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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1977
Four seminars offered
Four seminars are offered this
week by the Colleges of Science and
Engineering at Texas A&M Univer
sity.
A data processing short course
will be conducted by Mike Dean on
FORTRAN, beginning at 2 p.m.
Tuesday in Room 220 of the Old
Engineering Building. The second
half of the course will be Thursday.
Dr. Henry Rappaport will discuss
“Aminocyiation and Iminium Salts”
at 5 p.m. Wednesday in Room 231
of the Chemistry Building.
A Thursday mechanical engineer
ing senior seminar will feature Gene
Mailloux discussing “Control
Valves” in Room 203 of Zachry
Center at 10 a.m.
Also Thursday, another of the
ocean engineering seminar series
starts with Allan C. McClure on the
subject of “Deep Water Mooling
and Dynamic Positioning” at 3:30
p.m. in Room 342 of Zachry Center
Texas A&M University
Opera & Performing Arts Society
Tickets
Available
MSC Box Office
845-2916
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Tuesday, October
18, 1977 8:15 p.m.
Rudder Auditorium
Victoria artist featured Pp
Reride the carouse
Neldene Matusevich paints the Carousel
LULAC state director
to talk on human rights
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LULAC State Director Ruben
Bonilla will speak Wednesday at
Texas A&M University on “Human
Rights for Mexican Americans.”
Bonilla will speak at 7:30 p.m. in
Room 701 of the Rudder Tower. He
is sponsored by the Committee for
the Awareness of Mexican American
Culture, a Memorial Student Cen
ter committee.
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Themes
LULAC, League for United Latin
American Citizens, is a nationwide
organization.
Bonilla has been state director a
little more than a month and is
well-known for his outspoken views
on Houston’s Joe Campos Torres
case. An attorney from Corpus
Christi, Bonilla is a leading
Mexican-American citizen of Texas.
The CAMAC speaker will also
hold a press conference at 3:30 p.m.
in the Bryan Building and Loan
building.
CAMAC Chairman Antonio
Villeda said Texas A&M students
will be admitted free with activity
cards. Admission is 50-cents for
non-students.
By BEVERLY MANJEOT
Her face is void of expression, her
body free of restrictive clothing, but
the boldness of the artist’s brush
strokes give the ghost-like carousel
rider a distinct personality.
The painting entitled "Nirvana,
number VI of the Carousel Series,
sells for $750 and is part of the Gal
lery’s October art exhibit. The Gal
lery, sponsored by the Arts Com
mittee, is located on the first floor of
the Memorial Student Center
(MSC) and the admission is free.
Neldene Matusevich, the artist
who is executive director of the
Open Door Creativity Center in
Victoria, Texas, painted the 19 pic
tures currently on display. The
group of paintings include a young
black guitar player, several still-
lifes, two framed pictures of nude
women on loan by their owner, and
four fanciful carousel riders.
Despite the vivid colors and sym
bolism reflected in her paintings,
Matusevich said she was disap
pointed because her show was
“safe” rather than “bold.
“This would have been a bold
show in the 1940’s. Until then all art
came from nature, but now nature
has taken a backseat in the arts.
Today little of what 1 call modern art
can be related to nature because it
comes from the electronic world,’
she said.
Modern art to her means the pre
determined grids done in
monocromatic color schemes. She
believes modern art is a form of
therapy because it involves large
amounts of physical exertion.
“But as a painter, I can’t be criti
cal of other artists’ styles and forms
if I haven’t done it. Given an oppor
tunity to do modern art I may find it
very exciting, she said.
Matusevich working now with
larger and more controversial sub
ject matter, lacked enough of her
newer works to put on an entire
show.
“I’m using the human figure in a
more fantasy-type environment
rather than in a believable environ
ment. The four carousel riders are
my newer works and they make a
stronger statement, she said.
Ever since she was a child
Matusevich has had a strong at
tachment for the carousel. She re
members the gaudiness, loud
music, and going up and down
without going anywhere. To her,
the carousel is symbolic of the emo
tional upheavels in her life.
“I’m 46 years old, my children
have all left home, and I don’t feel I
have obtained any recognition. I’m
caught in the social structure and
political upheavels of a particular
era and I don’t feel I’ll ever see
them solved,” she said.
Although Matusevich doesn’t feel
she has received recognition, her
work has been exhibited in Texas,
Delaware, and Pennsylvania. Her
painting “Desert Cliffs was one of
15 outstanding works in the 1972
Texas Fine Arts Association Annual
Citation Show.
Matusevich believes aril
only field where a finished p:L
is neither good nor bad, n;
wrong. Art is just one persos
terpretation of something 9 return ing
en “A d « A f u the I
A good critic will try tord in d three
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tist. Where he lives, whath UetbalU
through, and if he succeed
painting his experience,” she
An artist must have a stron;
image in order to grow. Hecr
afraid of a critic or what as
might say about his work
Matusevich.
“If I wasn’t brave I wouldh
paint in a closet, but I
kicks and thrills from exhibili
work,” she said.
A 1963 graduate from Tea
University, Matusevich saidi
only been painting seriously
1968. To her, a serious paints
person who is eontinously ii
in painting.
“Cooking one good meal4
make you a gourmet cool,
does painting one picture mak
an artist,” she said. “I get:
amateur painters who want
painting in a semester.”
Asked if she ever used m
while painting, Matusevice
“Models are hard to find in Vi
because few will pose nudeJ
vorite model was a 60-ye;
woman who had been a fi
model. She had beautiful banili
a good face with regular featui
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A&M literary selections chosen for horn
Five selections from Texas A&M
University-based Quartet literary
magazine are among those chosen
for the recently published “Best
American Short Stories 1977
edited by the late Martha Foley.
English professor Dr. Richard
Costa, Quartet editor, said the
number of listings is the highest in
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Ruben
Bonilla
the magazine’s 17-year history.
Only Kansas Quarterly had more
stories honored in the anthology.
Receiving top Roll of Honor
praise were “Fabricator” by Warren
Miller and “Crispus Attucks Falls”
by Dale Edmonds, both offerings in
last year’s acclaimed Texas Writers
Special.
Other stories won the second
highest honor, that of Distinctive.
They included “Snow Job” by Wal-
Knowledge is your best
protection.
. Carl Bussells
ter McDonald and “Spread
James White, both from thel
Writers Special. “A BirdofPas
by Barbara Reid was publish
the magazine’s Exotica issue
year.
Miller is a native of Soutl
Texas now residing in Florida
monds, a literary magazine e
during his college days at I
wrote the first dissertation at
University of Texas on Mak
Lowry. McDonald teaches Eb
at Texas Tech and White is
founder of the Texas Centei
Writers Press. Reid is a New In
who had a 1972 Quartet story
in the anthology.
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SPEAKING ON
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grasp Vered dimensions of faith completely beyond Ben’s spif" yi
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