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There are two ways to look at “discovery 1969: the mid west,” the exhibit that con tinues through May 31 at the Exhibition gallery, Halls on the Plaza, 211 Nichols road. On the one hand, it’s an eye opener. In the display, one can see a capsule of fine art talents of 26 Mid-Western artists. Eight reside in the Greater Kansas City area; an other is a native of the metro politan area. Others are from outlying towns in Kansas, Mis souri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Secondly, objects in the show again illustrate how fine art expression and items for home furnishings overlap. Among the end results of designs in various media suit able for interior enrichment are furniture, woven wall hangings and rugs, ceramics, printed fabrics, mosaics, paintings and sculpture. The show was co-ordinated by the local chapter of the American Institute of Interior Designers to focus on work being done by area artisans. It opened during the organiza tion's semi-annual national meeting here late last month. As a bit of sidelight infor mation, about half of the artists are either instructors or professors at area colleges and universities. Most of those who are not have supplemen tary financial support for their talents. A hobbyist cabinetmaker, Clarence Teed, 6021 Central street, has walnut furniture on display. All the pieces have a hand-rubbed finish of Danish rubbing oil, which Teed likes better than linseed oil. “On a damp day, it (lin seed) tends to get sticky,” he explained. WHEN SHE LEFT her Com munist-dominated native Hun gary in 1945, Mrs. Gabriella Polony Mountain had to leave behind the heavy sculptures she had done. A Kansas Citian since 1951, Mrs. Mountain does her work at her home, 648 West Fifty-ninth terrace. The copper repousse doors in the show reflect a metal working technique she per fected in Academia dei Belli Arti in Rome. She doesn’t need to have the doors cast and likes the “immediacy, lightness and primitive feel ing”’ of the result. Other Kansas City artists and their media are: Robert E. Bailey, oils, 4103 Pennsylvania avenue; Eugene Caples, cast metal sculptures, 5313 North Duclid avenue; Kenneth Ferguson, ceramics, 12115 Foodlane, Grandview; Mrs. Janet Kuemmerlein, woven and appliqued wall hangings, 7701 Canterbury street, Prairie Village; Larry Nicholson, photographs, 3606 Shady Bend drive, Indepen dence; L. E. (Gus) Shafer, bronzes, 8308 West Sixty-first street, Merriam, and Geff Reed, ceramics, a Kansas City native now living in Rich mond, Va. Additional exhibitors from the Middle West: Mrs. Martyn Brown, woven wall hangings and cushions, Mrs. Cynthia Schira, woven wall hangings, and John Tal leur, woodblocks, all of Law rence, Kas. Joseph Falsetti, metal sculp tures, Richard Helmick, wood and metal sculptures, Gary Lee Hennigh, printed textiles, and John S. Weller, paintings, all of Columbia, Mo. Martin Bartel, stoneware and porcelain, Kirksville, Mo.; Mrs. Libbie Crawford, woven rugs, Kirkwood, Mo.; Edwin Garner and Mrs. Sue Garner, stoneware, Springfield, Mo.; Mrs. Muriel Helfman, tapes try, St. Louis, and Francis Sporer, stoneware mosaic, Fulton, Mo. Jim Hagan, metal sculp tures and water colors, Man hattan, Kas., and Ray Kah meyer, stoneware, Lindsborg, Kas.; Eugene Bavinger, seri graph, Norman, Okla.; Thom as Coleman, Intaglio, Lincoln, Neb., and Donald Roller Wil son, Fayetteville, Ark., oils.— J.K. E.
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Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Sun, May 11, 1969
Page 128
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