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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.
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