| Summary: | Arts The Concordian, April 22, 1983 P a g e 6 Rourke utilizes artistic talents in a variety of ways by Jeff Weyer Orland Rourke, Associate Pro-fessor of Art, began his art career while attending Concordia Col-lege as an undergraduate student. Following graduation he taught elementary classes in a one room school. From there he proceeded to teach junior and senior high art classes until accepting a job with Concordia College in 1967. Rourke enjoys both teaching and personal work. His main in-terest currently is teaching. He en-joys motivating students to enjoy their work. He says that it is "ex-citing to see students make head-way and get fired up." In his spare time Rourke enjoys many hobbies and interests. Cur-rently he is working on two separate projects. One is designing warriors made from wood, metal, and other various scrap pieces. These warriors resemble such varied creatures as an outer space alien, a shepherd, and an earth angel'. His second project is a "land-scape in still life." This consists of a cabbage crate divided into three sections. Inside of each of the three sections is old metal, empty shell cartridges, and barrel ends. Rourke prefers to work with feeling when dealing with subject matter. He uses shapes, colors, and textured qualities to represent realism and abstractionism. He feels the public likes realistic works and that one has to copy real things. By working with feel-ing as he does, Rourke believes that he pleases the public, yet keeps his individuality. A "collector of a lot of things" is how Rourke describes himself. He enjoys collecting old country style furniture, pottery, paintings and prints, and old tools. Rourke displays his private ex-hibits frequently. He currently has them on display at LePoudre Gallery in west Minneapolis and Riverside Gallery in Galena, Il-linois. Locally, Rourke has exhibits at the Plains Art Museum and the Berg Art Center. He also sells his work nation-wide, mostly to private collectors he says. A few banks and savings and loans have also purchased his work. When he retires, Rourke plans on turning his efforts full time to his personal art work. Orland Rourke displays some of pottery —photo by Faye Brunner. Dance company to Red River Heritage Society perform for benefit sponsors tour to Winnipeg The Red River Dance and Perfor-ming Company will be "Dancin* and Singin' for Jenny", at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, 1983 in the NDSU Festival Concert Hall, Reineke Fine Arts Center. Jenny Williams is a 14 year old, lovely young lady with great potential in the field of dance. She has the gift of natural talent, and the determined drive to become a very accomplished classical dancer. Her studies toward this goal, however, have been in-terupted by chronic granulocyclic leukemia, and Williams now needs to receive a bone marrow transplant. The Red River Dance and Perfor-ming Company is backing a fellow dancer the way it knows best-through performing. Any sup-port and attendance on April 26th can help assist this aspirant young artist to possibly fulfill her dreams. Ticket and reservation informa-tion are available at the RRD&P Arts Building, 824 Main, Fargo, ND, weekdays from 4 to 9 p.m., and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Satur-days. Tickets will also be available at the theatre box office the even-ing of the performance. All seating is reserved. For more information call Kathy Gasper, Artistic Director of the Red River Dance and Performing Company, at 280-2289. All proceeds from this benefit per-formance go toward Jenny's treat-ment and her dreams. MOORHEAD DRUG CO. "The Store of friendly service*t Moorhead Center Mall Full service pharmacy and G.S. Postal contract station No. 2 233-1529 Students receive 10% discount with LD. Gaylan B. Larson, OP. Thomas II* Lorentzsen, OP. •Contact Lenses - Bifocal, Soft Hard, Oxygen Permeable •Extended Wear •Soft Lenses for Astigmatics MM,h«.d Center Mall 233-1624 The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and fine ethnic food will highlight the Mother's Day Ethnic Gourmet Tour to Winnipeg May 7-8, spon-sored by the Red River Valley Heritage Society. Romeo and Juliet, the largest pro-duction ever mounted by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, is the featured attraction at the Win-nipeg Concert Hall. More than 3,500 yards of fabrics were used in the 130 costumes in the produc-tion, with more than 400 stage pieces making up the movable set. Other features of the tour include a visit to the MacDonald House Mansion, a fully restored turn of the century Victorian Mansion operated by the Manitoba Historical Society, dinner at the La Vieille Gare\ a fine French restaurant, and Sunday brunch at the Happy Vineyards, a German Restaurant. We will also tour the Winnipeg Art Gallery which has one of the finest collections of Inuit Eskimo art in the world. This tour is open to the public. Reservations may • made by call-ing 218-236-9140, or writing RRVHS, Box 7.:*, Moorhead, MN 56560. A Finals Prayer The 23rd Qualm The prof is my quizmaster; I shall not flunk. He maketh me to enter the examination room; He leadeth me to an alternate seat. He restoreth my fears; He leadeth me into deep problems for my grade's sake. Yea, though I know not the answers to the questions, I will fear no failure; For others are with me; Class average will comfort me. Class average will comfort me. I prepare my answers before me in the presence of my proctors. I annointeth my bluebook with fingers; Surely grades and bluebooks will follow me all the days of my life; And I shall dwell in the class forever. Amen •"••*§& ••>.?, • • • i t • • • * FREE COBBER EVENING BUS SERVICE CONCORDIA COLLEGE/MOORHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY FREE EVENING BUS SERVICE. That's right - FREE!! This evening bus service will take you to shopping and entertainment centers. Hours of operation are weekday evenings from 6:05 p.m. to 11:35 p.m., 5:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, and on Sunday morning from 8:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. The last night bus will run April 26 and will run to West Acres. The main Concordia College loading point is at the west door of Ylvisaker Library. Come along and bring a friend! Schedules available: Campus Info Office«P.O. Boxes*On Buses • • • •
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