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The Independent Student Voice of Boise State Since 1933
Volume 22
First Issue
F R E E
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
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ART OPENING
MATT AND
OBAMA 3#
Socialist Speech? What is Obama’s motivation for speaking to school kids? PAGE 3
KIM
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Visual Arts Center to showcase faculty art BY EVAN WESTERFIELD Journalist
On Friday Sept. 4 the Visual Arts Center in the Liberal Arts Building and the Hemingway Western Studies Center reopened with the 2009 Biennial Art Department Faculty Exhibition. The center had been closed for the summer. “The faculty exhibition has existed thirty-five years,” said Richard Young, chair of the art department. “We also do it to show the different type of work faculty is up to.” The work is an eclectic array of art covering mediums from ceramics to photography and everything in between. One of the artists on display is adjunct professor Jim Talbot. The pieces he has on display are from a larger series of work, “Idaho Wildlife: Endangered Species.” “(I) Bumbled into going throughout the state doing portraits of people in older professions responsible for Idaho’s mystique and mythology,” he said. Talbot, who is not a native of Idaho, said he felt compelled to do Idaho Wildlife: Endangered Species because of Idaho’s ever changing landscape of people from the influx of new residents moving into the state. An aspect of the photographs Talbot has on display in the galleries is the use of words beneath the photos. This is his first time incorporating words into his work. “I wanted to give the impression while looking and reading that the people in the photos are talking to you,” he said. According to Talbot, he spent a lot of time getting the photos and the information on the people who were his subjects,
though not all of the phrases were spoken by the people being photographed. “Sometimes they wrote their own statements. Sometimes I wrote the statements and embellished,” he said. As an example, Talbot motioned to one of the photos of a man and woman. “The quote: ‘Wayne’s a stallion and real man,’ the lady in the photo never said. Lillian Gish said it about D.W. Griffith,” Talbor said. Talbot didn’t use passages that were not first approved by the people appearing in the series. Another professor on display is Laurie Blakeslee. Blakeslee’s art is part of a larger collection that will be in exhibition at the end of October in Tucson, AZ. “I’m re-photoing an old Montgomery Ward catalogue, in a sense, re-cataloging it,” Blakeslee said. Blakeslee focuses on post-World War II catalogues. Blakeslee said she averred of these catalogues the ability to view the changing role of women away from housewives, and girls learning from the same magazines how to be women. “I’ve been collecting books and magazines for a long time,” Blakeslee said. “And it has informed my work for a long time.” According to Blakeslee, this work focused on one question, “How my mother got information to me as a woman.” For information on the 2009 Biennial Art Department Faculty Exhibit you can visit their Web site, artdept.boisestate. edu/VAC. The Visual Art Center’s hours are Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday noon to 4 p.m. Admission is free.
Matt and Kim rock Boise Read The Arbiter’s review of the concert PAGE 6
Boise’s benifit rockers
An aspect of the photographs for proffessor Jim Talbot has words. “I wanted to give the impression while looking and reading that the people in the photo’s are talking to you.”
ATTN’s upcoming concert is a must see PAGE 4
PHOTOs BY nik bjurstrom/THE ARBITER
A magician closes his eyes as he slides a ring over his levatating assistant in Jim Budde’s “Abracadabra,” in the Liberal Arts Building.
Josh Luman, arrested today in connection with a fatal Labor Day incident near the Julia Davis Park bandshell, attends an all-staff training workshop Aug. 20 at The Arbiter, the university’s student newspaper. Luman, an Arbiter Journalist, was last published in Tuesday’s edition. The Arbiter • arbiteronline.com