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One only has to look at
Churchill High School stu
dent Mike Panni’s watercolor
titled “Deaf’ to see his point.
An adolescent boy, surrounded by
a crowd of classmates, is straining
against the crush, while a look of
angst contorts his skyward-turned
face.
Just in case the message is un
clear, two lines from the artist’s
statement define the moment:
“They don’t hear his screams. They
don’t pay attention to this person’s
feelings of being neglected.”
Teenagers across the country are
yelling the same refrain. Tragically,
a few have expressed themselves
through violent means. Thanks to
the efforts of several tuned-in
adults, however, kids at six area
high schools have a different out
let.
In conjunction with an exhibit at
Jacobs Gallery in the Hult Center,
the Springfield Museum is host to
“Heart of Darkness, Heart of Light,”
an evocative display of young tal
ent and emotion. The high schools
involved include Thurston, Spring
field, Oak Hill, Churchill, North
Eugene and South Eugene.
1 have a hard time seeing
the whole show without
getting upset,” says mu
seum coordinator Kathy
Jensen, who sponsored
an April 30 reception
for students and pa
trons. “This country is
not paying attention to
its youth; we’re not cre
ating a safe haven for
our children. The isola
tion that’s expressed in
many of these pictures
is something that seems
to be endemic in our
society, and it’s not a
Courtesyphoto
(Left) Oak Hill High School student Erin
Piper displays her untitled ceramic
sculpture at Springfield Museum. (Above)
Artworic by University art instructor
Tallmadge Doyle is on display at the Hult
Center’s Jacobs Gallery.
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What ‘Heart of Darkness, Heart
of Light,' an art exhibit by high
school students
When: Through May 22
Where: Springfield Museum,
550 Main St.
Hours: Wed.-Fri.10a.m.to4
p.m.,Sat. noon to 4 p.m.
Admission: Free
healthy thing, but it’s curable.”
Tallmadge Doyle, a University of
Oregon art instructor, is the cata
lyst behind the joint project. She
and eight other local professional
artists present their impressions
and potential ways to alter our so
ciety’s violent tendencies with a
collaborative effort at Jacobs
Gallery titled “Life Out of Balance:
Issues of Violence.”
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reception from 5:30 to 8:30 and
runs through June 12. The Spring
field Museum exhibit closes May
22, one day after the one-year an
niversary of Thurston High
School’s shooting tragedy. That in
cident spurred Doyle to action last
year, and supported by a $7,000
Community Arts grant from the
Oregon Arts Commission, she so
licited high school instructors to
seek out the younger artists.
“I think a lot of kids who hang
around in the art rooms consider
themselves different, loners or out
side the mainstream quite often,”
says Karen Perkins, an art teacher
at Springfield High. “For a lot of
them, I think they understand that
sense of being left out. So we
talked a lot about reaching out to
students or encouraging them to
express themselves.”
Various mediums and styles
were employed for the high school
exhibit, and Perkins says the only
recommendation she offered to her
students was “to not glorify vio
lence. I didn’t want to see the
stereotypical violent images.” Most
of the students’ artwork depicts a
healing or catharsis of sorts, al
though they weren’t afraid to be
honest.
“Stuff comes out in my art that
wouldn’t come out otherwise,”
says South Eugene student Carrie
Craig, commenting on her two
pieces “The Argument” and “Cor
ruption at an Early Age,” which
she admits is darker in tone than
most offerings. “Sometimes I don’t
feel comfortable talking about my
art or realizing what it’s all about
myself. But what happened at
Thurston was so sad, and I’m glad
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