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Marshall University Marshall Digital Scholar The aP rthenon University Archives 1-31-2014 The aP rthenon, January 31, 2014 Bishop Nash [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon Recommended Citation Nash, Bishop, "The aP rthenon, January 31, 2014" (2014). The Parthenon. Paper 308. http://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon/308 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at Marshall Digital Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aP rthenon by an authorized administrator of Marshall Digital Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2014 | VOL. 117 NO. 70 | MARSHALL UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER | marshallparthenon.com WEEKENDWEEKENDWEEKEND EDITION When I create art, others can see who I am; what I feel, think, and how I view the world. — KEELAN SHEPHERD, MARSHALL UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENT AND ARTIST, CREATES COLORFUL PIECES WITH CHALK AND CHARCOAL. > more on page 2 ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: University basketball coaches Tom Faculty from Marshall University’s College Herrion and Pat Skerry come together of Arts and Media collaborates with the to bring autism awareness to their Huntington Museum of Art to present communities. “The Art of Teaching Art.” > more on page 3 > more on page 2 Friday Saturday Sunday page designed and edited by CODI MOHR HIGH 45° LOW 33 ° HIGH 53° LOW 36 ° HIGH 39° LOW 28° [email protected] 275741 GLENNS SPORTING GOODS C M Y K 50 INCH 2 WEEKEND EDITION FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2014 | | MARSHALLPARTHENON.COM Marshall grad student escapes reality with chalk and charcoal By EKATERINA GUTSAN art, others can see who I am and THE PARTHENON how I view the world.” Marshall University graduate art Shepherd said his style is tra- student Keelan Shepherd enjoys es- ditional yet vibrant with subtle caping from reality with chalk and blending and hard dark lines. charcoal. He is a resident of Huntington and Shepherd graduated from Mar- has a website which was originally shall in 2004 with a degree in created to display his current and technical design. past artwork. At 5 years old, Shepherd started Shepherd recently opened an to draw sunrises and landscapes. He online store on his website so his said he always felt at home when he creations can be purchased and painted or drew. shipped worldwide. “It’s an escape from reality and it “At this moment my goal is to brings a sort of calming peace to my soul,” Shepherd said. “When I create art,” Shepherd said. “I am working onflood commissioned the city with murals my creations for a local of hospital children’s wing. Previously I had created portraits, pictures of the family’s favorite automobile, and typography.” His artwork and t-shirts can also be viewed at The Jug and Kilt in Bar- boursville or at Giovanni’s Pizza on Third Avenue across from the Joan C. Edwards Stadium. “I plan to let the world know about my talent, whether it is through special effects makeup galleries, or illustrations for pub- lishingin film companies,”and theater, Shepherdart in national said. “The possibilities and passions are endless.” SUBMITTED PHOTOS Ekaterina Gutsan can be con- Above: “The Mind’s Eye” tacted at [email protected]. Top Left: “First Date” Botton Left: “Life is a Broken Road to Somewhere” Visual arts faculty art on display This ‘Labor Day’ is no holiday at the movies at Huntington Museum of Art By COLIN COVERT a Harlequin-level potboiler so hands. It’s there that Frank ap- STAR TRIBUNE (MINNEAPOLIS) shameless it would make Nicho- pears before Henry as in a vision, By JESSICA STARKEY see what their teachers are able to “Our faculty also displayed re- (MCT) las Sparks blush. quietly insisting that he and his THE PARTHENON produce. cently at the Clay Center along “Labor Day” is a generic slab of A dejected single mom named mom drive him somewhere so The visual arts faculty at Mar- “It shows the variety of art and with WVU faculty,” she said. escapist romantic Velveeta from, Adele (Kate Winslet) falls for he can tend a suspicious-looking shall University have put their media that the professors here at of all people, sharp-witted Jason a brawny, dangerous stranger stomach wound. Frank’s hushed artistry on display to the public Marshall use,” Grassell said. “It’s sculpture and ceramics, it’s all Reitman. named Frank (Josh Brolin). It’s persuasion, polite with under- at the Huntington Museum of Art. comforting for the students to there.