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Show Wednesday, March 22, 1978 Page 3 Art Center Suffers From Lack Of Support "We must have more local support or I predict in five more years this place just won't be around," Kimball Art Center director David Fernandez said Friday. "Support Coynes in a lot of ways," he noted, "and it would be a good idea for Park City to become active." Take a class, attend a free wine and hors d'oeuvre reception foran exhibiting artist, take in a show, join the guild, be a volunteer in the shop or serve as a . Kimball Art Center guide, he suggested. The art center soon will launch a fundraising drive and KAC officials will meet with consultants to get information on developing a local and regional campaign drive. - In a further effort to involve the community in art center activities, the name may soon be changed to the Park City Kimball Art Center. "It really should be that," commented Fernandez. "We're very proud of the place and if residents become be-come involved they can be prcnd, too." i According to tfae director, Depot Project To Holl n Spring Work on the Depot project will begin with the spring thaw, according to developer Wally Wright. The first phase of the project will include converting convert-ing the Depot building into a restaurant Wright said he has been negotiating with pwplemJalifqrniaJ who have previously been involved in-volved with Chart House restaurants. One of these specialty dinner houses has been "very popular in Aspen," he remarked. "Before we had a plan for the Depot building. Now we have a prospect," Wright said. The developer also plans to renovate 25 railroad cars to lodging units this spring. He said he will "see how it goes before committing" to renovating ren-ovating an additional 25 train cars proposed for the project. pro-ject. Wright said there are tentative ten-tative plans to build a movie theatre on the old pressure vessel site north of the Coalition building on Park Avenue. "If all goes real well, perhaps the year after we'll develop commercial space between the train cars," WrigM. continued. Although Wright was to have submitted a revised site plan to the Planning Commission ' 'fi TtlCJ 'S3. m 7vup' i ji y" 2 .H?L 1 --24 Short Circuit Zaps Triple Chair Electric power was restored re-stored to the Triple Chair at the Park City Resort Sunday after a short circuit in the motor left the lift dormant for four days Mountain Manager Phil Jones said the motor had to be removed last Wednesday and taken to Salt Lake City for repair, but removing it was a problem in itself. "They had to cut one end off the shack that houses the motor," Jones said. "It just wasn't meant to be removed. I guess it was supposed to run forever!" Lift maintenance crews had to improvise a hoist to remove the motor, but their efforts failed when the hoist few senior citizens and few of the young local residents, both transient and permanent, perman-ent, make use of the facility. "There's a lot to take advantage of," he noted. "We want the community support and in return we hope to provide more and better programs for less money." "The Oregon Mime packed the place," commented assistant director Franci Eisenberg, "but the audience aud-ience was comprised mainly of Salt Lakers. 'The Sound Column' drew only 56 people and cost us $200," she said. "Even with groups like the Film Coalition using the facility, we draw only about 70 or 80 viewers, which is absolutely nothing!" If each of the 4,000 Park City residents joing the non-profit Kimball Art Center Cen-ter (annual membership is $15) 60 per cent of the concerts and performances would be free of charge, according to the assistant director. "With local support we wouldn't have to worry about breaking even," Fernandez added, "but now locals in January,he has not done so because he was "waiting for the new members to be appointed." The changes will include moving the railroad cars from south of the Coalition to the north and the addition of more cars, some to be placed in the middle of the project. Condi- tional use permits will have to be modified to include the additional railroad cars, bar and restaurant cars and lounge in the Depot building. A condition of Planning Commission approval of the Depot project was the restoration restor-ation of the Coalition Mine building, controlled by former form-er Depot project partner Jack Sweeney. When Sweeney Sween-ey split from Wright and John Prince, he assured the city the building would still be developed if "economically "economic-ally feasible." Planning Commission chairman Burnis Watts said the Coalition project is "one of my concerns" about the Depot project. Previously Watts said he felt the Depot project was no longer "valid" because the original master plan was not being followed. Confident that the Coalition building will be developed as originally planned, Wright said he will develop the Depot project "as fast as the market will allow." slipped, sending me utuiui into the snow. When the motor was replaced in the shack on Saturday, the crew had built a hoist and I-beam rig that made the