Cultural enlightenment was the theme of a trip to Dallas to view the Fine Arts Museum and the Civic Opera, Nov. 13.
Monte Alwatyn, head of the fine arts department. Sue Crawford, trip director, accompanied 45 TC students and Nancy Keyton, drama in-structor, accompanied 20 TC and MENC students making the trip.
Along with viewing the Fine Arts Museum featured two main things: the ballet “Gis-elle” in America and a perman-ent exhibit of African art objects, as Asiatic by the way.
The Roman Holiday, in America is a survey of one of the top ten artists, from 1961-1971. The contemporary American thought, Pre-Columbian and African art form-ed the works of artists George Segal, Andy Warhol, and Mark Rothko, said Dean Royer.
The exhibit showed that cen-tured African art from the world’s largest collection will be shown. The new exhibit from the Myan and Inca period, and the Asian art will also be shown.
After spending part of the afternoon at North Park Shop-ping Center, the group attended the opera “Carmen” and “Dallas” by Saint-Saen.
Monte Alwatyn said, “It was an excellent production”. She compared it to “a high school opera.” “You usually don’t ap-preciate opera until you are 30,” said Alwatyn.
“It was a good learning experience for people,” said Michele Ewing and Sonny Brown. “All of the students will be reviewing and Mrs. Keyton, and I give them a good opportunity for students of all levels to express themselves,” said Sue Crawford, who live in Texarkana or or-ganized and directed it. “The opportunity to see high quality in the arts is important.