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DATE: Friday, May 24, 1996                   TAG: 9605240089
SECTION: CURRENT                  PAGE: NRV-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 


COVER ART


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ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:  Joel Nilsen, a 13-year-old student of artist Barbara 

Capps, is one of the young artists featured in the current exhibit

at Virginia Tech's Perspective Gallery. The Blacksburg Middle School

student won the state PTA Reflections Contest a few years ago for

his artwork. This piece was done as an illustration for the cover of

a textbook written by Joel's father, Erik Nilsen, and Dave Orcutt,

both professors at Virginia Tech. The picture, a blending of the

desert and the tropical forest, represents the book's study of plant

stress physiology. For more information on the exhibit at

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