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! b edit lots i or ects air nfoi (rear posit' ecas iW !n(n sth w» am Free-form metal sculptor supplies aid to art students THE BATTALION TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1978 Page 5 By RHODEMA SPEARMAN Stephen Daly, artist-in-residence at Texas A&M University, enjoys having people guess what his sculp ted creations are, even if they guess wrong. And they often do. Daly sculpts with metals. The shapes, cast in molds, are free-form. They are not made to resemble an object, but are to be enjoyed for their shape and style, the 36-year- old artist said. Texas A&M’s artist-in-residence program originated with the de partments of architecture and ^environmental design. The program P°® brings an artist to the University for a year to vary the students’ educa tional experiences. Daly came to Texas A&M last Au gust and will stay through June oi this year. One of his jobs as artist-in residence is guest lecturing in the classroom. “I am an in-house visiting critic,” Daly said. Besides maintaining a studio and teaching a class on the history ol contemporary sculpture, Daly con ducts an apprenticeship program. Students in the program study his methods and apply them to crea tions of their own. Daly said he and his students are disappointed that there is no art de partment at Texas A&M. Art classes are taught in the environmental de sign department in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design. Soviets buy more U.S. corn Daly, who has been sculpting since 1960, said the key to his art is “personal inspiration,” which he finds in the common shapes and forms around him. He said nature yields curved “organic” lines to his art while straight “mechanistic” lines are found in man-made ob jects. Daly is experimenting now with color for his sculptures. In the past, his pieces retained their materials’ natural tints. Daly, a native of New York City, formerly was an associate professor, teaching sculpture, at Humboldt State University in Areata, Calif. He also has taught sculpture at the Uni versity of Minnesota. Daly received his B.A. degree from San Jose State College in California in 1964, and his M.F.A. in sculpture at Michigan’s Cran- brook Academy of Art in 1967. Assistant for Prescott named Mary Helen Bowers has been named to a newly' created posi tion of assistant to the vice presi dent for academic affairs at Texas A&M University. Dr. J .M. Prescott said Bowers will assist in a variety of adminis trative functions and periodically represent him at meetings and related activities. Bowers has been a member of the Texas A&M staff since 1973. She initially joined the Office of Admissions and Records as an in formation representative and was named assistant to Dean Edwin Cooper two years ago. She will be succeeded as assis tant to the dean of admissions and records by Sue Matula, cur rently student records officer at Moody College in Galveston. Bowers earned a master’s de gree in educational administra tion at Texas A&M last year and is pursuing a Ph.D. in manage ment on a part-time basis. She earned her undergraduate jour nalism degree at Texas Tech. Matula, who holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in education from Texas A&M, has been at Moody College since 1976. While study ing for her master’s degree, she served as a graduate assistant to the dean of education, Dr. Frank W.R. Hubert. We Pick Up & Deliver BUD WARD VOLKSWAGEN INC. 693-3311 The most Cosmic Jewelry in the galaxy OFFICIAL NEW United Press International WASHINGTON — Soviet offi cials have ordered another 500,000 metric tons of American corn, the iraj Agriculture Department announced Monday. The sale, following a Soviet pur chase of 362,000 metric tons of corn disclosed last Friday, pushed total Russian orders for American wheat and corn combined in the current 1977-78 season to 12 million metric tons. Agriculture Department officials lad earlier said they hoped the sea- M ion s sales total would reach 15 mil- 3 a ion tons as Soviet buyers stepped ip their purchases to help offset a lisappointing 1977 Soviet harvest. The sales were made within the framework of a five-year grain trade agreement under which the Soviet Union is committed to buying at least six million metric tons of wheat and corn annually. Purchases can go over eight million metric tons if United States officials agree. The 1977-78 season, which runs through next Sept. 30, is the second of the five years covered by the agreement. Officials said the 500,000 metric ton corn order was equal to 19.7 mil lion bushels of the livestock feed grain. Total wheat orders for the season to date now cover 3.5 million tons, or 29 million bushels. Total com or ders are 8.5 million tons, or 335 mil lion bushels, officials added. Texas A&M University Opera & Performing Arts Society it' r Pi 2,001 DRS. 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