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25 years ago I returned to class at the State University of New York after a \u00a0life altering tour of West Africa that summer, a sort of Peace Corps internship. My dreams of becoming the next big comicbook artist seemed trivial. I returned with the role of Vice President of the student government already secured and a reinvented sense of place within the student body. This internship\/tour was funded almost entirely by this same student government, a benefit of consistent participation and a willingness to present the proposal. In this experience, there was a lesson more valuable to me than the basic courses my first year in university offered, something to do with who you know<\/em> as well as the benefits of organized service.<\/p>\n

As year book editor the previous year, I was well positioned to encourage like-minded students into leadership roles within student government funded publications. The predominance of art & design students on staff at the student newspaper The Rambler<\/strong>\u00a0resulted in a boom in production quality. Moving beyond the Personals Sections<\/em> and Calendar of Events<\/em> it featured a pull-out comics section titled\u00a0The Comics Rampage<\/strong>, later simplified to\u00a0THE RAMPAGE!<\/strong>. Jokes where often made about how the newspaper was mearely a dustjack for the comics section; there was some truth to that. We were a young and creative group of aspiring comics artisits thrilled with the opportunity to bring their artwork into mass production. For many it would be the first time their art\u00a0would see print.<\/p>\n

Come the Fall of 1989 enough RAMPAGE contributers had joined the student government to make a bid for a massive upgrade to the newspaper’s production process plausable. We would enter the cutting edge world of desktop publishing. \u00a0The proposal included the the budget for purchase of three Macintosh SE\/30<\/a> desktop computers, at the introductory price of $6,500 each, along with a Laser printer, a scanner and associated software; Quark express, Aldus Pagemaker, Aldus Freehand and Adobe Photoshop 1.0. it was the first purchase of the new year and the entire newspaper staff worked through the holiday break familuarizing ourselve with the new technology.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Zines are included for the first time and in conjunction with the Sun Gallery\u2019s regularly scheduled free art Saturdays, we will be holding a \u2018zine making workshop during March. Please check the website,www.sungallery.org<\/a>\u00a0for more details.\u00a0Free Art Saturdays take place in the Sun Gallery Studio Classroom on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Art activities are appropriate for all ages and utilize materials easily found in the home or the environment. Exhibiting artist Emily Foster will be joining the Sun Gallery’s art education staff for this program. This is a free activity, and no reservations are required. Ages 5 to adult.<\/div>\n
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A book signing by the artists in the exhibition will be held in conjunction with the Reception for the Artists, on March 16th<\/sup>, 1:00pm \u2013 4:00pm. This is always a fun event with the artists present to answer questions you or your kids might have and to sign copies of books available for sale throughout the course of the exhibition. If you would like to purchase a book but know, in advance, that you cannot make the Reception, please let the Sun Gallery staff know and we will ask the artists to sign your book for you.<\/div>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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