“Photography, Art is alive fibers in West and Virginia, fabrics, This insipidly sentimental, 1987, and Adele’s son, Henry tones of threat, convinces her to The museum and the visual arts see our exhibits and know we are even contemporary art.” hopelessly hokey entry sits un- faculty from Marshall’s College of doing this, too. We are practicing A lot of time was spent decid- insights more apt for a mid- to take him to their home and Arts and Media came together to artists, and this is our latest work.” ing which pieces would go in “Thank You for Smoking,” “Juno,” dle-aged(Gattlin Griffith),lady novelist narrates than with a moreobey. orHe less gruffly takes directs them prisonerthe pair present “The Art of Teaching Art.” She said many people, unfor- the exhibit. The faculty planned “Upeasily in thebeside Air” andhis “Youngearlier Adult”films. hormonal 13-year-old. “I don’t for the Labor Day weekend. The exhibit, which is on display tunately, do not know about the the exhibit along with the Hun- were sardonic dramas that made think losing my father broke my It’s not the usual meet-cute until Feb. 9, allows these profes- art department at Marshall Uni- tington Museum of Art to make uncompromising fun of modern mother’s heart, but rather losing where a couple bump heads in a sors to show off their work while versity. By displaying artwork in sure the presentation included life. Whether the subject was po- love itself,” he observes. He gives taxi they both think they hailed, also using it as a teaching tool for Huntington, the faculty can pro- a variety of art and media. The litical lobbying, teen pregnancy her homemade gift coupons for but thus are surrogate father and their students. The art represented mote their program and hopefully Huntington Museum of Art is lo- or corporate downsizing, Reit- his services as Husband-for-a- surrogate family introduced. A includes sculpture, prints, paint- recruit more art students. cated at 2033 McCoy Rd. General Day. As 13-year-old boys do. TV report reveals that Frank is an Grassell said places like the Hun- Admission is $5 and free to chil- Adele is so emotionally frag- escaped con. In fact, a murderer. ceramics. tington Museum of Art and The dren under 18. man’sAccuse films him were of what calculated you will, to ile she can scarcely put her car But a very hunky one, so per- ings, textiles, fibers and fabrics and ruffle orthodox feathers. Mary Grassell, program director Clay Center in Charleston allow the Jessica Starkey can be con- he’s been innocent of sentimen- in gear for their monthly supply haps it’s all a misunderstanding? and graphic design professor, said faculty to display their work out- tacted at starkey33@marshall. tality. Here, working from Joyce trip to the discount store. Cut it is important for the students to side of the university. edu. Maynard’s novel, he delivers to a close-up of her trembling See LABOR DAY| Page 5 Memories of Pete Seeger — and his boat By DAVID O’REILLY people of the Hudson Valley, music, all in the name of cleaning recognizing me, he picked me up THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER where he made his home, to the up the Hudson. hitchhiking on a busy highway. (MCT) new cause of environmentalism. Seeger didn’t sail with us of- And when Toshi and I arrived one Like many Americans of my Seeger was not on board the ten. Instead, he’d stop by when day at the cabin at 1 a.m., Pete we were close by his home town emerged from the house in his through his music. I learned “This of her tarred rigging and hemp of Peekskill, N.Y., to drop off pajamas to open the car for her. Oldgeneration, Man” Iin first kindergarten. met Pete Seeger As morning I caught my first whiff homemade bread, wash dishes, He sang for little or no charge for a teenager, “If Had a Hammer” - any (liberal) worthy cause, drove played on my transistor radio. inropes the andtrip.) wood-fired But, as I wrotecookstove. in a wood. Often as not, he’d then pull drab cars, lived frugally, and an- And as the Vietnam War and Philadelphia(He came aboard Inquirer briefly Magazine later or spend an hour chopping fire swered all his mail — including civil-rights movement convulsed article years later, I had stepped — with the words “This Machine the letter my 10-year-old son, the nation, I marched in protest unwittingly that day into the Surroundsout his famous Hate five-stringand Forces banjo It to Chris, wrote to him years ago, to the verses of “We Shall Over- moral universe of Pete Seeger: Surrender” penned on the sound- telling him how much he liked his come” and “Where Have All the “a rustic, collective, optimistic, board — and start us singing. music. Flowers Gone?” - He was a private man, however, “I’m a lucky oldster to have Then I got to know him in a verse” reminiscent of the Shakers who often hid in public behind a friends like you,” Seeger wrote more personal way.