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April 29,1992
Bursheim's 'Urban Art' displayed in Pauling Gallery
□ Retired Chairman of
CCC Art Department
expresses teaching
experiences in his art.
stimulating, and has urban
appeal.”
Bursheim was raised in
North Dakota, received a Bachelor
of Science degree from Morehead
State University, and studied under
the
nationally-recognized
printmaker, Dr. Robert A. Nelson,
at the University of North Dakota,
where he received his Masters of
Arts degree.
After moving to
7 hope my art has enriching Oregon,
Bursheim
power that the viewer can identify received his
with, for in this sense the viewer Masters of Fine
Arts degree in
identifies with me. That is what design from the
my art is all about."
University of
Oregon.
Norman Bursheim Bursheim
began teaching
what Bursheim describes as art at CCC and was head of the Art
Department for 18 years. He
“Urban Art.”
“It is a visual diagram that retired 7 years ago.
“Now in retirement, I
is straight-forward and powerful,”
said Bursheim. “It has visual have the opportunity to reflect on
vitality;
intellectually the information I studied, and to
by Vivian Johnson
Staff Writer/Photographer
Norman
Bursheim,
retired Chairman of the Art
Department at Clackamas, is now
displaying a selection of his latest
art work in the Pauling Gallery.
The display of non-objective art
portrays colorful geometric shapes
with linear overlays, producing
put into practice those theories I
taught to hundreds of students. My
concern was to prove to myself that
what I studied and taught could be
legitimatized into pictorial
imagery. The result is art, that is
based on established principles of
art with the preservation of a
uniqueness of style, that reflects
who I am as an artist.
I hope my art has an
enriching power that the viewer
can identify with, for in this sense
the viewer identifies with me. This
is what my art is all about,” he said.
Bursheim’s art will be on
display in the Pauling Gallery
through May 8.
Photos by
Vivian Johnson
BSM hosts professional drama team
by Maurice Glenn
Staff Writer
Last Tuesday, Baptist.
Student Ministries (BSM), here
atCCC, took part to hosttog a
professional drama team from
Minnesota. The five-member
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