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By KIMBERLY DAVIS Times Leader Correspondent
Thursday, January 27, 2000 Page: 27
As a freshman studying graphic design at Keystone Junior College in
LaPlume, Kyle Hussa-Lietz is learning the real nuts and bolts of the art
business, and discovering that it isn’t always easy.
In fact, he’s found some of his courses are both challenging and rewarding.
Hussa-Lietz has found that studying art history, memorizing names and dates
and attaching them to works of art, can be very tedious. Yet he says that he
loves the class no less for the amount work.
Kyle is the son of Klaus Lietz and Carol Hussa, both of Wilkes-Barre. He
attended GAR Memorial High School where he was the first recipient of the Most
Outstanding Art Student award in 1999, which is presented at graduation by the
school’s art faculty.
At GAR, Hussa-Lietz was inspired by teacher Sally Readinger from whom he
learned art and photography skills. Readinger remembers Hussa-Lietz as a
dedicated and talented student.
His talent, however, was most likely inherited from his father, a native of
Germany who was a graphic designer with Unigraphic Color Corp., Plymouth.
Klaus also created artwork on his own, and Kyle says that he even had shows of
his work.
Two years ago, Hussa-Lietz took a three-day art seminar at the Rochester
(N.Y.) Institute of Technology where he honed his skills for college. Six
pieces of Hussa-Lietz’s work are included in the student show at Keystone this
year.
Hussa-Lietz likes to draw in both pen and pencil. His true goal in life is
to become a toy designer, specifically action figures. He is also interested
in illustration.
He sees the two-year art program at Keystone as a stepping stone toward
that goal.
Although Hussa-Lietz’s course work at Keystone this semester was mostly
basic drawing and color courses, next semester he is looking forward to some
three-dimensional art courses like ceramics, sculpture and basic 3D.
Along with his college course work, Hussa-Lietz is employed at the Gallery
of Sound, Wilkes-Barre Township. He used his skills to build model skate ramps
of wood that are on display at the Gallery of Sound store in Kingston.