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USC graduat* Peac< By DENNIS SHEALY Staff Writer Two local artists who are USC alumni are expressing their art in less traditional means. They have traded in their canvas and paint brushes for 100-percent cotton and silkscreens. D /vUk T n n/\ nn/I t7 i\uuu i^aut anxa mivuvai vjuj , artists-turned-entrepreneurs, are joining the growing trend for Tshirts displaying more artistic designs. Lane and Gay, along with USC business graduate Son Ha, have entered into art T-shirt manufacturing. Through the process of silkscreening, Lane and Gay turn their art works into attractive and trendy T-shirts. Robb Lane's line of T-shirts, Ghost Dance, deals with southwestern motifs. The Ghost Dance was a sacred dance of the Native American Indians, which was believed to grant power in overcoming the white man. Suspicious and threatened, white men outlawed the "dangerous" dance. |^ Ai ! 1 S9 I P^b Members of Carolina Alive will nization Day. i } B abou Shuttle Fi % ? rz 1 i Off with on-c OFFICE HOURS: M-F 9:30-5:30 211 MAIN ST. 3S open store )cks is Lane, whose southwestern influenced pieces like "Father Universe" and "Mother Earth," is sympathetic to the plight of the American Indian. "There are two anniversaries coming up that won't be widely if A +4Y ceieoratea oy Americans, i.ane said. "The first is the 100th anniversary of Wounded Knee (Dec. 22). The other marks the 500th anniversary of Columbus * discovery and the decline of the Indian nation." Gay is developing several lines based on eastern influences, dance and nature. The Sho series, for example, is based upon Japanese calligraphy. "With Sho, I'm trying to convey to a western audience the beauty I see in Oriental writing by creating abstract images based upon different characters." Gay also has a number of other designs that are comical, like "Working Man's Thinker," and mxm -Jf* * d" ? tr 4: M;J!m*k 4 ||- p %/ IMIIIMr il f m' P W * 1 I , CI . ': perform today on the Russell Hous What's the IG DEj .J. 1 k IL. ^.1^. .1. it vvnaiey: cock service acre ill furniture pack Laundry facilitk Sleep/Study loft Swimming poo; Security il/ ?Fr 9BMTLLH -campus liv ampus corn 254-7801 ready 1 trendy, like the shirt featuring dancers on top of electrifying backgrounds representing the resent return of clubs devoted to dancing. Both artists have designed their T-shirts to be different from the majority of consumer choices. The T-shirt has become a staple of American day-to-day wear, and Lane and Gay's designs lend a luugii ui ail <iiin Glass iu uic guirent fashion. Both artists have many designs to choose from, and they are always designing new ones to keep the Columbians looking better than the next guy. Both artists' works are available only at Peacocks, located in the newly built Capitol Centre. Peacocks is entirely a USC alumni venture, owned and operated by four recent graduates. 11. wm*, % & * HH | | * | - 0 - I MKi [ File Photo e Patio in honor of Student OrgaAL s Mill? )ss street age ss s I si r ing renience! & ASSOCIATES % . .. J \ :o show c .w _ :: Iwill $? 1 ? " " >. V %^ St i mm/ /ft N\ / / \ \ / \ \ \ i\ \ \ V A / y/y W / // / // / Ss // / ss // 1/ y/ // 18^ "The Hunt" Is one of Robb Lanes' line of T-s Activity fai varietv of ? By TODD VENEZIA Staff Writer More than 70 student organizations will tables today on the Russell House patio duri Student Organization Day. Groups will be giving out information and ing new members between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.; groups will be giving demonstrations of whz groups do and have accomplished. Members of the fencing club will be demon: their sport, the body building club will hold ; down exhibition, the experimental theater will a show and the Carolina Alive singers will ti crowd to some of their music. "Student Activity Day gives new students i want to get involved a chance to get inv< Chrissy Vaughn, event organizer, said. "It ais* | D C arolina ! Ideas and : * i Kurt1 ; "The Work ; Author of the bo ; and his : H< ] Tuesday, ? ; i I Koger C( ; Admission: : $5.00 ( For i I call the Carolin > This activity is spons fliiJLlJLllilJLlllllia iff feathers \ \ ir to highlight crrrnir?c / V WlVlV^JLLir V/ upper-classmen because they may not know about all the student organizations." set up Sporting clubs, such as the mountaineering and ing the white water club, the scuba diving club and the flying club, will also participate in the organization day. recruit- Political groups and service organizations like AmSeveral nesty International, Students Allied for a Greener it their Earth, the Association of African American Students, the Womens' Student Organization and the Young strating Democrats club will also set up tables, i pose- There will also be many religious organization and put on fraternities present to talk about their clubs, eat the Vaughn said the number of organizations participating in this year's event has increased over the past >vho do year* Dived." If it rains, the event will be held in the Russell helps House Ballroom. Program Union < Issues Committee ' presents ; Vonnegut I According to Me" ? r J M I 11 * Hi M' 11 i oks Slaughterhouse Five, ; \ newly released !I DCUS Pocus ! j * j { I September 25, 1990 3:00 p.m. ; snter for the Arts ; $1:00 USC Students !; 4 General Public !. ' i . i 1 i j i ? < t | i i i i? more information, 1: a Program Union 777-7130. ! 1 iored, in part, by student activity fees. i i i