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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Thursday, April 20, 1972

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By JOHN MARSTON
There is more art in Ann Ar-
bor than people know about.
Once you've wandered through
the art museum and the exhibits
listed in the Record, there is
still a great deal of interesting
art to contemplate in galleries
that support themselves by
selling what they show.
The newest gallery in Ann
Arbor is the University Activi-
ties Center Art Gallery in the
Michigan Union. It has an at-
mosphere of determined confu-
sion. Not all the art is that
good, but there are a surpris-
ing number of very striking
pieces, and there's so much art,
in so many different forms and
styles, .that it gives the exciting
feeling that you might discover
something by accident.
The gallery started be-
cause the professional galleries
didn't want student art. Even if
it was good, they felt it repre-
sented too experimental a stage
in the artist's development.
They wanted art that reflected
a body of work, and the stu-
dent, in rtrying various media
while developing a style, is not
that consistent yet.

ng the
Anybody can submit art to
the. UAC gallery, although stu-
dent work has some preference.
There are three different review
panels and work rejected by one
panel may be resubmitted to the
other two. Al: the people who
work at the gallery are volun-
teers, except for the director
Don Mattson, an energetic man
who adds to the atmosphere of
constant activity.
Any kind of artistic endeavor
fits into the gallery. They have
had workshops, craft demon-
strations and poetry. I recently
saw a girl wandering around
looking for a quilting bee. Matt-
son was preparing for the spe-
cial "cildren's art exhibit," and
showed me some of the work,
"It's very up to date. That's
what the modern artists are do-
ing. They're just learning how
to be children." The pleasure of
the gallery is in its unrestricted
creative effort.
On Mrs. Forsythe's desk there
is an abstraction in a glass box,
which, a note explains, was
created when her grandson
dropped his model car on the
stove. Mrs. Forsythe own's the
Forsythe Gallery, upstairs above

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the Post Office in Nickels Ar-
cade, the oldest gallery in Ann
Arbor.
There is a certain conserva-
tive quality about the gallery,
although it is true, as Mrs. For-
sythe emphasizes, that works
vary from "the realistic to the
non-objective". The gallery has
more variety in media, than
most private galleries in town:
photography, ceramics and
sculpture, as well as painting
and prints. Nevertheless, with
the possible exception of the
model car, I didn't see any-
thing there that would have
been called daring, and prob-
ably wouldn't have considered
that a virtue anyway. Mrs. For-
sythe stressed that the gallery
was "very much interested in
draftsmanship and craftsman-
ship" as well as creativity. A.
child can make a good work of
art, she said, but it's an acci-
dent. Art shown must be good,
substantial pieces by profession-
al, artists.
She rejects the idea of art
created for the moment, or stan-
dards of art which may not
prove durable. "We haven't

jumped from one fad to an-
other," she said, giving as ex-
amples of fads pop, op, and
hardedge art.
The gallery does a lot of work
decorating offices and banks,
besides its private sales, Mrs.
Forsythe said. She also said
that she wanted students and
people who just want to look to
feel free to come to the gallery.
Further downtown is the Pyr-
amid Gallery, younger and less
comfortably established. It is a
rather sparse gallery, with a
large hardwood floor and white
walls. It becomes more relaxed
because people at the gallery
are quick to talk to you, offer
to discuss the paintings with
you, and begin calling you by
your first name.
They are very antagonistic
toward any elitism in art. "Art
is fun; it should be enjoyed by
just people", the director Marty
Nyrkkanan said. The gallery
would like to reach people be-
yond the small percentage who
have traditionally bought art.
A large part of the gallery's
business comes from what they
call the Gallery Exchange Pro-
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