FEATURE
September 2008
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Delicate sculptures on display in APEX Tillamonk... and a book By Raver Staff Delicate: Sculpture and Pinhole Photography” by Kim Henkel is the featured exhibit at the APEX Gallery in the Classroom building through Friday, Sept. 12. Her time spent as a student and later as an instructor in New Mexico and Arizona visibly influences her work. Currently a Sculptor in Residence at Mt. Rushmore National Memorial, Henkel hopes that many students will stop by the gallery and check out her exhibit. She has been exhibiting her sculptures and pinhole photography professionally for 18 years in over 50 fine arts galleries and museums. From 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 5, the community has a chance to attend a reception at the APEX Gallery, where Henkel will give a talk about her work. For more information on Henkel’s work, visit www. kimhenkelsculpture.com.
By Kim Henkel
Featured APEX Gallery artist
My sculpture is a result of a physical process of spontaneous digging and marking in clay with my hands – a blind act of faith. As I work, I create the negative void that is ever present in this life full of ambiguity. Removing my hands, I fill the dark, cold space with materials. Then I painstakingly peel away the soft layers of clay on the outside until the solid form is exposed - like an excavation. The result is an expressive object like a fossil manifestation of the complexity of my desires, fears and expectations. The layers of clay are recycled over and over again as a foundation for more digging and building more sculpture. When my will tries to control the negative space, the outcome takes the form of fierce substances. But when I push with spontaneous marks of bold confidence, a wonderful evolution of probity and consciousness appears. The pinhole photographs are a documentation of the moment of discovering the sculptures in the Arizona landscape.
Suceeding at School of Mines By Dr. Pat Beu Director of Retention and Testing • Go to class. Always. Don’t skip class. Be on time for class and inform the professor if you can’t be there when expected. • Note tests and assignments from your syllabus into your “day-timer” or other schedule. • Determine daily priorities, especially study time. Live those priorities every day. • Go meet your professors and advisor and establish a relationship with them. • Study with friends. Hold each other accountable to what you are studying by quizzing each other. • Make sample test questions out of lecture notes. Quiz yourself. • Make a sample test when reading the textbook. Find the questions that will be on the test and memorize the answers. • Participate once or twice daily in class by making a comment or asking a question. It shows the professor you’re interested and keeps you awake. • Eat healthy meals, exercise every day and get a good night’s sleep. • Visit with an advisor or professor about doing an internship or COOP. • Review your notes and textbook frequently; don’t expect cramming before the test to help you remember. • Utilize tutoring and other help services before it is too late. • Discuss the ramifications of dropping a course with the financial aide office if you know you are going to get an F in it. • Use your advisor to help you develop an academic plan. Know what courses you need to take next semester and what it will take to graduate. • Find out how you’re doing in class by asking the professor. Don’t wait to be surprised. • Never drop a course without checking first with the financial aid office, the professor or advisor and Academic and Enrollment Services. Never.
By Evan Waddell The avid student often wishes to partake of the delicacy that is studying. This being said, there are many considerations when settling into the correct study spot. Here I try to help interested persons by giving a brief overview of the variety out there. First, consider the unique piquancy of the Surbeck South Lounge. With its broad area and variable appeal, your study senses can experience something new every time you sit down. This spot can be savored late into the night, and is especially desirable before major exams. If you are less adventurous, the rich yet regular library may be of interest. Those who love the unadorned flavor of studying often prefer this location due to its lack of aural and visual distraction. Be warned, though; as you make your way to the top, the bland yet heated taste of the library increases. Only the most thorough studiers can stand the small study rooms available for rent on the library third floor. Or, if regional flavor is more to your liking, consider the highly specified study locations on campus – namely, departmental lounges. Chemical engineers find that the war room behind their process lab gives a quiet foretaste, often followed by a surprising jolt of hard rock. Other lounges offer the convenience of reference books or reference students (upperclassmen).
Another option, becoming increasingly popular today among the study crowd, is that of the organic feel. Not for everyone, but certainly worth a taste, these study spots feature earthy aromas, richness of color, and the quiet grandeur of the South Dakota terrain. March-Dake plaza is centrally located and features the smoky aroma (and taste) of the grill. The quad affords a stereoscopic campus backdrop during sit-down studies, and usually has a strong signal strength from the campus wireless network. Finally, if these exotic flavors do not pique your interests, you may be just as well off with the most traditional of study environs, the residence halls. With the solitude (and spontaneity) that only a home-aged study can offer, the halls stand proud in their heritage. Palmerton is speckled with central study hubs on every floor, while Connolly has a rich and subdued ground floor lounge (with an occasional classic video game break, if desired). Peterson’s second floor lounge is ideal for first-time connoisseurs of the studying art, and is often frequented by First program mentors. And of course, you can create your own unique study taste by clearing out a space in your room and having at it. This concludes our introductory study menu; which shall you sample first?