Page 8 L I 1 m m j, Association Gallery Show As a departure from the usual fare of paintings and photography, the ART ASSOCIATION OF HARRISBURG is of fering a SCULPTURE AND WEAVING Exhibit from July 11 through 31, opening with a public reception on Sunday, July 11, from 1 to 4 P.M. The three-person ex hibit, featuring the combined works of ALAN PAULSON, WILLIAM HOIN, AND CAROL BUSKIRK, will fill the Association Galleries at 21 North Front Street, Harrisburg, with texture and three-dimensional form, creating a total ly new ambiance in the historic brownstone's display space. Carol M. Buskirk, well-known local craftswoman, has exhibited her weaving at the William Penn Memorial Museum, Franklin and Marshall College, the University of Michigan, and in Boston. Calling herself primarily self-taught in general weaving techniques, Buskirk studies in specific areas of interest with such people as Dorothy Lamming, Kathy Hutchinson, and Louise Piranian. She at tended workshops in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1971-76. During 1975, Buskirk travelled in Southeast Asia, col lecting textile data and fabric samples in Northeast Thailand as basis for her presentation "Native Weaving and Village Life in Northeast Thailand." Working in the Harrisburg area since 1976, Ms. Buskirk is a member of the Spinners' and Weavers' Guild of Lan caster, the Doshi Centre for Contem porary Art, the Pa. Guild of Craftsinen, and since 1978, she has owned and operated the Fancy Flock Fiber Studio in Lines. lestown. BROWSING "Alfalfa" is a cuddy word, You chew it as you say it. "Timothy" tastes as sweet as it sounds (and so few words are good to eat.) I envy the breath of herbivorous cattle who chew with open mouths, green frothy lips kissing the salt blocks whre our tongues have licked together. Our brown eyes meet, ruminating, and we know that nothing matters but the taste of timothy and thyme. Dlicated to Marian and Carol IMAGE OF A WOMAN If I had been born a male, an only son 'to my parents instead of an only daughter, I would not have worn white gloves and stiff petticoats to church and Sunday School, or have Toni "Tonette" perms, Arthur Murray ballet and tap lessons, collections of dolls and Mother's painstakingly made doll clothes, a tin doll house, myriads of plush, stuffed animals on my bed, or a turquoise Princess phone when I became a teen. I could have gotten dirty, played ball with the boys and suffered the bumps and bruises which build character. But I couldn't - mine was the image of a woman. If I were a son, I might have had an Erector Set instead of Bloc City, a dog instead of a parakeet, trucks instead of paper dolls, and a them set instead of a diary. Maybe I would have had a snap shot taken of me doing something, like hitting a baseball, and Mother could have sent that picture out on all Christmas cards instead of the one of her pudgy seven-year-old daughter in ballet leotards and toe shoes, posed at the door. See an early image of the woman? If I had been a son, I could have gotten through ninth grade algebra with my parent's support rather than shrugged off because "Your mother was never any good in math, either." William Hoin of Lancaster holds bachelor of science degrees in industrial art and art education from Millersville State College, and a Master's from Glassboro State College. Having taught public school in New Jersey and Pa. for five years, Hoin founded "Bill Hoin's Art Center and Gallery" in 1979 in Lancaster. Hoin has shown his work at Franklin and Marshall College, the Atlantic City Art Center, and the Penn State Arts Festival. Of his work Hoin explains, "The texture and color of a variety of materials has always fascinated me and I endeavor to create harmonious relationships by us ing different materials in a collage ap proach. I differ from other artists because I produce the materials myself rather than seek out scraps and throw aways for my collages." The sculptor Alan Paulson, art pro fessor at Gettysburg College, studied at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia College of Art and Temple Univ. He has taught art in colleges in New York, Kentucky and Pa. Paulson has exhibited his work widely, in several states, both in one-man and group shows. He was listed in Who's Who in American Art in 1976, and has been the recipient of numerous grants to further pursue his sculptural work. This SCULPTURE AND WEAVING EXHIBITION may be viewed at the Art Association at 21 North Front St., Har risburg, during regular gallery hours of 9 A.M. to 4 P.M. Monday through Friday, 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. Saturday, from July 12 through 31. Erna Tunno and Charles Hidley are Exhibition Co-Chairmen. ..4 IT'S THE PITS The Timeclock bites my days off, chewing up my life, spitting out weekends and holidays. I peck at the crumbs with the gluttonous glee of a sparrow. Molly Stark If I had been al5 year-old son when my parents divorced, the Court Order that my father hire a housekeeper for us may have been accomplished, but of course, I was a daughter and Father knew I could handle housework by myself. Thus I became the image of a grown woman. If I had been a son, my father might have taught me poker instead of solitaire. I might have learned how to fix my bike chain and pump up the tire in stead of waiting for Daddy to do it for me. I might have learned how to do more with a car except turn on the ignition and to do more than look helpless if my car failed along the road, so that a man might stop and help me. If I had been a son, I might have had a position on the stage crew of my high school Mask and Scandal group rather than putting makeup on the actors' faces. I could have greased car axels and made wooden furniture in Shop instead of jam and jumpers in Home Ec. If I were a son, I would have learned to "think like a man," and been praised as logical, strong and tough. I could have picked my own dates instead of waiting for them to pick me. I could have had a part-time job to earn money for college, social events, or a mo-ped instead of learning independence in housekeeping