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November 8, 2000
Campus News
Eure to present work at convocation Friday
Leesha Austin
Layout Editor
The “Wesley and Friends”
Convocation celebrating the
publishing of A fish out of
water, the children’s book writ
ten by Wesley Eure and illus
trated by students from Mered
ith's art department, will be
held at 1 p.m. on Friday. Nov.
10, in Jones Auditorium.
According to Linda FitzSi-
mons, associate professor of
art. who along with Melinda
Fine, assistant professor of an.
planned the convocation, the
audience members will have
the oppcKtunity to participate in
the convocation.
They will be able to watch as
the “book comes to life”
through music, dance, sculp
ture and narration.
FitzSimons explains that the
convocation is a collaborative
eff^ort of all the areas of art at
Meredith, not just visual art.
Meredith art students
received the opportunity to
illustrate the book when Assis
tant Professor of Art Regina
Rowland, currently on a leave
of absence, met Eure in Los
Angeles through a mutual
friend, according to FitzSi
mons.
She explained that Eure told
Rowland that he was looking
for an illustrator, so Rowland
asked him to give Meredith’s
art students a try.
'The Illustration II class
began the project in the spring
of 1999," stated FitzSimons.
“We found out in December
of 1999 that the book was actu
ally going to be published,” she
added.
Since the publishers lequest-
ELECTION continued from page one
Frazier said that Meredith
Votes took a few students to the
polls on Tuesday.
Lines at many polling sites
in the Raleigh area were build
ing even before the sites
opened.
Yet this year, many people,
including Frazier, also took
advantage of the no*excuses
voting that most Noith Caroli
na counties offered, including
Mecklenburg and Wake. Fra
zier chose to vote early because
he knew that yesterday would
be too busy for him.
Wth no-excuses voting, reg
istered voters could vote up to
three weeks in advance at the
board of elections or' other
specified polling sites within
each county.
Meredith Votes comprised
Frazier’s public leadership
class, offered through the
department of history and poli
tics. During the course of the
semester, the class sponsored a
voter registration drive for stu
dents. faculty and staff. The
^up also organized a picnic
at which Meredith students
could meet and talk to local
candidates.
The group made posters to
display around campus. The
first batch featured professors
asking “Got Registered?” The
second batch featured campus
leaders saying “I’m Voting. Are
Your’
The basic goals of Meredith
Votes were to register 100 per
cent of faculty and 80 percent
of students to vote in yester
day’s election.
Though they did not quite
reach the goal, a good many
faculty and students registered:
about 98 percent of faculty and
70.5 percent of students. Fra
zier was not disappointed: “It’s
an awful lot of people.” he
said. “I felt good about that.”
Another of Meredith Votes’
goals was to inform students
about the issues of the election.
They did so through their
weekly articles in the Herald
and the meet-the-candidates
b^becue. Some of the issues
the ^oup covered in its articles
were education and abortion.
The group also wrote informa
tion about third-party candi
dates.
Paiahnuk was impressed
with the campus' response to
Meredith Vows’ efforts. “I was
quite shocked at the huge
involvement of students,” she
said.
Frazier attributed the sue-
cess of Meredith Votes to the
students in his class, who were
mostly juniors and seniors. He
noted their “energy and persis-
tence” was very helpful toward
reaching the group’s goals. He
noted that he enjoyed working
with the students in his class in
a way that he does not normal
ly work with them.
'it’s been a lot of work,”
Frazier said. “But it’s been
fun.”
ed certain changes, the spring
2000 Illustration II class had
the task of editing the work of
the original illustrators.
“The editing process took
longer than the original illus-
K'ation process.” stated FitzSi
mons.
She explained that the entire
illustration process took
apjproximately four months.
“I came in after the original
illustrators, so I learned that
illustrators have to work very
closely with the publishers and
the author It is a back and forth
process,” said senior art major
Shelley Brown.
FitzSimons explained that it
is very difTicult for an illustra
tor to get her work published,
and if she is successful, it usu
ally takes around two years.
The Meredith art students
were able to get their work
published within seven
months, a time frame virtually
unheard of, explained FitzSi
mons.
She added that her Illustra
tion Q class coll^>orated with
Rowland’s Graphic Design
class, meeting together once a
week. This proved to be a good
experience for both groups.
Ttie students decided to use
cut-paper collage for their
illustrations, and their goal was
to make the illustrations as col
orful as possible, said FitzSi
mons.
According to Brown. “When
you have a lot of people work
ing on a project, the biggest
challenge is making the work
look like the same person did
all of the illustrations.”
Senior art major Karen
Haisty agreed and added that
CHie of the things she found
most interesting was learning
to make different textures of
paper for the collage.
“The cut-paper collage tech
nique was tedious, but it turned
out beautifully. It gave the
illustrations a 2-D cartoon
character quality,” stated
Brown.
She added that the students
felt this was appropriate for a
children's book. In addition.
she believes that the publi^ters
liked it because it is an unusual
form of illustration.
According to FitzSimons.
the graphic design students
also used creative design by
making die type compliment
the art. rather than simply
describe it.
“It was a great experience
for students to get to do this.
Now we all have our foot in the
door.” stated Haisty.
FitzSimons stated, “I am
very proud of the students in
both classes who worked on
this project.
She added that Eure arrived
on campus on Sat., Nov. 4, and
has been conducting work
shops all over campus this
week.
“This convocation would
not be possible without a grant
from the Creative Ideas
Fund,”stated FitzSimons.
Brown said, “I think it will
be an exciting and entertaining
convocation.”
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