Thd Ridgerunner, September 29« 1967—Paee 3
JIM INGLE (L) instructs Diane Payne (R) and Myra
Bailey, Lee Edwards students in the Art Museum classes.
Photo by Macatee
Graphic Arts In Museum,
Justus, Ingle Teaching
Two Asheville - Biltmore stu
dents are teaching a seven weeks
course in the Asheville Art Mu
seum.
The project was initiated
last year by Mr. Tucker Cooke,
Asheville - Biltmore art instruc
tor, and Ed Barnwell, Director
of the museum, for the duel pur
pose of giving interested resi
dents of this area instruction in
art and offering an opportunity
to senior art majors to receive
class room experience.
The first course was taugnt
by Cal Hunt and Kathy Wojtow-
ski and dealt with painting and
drawing. Presently, Mel Justus,
recipient of the Frances Wolfson
Award and first place winner in
the recent Art in the Bank Show,
and Jim Ingle are teaching the
basics of print making.
Mr. Justus says that “right
now we are teaching them the
basic difference between the in
taglio and relief and positive
and negative space."
Print making consists of var
ious means of transfering an
image, usually on wood, lino
leum, metal or stone, from the
original block to a second sur
face, usually paper. Linoleum,
being the easiest medium to work
with, was used by the students
for their first project. The class
is now working on an x-ray etch
ing method that was taught to
Justus by Mrs. Peggy Dodge,
of Asheville.
Exposed x-ray film is
cleaned until, it is transparent,
a sharj) object^ preferable a bio
logy disecting needle, is then
used to trace a design on the
film. The film plate is then
inked and ready to be printed.
There are several other print
ing methods that are being taught
. by Ingle and Justus, One of them
is polymer prints or collage
prints. Any object is pasted to
a board, inked, and when press
ed reproduces the texture of the
pasted objects.
Another project Is mono
prints. This technique in
volves placing_ polymer direct
ly on the paper and a second
sheet of paper is placed over
the polymer and they are press
ed. No two prints are ever the
same, thus the name monoprint.
With the hope of improving
the quality of the students work
there are critiques every two
weeks in which the class and the
teachers comment on the work
that has been produced. Justus
and Ingle both feel that art can
not be learned by a teacher lec
turing to a class, but rather
it is learned through individual
help to the student by the teach
er.
A formal classroom atmos
phere is j;Voided and “we let
the kids have as much freedom
as they want. If they are satis
fied with their own work we let
them go. We are here only to
offer suggestions and to help
the students out when they need
it,” says Mel Justiis.
Five prints are being made
of each students work in each
project and there will be an
exhibit after the course has been
completed.
Wolfe’s Home
Is Reviewed
By JOHN PHAUP
Thomas Wolfe’s childhood
home, “Old Kentucky Home,” is
noted in a travelogue by Richard
Atcheson in the September issue
of Holiday magazine.
“In Asheville,” he writes,
“there are a couple of sights
that should be seen, not for their
art but for their brooding domi
nance over the landscape. One is
Tom Wolfe’s childhood home -
the big white boardinghouse his
mother kept, so abrasively im
mortalized in Look Homeward,
Angel.
His motner's oiu iiouse is cu
riously kept - everything is more
or less as it was, but it has all
been left to rim down. The silver
plate in the dining room is tar
nished to a deep chocolate brown,
and Tom’s own chocolate-brown
suit and hat and size-thirteen
shoes are displayed obscenely
in a glass case on the second floor
landing.
One front bedroom contains the
furniture from his last New York
apartment. And I thought I would
like to sit down in his big black
chair and have an imaginary chat
with Tom Wolfe, but when I
swept my palm over the seat,
it came away laden with black
dust of months of neglect.
So it is all as Wolfe originally
described it, and worth seeing
and mulling over for that rea
son alone.”
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