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"Toys By Artists" Exhibit at Masur Museum The Masur Museum of Art
is currently showing “Playing Around: Toys Designed by Artists,” a
traveling exhibition emanating from the Coupled with this traveling exhibition is an exhibition of toys designed by local and regional artists. Included in this mini-exhibition are the works of three art faculty members from ULM: Brian Fassett is showing a painted brass and wood executive toy; Gary Radcliff is displaying a plastic and mixed media cannon that can propel a jet of air at a target over 20 feet away; and Cliff Tresner is displaying two wooden sculptural assemblages based on the concept of kitchen utensils employed as playthings. University alumni also
submitted toys: Arlene Cason of Area faculty artists Joey Slaughter from Grambling State University displayed a wooden vegetable form on pull-toy metal wheels, while Donna Service from Bossier Community College presented two figurative soft sculptures – a merman in a metal shark cage and an eight-foot-high working marionette. The mini-exhibition of regional artists’ toys was organized by the head of ULM Division of Art, Robert Ward. On the last week-end in June, works by Brian Fassett, Cliff Tesner, Joey Slaughter and Linda Ward were loaned to ULM TheatreWorks for a lobby exhibition during their production of the musical comedy “Big.” The two toy shows will be
on view at the Masur Museum of Art,
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