University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, October 5, 1990 Page: 2 of 6
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University Presa
LU Briefs
SSCC to sponsor trip
The Setzer Student Center Council will sponsor a day trip to the
Texas Renaissance Festival Oct. 13, Stephanie Jones, SSCC travel
chairperson, said.
Round trip tickets are $20.95. For more information, telephone
880-8734.
Tickets for admission to the festival are on sale at the Check
Cashing Booth in the SSC and cost $8.95 per ticket for Lamar
students, faculty and staff.
Kappa Delta Pi sets initiation
Kappa Delta Pi will hold its second initiation ceremony Monday at
6:30 p.m. in the eighth floor of Gray Library, Cheryl Caruthers, editor,
said.
The organization recognizes elementary and secondary education
majors who have maintained an above average grade point average.
Chorus to perform
The Greater Sabine Chorus of Harmony International, formerly
Sweet Adelines, will present "the Age of Aquarius" Saturday at 8 p.m.
in the Jefferson Theater, a spokesperson said.
The group will perform songs of the sixties.
Tickets are available at the Civic Center box office or telephone 892-
6784.
Music Room to reopen
The Music Room will reopen Monday at 10 a.m., Tina Pryor,
spokesperson, said.
The new hours will be from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Mondays and
Wednesdays; from 10 a.m. until noon on Fridays; and from 11 a.m.
until 1 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
OTA schedules meetings
Omega Theta Alpha has scheduled meetings for Monday at 11 a.m.
until 1:30 p.m. in 108 Setzer Student Center and on Tuesday from
12:30 p.m. until 1:30 p.m. in the same location, Cathy Jones, publicity
chui an for OTA, said.
ere will be a guest speaker Monday and a free lunch, beginning at
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Vrt Studio to exhibit works of Ray
The Art Studio Inc. will present "Polymorph," an exhibition of the
. -cent works of Clint Ray from Saturday until Oct. 26.
An opening reception will be held Saturday from 7 p.m. until 10
p.m. at the studio.
Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Covenant Players to perform
The Covenant Players drama group will perform during the
student/faculty lunch at the Wesley Foundation Oct 16, Lauri
Covington, spokesperson, said.
The group performs throughout the United States.
There is no charge for lunch or the performance. All are invited to
attend, Covington said.
Deadline for submitting announcements for LU Briefs is
noon of the day one week prior to publication. Priority is
given to upcoming events. Announcements listing appointment
of officers and members of organizations will be published as
space permits. No exceptions. Press release forms are
available for organization reporters in the University Press
office, 200 Setzer Student Center.
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Pulse
Extended Deadline
NOON - FRIDAY
October 5
Submission Forms available :
Maes Bldg., Offices 03 & 04
Setzer Student Center Info Desk
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St. Andrew’s
erian
Church
Located at Gladys and 23rd
Sunday School: 9:15 a.m. -10:15 a.m.
Worship: 10:45 a.m. -11:45 a.m.
Pastor: Dr. Harland Merriam
For more information contact:
Bryan Kay - 276-3297 (W) or 898-8569 (H)
Carl Montano - 880-8651 (W) or 860-4737 (H)
Rides available (Call by Saturday)
Busceme devotes life to creation
By Janna Smith
UP staff writer
Greg Busceme has many
concerns, among them art, education,
children and family — not
necessarily in that order. In addition
to his position as adjunct art
instructor at Lamar, Busceme also
works with the Beaumont
Independent School District, owns
his own pottery and sculpture studio
and is co-founder and executive
director of the Art Studio, a training-
ground and support group for area
artists.
Busceme has the appearance of an
energetic, intelligent down-to-earth
person, and he has dark skin and hair
which are evidence of his Sicilian
heritage.
He is easy to talk with and quick
to smile. If one were to walk into
Busceme’s classroom in the Art
Building, one would most likely find
him casually dressed, his long hair
pulled back, and his shoes dusted
gray with the clay of his art. .
Busceme was born in Beaumont
in 1955 to a seamstress mother and a
businessman father who worked for
Beaumont’s Texas Coffee Co., which
was founded by Busceme’s father.
