature a
lot of action. Occasional editorializing in
trudes, however. Such captions as "Billy
Graham performs in Carmichael" and
"Ronald Reagan continues his perfor
mances as Chief Executive in
Washington" seem out of place.
The "Athletics" section is as com
prehensive as always. To single out one
example, the pages on the men's and
women's swimming teams capture the
teams' action but also recreate the teams'
personalities.
"Greeks" goes a long way toward
disproving the attitude that fraternity; and
sorority members are clones. The section
offers a wealth of diversity matching that
x found later in the "Dorms" section.
Finally, there is the epilogue. From ex
tracts of R. Buckminster Fuller's address
at the Fine Arts Festival through a year in
pictures to the last page, with its photos
of seniors hugging each other at gradua
tion and of a campus policeman lowering
the flag in front of South Building, this
section completes an artistic circle and
give the Yack a sense of completeness.
Readers who get a sense of deja vu
should not be alarmed. A few of these
pictures have appeared before, notably in
the DTH. That may be good for the
photographers involved, but it doesn't
say much for originality.
That, however, is about the only com
plaint that can be made about the 1983
Yackety Yack. Overall, the book speaks
of a creative, dedicated staff. It is a deep
ly felt meditation on life at Carolina.
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By ARLAINE ROCKEY
Staff Writer
The Ackland Art Museum is ex
hibiting a selection of works by the six
candidates for the Master of Fine Arts
degree at UNC. A conglomeration of
sculptures, paintings and prints, the
show is collectively diverse; it is also
evident that each artist has developed
an individual style.
Howard Hastie's geometric wood
sculptures are by far the most polished
pieces in the show. Hastie's designs
are intricately carved from oak,
cherry, maple and walnut. Hastie
draws from the teachings of Islam to
create his sculpture.
Although the pieces have architec
tural structures, Hastie imposes a
more philosophical meaning upon
these works. "Each piece is a
'blueprint' for the idea that the com
position of physical life is needed to
show the composition of spiritual
life," Hastie said.
Hastie interestingly uses string to
connect points of his sculptures, as if
to show a continuity within the dimen
sions of the work.
Hastie received his bachelor's
degree in sculpture from the
Massachusetts College of Art in 1981.
He teaches basic sculpture and design
at UNC and builds custom-designed
furniture at Woodpecker Enterprises
in Apex.
Ronnie Parks has contributed a fine
selection of intaglio, silkscreen and
photo-etching prints that are modern
and impressionistic. As an inter
disciplinary artist and a member of
Chapel Hill's Holla Band Parks cap
tures the essence of music in his prints;
Holla Band Plays the Station (Aerial
View) is one such print. Parks looks to
portray what he called "the physical
and spiritual emotion and energy of
music, sound and dance."
Five painted wood carvings of
stereotypical contemporary people
come from William Rutherford, who
received a Best in Show award in the
1981 Virginia Painting and Sculpture
exhibition at the Virginia Museum of
Fine Arts in Richmond, Va.
Rutherford's sculpture and atten
tion to detail express his awareness of
the contemporary scene. These long-
legged figures range from a preppy
man, dressed in khaki pants and a
blue pin-striped jacket, titled South,
to Harmony, a representation of a
New Wave rock star complete with
electric guitar.
Caroleigh H. Robinson, the
youngest and only female MFA can
didate, received the 1983-84 Emily
Pollard Fellowship from the UNC
department of art.
Robinson's large-scale sculptures
suggest the skeletal shape of the
pointed bow of a boat. Her Raven at
the Head of Nass, for example, uses
cedar wood, cheesecloth, cotton bat
ting, graphite, rhoplex and paint to
create a giant work of cheesecloth
stretched like green and black skin
over a round frame.
Rick Miller's oil paintings on
masonite attempt to develop the rela
tionship between figure and
background. Miller's Bowl Painting is
divided into three parts brought
together by the color scheme of the
blue of the top partition and the blue
markings in the decorative bowl in the
bottom partition. The center is mark
ed with red vine markings on a green
background. "I like to make a whole
out of individually compelling parts,"
Miller said, "because it alludes to
order and beauty."
For Jim Skalman, the artistic pro
cess of the creation and decreation of
his large painting structures is just as
much a part of the final product as
what the viewer sees. Skalman, who
worked as a carpenter and a cabinet
maker, uses architecture as subject
mater.
The architectural influence on
Skalman's Cajon Relief is readily evi
dent, while his use of pale colors
makes an interesting addition to this
styrofoam, wood, paint and joint
compound piece. "The narrative,"
Skalman said, "contained in the pro
cess of construction, demolition and
reconstruction, inspires the manipula
tion of those surfaces."
The annual Master of Fine Arts ex
hibition will be open through April 23.
The Ackland Art Museum is open
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday
through Saturday and from 2 to 6
p.m. Sunday. Admission b free.
Art School looking for volunteers
The ArtSchool, a center for the visual
and performing arts located in Carr Mill
31aUiaCarrboxo,jsejekingA'Qlujaleers to
assist in several capacities.
; . .Volunteers .are .needed to . distribute
posters publicizing ArtSchool events.
The ArtSchool-sponsored South
eastern Regional Mime Festival, to be
held at UNC-Greensboro May 25-27, re
quires volunteers to work in registration,
ticket sales, and general preparation.
For information on any of this
volunteer work, call the ArtSchool at
. Teachers are, needed . f orthe organiza
tion's Children's Art Summer Experience
(CASE), a series of classes for children
ages 7 to 13. CASE begins June 18 and
continues every two weeks for five ses
sions. Volunteers for this work should
k contact Maria Evans at 929-2896.
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