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resident. He usually paints rather impres
sionistic oils containing considerable
depth perspective. It will be interesting to
see what he does with the medium of
watercolors.
The gift shop, staffed by volunteers and
work scholarship students, offers hand
crafted works. The gift shop committee
juries merchandise to maintain the quality
of goods. The shop also features an Artist of
the Month and each month the work of an
artist in a different medium is given special
prominence.
The featured artist this month is jeweler
Bruce McKay.
Next month, Feb. 6-March 5, that title
goes to Faye Nakamura who will display
her handbuilt and painted pottery and tiles.
Nakamura received her bachelor's degree
from the University in ceramics. This will be
her first show in the Art Center.
S^ontrary to popular belief, the Art
Center is not an arm of the University. It is a
private organization and cannot exist with
out the communities' input and support.
This goes beyond just coming to see the
exhibits and occasionally buying something
in the gift shop or rental sales gallery. The
Center needs the community to join it.
An annual $10 individual membership
fee($15 for a couple, $20 for a family) enti
tles one to do just that. Members may then
join the various committees who actually
shape the destiny of the Art Center. The
Center is governed by a board of directors
who are democratically voted on by and
from the membership.
Beyond having a direct voice in the prog
ram, membership also entitles one to a 10
percent reduction in the cost of classes, a
10 percent discount in the gift shop, a dis
count on the rental of paintings and on ad
mission to special Maude Kerns events,
plus free admission to the Portland Art
Museum.
Members are invited to all openings of
gallery shows, and receive the Art Center
WORKSHOPS
The weekend workshops enable those
interested in specific media an opportunity
to participate in an intensive learning situa
tion. All interested students must register
Space is available for individual work between classes as well as during.
newsletter and other mailings to keep them
informed of activities and events, competi
tions and shows.
So, if you happen to find yourself with an
afternoon free, drop by Maude I. Kerns Art
Center, 15th and Villard, and check out
what’s happening and what you can get out
of it. You may discover that you want to put
something into it.
by the Wednesday prior to that workshop at
the Art Center office. Hours are 9 a.m. to 10
p.m. Monday-Thursday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
on Fridays. Fees must accompany registra
tion. For further information, call 345-1126.
Feb. 4: Polish Paper Cutting with Salem
artist Mary Jane Mclntee. Fee: $5 plus $1
lab fee. Class limit: 15. Course will cover the
basic techniques to create complex
designs, the history and symbolism of
paper cutting.
Feb. 4 & 5: Fabric Silkscreen Workshop
with Medford artist Sue Densmore. Fee:
$20. Class limit: 12. The class will experi
ment with several types of stencils to learn
the fundamentals of silkscreen printing.
The emphasis is on fabric printing, though
the basic techniques can also be applied on
paper.
Feb. 11 & 12: Bookbinding Workshop
with Pat Houghton. Fee: $15. Class Limit:
12. Participants will learn three techniques
of binding to design and create their own
personal books — sewn signature,
Japanese and accordian. In addition, the
craft of marbling using contemporary mater
ials will be taught.
Feb. 18 & 19: Soft Sculpture Workshop
with Barbara Kensler. Fee: $15. Class limit:
15. The workshop will explore new direc
tions in stitchery with emphasis on working
sculpturally. Focus will be on sectional
padding, surface quilting, wrapping, appli
que, and found object embellishment.
Feb. 25 & 26: Batik Workshop with
Stephen Blumrich. Fee: $26. Class limit:
15. The class will cover technique and de
sign principles.
Feb. 25 & 26: Quiltmaking — “How to
Make the Pieces Fit’’ Workshop with Suzi
Blucher. Fee: $15. Class limit: 12. The
workshop will study the basics of traditional
quilting techniques including patchwork,
simple drafting and pattern making, setting
together a quilt top, hand quilting in a frame
and the history of American quilts as a de
sign and cultural tradition.
By Bob Webb
Photos by Erich Boekeiheide
The Ghost of Flight 401
At least it asks the Life After Death question
I have always been wary of
books on parapsychology that
begin with an author s affirmation
of his hard-headed skepticism
and rational nature.
“Hey, reader," he shouts, “You
can trust me! I was on your side
once, until —”
a positive function, assuring us
that we are not alone in our un
usual experiences, and articulat
ing feelings which we may not be
able to express.
But ultimately one is left unsatis
fied. For these books fail to deal
with the major issue:
— Until his objective investiga
tions confront him with a series of
inexplicable events which send
him catapulting far beyond the li
mited world of man, forcing him to
conclude that there is more out
there than our five senses can
comprehend, blah blah blah.
Of course, the American public
has always been fascinated by
other peoples’ chronicles of the
weird and bizarre, from Rippley’s
accounts of men who grew beards
of chicken feathers to more
"sophisticated’’ narratives that un
lock the mysteries of Stonehenge,
the Great Pyramid, and Uri Geller.
Such literature can even serve
What does it all mean?
Now, I don't expect such litera
ture to necessarily answer this
question. But hell, they don’t even
bother to ask it. The ramifications,
it seems, aren't nearly as impor
tant as the mystifying phenomena
themselves, let alone the number
of copies that can be sold from
drug store bookracks.
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Let the Big Ones take over from
here, boys. We re only interested
in the Common Man and his Ouija,
Joe Average who astral projects
to the Super Bowl or finds out that
he can set fire to his neighbors
lawn just by looking at it.
So what's so different about
John Fuller, who writes books on
such subjects as LSD, UFOs, and
ghosts?
Perhaps it s the fact that his
skepticism doesn't slop over into
cynicism. Or that his searches are
honest, but not naive. Or maybe
he’s different because he can ac
tually write.
The ingredients don’t work all of
the time. But they work enough to
make his most recent book, The
Ghost of Flight4 01, an attention
grabber for its full 272 pages.
The book operates on two dis
tinct levels. The first is the ghost
story, an account of how the dead
crew of a downed jumbo jet re
turned to haunt the crews and
passengers of the plane’s sister
ships. The second level deals with
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Fuller's search for the true story
behind the apparitions, his contact
with a league of mediums and
psychics, and the ultimate con
frontation between the evidence
and his deep-rooted beliefs.
The ghost story is pretty basic,
though the circumstances are in
teresting. In December of 1972,
an Eastern Airlines jumbo
crashed into the Everglades, kil
ling 101 passengers. It was not
long before Second Officer Don
Repo and Captain Bob Loft, both
killed, began appearing in the
passenger cabins and kitchen gal
leys of Eastern planes, particu
larly those which were using parts
salvaged from the destroyed
jumbo.
These were not your run-of
the-mill, Creature Features
ghosts. They were appearing as
full-sized, three-dimensional fig
ures, in plain sight of whole groups
of people, often disappearing be
fore the bewildered eyes of pas
sengers, stewardesses, and cap
tains. Sometimes the figures even
talked, warning crew members of
malfunctions in Eastern’s planes.
“There will never be another
crash of an L-1011,” Repo told
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