As a child, Greg showed little
outward sign of his artistic abilities.
“Well, you see, when you’re a kid,
adults only look at your two-
dimensional work — drawing and
stuff,” he said.
He laughs and flips his ponytail
over the back of his chair as he puts
his feet up on one of the classroom
tables.
“I mean, I had my ‘playdough
extruder’ just like everyone else, but
people don’t consider that art,” he
said. However,Greg did show some
sculptural interest.
“To me, a chunk of lead was a joy
forever,” he said. “I could pound it,
scratch it, hammer on it. I loved it.”
Now when Busceme teaches, he
tries to instill in his students that
same joy that he felt with his lead as
a child.
“When you’re a kid,” he said, “if
you don’t color in the lines, it’s not
good. I don’t think that’s right.”
His Monday/Wednesday after-
noon clay class does not follow the
“color in the lines” doctrine.
Busceme said his class is non-
structured, hands-on and not lecture-
oriented.
“I’d rather let them (the students)
do something themselves, even if
they get it wrong, rather than have
me stand there and talk about it.
That way they learn it themselves,”
he said.
If you ask Busceme what sort of
art he does, do not expect a long
lecture on art styles and influences.
His answer to the question is “clay
sculpture” — plain and simple.
“I leave it to other people,” he
said, “to tell me which artists’ work
my stuff looks like.”
He said, however, he is
influenced by ancient Chinese and
Middle East-
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countries of the Middle East feel
about the situation.
Drury said most Middle Eastern
countries do not want to see Iraq
succeed. Saudi Arabia, with its oil
fields threatened by the Iraqis in
Kuwait, is a definite supporter of
United States intervention.
Egypt is also an ally to the
American cause, as well as Israel,
Drury said. Other Middle Eastern
countries are justifiably worried
about the extent to which Hussein
will want to extend his territory. His
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Korean pottery.
“I find a certain strength of form
that I like in those pieces,” he said.
As committed as Busceme is to
his sculpture, his career in art did not
start in clay. During his years as a
student at Lamar in the mid-1970s,
Busceme was interested in poetry.
He was assistant editor and
subsequently editor of Pulse
magazine for several issues.
His life changed, however, when
he decided to take a summer pottery
course from Jerry Newman and later
moved into clay sculpture under
Meredith Jack, both instructors at
Lamar.
“I was caught,” Busceme said. He
has been working in clay ever since.
Busceme graduated from Lamar
in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in
speech. He remembers that his
family worried that he would not be
able to make a living as an artist
“I remember once telling my
family that I was going to be an
artist,” he said, “and that I was going
to graduate school. Later on, in the
car on the way to Missouri, I
remembered what I had said, and
realized I was doing it!.”
He graduated in 1982 from
Washington University in St. Louis
with the school’s first master’s degree
in clay sculpture.
He seems to follow through on
many things to which he commits
himself. Unlike many young people
who leave Southeast Texas, Busceme
committed himself to returning
home after school.
“My wife Angela works here, my
family is here and I like extended
families,” he said.
Although his family was important
to him, Busceme still needed an
outlet for his artistic abilities. With
this idea in mind, Greg and Angela
Busceme founded the Art Studio
Inc., originally located at 1076
Neches St
“We’ve been open abou,t seven
years now. It’s unbelievable,” he
said. “I remember when I wished we
could say we’d been open five years.
Now we’re going for 10."
The Art Studio is an organization
that provides training, workspace and
display space for artists in the
Beaumont area.
“We’ve got a real strong culture
here. This area is an open canvas,”
he said.
The Southeast Texas area, he
added, did not offer a great deal of
support for artists needing space to
display their work. He hopes the Art
Studio fills this need.
The Buscemes have received a
great deal of help arid support with
the studio. Besides the help of the
Board of Directors, the Artists’
Council and apprentices (artists who
work for the. organization in
exchange for studio space), the Art
Studio has much community support.
Much of the support comes from
small private donations. Busceme
tells stories of donations he calls
“touching” which come from people
Greg Busceme
with limited resources. He said he
feels obligated to “live up to” those
contributions.