so as not to grow up a sloppy housewife, or worse yet, dependent on someone else to do it for me. When I did get an occasional job, it was to babysit someone's snotty nosed children in their house with sticky jam on the floor and doggie stains on the carpet. "Of course I know what to do, M'am. I'll take good care of the children - I'm a girl, aren't I?" It never occured to me to be taught or trained - no one seemed to think RESPECTABILITY We are not gypsies in a green wagon, Tonio told me, We are respectable people, Craving honour. And I remembered the day when I was a child that I heard the serpent whisper of knowledge and followed my cousin Barbara to school so that I, too, might learn and was spanked for my efforts by my brass-buttoned uncle who was a very respectable Major. I went and sat down by the side of King's Highway, waiting for gypsies for I had heard that they stole children and took them away to live in green wagons dancing in the firelight to violins and tamborines telling fortunes and wearing golden earrings. No gypsies came so I went home to grow up. I have a pair of golden earrings now, but I never wear them because they are vulgar. Molly Stark paign to get an engagement ring in "Life with Mother." Denied the ring for 22 years, Mother Day would not have made such an issue of it except for the ac cidental discovery that a kittenish sweetheart of Father's youthful days is still wearing an engagement ring she had Allenberry stubbornly ref to relinquish when the enagement was broken. Elizabeth, an "Life with Mother," the Broadwa c r Allenberry favorite and professional comedy hit which continues the a - ventures of the day family, as created in actress, played the role of Vinnie in "Life with Father," will be performed at Allenberry's 1961 production of "Life the Allenberry Playhouse, in Boiling with Father." Springs, from June 8 through June 27. David Brubaker will be seen as the The entire Day family, including the pompous yet lovable Father Day; a blustering Father and determined a y tyrant who never won a battle and is Mother and the four boys, will be on hand no more successful this time when in this play about one of America's most Mother wages her crusade to get an ring. beloved families. e ngagement Brubaker played the Reverend Doctor Based on a real life story about the Days in the early 1900 s, Howard Lindsay Lloyd in the production of "Life with Father" which opened Allenberry and Russel Crouse wrote "Life with Playhouse 34 y ears ago and has been Mother" as a worthy successor to their earlier play. In fact, New York critics active at Allenberry ever since. and audiences hailed it as an even fun- Jeanne Tron will be seen as Bessie, nier and more rewarding theatrical Father Day's silly, ex-sweetheart. experience than "Life with Father." Dennis Kotecki will play son, Clarence, Elizabeth Endrizzi plays the fragile but Love-struck and newly engaged. David decisive Vinnie (Mother Day) who, C. Lyons plays John, Todd Negley is having succeeded in getting Father Whitney, and Charles A.B. Heinze, 11, baptized, wages an unrelenting cam- has the role of Harlan, the youngest of the Day boys. " 4914.4 ' 6 "''' 9 " 6 ' 6 " .-° '" v " G • In 1949 when the Allenberry Playhouse that I was incompetent just because I had first opened its doors with the per never cared for or nary seen a child formance of "Life with Father," Jere S. younger than myself. Babysitting is a Heinze, now General Manager of teenage image of a woman. Allenberry, and father of Charles, played If I had been a son, when I graduated the role of Harlan, under the tutelage of "With Merit" in my high school class , his older brother, John J. Heinze, now (1965), I might have been urged to go for President of the 57-acre Allenberry technical training, college or an Army ` complex. career instead of "Hairdresser's Mary Bausch plays giddy cousin Cora School." The title under my yearbook , and Richert Easley has the role of her picture wouldn't have been "A thing of new husband, Clyde Miller, a hay and beauty is a joy forever" thus making a grain merchant from Ohio who dares talk middle-aged college student feel she is no back to Father. longer anyone's joy. , Father and Mother Day and family are If I had been a husband instead of a truly understandable human beings for wife, I would have found more jobs in the \ whom playgoers will readily feel a real Help Wanted ads for my gender than \ and affectionate kinship. those for clerks, secretaries, aides and , The play is directed by Nelson Sheeley, waitresses. Being a young wife, seeking staged by R. Jack Frost, Jr., costumes work with no college or work experience, \ by Jerren P. Rogers, under the technical and society's expectation that I'll \ direction of John P. Watts, with set probably get pregnant and quit, the only , designs by Jason Rubin. wage I could earn was $1.25-hr. and I had For ticket information, or reser to be sure my work was done in those \ vations, call the Allenberry Box Office, hours because they wouldn't pay over- \ (717) 258-6120 , time. When the monthly billing didn't balance, of course I came in after hours to work on it on my own time. If I'd been a male worker, the Union might have pulled for my rights. Is it not delightful to be the image of a woman? Now it is. Now I can appreciate more fully the accomplishments of my political sisters during the fifteen years I spent married and taxiing to my wifely, motherly, and secretarial duties. While these services are necessary, they are only noble when performed willingly. It IS delightful to now have a choice in COMEDY decision making, opportunities to stretch and to think, and to feel my own worth. RNA TARNHELM This year's Tarnhelm, The Capitol Campus Literary Magazine, was distributed at the magazine's annual reception held Tuesday, June 8 in the Gallery Lounge. Editors of the 1982 edi tion are Susan M. Snell and Marie Drazenovich; staff members include Mary E. Diehl, Gary Fillmore, Judy Gallela and Neil Gussman, with Dr. Theodora R. Graham, Faculty Advisor. June 10,1982
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