work much simpler.' Jones said the lift was started Saturday afternoon but "there were problems with the drive it wouldn't handle the load" and the chair again came to a standstill. Skiers anxious to try the untracked four-day-old snow were lifted out of the canyon with the aid of the auxiliary engine. Replacement parts were airlifted to Salt Lake from California Saturday night and by Sunday moi nni?r 'he chair was back in action. aren't even coming to the door." Financial Burdens Operating costs of the art center run approximately $15,000 to $20,000 per month. "Gallery shows are free and we take only 20 per cent on commission from the sale tf artwork, the lowest in the state," Fernandez said. "We'd have to sell $20,000 in artwork just to break even! " The center pays 70 per cent of tuition costs to instructors, over $1,000 in shipping costs for exhibits, and the price of tickets for concerts and shows is adjusted so the non-profit center only covers costs. "Concessions have pulled us through many times," noted Eisenberg. Interest payments on the building run more than $3,000 per month; utilities costs $800 to $1,000 per month; $15,000 is expended for salaries, the cost of classes, gallery shows and receptions; and $600 to $700 goes toward monthly building build-ing maintenance. City Aid? Fernandez compared the Kimball Art Center with the Salt Lake Art Center. "We Head Ski challenges you to test your skills against the HEAD racing rac-ing pros. Pros the likes of NASTAR's 1977 number one pacesetter, Ken Corrock; or Olympic bronze medalist, Susie Corrock; WPS top ten finisher, Doug Woodcock; or WPS Pro, Bill Shaw. Visiting HEAD pros will give a free hour long skiing clinic. Then, at the beginning of NASTAR racing they will personally run the course to establish par. Winners are those who come closest to the pros time in the men's and women's divisions of three age categories: 1 8 and under, 19 thru 39, and 40 and over. WEDNESDAY March 22.1978 10:00 a.m. on Clementine have a similar program but we're larger. We do more exhibits, have a more complete com-plete school, more programs but Salt Lake County maintains main-tains their building and so the Salt Lake City Art Center has a firm financial base." The director noted that the center soon would be appealing appeal-ing to Park City for financial aid. "So far the city has provided us no support," he commented. "We even had to supply our own Christmas street lights and take down the community Christmas tree." Rumors "Rumors have hurt us," said Fernandez. "The building build-ing is named after the original Gib Kimball who built the building in 1929 as a livery stable and not Bill Kimball. And even though Bill Kimball started the center and gave a tremendous tremen-dous amount of support, there is a need for additional support from any direction we can get it." Fernandez sees some weaknesses weak-nesses in the original concept con-cept of the center. "We built, opened and programed events beore J 01(51 (oTnTnlf i r 'I ' y y Winners choose Xf f any pair of HEAD jr ) s skis at the dealer's store. H V y J Skis with the quality and crafts- I u V J rnanship that give both profes- fl I Ty -J25J .,sional and amateur competitors If I . i - the edge. II I any fundraising," he said, "and now we're faced with the dilemma of trying to figure out how to operate with a mortgage of $400,000 and operating costs of $200,000 per year without a great deal of local support and few large donors. That's what we're trying to hassle out." New Course Format Recognizing the mobility of local residents, the art center will offer courses next quarter in three, three-week sessions. KAC members re- ceive a reduction in price of $5 per course, or $15 for all three sessions. "If you join the center and take the three courses, your classes pay for the membership," member-ship," pointed out Eisenberg. Eisen-berg. P.C. Not N.Y.C. "We would be willing to work with anyone on any project if they'd just talk to us," added Fernandez. "We're here for Park City not New York City. We don't want to be considered elitest just because we have a nice building. We're stymied and just don't know what else to do." In fUfMlQl v:: 11 Mill VJ I I V II II II II II II M U U I II II I I II CI f I i ii ii i I II I V 1 II " u jj xzy u, U a (if x "V JB i art instructor I? Asa- Silk-Screen, 3-D After a great deal of research and experimentation, experimenta-tion, Park City High School sophomore Bill Sellier created a unique silk screen butterfly in green and red as a project in art instructor f-1 I ,na il Win or lose, its a rewarding! I I I experience to challenge the HEAD V J pros and yourself on this I fV J I NASTAR course. I JSt. David thaplin and David Chaplin's 7th period class. When viewed with special glasses containing a green gelatin lens on the left and a red gelatin lens on the right, Ml 1 -s BouWet Colorado 1977 PtintedmUSA Bill Sellier Butterfly the brain separates the colors, diminished by the lenses, and creates a three-dimensional three-dimensional image. "This," Sellier explained, "is a process called the binocular effect." |