Japanese Art

A memorial service for Dr. Carl Jelenko III, a native of Baltimore who helped to establish emergency medicine as a recognized specialty, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 120 Allegheny Ave. in Towson.Dr. Jelenko, who was 59 and lived on Round Oak Road in Towson, died Saturday at St. Joseph Hospital after a stroke. He retired in 1981 after an earlier massive stroke and moved to Towson from Dayton, Ohio.He campaigned for the recognition of emergency medicine as a specialty and then, upon its establishment in 1976, became a member of the American Board of Emergency Medicine, which examines and certifies doctors who plan to practice in the field.

Handmade quilts are the focus of a new shop in Historic Savage Mill, but they're not all that's there. You can find handcrafts of all kinds, including framed folk-art prints, architectural sculptures, baskets, rugs, quilt racks, ceramics and scented candles. In addition, there are handmade "Front Porch" pillows made of vintage fabric by shop owner Kathleen Branch. The store will celebrate its grand opening Saturday and next Sunday. The address is 8600 Foundry Road, Savage. The phone number is 301-490-5410.

The 15 teens gathered at the Mountain Road library are way past Speed Racer. The classic 1960s Japanese cartoon featuring characters with unnaturally large eyes and tiny noses was the precursor to anime, an art form that has won over many American youths. Jessica Lindsay, 14, a freshman at Chesapeake High School, said her favorite show is Sailor Moon, which is about a 14-year-old girl with superpowers. Anime, she said, "brings more depth to the stories." She also likes manga, the graphic novel form of the art. Since February, she has been attending the monthly meetings of the Anime and Manga Club at the library in Pasadena.

The students call her the interest lady. And that's just fine with Pat D'Amario.Her real job title -- school-wide enrichment model (SEM) teacher -- is too difficult for the children to remember anyway, she said.SEM teachers serve as resource and catalyst to help students develop talents, from writing a play to researching light bulbs to learning about origami, the Japanese art of folding paper.Mrs. D'Amario is one of 9.5 such teachers in the county.She divides her time between Bakerfield and Meadowvale elementary schools, serving almost 1,300 students.

Kneeling beneath the vaulted ceiling of the Evergreen House's historic Bakst Theatre, Laure Drogoul is a study in messy elegance. Her sandy gray hair is tumbling from a pencil-fastened pile, and she's firing instructions, ideas and an occasional flash of scatter-brained quirkiness into the hollow space. A Delightful Evening of Remarkable Performance, a cabaret-style show scheduled for 8 tonight, is Drogoul's first ever at the Bakst and the reason for her chaotic state. "This will be a collaborative performance," she says.

By 1897, a group of Austrian artists had had it. They were disgustedwith the fuddy duddiness of Vienna's conservative Society of Artistsand frustrated by their country's slowness to react and respond to the cataclysmic changes that were wrenching the art world on the cusp of the new century.Under the leadership of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), this coterie of artists broke ranks with their complacent colleagues and founded the movement that would aptly become known as Secessionism.The Secessionists were quick to seek out and exhibit the works ofadventurous foreign artists (America's James McNeill Whistler was a favorite of theirs)

Melinda Stickney-Gibson's abstract paintings impart a sense of understated emotional narrative.Understated may seem an odd word to describe paintings with colors as bold as the acid, mustardy yellow of "Open's Shadow" and the tense, throbbing red of "A Solitary Instinct." Nor is quietness exactly suggested by her more obvious shapes -- the vaguely face-like green ellipse of "Open's Shadow" or the three angular, insect-like black forms in "The Terms of Exit."Nevertheless, these big paintings at C. Grimaldis Gallery communicate feelings of slow movement, of rumination, of more going on behind the scenes or between the lines than in their overt gestures and foreground pictorial strategies.

Au Ho-Nien's "Tiger Head" appears to materialize out of the paper. The head with open mouth and glowing eyes stands out from neck, chest and front legs that ever so gradually become more vague. Behind, there is the merest suggestion of a body, the wisp of a stroke and a slight shadow which we half expect to clarify itself into a form as we watch.In the same artist's "By the Stream," we see trees, mists and clouds first, then the small figure, right at the end of a grouping of rocks, with his feet disappearing into the water.

In Baltimore CountySchool bus, car collide; 11-year-old suffers minor injuriesEDGEMERE -- A school bus ran into a car yesterday morning, sending an 11-year-old on the bus to the hospital with minor injuries.The accident happened at 7: 03 a.m. when the bus, carrying four children to General John Stricker Middle and Holabird Middle schools, was forced partially over the center line of Bay Front Road, said Cpl. Vickie Warehime, a county police spokeswoman.A driver of a 1990 Plymouth, Wendy L. Garrett-Smero, 38, of Kropf Lane, tried to make a right turn onto Bay Front Road when her car collided with the bus, police said.

What does a "night of mystery" suggest to you? A Gothic mansion creaking and groaning in eerie moonlight as a lone, menacing figure approaches from across the moors? A midnight search for clues to a grisly murder along a chilly, fog-shrouded river? How about a night at the bookstore? At 7:30 this evening, at Barnes and Noble Booksellers in Annapolis Harbour Center, a "Night of Mystery," featuring five female Maryland mystery writers, will be presented. The panelists are Sujata Massey, Chassis West, Judy Fitzwater, Barbara Lee and Marcia Talley, prolific, successful authors with multiple published works in the genre.