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Show ISft""B ., ,;A..t 17 JANUARY 18, tuEDNESDAY, 2017 DIXIESUNNEWS.COM - 7 artist's gallery embodies different styles, mediums Late ) 1 i s '' 1 ,1 -- '.- 1 ; r II' I - : , - v I - - - - .11d.,..., ,,, , -- w A , - f: I o: BY Wendy Stabler WStablerB2B, Museum The Sears Art Gallery highlighted Gaell career Lindstrom's 76-ye- ar of organic somber artwork. Dixie State University Sears Art Museum Gallery features different artists several times a year. The musewn recently featured a selection of art from The 1 Lindstrom's career, which from 1930 to 2006. According to Lindstrom was an artist, and his work has been featured in galleries all over the world. In 1953 he started his teaching career in Cedar City, Utah, in the junior and senior high schools. After which, he moved on et spanned award-wirmi- 7 to r1 teach at the College Southern Utah. DSU fl of He started LEWIS gtlewisdsn homeless and no go. That's how aman's life began before he enrolled at Dixie State Broke, where to University. "Sticks" Platten was aspiring actor in the 1980s. Platten had just finished filming the movie, "Killer in the Family," when he finally hit rock- Jon an ----" Ig in bottom, he said. "After filming, I actually parents because they didn't like my acting career," Platten said. "I was left there 'in St. George all alone; I 'lad no family, no friends and no place to lost )r d bad te to my Stay." spent most nights behind Dixie Rock or would stay in unlocked sheds when it got really cold. Without a job or anywhere to said Platten stay, he eventually contemplated Platten said he D ) mes o cut ) I suicide. told the Lord I said, 'If this is what life has to offer me I want no part of it," "I its poor he said. the moment he conversation DSU student, his life in However, struck up a 1 with a ,bo- - took Ln student s ibia low and - ad "If Dixie wasn't there and hadn't taken me in, I either Wouldn't be here or be the erY the ld Fowler, he said. Platten said Fowler came up with the funds to enroll him as a student at DSU. m ; a dramatic 'turn. The encouraged Platten to be a radio host and later net the Dean of Students Ben if you t of isk hat Person I said. am today," Platten Platten became the sta- ti" manager view. Two display tables showcased symmetrical bowls and thin-to- p vases, as Lindstrom also utilized darker hues in the creation of pottery. Braxton Kunde, a sophomore business administration major from Ivins, was attending the art exhibit with other students in the DSU honors progam. He said his classmates all voted to meet at the Sears Art Museum Gallery for part of their class, as they all like art. He stated this was his first time seeing Lindstrom's work and Lindstrom was a talented artist. "I feel Lindstrom is talented and this shows, due to the many years he cultivated his art collection and the different genres of artwork presented here," Kunde said. Megan Schow, from Minnesota, was in St. George Hundreds of paintings and photographs by Gaell Lindstrom line the walls. At the end of the exhibit stand two tables with different types of pottery made by Lindstrom. , , for DSU's KRDC 99.3, where his career really took off, he said. Platten was on air When KDLX radio heard tic '' 1 I ., . i . - i t .. '.' '''''''.....r.' . 4 ...., ,... , - 1 . . . . 1 t. (7) . . ,. , )7( F wwiLundamtdr,,oes.k.m11..,lasuut.o.a.., with her grandmother and aunt. "My grandma brought me here after she had received an email about the exhibit from a What's Happening in St. George email, I am - glad we came, the artwork is beautiful," she said. "I had never heard of this artist, I liked that his art used darker hues and colors." Schow said Lindstrom's painting of "Ted Hills Near Hanksville" was her favorite AUTHORS Jessica Chatwin, a freshman media studies major from Hilda le, started writing from a young age and uses nature to inspire her stories, she said. Going on hikes and finding beauty in nature 'calls her to write. continued from page 6 radio for three years until 1 moving to Salt Lake City , to pursue his acting career. He has starred in 37 major motion pictures, television 0 0 series and commercials. , "I attribute all my suc6 cess to DSU," Platten said. 0 1 "They taught me things and 0 they helped me develop all my talents." z Platten said he cherJohn Platten is joining an expedition to climb Mt. Everest in April. ishes DSU so much that Platten, a cancer survivor, plans on placing prayer flags on the he started a memorabilia summit to honor cancer patients. collection. cer patients they honor." "He is one of those stuPlatten said he went from dents who really caught the 226 pounds to 162 pounds. Radiating Hope also sesDixie spirit," professor of plans to donate a radiation Eight chemotherapy said. machine to the Kathmandu he said sions later, Platten art Glen Blakley for Cancer Center, Platten said. has been cancer-fre- e Blakley has also helped Platten's collection months. "I'm really nervous but six almost expand said to go," he said. his excited about th6 Platten After hearing over years. "I'm not just going on he has over 70 pieces of story, Radiating Hope behalf of myself; I'm going reached out to Platten to DSU memorabilia, ranging on behalf of millions of interested the be to he'd see if from the past present. cancer survivors." in being a cancer survivor "A lot of basketball For those interested in ambassador. in were class, my players autoto an me so they gave tracking his journey, visit According RadiatingI it is a radiatinghope.org