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Wednesday, March 29, 2000 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER C1 Arts & Entertainment OakviUe Beaver Entertainment Editor Carol Baldwin 845-3824 (Extension 254) Fax: 337-5567 or Creators of the Awards Each year, students in Sheridan College's School of Crafts and Design submit proposals to create one of the five Mayor's Awards. Those who were selected to create this year's awards are featured in today's Arts & Entertainment section. Stories by Carol Baldwin Ip P · .a ^ Photo by Barrie Erskine Ryan Legassicke, seen here working in the furniture studio at Sheridan, has designed a M ayor's Award that the winner cannot have. It sits out in one of Oakville's forests. The winner will receive a framed photograph of the chair. Winner gets to enjoy the concept One Oakville business will be honoured with a M ayor's Award that can't be proudly displayed in the office or plant. Ryan Legassicke has designed his award - a wooden chair - in the middle o f the forest for all to enjoy. Consequently, the award winner will receive a framed photograph o f the chair. "I reconstructed it with photos. They get the photograph. They go away with the idea of the object through photography," he says, explain ing that he took many photos of the chair in the woods at different times of day. "The object isn 't the point. It's what I learned while making it...I was trying to have a different style of award, to capture the making process instead of having a finished piece...I'm presenting the winner with an idea more than an object." The actual chair, adds the 21-year-old, was created using a tree as a base, and building on that base with sticks, branches and other objects found in the forest. "The award is supposed to be something to do with Oakville, and what I liked about Oakville is the paths and forests," says the third-year student in Sheridan College's School o f Craft and Design. "I have lived here for three years and I liked the fact that you can walk through the forests. So I decided that I was (S e e `H a n d -c ra fte d ' o n p a g e C 3) Photo by Peter C. McCusker David Kupas, a third-year student in the ceramic studio at Sheridan, designed one of this year's M ayor's Awards. Final career choice may be ceramics D Kupas' first career after high school was with avid Kupas has tried and discarded many a career, but the 38-year-old is the Navy. Then he tried m arketing, before hoping that ceramics will be his last. enrolling at M cM aster University where he He can envision a private studio some majored in political science. He even tried his hand at electronics at M ohawk College and spent where in his future. But first, the third-year Sheridan student will have to graduate from the some time teaching sailing. But it wasn't until he School of Crafts and Design, after which he stopped to buy a couple of wedding gifts in his plans to be an apprentice for a couple of years, hometown of Dundas that he fell in love with then earn a BFA at the Alberta College of Art arid' ceramics. Design in Calgary. (S e e `L id d e d ' o n p a g e C 3 ) CHISHOLM ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL educational an d assessm ent services in Halton. O u r new facility, open in g in Septem ber 2000 will house all our services. The C hisholm A cadem y H igh School accepts students in g rad es 9-12 w ho require a stru ctu re d an d su p p o rtiv e atm o sp h ere in class sizes of twelve. The E nrichm ent C redit Program teaches credit courses on a 1 : 1 basis. The After School Program for students in grades 1-OAC, p ro v id es in stru ctio n th o u g h individually w ritten program s. The A ssessm ent Services p ro v id es com prehensive ed u catio n al an d vocational consultation. At Chisholm , we believe that students w ho enjoy learning are always successful. S ince 1971, Chisholm has been p ro v id in g S u p p o rtiv e , S tru c tu re d & N u rtu rin g DIRECTOR: Dr. H. Bernstein, C.Psych. Chisholm Academy _______ 440 Inglehart St. Oakville, O ntario ________________ L6J 3J6 905- 844-3240 (tel) 905-844-7321 (fax) www.chisholmcentre.com