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B6 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday, March 24, 1999 REAL SERVICE FROM REAL PEOPLE. THAT'S STATE FARM. Don't trust just anyone to insure your car, see me: John Bauman 627 Lyons Line #308, Oakville 842-2225 Arts & EntertainmentT F E ^ IO akvlleCENTRE OFFICIAL MEDIA SPONSOR OF THE OAKVILLE CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS O akville Beaver E ntertainm ent Editor Carol Baldwin 845-3824 (Extension 254) Fax: 337-5567 Photo by Christine Smyth Victoria Mihalyi displays her book Tribe o f Star Bear, a book of mythical adventures for young adults. Each student in the Art Fundamentals class at Sheri­ dan College was asked to create a poster to reflect the book's essence. Mihalyi selected one poster which she has offered to buy to help promote her book at trade shows and speaking engagements. An art show displaying the students' posters on Tribe o f Star Bear, along with a reading by Mihalyi, will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Chapters, Oakville Town Centre I, on Tuesday, April 13th. Art students create ingenious posters to promote book By Carol Baldwin ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR She's only in first year - Art Fun­ damentals - at Sheridan College, but Marcia Frost has designed a poster that author Victoria Mihalyi is willing to purchase to promote her book, Tribe o f Star Bear. This particular student artist is only 19, but her professional looking poster definitely captures the essence of Mihalyi's book. But then, of the 55 to 60 submissions, hers was one of only a few posters that incorporated the native origin of the story. "I went to the library and went through some of the native art and got background on the Hopi natives," explains the young artist from North­ ern Ontario, noting that Mihalyi's book is based on a Hopi Indian leg­ end. "I wanted to base it on the leg­ end, the tribe of the rainbow." And so she did. Her poster por­ trays the entire story-line emanating from the head of a native. And although that was her starting point, Frost says she visualized something entirely different than the image she finally ended up with. "It looked nothing like this at first. This kind of emerged," she says, looking at her completed poster. "It was going to be a native design. Then I started, and it just developed." Along with her library research on the Hopi Indians, Frost also read the entire book of over 200 pages, and spent four days, or about 25 hours, creating the colourful poster to reflect the story. Pretty intense for a project that was only worth 10 marks. But then, the young artist is used to spending a lot of time on art. She spent last summer working in an art gallery in South River, and she started her own business on the side painting portraits of people's dogs and paint­ ing what she affectionately refers to as 'petit amis' - small rocks painted to look like animals. A popular petit ami pair, she says, was mother and baby penguin. All that creative experience may have made the Tribe o f Star Bear poster assignment easier for Frost than for many of her classmates, especially those who have never drawn or painted before. "My mom has boxes of my art since I was three, when I started drawing," says Frost, who is hoping to be accepted into the illustration program at Sheridan next year. The Tribe o f Star Bear project, which was proposed by Mihalyi and the Art Fundamentals instructor, James Strecker, included two assign­ ments - an illustration and a poster. Mihalyi was hoping to be able to use one of the posters to promote her first novel, and she says she was pleasantly surprised by the calibre of the work submitted by the first-year students. After narrowing it down to a half dozen posters, she ultimately selected Frost's as the one she would like to buy. "I had a vague idea of what I wanted but nothing solid. This one ties in all the elements of the book," says the author. "I will use it at trade shows and speaking engagements." Frost has mixed feelings about selling her first poster, but she will, (See 'Characters' on page B7) T h e Q a k v il l e B e a v e r mum mpflPER for ire oexi imunim DffiCit lifOifl GPonsofl presents Th e Fantastiks Book & Lyrics by Tom Jones Music b y Harvey Schmidt Tonight to Sat. March 27thS „ j » . The longest running musical in American theatrical history! H alf price Wednesday for seniors & students Visit the box office, 130 Navy Street (ot Lakeshore), Monday to Friday, noon to 5 p.m.; Saturday 2 to 5 p.m.; or two hours before show time. For more information on upcoming shows explore our website at An Evening At The Apollo Theatre i Thursday, April 15 at 8:00 p.m. \ An impeccable tribute to legendary I performers such as The Drifters, The | Supremes, the Platters and many more! 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