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Page 8 - August 31, 1984 Entertainment THE GAMECOCK McKissick Musei Grad stude By Marisa Porto An exhibition on Southern imagery anc women Drintmakers in the Carolina* is 01 display at the McKissick Museums until Sept 5. This interesting exhibition is the result of i study done by USC graduate Beth Wicker who is now executive director of the Cherav Arts Commission in Cheraw. "Until the recent publication of art historj books on women and the development o: special courses on women in art, the impres sion given by traditional art history lecture: iiiiN oct-ii mai women arusis oegan in cue ivtr century with Mary Cassatt," Wicker said. ALTHOUGH NONE of her work is in the show, the exhibition stemmed from her personal interest in printmaking and from a desire to show the accomplishments ol female printmakers in the area, she said. "In fact, women have been artists since art began. They have been considered the equal of their male counterparts during their lifetime. It is only as art historians look back in time that they are ignored," Wicker said. Wicker was working toward her master of fine arts degree at USC when she began putting together the project. "Although much attention has been focused on women artists in the past few years, little has been undertaken to explore the relationship of women, especially printmakers, to their geographical and cultural environment," Wicker said. ACCORDING TO Wicker, many of the women who responded to her survey were in their 50s and 60s, had no college degrees and did not consider themselves highly influenced by Southern images. "However, 71 percent feel that there were subjects or images in their art drawn directly from their experience of living in the South," she said. U By MaHs^Porto " B What do Dolly Farton and Jim common? According to one USC M I a whole lot. in the movie Nashville, origin; ] Wheelwright, who also teaches a coi the relationship between country n the key theme. "These days there is no questior tion between politics and show busi leader has shown us. Politics i Wheelwright said. "THIS FILM is about two thin: flong time ago that there >etween politics and show : time when the distincti e said. vie, which was written in issell House Theatre at < ind Tuesday evenings. m urns nt's interest le Architecture, topography, vegetation and j the ocean were also strong influences. 1 "An interesting discrepancy was between the percentages of women who considered their art a career and the way their families f i*mnrlr f U?t?- #-?? # I anvi 11 ivuuo i vgaiu^u men ail. J "EIGHTY-THREE PERCENT regard their art as a career, but only 74 percent say z their families do, and only 80 percent of their [ friends do," she said. 1 'Until the recent publication of art history books on women in art, the ipression given by traditional art i history lectures has been that women artists began in the 19th century with Mary Cassett." Beth Wicker Executive director of the Cheraw Arts Commission A grant from the S.C. Arts Comission helped Wicker put together the show, which is sponsored by McKissick, Professional Women on Campus and USC's Women Studies program. The exhibit, "Collecting Images," reflects the diversity of subjects used by these artists. Wicker said this is the first show featuring the work of female printmakers. "This project brings together both an exhibition of the best works in this medium and a study of the background and attitudes of uiwdv ai vv icrwti satu. A public reception for the artist will be held from 4 to 5:30 p.m. today at the McKissick Museums. "You get to see a fair ami This movie was made bel became as popular as it is, my Carter have in monument to the country,' edia Arts professor, Wheelwright, who has b taught a screenwriters wor ally written by Dick Iowa and has also worked \ irse in scriptwriting, company, the Cannon Groi lusic and politics is "I was what they call a sc 1 about the connec- takes a project which look ness, as our fearless edits it so that it becomes ? s show business," "They're a lot of movies ing to sell. The first mov movie callcd 'Joe.' When gs essentially. I had 'The Gap.' was a definite rela- "It was about the 70s a ! business. This was gap.' It was really in bad s ion was not as ob- Wheelwright said the filn made $20 million dollars. 1974, will be shown S and 9:30 p.m. on "YOU MAKE somethin turn it into something worl credit," he said. Wheelwright also wrote "Jump." Based on dirt-ti screenplay was original! yftjagPy Pictures. V M "I came to USC because r addition to screenwriting, I WHy the 70s. We were anticip Turner di 1 with the Cable Wheelwright says he hoi original programming and tapes with microcomputer: ads to printma HBB^^H^^T-3!^HlKS . HHp _ * l^^^BjH^^g^SQBSjy f. K BPii wig H|^H[^A . ?, V m ^BHS.1 JIV IHBBhBh'SH^^ ^L > n' J |rjfj ''"'IflE^1- '= Mj Printmakers "Branches," by Meg McLean, is one of the prints fe? Museums until next week. m m Country music and I _ - _ i in screen aocior ount of the Nashville scene. "IT'S A develop! fore the Grand Old Opry "Dragon's Lair" us before Nashville became a am interested in it a ' Wheelwright said. graduate students \ een at USC for two years, video tape for foreij kshop at the University of "We are looking vith a New York based film watch the native spe up. prototype on the f< our system, you ca: :reen-doctor. An editor who puter video records s like it's going to fail and with the speaker," t good story," he said. learn about the cult that look like they aren't go- The Massachusse ie I srrppn-rinrfr?rpH wac a eranted $3 million ! I first saw it, it was called and Wheelwright sa use. nd the so-called 'generation "One of the thinj hape," he said. tive media and com i was made for $200,000 and USC could have a kinds of things 1 ai "I'm also workir ig from a piece of junk and be very interesting, thwhile without receiving the people who are us makes them an ac the screenplay for his novel said. iacis. tjuiuiuuuuc lacing, me y written for Paramount ACCORDING credits for the filrr at the University of Iowa, in "It was one of also began to study videos in original script but lating things like what Ted were changed," h TV Network," he said. "It's a film by R )es to offer courses involving original script," V I combining video discs and ikers exhibit JkmBr , aW |PB w| KilltHP AB Be Em i 11 ^ - '" I , '**3^^v! >: ^SKfifc I'- >'V. atured in "Collecting Images" at McKissick I politics^\ 's 'Mashuiilp*^ v I 1 U VII V IMU VH ing new medium. The video game M ;es a video disc with a computer. I ? s an educational form. Some of my 1 vere doing this and developing a 1 gn language." ft ; at English and Arabic. You can 1 aker speak the language. We have a 3reign language and English. With 1 n see the native speaker. The com- 1 you, and you can compare yourself g ?? ? > . ?:j it i.i_ :ui? i? wneeiwrigm saiu. n :> puaaiuic iu *-n ure as a part of the learning tool." | tts Institute of Technology has been J 0 develop a computer video system, J id he hopes to bring such a system to jj ;s we have done is a study on interac- 9 iputers. We've had it circulated, and V 1 cable system here. Those are the m interested in doing. I lg on a book right now which should I It's about interactive media. It takes Jj ed to beino in front of the TV and M tive part of the programming," he H TO Wheelwright, he is not in the AjJ i, "Nashville." j&jB those business deals. I wrote the fh*? namr and a ff?w nth*?r thines S obert Altman but I wrote Vheelwright said, jgr