KU students, director honored at festival

Five Kansas University theater students and a KU administrator received awards Jan. 17-21 at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival regional festival in St. Louis.

The KU honorees were:

• Kathy Pryor, associate director of theater at KU, received the Gold Medallion of Excellence for her longtime work with the festival.
• Sandy Appleoff, Fall City, Neb., second-year graduate student, placed second in the graduate set design and second place in the graduate costume design competition.
• Robbie Jones, Garden City second-year graduate student in scenography, placed first in the Region V graduate set design competition and first in the graduate costume design competition. Jones also received honorable mention in Barbizon costume design.
• Nicholas Mosher, Lawrence senior, placed second in the regional undergraduate lighting design competition.
• Robert Sturner, Overland Park junior, placed first in the Region V undergraduate lighting design competition and second place in Thayer lighting.
• Christopher Wheatley, Lawrence senior, received the classical acting award in the Irene Ryan acting competition.

Painter to lecture at Spencer Museum

Painter and printmaker Jenny Schmid, who had recent solo shows in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Seattle, will give a public lecture about her creative work at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Spencer Museum of Art auditorium.

Schmid will be in residence in Kansas University’s art department Thursday through Feb. 6. She will critique graduate students in art and create an original limited editioned lithograph and Ink-Jet print.

Lawrence singers selected to perform

John McGrew, a ninth-grader at Southwest Junior High School, was selected to be a bass in the National American Choral Directors Assn. Choir this week in Los Angeles.

He is a member of Bel Canto, honors ensemble and chorus class at Southwest.

Hannah Foerschler, a sixth-grader at Quail Run School, was selected to be a part of the National Honors Children’s Choir in Los Angeles. She has been in the Lawrence Children’s Choir for two years.

Southwest students Justine Ahle, Jordan Brown, Josh Frederick and Rachel Van Horn were selected to sing in the State Junior High Honors Choir at Kansas Music Educators Assn. Feb. 25 in Wichita.

Southwest students Arielle Bremby, Katie Burk, Maggie Burk, Stephanie Drahozal, Valerie Jennings, Kelly Karasek and Sarah Robinson were selected to sing in the State Children’s Honor Choir Feb. 25 in Wichita.

Gallery to have second annual art show

The Olive Gallery, 15 E. Eighth St., will have its second annual valentine’s art show, “Who Do You Love?” Feb. 5-23. Deadline to enter the show is Sunday.

Romantic art in all media can be entered in the unjuried show.

The opening reception is 6 p.m.-10 p.m. Feb. 5.

For more info, call 331-4114.