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Arts and Entertainment • Wednesday, April 11, 2012
WU student wins NOTO logo contest Fatima Oubaid
Washburn Review The NOTO Arts District recently announced Angela Broadhead, a local artist, as the winner for their logo contest that was held in February. All contestants were to design and submit up to three logos for the NOTO’s upcoming Saturday Market in a way that would best represent the market. “I was actually really surprised when I found out that I had won,” said Broadhead, a senior mass media major at Washburn. “A friend of mine actually told me about the contest. At first, I didn’t think I was going to have the time to create and submit anything, but I ended up creating three different entries. It was great to be able to tell my mom and daughters that I had won, and it was a really fun experience.” Aside from designing the NOTO Saturday market logo, Broadhead works for Kid Stuff Marketing, and she does freelance artwork and volunteer artwork, while also being a copywriter. With more than 20 years of advertising experience, Broadhead has created many different logos and designs for restaurants and food chains across the nation and even international chains. “It’s really cool to go to a restaurant and see designs on
either the kids’ toy package or an advertising poster outside the food place and know that I created it,” said Broadhead. “I’ll sometimes even see people wearing a shirt I designed years ago and the fact that they are still wearing it is a huge compliment to me.” What makes Broadhead
niture throughout my home. It gives it a modern touch to the place.” Broadhead has a booth in the NOTO district downtown Topeka that is open on First Fridays and a booth in downtown Lawrence where she sells her crafted Antiques. Not to mention she creates
Photo by Tricia Peterson, Washburn Review Photo by Tricia Peterson, Washburn Review
And the Logo Winner Is: This is the winning logo, created by Angela Broadhead, a local artist, who also is a Washburn student. The logo will be displayed on their market bags as well as all around NOTO. especially unique is her interest in antiques and her ability to take a bunch of different used pieces of material and create something new and unique to use inside a home. “I love catering to the students,” said Broadhead. “I am always fixing up different things so students and everyone else will have something different for their dorms or apartments. I also collect old advertisements and have a bunch of unique fur-
all different types of designs such as t-shirts, logos, advertisements, album covers, copywriting, and much more. For more information about Broadhead or to find out how you can get artwork designed from her, contact her at (785) 220-8452 or e-mail her at angelab5@cox.net. Fatima Oubaid is a freshman mass media major. Reach her at fatima.oubaid@washburn. edu.
Percussionist passionate for music
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“My recital is dedicated to the first teacher that I ever had who passed away recently,” said Cook. “His name was Gary Via. Gary was the first one who told me that I could play one of the pieces I’m performing in the recital when I was a freshman. This piece is usually played by percussionists for this doctorate’s. Now, as a fully rounded percussionist, I’m performing it and dedicating it to him.” Another piece that Cook is performing is being dedicated to her friends and family because that’s who its about. “The piece is entitled
‘College Life’,” said Cook. “It involves a lot of flying movements.” There’s also a surprise featured in that piece, but to see it, Cook said to attend the recital. A large portion of Cook’s reputation at Washburn University has derived from being part of pep band, but that knowledge really hadn’t hit Cook until this past year when a certain fan came up to talk to her. “There’s this little boy who came up to me and gave me cookies and his parents would tell me ‘he likes watching you more than the actual game,’ “said Cook. “So, I gave him my drumsticks and signed them for
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him – it was beyond cute. I really hope he’s at my recital so that I can see him again.” Cook’s main ambition, as it has been for her entire career at WU, was just to fuel her passion further, which she hopes will show in her final recital. “I just want to perform,” said Cook, “that’s why I got this degree—I’m a performer; I always will be.” Cook’s performance is scheduled for 3 p.m., April 15, in White Concert Hall. Jordan Loomis is a freshman mass media and art major. Reach her at jordan.loomis@ washburn.edu.
Grand Opening of the Saturday Market: The NOTO board cut the ribbon to mark the official opening of the NOTO Saturday Market, last Saturday. The market will run through the summer and end in November.
Saturday Market opens to all Tricia Peterson
Washburn Review The NOTO Saturday Market opened last Saturday, and although it was rainy, they still kicked it off with style. Because they chose the location under the Kansas Avenue bridge, the rain was not a problem and in the future, the sun won’t be one either. The ribbon cutting started at 9:30 a.m. and included speeches by various people in the community who have been largely involved in promoting and making the market become a success. They included, John Hunter, co-chair for NOTO, Kansas senator Laura Kelly, Barry Feaker, director of the Topeka Rescue Mission, Randy Speaker, deputy city manager of Topeka, John Knight, director of Shawnee country parks and recreation, and William Beteta, executive director for Heartland Visioning. They each spoke about their part in making the Saturday market happen. Anita Wolgast, co-chair for the market, started by introducing everyone involved and talking about the market being under the bridge. “This weather was planned,” Wolgast said referring to the rain. “We wanted it to rain so you could appreciate that bridge covering you, and that same bridge will cover you when the sun is beating down on you this summer. We think it’s the perfect location.” Kelly was largely involved in visioning North Topeka as somewhere that would be great for antique dealers to be located. She owns an older, large house that she enjoys filling with antiques and frequently goes antiquing. Kelly knows that people want to be able to search for antiques in one area, not spread out, which got her to thinking NOTO would be the perfect spot in Topeka for an antique district. “I like antiques, go to antique stores on a regular basis,” said Kelly. “I never thought it would happen, but fortunately we have [Wolgast] and [Hunter] and all the others have been involved in this, it’s been miraculous to watch. This is just the beginning. This is going to grow. This is going to be huge and become a destination.” Jim Ogle, board member for NOTO, had some interesting things to say about the development of NOTO Saturday Market. He came across many negative comments in his jour-
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Despite Negative Attitudes: The NOTO board, and others involved in the market, spoke on Saturday about how hard work and collaboration helped overcome some of the negativity they received in the community. ney to make the market become a reality. “I was told many times that, ‘It’s not gonna happen in Topeka,’ ‘Things like this won’t happen in Topeka,’ ‘Nobody will buy into this attitude,’ ‘We have artists in Topeka?’ ‘You’re not gonna be successful,’ – all sorts of crap, pure D crap,” said Ogle. “It’s good in our fields as fertilizer, but we did a little fertilizing here in North Topeka and look at the success we’ve had. Collaboration works. The next time you hear someone shooting off their mouth that they can’t do this in Topeka, tell them we can and we did.” Jerry Farley, Washburn president, was also present and had a couple of his own things to say. He contributed the success of NOTO to the power of partnerships and people working together in our society to make something great happen. “The hurdles that had to be overcome to make this happen were absolutely incredible,” said Farley. “Money was an important part of it, but people were really the key to it, and they have amassed, got all of you involved. They’ve got a board that’s active, they’ve engaged the mission, the city, the television stations. All of this occurs because of what they started
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with, and it really is what they started with. This idea of partnerships is what made it happen in the end. Each one of you is willing to contribute your time and your effort, and each one of you is willing to dream that this could actually occur, and without that dream, we couldn’t be standing here under the bridge.” Beteta finished the ribbon cutting event by joining everyone in a celebratory “Wahoo!” Beteta said he has become known as “the wahoo guy” and explained it’s all about celebrating. “It’s about when we have things like this, we want to celebrate,” said Beteta. “Because when we celebrate, we get excited and when we get excited, we want do more. That is what we are trying to do with a community like Heartland Visioning; we want to do more.” Beteta then led the crown in one big “Wahoo,” where everyone raised their hands and yelled it at the top of their lungs. The NOTO Saturday Market will be held 7 a.m. until Nov 3, 2012. For more information, go to their website, notoartsdistrict.com/noto-saturday-market.
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