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6The Daily Tar HeelThursday, March 3, 1988 Artists explore women's issues in Hanes Art Center show By KAREN HATTON Stall Writer It's a baker's dozen of artistic efforts. Under the themes Race, Class and Gender, 13 women are presenting their work for the Southeastern Women's Art Show at the Hanes Art Center Gallery. The pieces on exhibit consist of photographs, sketchings, paintings and sculptures in various media including glazed earthenware, bam boo and wood combined with mate rial scraps. UNC assistant art professor Beth Grabowski has two exhibits in the show. The first is an untitled charcoal sketching of a Barbie doll suspended in air. "She's a quintessential bimbo," she said. "She represents doubts and searching. And she takes on a lot of other qualities." In an unexhibited sketch, the Barbie takes on a kind of demonic image with red bulging eyes, Gra- bowski said. And she is anticipating painting, "Red Wings." This pirtic- another sketch for the Barbie doll series. Her second exhibit, "Departure Derangement," is the copy of a dictionary page with certain words and definitions marked out. "I like working with words," she said. "I like the idea of loaded images. I found the words departure and derangement on the top of the page interesting. I edited out what didn't fit my image of the words." Another charcoal sketch, "Everlov ing Arms," by Crystal Cawley shows an emotionally warming picture of a small child kneeling and a set of hugging arms. "Waiting: Warsaw, 1943" by Isabel Chicquor Leavitt is the other charcoal sketch in the exhibit. She presents a haunting illustration of a woman behind a wire fence. Rochell Schicoff, a visiting artist, is exhibiting her acrylic and crypas (a mixture of pastels and oil stick) ular painting is part of a tw&Vear senes entitled Life of a Pure Sjint." "The series is about women jLvith wings," Schicoff said. "I'm tryiig to change the way angels are usually represented. I'm reacting tcj the phrase 'like an angel. " I Her angels represent women of experience, she said. They have masculine feminine characterises mixed into one image. The exhibited angel has red wings because cd is a more aggressive color and lelps create a great deal of color tension in the painting. ; Schicoff will be exhibiting an how at the Hanes Art Center Galley in mid-March which will feature nore of her angels. f Another exhibit, "A Room; Of One's Own," is a water coloi.by Louise Franke, a Chapel Hill atist. This painting shows a young girl sitting on her bed with her dolls and stuffed animals. Connie Rubino Schwab is exhib iting four oil stick and wax medium paintings from her "My House My Home" series entitled "Eclipse," "Separate Quarters," "Temple" and "Concrete Palace." Two glazed earthenware sculp tures, "From a Golden Step" and "After the Flood" are by Patricia Rieger. Both pieces are from the nine piece, "Long Journey" series and feature four-legged figures. "The four-legged figures are a variation of the human persona," Rieger said. "The journey is a metaphor, which implies walking through everyday life, an inner kind of journey, the changes we go through and what we take with us during the transformations." "From a Golden Step" is a land scape piece, she said. And "After the Flood" uses coastal images. Dorothy Milligan's "Madame Okra" and "Forrest Queen" are bronze sculptures that were cast from actual dried okra, tree bark and seed parts. The artist has made humanized forms of nature. Two unusual sculpture pieces are exhibited by Hunter C. Levinsohn. The first, "Lady of the House II," is a chair with a mirrored seat and a pillow with a grey rose on it. Printed on the pillow is the old adage: "A lady's name appears in print but thrice: When she's born, When she's wed, And when she's dead." In a written statement, Levinsohn said that the chair is the symbol of power and a chair that none can sit in symbolizes a powerless position. Her other exhibit is "Young God dess: The Princess in Her Thirteenth Year, A Song to My Daughter." This mixed media sculpture is constructed of bamboo, rice paper and photo copied images. A painted wooden structure by Rosie Thompson is entitled "Blind Spots." This piece signifies the blindness of racial prejudice. In "Pearly Gates Scarlet Letter," Ann Weaver Rowles combines fabric, wire mesh and other objects to create an unusual exhibit of a stiff, empty vest decorated with pearls, tiny coin like objects and small scarlet A's. The exhibit also features photo graphs. Lisa N. Morphew has two color photos featured, "Say Hello Dorothy" and "Dorothy's Room." According to a written statement by the photographer, she is playing up the sensuality of older women. The other photo is a black and white archival silver print, "Cathy McDay," by Sadie Bridger. This exhibit offers an unusual and diverse assortment of art that will demand an emotional response from any art-goer. The show opened Friday night and will be exhibited through March 10. The exhibit is part of the Southeast ern Women's conference sponsored by Duke and the UNC Women's Studies Research Center Feb. 26-28. iiua,w ttiiii iwu iuigiug vj i a uuaiuic J1 jJtlC13 ailU Oil MICK aiUllCU OlllUlOia. l uiuiu.b 3ui;iuiw iuoi nviw biui iiuui uuuuuuj ui iouoi pibjuuitb. OIUU1CS IVCSCaTCn NCulC; rCO. ZO-Z5. Feel the music: reggae band Itals to play Cat's Cradle tonight By