The Eighth Tribe, 1977 (4. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1977-08-01 / 8. szám
August, 1977 THE EIGHTH TRIBE Page 9 E. Gyuri Hollósy In 1967, he was named “artist of the year” by the Hungarian Art Foundation (Detroit, Mich.) and received a scholarship. By 1969 he received his B.F.A. in sculpture and ceramics from Ohio University. For the next five and a half years, he served in the U.S. Coast Guard. During this period, his artistic creations often brought him recognition. He was given an honorable discharge. This year he received his master’s degree (M. F.A.) from Tulane University. He is a member of the College Art Association and the New Orleans Museum of Fine Art. For the four summer months each year from 1964 to 1967, he served as an apprentice to Ferenc Varga, a Detroit sculptor whose Mindszenty statue now stands in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 1969, Hollósy was a “Meihorjohn and Wengler Foundry” Shop Assistant. More recently, in 1976, he received a teaching assistantship in sculpture from Tulane University. The Mindszenty statue is his fifth major artistic commission. Hollósy has participated in 4 local, 4 invitational, a regional, national and international shows and exhibits. He has won numerous awards for his works. A number of his works are in private collections. In addition to English, he speaks Hungarian and German fluently. He is published in both Hungarian and English. He is a member of the “Hungarian Order of Knights of Vitéz.” He is married and has two children. INTERNATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL Middlesex County College, Edison, New Jersey June 12, 1977 The third annual event of cultural and heritage offerings which portrayed diverse ethnic elements representative of those in and around the community area was celebrated with multiple presentations of stage performances in song and dance; exhibitions of arts/crafts/costumes; workshop demonstrations; food specialty sales; film showings; storytelling and other special events as well as a general open house of the College’s grounds and educational facilities. From noon until six in the evening, there were ongoing activities indoors and outside—in the theater, at the open-air stage, restaurant areas, loungers, galleries, lobbies, patios, and campus lawn sections. The over-all scene of multiple sights, sounds, and scents was enticing to the beholders, just as it was gratifying to see, hear, and smell identifiable components of various cultural traditions as well as noting ethniccostumed participants intermingling amongst the ordinarily-attired visitors. In a sense, there seemed to be something symbolic permeating the atmosphere in the diversity of interesting features offered all around, no matter whether by reason of a particular ethnic identity to individual or group, or because of a more general nature regarding our society’s multiple cultural make-up. As one approached the College Center, an American Indian wigwam caught the eye from afar; close by, a demonstration was in progress of how some tom-tom beaters were made: At the end of smooth sticks, pieces of leather were sewn by hand over balled padding (the stitching of which was being done by a man of North American Indian ancestry). Hungarian Folk Art Exhibit.