The contributions are very
necessary because in June the Art
Studio moved to the old White
House building on the corner of
Orleans and'Forsythe in Beaumont.
The organization is currently
renting the first floor, but hopes
eventually to buy the entire building.
The move has left Busceme with
little time for his artwork, but he
hopes to return to it soon.
Furthermore, the move has
affected the amount of time which
Busceme is able to spend with his
family. In June, just two months after
the move, the Buscemes had their
second child, Olivia Grace. Greg Jr.
will be 3 years old in January.
“I’ve been so busy, sometimes my
son asks,’ Is Daddy going to visit us
tonight?’ If that’s not good angst for
your art, I don’t know what is,”
Busceme said.
However, Busceme is not
neglectful of his children, or
anybody’s children. He has worked
with the Arts Related Curriculum for
four years. The program sponsors
artists to go into the schools, show
their art and tell students that if they
wish to be artists, they must stay in
school, and that all subjects are
relevant and necessary for the
making of both art and artists.
The program has received an
award from the Texas Commission on
the Arts as an Exemplery Artists in
Education Program.
If education is one of Greg’s maiR
interests, then the recent controversy
over sponsorship in the arts of whaq
some consider to be obscene
material is another of his interests-
one he feels is tied very closely tol
education.
“I tell kids in the schools, ‘If noj
one tests the boundaries of freedom,)
how can we stay free?’ I mean, I’
rather have my kids watch a se>
movie than something violent, but|
there are people who want to get ricj
of anything sexual in the arts whe
don’t seem that concerned about|
violence. I don’t get it,” Busceme
said.
So, Greg Busceme has many’
interests. Does he have any hopes,'
dreams?
“Right now,” he said, “I want tojf
buy the new building (the White*
House building) and attract different)!
groups to it — like the Lamar master^
of fine arts program.”
Will he be upset if his children dc
not become artists?
“I don’t care,” he said. “I’ll|
support them in anything they do."
Referring to his commitment toJ
his family and the strain it puts on hisjj
work, he became very serious, leaned
forward and said, “Look, if I doni
become a famous artist, fine. WhenJ
people say, ‘You’re not being creative’>
I say, hey, look at my kids. I’m trying*
to create good people.” Whether he
knows it or not, Greg Busceme hasj
devoted his life to creation.
not shared by all Middle Eastern
leaders.
There is also a growing
attitude of resentment against U.S.
intervention, Drury said.
The idea, he said, of “the
enemy of my enemy is my friend”
is a concept that holds much sway
in the Middle East, and such
countries as Iran regard the United
States as its main enemy, making
Iraq in this case a “friend.”
Already the Palestinian
Liberation Organization has openly
supported Hussein. There is also a
growing concern that Iraq might
attack Israel, forcing Arabic countries
to take up either the side of Moslem
Iraq or Jewish Israel, Drury said.
“If Saddam were to attack Israel,
that would then force Arab nations to
choose sides, and it would probably
result in virtually a world war with
Western countries, the United States
specifically, and Israel and perhaps a
couple of Arab monarchies on one.
side, against Iraq and probably most
of the rest of the Arab world and
most of the rest of the Moslem world
on the other side, Drury said.
The nature of the crisis in Kuwait
is very complex, he said.
NOTICE
All telephone systems at the
Lamar-Beaumont campus will be(
shut down today. This is to remove
the Dimension 2000 telephone1
system and connect in the Generic 2,
telephone system, Harry Noble,
assistant vice .president foJ
information systems, said.
The entire Beaumont campus^
excluding student dormitories and*
the John Gray Institute will be shut
down from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. The
student dormitories and the Gray
Institute will be shut down from 5
p.m. to 7 p.m.
Testing will be performed Saturday
on the new system, but n~
telephone downtime is expected.
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presents - "tlie Age of Aquarius"
Songs of flie Sixties
Sat., Oct. 6 - S p.m. - Jefferson Theatre
Tickets available at the Beaumont Civic Center Box Office
or call 892-6784
Advance, $6.00 - Srs. & Children, $3.00 - At Door, $8.00
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