ALLISON PIKE Staff Wfter If you're heading to a tropical paradise for Spring Break (or maybe just wishing you were) there's nothing better to put you in the Caribbean mood than the sounds of Jamaica's Itals, appearing at Cat's Cradle tonight. The Itals not to be confused with the Ohio band I-Tal have recently released their fourth LP 77?? Itals: Early Recordings 1971-1979. If you want a taste of authentic reggae, this is an album for you. There are a total of 14 tracks on the record and although many are a decade old or more, they sound as if they could have been recorded yesterday. Put the record on, lean back in a chair and the Itals will deliver the Caribbean right to your living room. Close your eyes and you can practically see the palm trees, smell the coconut suntan oil and feel the sun beating down on you. The Itals' present line-up includes veteran reggae artist Keith Porter along with David Isaacs and Ronnie Davis. Both Isaacs and Davis are accomplished singers in Jamaica and have had hit records there. The Early Recordings album features Poiter, Davis and Lloyd Ricketts. Rictetts left the Itals in 1985 and was replaced by Isaacs. I The Itals specialty on this t is highlighting Porter's strong bad vocals with two lines of harmony, provided by Davis and Ricketts. The result is full and complete-sounding reggae. I Porter, who has been performing for 20 years, recording his first record in 1967, has a superb vocal range. He can hit low notes like in the despairing "Time Getting Harder," and then will surprise you by singing high notes that sound a lot like Earth, Wind and Fire. An excellent example is the song "You Don't Care." Porter's vocal style is accented by the clean-edged rhythms layered throughout the songs. The back up music will be provided tonight by the critically acclaimed reggae band, Roots Radics. Early Recordings offers a wide variety of songs. It contains every thing from your basic Jamaican reggae songs like "In A Dis A Time" and "Run Baldhead Run " to the more modern soul-pop tunes like "Seeing is Believing" in which Porter sings: "Don't you know I love you. I need you by my side. Dont you know I want you, baby. True love will never die." The Itals also delve into social and political topics in "Time Getting Harder" and "Living in the Ghetto." Ricketts takes over the lead vocals in "I See a Sign" and he sings: "This is a land of unity. Just stop the fight and you will see that you have love, peace and harmony." The Itals have had tiree successful albums to date: Brutal Out Deh, Give Me Power and the 1986 Grammy nominated Rasta Philosophy. The title of that album rejects the Itals' pride in their African ancestry (the Rastafarians are the decendents of the Africans enslaved in Jamaica). The Rastafarians use "I" for "me" in their language, thus expressing individual ity. This is where the Itals derive their name. The word "itd" means "pure and healthy, natural, unprocessed and unpolluted," ani this is exactly what you get with th; Itals. 9 PM-2 AM at any Chapel IIHICarrboro location f jo coupon NECESS&nvu m THIS WEEErS SPECIAL jj any sub or large salad. Limit one per customer. Not gooa with any other offers. Good only after 9 p.m. Downtown- next to Johnny T-Shirt 967-5400 Glenwood- next to the new Harris-Teeter 968-4233 Esstsste Shopping Center- 967-7027 Carrboro-Villow Creek near Food Lion 929-2203 'Frantic' delivers sweaty-palmed suspense Filled with car chases, close calls and lots of suspense, "Frantic" most definitely lives up to its name. Promoted as a Roman Polanski film, he is co-writer as well as director. "Frantic" stars Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Walker and Betty Buck ley as his wife Sondra. The two arrive in Paris, their honeymoon location, for a medical convention where Walker is to read a paper. After they arrive, Sondra discovers she has the wrong suitcase, but calls the airline to report it. In the hotel, Sondra receives a phone call and says something to Richard while he's in the shower, but because of the running water, he doesn't hear her. When he gets out, she's gone. He waits for a while and then becomes worried. He takes her picture to places near the hotel, asking if anyone has seen her. Finally, a shabby-looking man says he saw her forced into a car. He takes Richard to the spot and on the ground is her bracelet. Richard begins his frantic search. The police and the American Embassy give him the runaround, Stephanie Dean Cinema suggesting Sondra is only lost or perhaps has a male friend she is with. Frustrated, he rushes back to the lotel room and pries open the nysterious suitcase. All he finds nside are typical tourist items a niniature Statue of Liberty, a San Francisco cable car and a matchbook torn the Blue Parrot Cafe. On the natchbook is written "Dede" and a pione number. Through this match biok he meets Michelle (Emmanuelle Sagner). The plot gets more and more ccmplex involving Arabs, smuggling, mirders and an automatic triggering derice for the atomic bomb. Richard camot be successful in his search wifcout Michelle's help because she is Jrench and knows Paris. At the begnning of the film, Richard shows clesrly that he cannot get along in Fraice alone he knows no French and can't understand taxi drivers or hotel desk clerks and needs help dialing the phone. Michelle's fluency in the language and knowledge of the city aids Richard in