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Utah State University’s Annual Campus Security and Fire Safety Report, more commonly known as the “Clery Report,” was released last week. Under federal law, institutions of higher education are required to make security information available, including crime statistics for campus and the surrounding area. The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Police and Campus Crime Statistics Act requires institutions to maintain and release crime statistics for the previous three years; the most recent report contains statistics for the 2013 calendar year. The largest increase of arrests on campus pertained to liquor law violations, jumping from 38 arrests in 2012 to 85 in 2013. To view the complete report including the fire safety portion visit www.dps.usu.edu and click on “Annual Camps Security and Fire Safety Report” on the left-hand navigation bar.
USU announces new coordinators The Utah State athletic department announced the hiring of new offensive and defensive coordinators on Friday. Josh Heupel (left) will be the new offensive coordinator and Kevin Clune (right) will be the new defensive coordinator. For the full story see page 5.
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“Crafting a Continuum” exhibit comes to NEHMA 4By Melanie Christensen staff writer
A knitted superhero suit, combs weaved into wall art and pottery sculpted by blindfolded women are all now on display in the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art as part of its new exhibit, “Crafting a Continuum: Rethinking Contemporary Craft.” The exhibit, which opened to the public on Jan. 23, is a traveling exhibition from the Arizona State University Art Museum. It replaced NEHMA’s previous upstairs exhibit, “Enchanted Modernities: Mysticism, Landscape and the American West.” The exhibit features the artwork of more than 60 American and international artists from the
1950s to the current decade. Adriane Dalton, assistant curator at the museum, said only one piece in the exhibit is completely two-dimensional. “ ‘C r a f t i n g a Continuum: Rethinking Contemporary Craft’ is a unique exhibition for our students because most of the objects in this exhibition are three-dimensional, sculptural objects,” said Katie Lee Koven, the museum’s director. The exhibit “paints a broad picture of what is happening in craft right now,” Dalton said. She said “Crafting a Continuum” shows the “blurring line” between craft and decorative art. “Formally in art history, craft and decorative art fall into separate categories,” Dalton said.
Craft was once loosely defined as an individual craftsman who created art with a medium he was skilled in — most commonly ceramic, metal, fiber, glass or wood, Dalton said. Decorative art, she explained, was once created by guilds of artists for upper-class buyers to decorate their homes. “There are no longer distinctions and neat categories,” Dalton said. “It is my opinion that the separation of these categories is less to do with actual creation of works than it is to do with the social perceptions.” One of the eye-catching artists, according to Lee Koven, is Mark Newport, whose inspiration for his
ter’s events at the museum, the first being the Contextualizing Craft and Design Symposium, which will be held Friday and Saturday. The symposium will feature many keynote speakers, such as Jenni Sorkin, Del Harrow, Glenn Adamson, Heather Lineberry and others. There will also be two panels about craft and design and a reception Saturday Mark Bell photos night at the Logan Country Club. knitted superhero suit and The symposium’s full embroidered comic book schedule is located at is to question masculine ht t p://a r t museu m.usu. edu/htm/spotlight-news/ gender roles. She said Sonya Clark, ArticleID=27474. who wove together dozens “Anyone is welcome to of combs, is also an artist come and stop in for a session and for something of note. “Her work is about iden- that they are specifically tity in the sense of being interested in,” Lee Koven an African-American said. woman,” Lee Koven said. She said students and “Most of her work has to do with hair.” Pottery sculpted by Claydies, consisting of blindfolded Danish women, is also on display. “They’re making vessels and dinnerware, but they’re doing it blindfolded as a different way of interacting with the material,” Dalton said. The exhibit is the inspiration for many of this semes-
community members are welcome to stay for the entire symposium. This semester’s Museum and Music series will also use “Crafting a Continuum” as inspiration for some of its events. Everyone can find something they like at the events or the exhibit, Lee Koven said. “I think students will be very surprised at the serious skill that goes into the making of these objects,” she said. “There’s also a lot of humor and a lot of fun that these artists and makers infuse into their making process and into their ideas conceptually,” “Crafting a Continuum” will be on display until April 15. “It’s a really fun exhibit,” Lee Koven said. “Anyone visiting can enjoy something.”
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