iTHE S©UtI_FORDIAN
AUGUSTJ27, 1999
Spear's Visible Spirits collection displayed
By Melissa Osborne
FEATURES/ ARTS EDITOR
A series of
more than twenty
black and white
photographs are on
display at the
Guilford College
Art Gallery in the
exhibition, "Visible
Spirits: Recent
Photographs by
David Spear." The
exhibition will be
on view from Au
gust 27, 1999
through October
15, 1999. A recep
tion will be held
tonight from 4:30-
6:30 p.m. in the Art
Gallery. The artist
will speak about
his work during the
reception.
Spear's most recent series
of large-format photographs de-
The new sounds of WQFS
By Anthony Lowe
STAFF WRITER
One of the first things new
students need to know about is
WQFS. WQFS is a student-run
radio station ranked third in the
nation by the Princeton Review,
and it has been ranked as high
as number two. The station has
a broadcast range that covers
approximately 280,000 people.
"WQFS is way better than
Rhode Island State," said Will
Dodson, the station's general
manager. WQFS plays an eclec
tic selection of music that
ranges from classical to
hardcore to spoken word and all
genres in between. Anyone can
be a DJ, including not just
Guilford students, but members
of the outlying community.
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An untitled work by David Spear.
Mexico, where he went seeking
inspiration during an artistic
slump in 1997. Overwhelmed
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though cur
rently on a
temporary
schedule in
a n ticip a -
tion of new
trainees,
WQFS
plans to re
turn to its
normal 24
hour per
day broad
casting for
mat within
the next
month.
Also, this year WQFS plans to
branch out into Web Casting,
that is, broadcasting over the
Internet. A cable-access televi
sion show is also in the works.
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with what he saw, he decided to
travel throughout the entire
country and last year made the
decision to move there.
In this new series, the art
ist continues to be fascinated
by people closely connected to
the land. "Today Mexico is
changing rapidly," says Spear.
"Technology, corporate produc
tion facilities, and money are
moving there at an unprec
edented pace...As this dynamic
change unfolds, much of Mexico
clings to a cultural past closely
aligned to land, living with those
still ancient mysteries of their In
dian ancestors and living with a
true connectedness to the natu
ral world."
"Many of these people
loom in my mind as spirits," he
continues. "They stay with me
sometimes and haunt me. I
think of them as visible spir
its. For in some of these images
it is possible to see beyond what
is visible—on past to something
Finally, the WQFS managerial
staff has planned a complete
makeover to improve the
station's general appearance.
Unfortunately, last year
very spiritual."
After graduating in 1961
from Guilford College, Spear re
turned to his hometown of
Madison, NC to work for The
Messenger, the town's weekly
newspaper.
After a twenty-year career
there, culminating in his becom
ing the editor and publisher,
Spear sold the paper to pursue
other interests, primarily pho
tography.
A 1992 recipient of a
Guggenheim Fellowship, Spear's
photographs are in the permanent
collection of museums across the
nation, including the Museum of
Modern Art in New York, the New
Orleans Museum of Art, and Mu
seum of Fine Art in Houston.
Twenty of the photographs
featured in the current exhibi
tion were donated recently to
the permanent collection of
Guilford College Art Gallery by
Dalton L. McMichael of Madi
son, North Carolina.
ended on a sour note due to a
number of equipment problems.
As a result, the management is
still scrambling to install a
number of late-arriving compo
nents to bring itself back to full
strength.
Fortunately for the station,
the student senate approved
the purchase of a new transmit
ter, which will bring the station
into the digital era.
With that and the work of
a quality crop of DJs, the sta
tion will enjoy an upswing that
hopefully will continue into the
fall semester.
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WQFS is one of the most
diverse programs on the
Guilford palette. "Unlike the
rest of Guilford, we actually
back up our community spirit
bullsh*t," asserts Dodson. He
pointed out WQFS's poli
cies of employing non
student community
members, sponsoring off
campus activities, and
providing all voices that
wish to be heard with a
forum.
For anyone inter
ested in becoming a
WQFS DJ, the first
meeting takes place
Sunday, August 29 at
7:00 p.m. in the Passion
Pit (2nd floor of
Founders). No previ
ous experience is re
quired. Anyone with
questions can call
x 2352.
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