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By David J. Hayden
Of the Print
If you were to pick up
“Creative Variety ’82” you’d
gain a great deal of insight into
Arthur Main, a College janitor.
As editor, publisher and
distribute», Main puts more
than a little of himself into the
newly established publication.
Main began writing when
he was 8 years old. “I began
writing adventure stories about
superman- and other . 'comic
book characters,” Main said.
“I’d write about all of their
adventures in Portland.
“I want peo
ple to be more
satisfied with
themselves. I
want them to
realize they are
more than they
hink they are.”
“In high.school I started to
vrite poems,” he continued.
The more I understood about
he world, the more I wrote. I
lad several of my poems
jublished in the school’s
nagazine.” Later, when Main
vent to Clackamas Communi-
y College, he continued to
vrite poems and began writing
irticles.
At least some of Main’s
iews and insights come from
lis job.
Photo by Duffy Coffman
“You can’t classify a per
son by his job,” Main said. “No
matter what a person’s job, it’s
possible they were coerced into
it by people or a bad situation.
“I want people to be more
satisfied with themself,” he
said. “I want, them to realize
they are more than they, think
they are. Some of the mill
workers don’t think of
themselves as being creative or
being important, but they need
to realize the potential they
have and they need to work on
reaching at it. .
“Too many people do
things automatically,” he con
tinued, “without actually think
ing about them. I believe we
can’t let experience control,us.
We have to learn from our past
and know how to respond to
future actions.”
Art Council matures,
finds area needs
tour we had 45 people,” Em
mert commented. “People are
there and they do want to
become involved in art ac
tivities. All ,we need to do is
organize it.
“The Art Investment
seminar is a major step for the
Art Council,” continued Em
mert. “Other than the art
gallery tours it’s our first pro
gram.”
For people interested in
investing in art or interested in
art in general, two more
seminars will be held at 7 p.m.
in Board room A on Feb. 1,
and Feb. 8. The first y/ill
feature Dr. Gordon Gilkey,
curator of the Portland Art
Museum, discussing how to
begin an art collection.
The second night will pre
sent Jo Ann Perse, an art dealer
and gallery owner from St.
Louis, Missouri, speaking on
the best ways to invest your
money in art.
“In the last six months
we’ve come a long way,” she
said. “We’ve drawn people
from all areas of the county.
We’ve involved residents of
Canby, Molalla, and Estacada,
and the Arts Council is becom
ing involved in their com
“I feel that if my articles munities helping to organize
satisfy myself, they’ll satisfy the programs they’re interested
others,” Main said.
in.”
It could be just about any
college class. But, unlike other
classes there is a $6,000 LeRoy
Neiman print sitting at the back
of the room and the lecture is
about stone lithography„ and
the possible profit in the latest
gallery offering.
For Kathy Emmert this is
more than just an unusual
class. For her it’s the results of
over six months’ time and
work.
As Director of the newly
formed Clackamas County
Arts Council, Emmert is star
ting to see the product of a
great deal of hard work. This
three-part seminar is the first
major event the Council has
scheduled.
The Arts Council was
founded to provide support to
local artists and to bring more
art, exhibits, productions, and
performances to the rural areas
of Clackamas County.
Our goal is to make it less
difficult for artists to live and
produce in our community,
said Emmert. We want to make
art more available to everyone.
The first program the Arts
Council developed was tours of
local art galleries. “On our first
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 1982
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