his frantic search. The script is impressive and full of suspense. As the end nears, however, a political light is cast on the scene which just seems to pop up. There needed to be more reference to the Arabs and their motives earlier in the film as a base for better comprehension. Ford is an excellent actor and this is evident in "Frantic." A more dramatic and tryiig role than his "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series, Ford shows his characters true love for his wife and his desire to get her back, no matter what th; cost. Seigner is also impressive as the street smart, money-hungry Michelle. Always clad in skimpy Parisiai garb, she comes across as extremel selfish, with a bit of compassion peering through. "Frantic" on; man's obsession, frustrating and fnntic, of retrieving his kidnapped wife keeps the audience waiting wondering and, yes, even a little fantic. Outdoor drama agency to hold spring auditions A104 Physical Education My first time tutoring was a night to remember. My student was some thing called Bone Crusher Reed, a.k.a. Billy" Jo, defensive tackle for the foot ball team. I had the shock of my life when he answered his dorm room door. He was about six root seven... in diameter. And when he shook my hand, I thought Yd never get it back. So there I was, face-to-knee with the big man on campus, wondering how I was going to relate American . Literatu re to The Hu 1 k. But then he pulled out a can of orange ,appuulliu. l was auuiisvu: Could it be that this tough jock liked its delicate taste? And when Bone Crusher brought out the bone china, I was beyond belief Reading the expression on my face, he said, "What can I say? I like it. The Cafe Francais is pretty good, too.'1 Well, who's going to argue, I thought. As we sipped our Orange Cappuccino, I discovered that Billy Jo loves reading novels; his only problem was poetry. So I gave him tips on reading Emily Dickinson, and he gave me a copy of Ann Beattie's "Falling in Place." Alll could think was, Dad's never going to believe this! General Foods International Coffees Share the feeling. l i l I J 1 i f f ( I I CENCRAL FOODS 1988 General Foods Corp. By SCOTT COWEN Staff Writer The Institute of Outdoor Drama will be holding the 1988 outdoor drama auditions on March 19th in Graham Memorial. The Institute of Outdoor Drama, located at UNC, is a national agency that, according to auditions director Judy Via, acts as a clearinghouse for outdoor dramas throughout the country. This year 16 theater com panies will attend the auditions, which are the only exclusively out door drama auditions held in the U.S. Most of the companies will represent productions in the Mid-Atlantic states, but there will also be oppor tunities in other parts of the country. The Institute has a quota of 200 applicants, but in recent years they haven't been able to meet this number. Last year they received only 137 applicants and expect about the same turnout again this year. Because most of the companies have a large number of openings, the success rate of the applicants is very good. Ruth Fletcher, a UNC student who was offered several roles last year, said, "There were more jobs than people." With the rather high success rate, the number of students from UNC who apply is surprisingly low. Fletcher stated that there were only about eight or 10 Carolina students who applied last year. Applicants must be at least 18 years old and must have had some previous theater experience. Also they must be available for most if not all of the summer. Singers are asked to prepare two numbers, and dancers will be led through a warm-up and assorted combinations using ballet, modern and folk choreography. Actors are United to one minute monologues. Any Nigrow, who performed in "First in Freedom" last summer, referrec to the auditions as a "cattle call') with individuals performing one fight after the other all day. Fletcher who was a lead in "From This DavForward," suggested that anyone iuditioning should "prepare sometling that shows your true self and prjsent yourself loudly. Be able to act bit almost on a bigger than life scale."j Most people.who perform in the dramas are doiig so more for experi ence than for the money. According to Via the silaries usually start around $80 aid run up to $130 a week. These salaries are considerably higher if the company has an Actors Equity Association contract. How ever, most do rot have such contracts, but most do provide housing. This housing can branything from a single apartment to i quad to a teepee. "I felt like I learned so much about people and how to present myself and how to use ihy voice really well," Fletcher sail of her experience. Nigrow said that because the plays run for abou. a month, you have to learn how to get excited about every performance jand how to maintain your energy l?vel. This is an excellent opportunity for UNC studeiks to land a job this summer in in outdoor production because the companies are coming here. Fletcltr strongly encourages any interestd person to audition and added, "Oudoor drama is an expe rience for fveryone, regardless of whether yo are an actor or more technically (Rented." !Mit MiinliM ittigii; THBVMERICAN HEART PVSSOCIATION MEMORIAL PROGRAM WE?E FIGHTING FOR VOUR LIFE ( Arrirican Heart Association This 8 provided as a public service. i 'j
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