PSU Magazine Winter 1998

students, faculty, and outside professionals. Artists are famous as icono– clasts, and those showing at PSU are no exception. But in one case it still came as something of a shock. At an Autzen Gallery open– ing last year of a show called "Art On a Pedestal," the artist, Nan Curtis, handed out a statement about knocking art off pedestals and then calmly went about destroying, one by one, her sculp– tures of famous artists. "There was a lot of crashing and water spilling," says Mary Constans. "As the students would say, it was awesome." D (Jack Yost MA '71, a Portland writer and filmmaker, wrote the article "An International Prize," which appeared in the fa/11997 PSU Magazine.) WINTER 1998 PSU MAGAZINE 9