for GPS hope.org, graphed basketball that mountain climbing orgaupdates this April. To dogave Jon," Blakley said. nate to Platten's GoFundnization that's dedicated After working at DSU Me account, it can be found care cancer was to for 20 years, Blakley improving world. at http:bit. ly2j5VOrP around the awarded a DSU watchband As an ambassador, he that he also gave Platten, will go with other volunDid you know: he said. time to first the on for teers "There isn't anyone - Mt. Everest is the climb Mount Everest this this planet that loves Dixie a a started He has or I do gofundthan more April. lighest mountain in the earn memoto account me odd. It is 29,035 feet. enough larger collection of for his mounmoney to pay rabilia like I do," Platten - Mt. Everest was first tain gear. Platten said while said. overhe will in May, 1953 by is there climbed he also place just Platten has the summit on the team of Sir Edmund prayer flags come another of Mount Everest to honor battle recently. He was Hillary and Tenzing cancer colorectal with patients. Norgay diagnosed According to Radiatingcancer in January 2015, which is the second leading hope.org, "It is traditionally - Mt. Everest is known as Chomolungma in cause of death in the United believed that as the mounblow the winds and Sagarmatha tain flags, States. the threads drift and fragile Nepal. The mountain "I was devastated," is considered sacred to away into the breeze, that daughter Shaylie Platten thread a for sends each off hard Nepalese and Tibetans. said. "It was really of prayer hope, strength, my mom and I." g for the can and Source: alanarnette.com his Of surgeries, all After vell-bein- 1 ' 4 1 it, 0 Igto 4 , his show and immediately drove to the station to hire him, he said. Platten worked for I(DLX non-prof- r. o alumnus selected to climb Mt. Everest BY TAYLOR 1 teaching art at Utah State University in 1957. In a press release, Kathy Cieslewicz, curator of the Sears Art Museum Gallery, said, "The artwork is from Lindstrom's earliest work as a young person to his later grand works, showing his progress as an artist." She said Lindstrom had a vast variety of mediums throughout his career but was most known for watercolors. The gallery started the exhibit with Lindstrom's photographs, taken outside of the United States, focusing on culture and scenery, catching vivid details of his subjects. Many of the displayed paintings had been painted in watercolor, using dark, subdued, hues, with organic scenery. His color choice brought a feeling of somberness and reflection from an observer's point of the book he thinks should be published. Afterward the writer will make a pitch and if the "green light" is given he will have the opportunity to present a proposal. Despite all of the advice Armstrong has given, he said there is one common characteristic among all great writers. "The best writers are those who read a lot," Armstrong said. Few students on campus find ways to publish their projects while continuing to write and study. Tay Gallagher, a sophomore English major from Kanab, began writing short stories and expanded into novels and screenplays. "One of the things I like about writing is it allows you to freely express your thoughts and ideas while vocally you might have a tough time expressing them," Gallagher said. Gallagher looks to C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tollden and Rick Riordan for inspiration, he said. "As a writer you need to have the patience and perseverance to continue on with your work," Gallagher said. "You can't expect to be a published author if you aren't working." Both authors see writing of necessity than a luxury. "Writing is not adventure," Armstrong said. "Writing is wearing out the seat of your pants and getting neuropathy in your feet because you've been sitting too long; your hands hurt and you have dents in your fingers. That's what writing is." Although many writers have yet to be published, they continue to write and work toward seeing their ideas become novels. as more piece. "I come down here to look at the red rocks so I was particularly drawn to that particular painting," she said. "Writing is my emotional outlet," Chatwin said. "Whenever I'm sad, excited, angry or confused, I write." Having been home schooled from third to ninth grade, Chatwin poured herself into her writing. "Writing is a way to tell a story that can reach more people," Chatwin said. Chatwin said no matter the circumstance, aspiring writers should write every day. "Even if you think you're bad at writing, write," Chatwin said. "If you think you.don't have time to write, write." Armstrong currently teaches English classes while helping students understand the publishing process and what goes into becoming an author. "You have to put your time in at the writing table," Armstrong said. "You have to write an hour a day or 10 hours a day. I've had days of trying to get an article written and the misery of editing a book. You sit there, you find your tunes or your music the window you like to look out of and you have a cat or a dog. You just work." All three writers agree that without writing, something is missing from their lives. "I don't think I'm alone in this sense, but when I am not writing I go crazy, and I feel like I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing," Armstrong said. "It keeps me healthy, and it keeps me intellectually fit. That's one reason I do it; it's You don't have to be published to get that sense of completeness each 16-ho- ur g. day." . |