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Show - 't OCTOBER WEDNESDAY, 26, 2016 DIXIESUNNEWS.COM - 9 " 1::::1 I:3TE I '1 Farm, exhibit, dance concert 'laud creepy aut,umn season BY CANDY ROLAND - ' goandygirlspen ' ' ' i ' N A ',...; . if II- i L.,.. :....-- -- , Fall is in the air even with St. George still at 80 , , :i degrees. We are .str,s nearing rt,,rf time t - ; ; --- -r- f 1 i , f 4 1 ,' j ' , 7 ,,..', 0. - 3 I ' . ; ,.., , ,4 ,i r '''''' IS, ir - 1:7--4- t r, k,...., I, I i I , , t , s i 1 Hal- I I ( I -- k ) , of the year. i , ' loween night, and I went out and experienced three events only featured this I '' ( ,;': t' i1 L , 1 - , 1 1 fr.,,....-- , 1 Staheli Family Farm N '" 3400 S. Washington m, , Fields Road w Washington, Utah cz The Staheli Family Farm started out with a corn maze to promote agriculPumpkins lay in a patch at the back of Staheli Family Farm, a ture education for children southern Utah fall attraction. -, 1, ,.., .. , , , , Halloween extravaganza, said Sherri Staheli, one of the owners of the Staheli Family Farm. The Field of Screams is the main attraction for college students at the Staheli Family Farm. I advise you to get there early as there are three long lines, but it isn't as bad as it sounds. "It isn't a dinner and movie," Staheli said. The Staheli Family Farm experience is unique, and it only comes around once a year. The haunt only gets 4c1. o Slides, goats, pigs, hay and pumpkins are found at Staheli Family Farm along with a haunted and corn maze that customers are able to explore. and now has grown into a 4, 4 to: , fi, ,olii g 'POI 4 non-haunt- ed just make sure to bring a few of your brave friends Halloween Art Exhibit North Plaza As I walked through DSU's first Halloween exhibit, I enjoyed taking the time to talk to Samantha West, a junior English ma- jor from Salt Lake City and Halloween Exhibit juror, to learn a little more about some of the pieces. before. was my second going to the Field of Screams. I am a little harder to scare than most This "The water-colpencil has a creamy texture and the ability to draw and then when you drip water over it, it acts like a water color," West said. "It was a fun medium that I have never tried before." West's piece is a black cat sitting amongst pumpkins with a background full of skulls, candy and spiders trying to capture the nostalgia of Hallowor year i people, but I had a good time watching my room- II: shriek as we went d through the mates clown-infeste- I room. We t f the ,e! i 4 t tiptoed through chainsaw-protecte- d Corn Maize and fought to keep our balance as we ; crossed the bridge in the Spinning rainbow-colore- tunnel. the , scaredy-ca- t, d i t.1 , 1111 vampires and zombies exist, and they come to life at night at the Tuacahn Center for the Arts. The air - -7 t litli n duce 0 11 IT- '2-- 7) J. -- , SPENCER RICKS ,,,,,,, , SpencerRicks ., - A - ' Itioween e -- - ,, - ,, , was the was the visionary behind the Halloween Art Exhibit. "I've always been interested in Halloween," Yule said. "There are as many ways to be into Halloween as there are flavors at And the is Exhibit Art Halloween the great because it brings community together to camart pus to see really unique you can't see anywhere." Samantha West, a junior English major from Salt Lake City, was one of the show who jurors for the art decided which artwork was accepted to the exhibit. She had her own colored pencil scene piece of a Halloween cat black placed in with a ,,,, - t Black cats, skulls and a man with his tom open are some of pieces comprising the chest the Dixie State oween Art University HallExhibit in the North Plaza building. Students and community members are displaying their Halloween-theme- d in the gallery near the front doors of the North Phza through Monday. In addition to the Halloween Art Exhibit, which is the first of its kind at DSU, this is the first semester a Halloween class has been taught at DSU The exhibit opened with an art show Oct. 7. Jeff Yule, associate professor of interdisciplinary arts and sciences, teaches the Halloween class and said he artwork Baskin-Robbin- , ,--- " , ! boot-thuddi- I 115.-- -; t0 Xi 4 L',1P -- 4r - r' t , - - 1 1 It - 1 i I 1 o - ) - t , i 2 i o 1 F 1 zc zm , I This dark figure isn't the only thing you should be worried about this Halloween season. Writer Candy Roland explores a haunting at Dixie University in the Chancellor Apartments. ,.,-'- - t e' I at C 4 4 7:-Fl- BY , - Washington County gets 300 days of sunshine a year, but that doesn't mean this sunny town is exempt from a ghost or two lurking in the shadows. Perhaps you've heard some of the nearby stories like the Mountain Meadows Massacre where over a hundred people were killed by a Mormon militia; been told about old Sherriff Hardy at the Hardy House Restaurant; or heard of the little old lady who sits at the reference desk in the Val: A Browning Learning Resource Center. But there's one more local haunted place to learn about. Zsa'Jade Ervin, a senior English education major from Los Angeles, and Monica Harris, a senior English major from Alamogordo, New Mexico moved into Chancellor Apartment 5B early last fall semester and said they found a necklace hanging on the closet door. Each of them thought the necklace belonged to the - ----- ,4; candygirlspen rs is just still so much fun, even when you are all grown up," Little said. "The show is hard, grueling and hurts your body, but it's an awesome way to interact with the audience." "Thriller" will be performing at the Tuacahn Center of the Arts until Saturday., , other. Ervin said the first strange occurrence was when she was home alone, making food. She said she heard loud footsteps in the hallway. "I said 'hello' aloud and asked if anybody was there," Ervin said. "I checked to see if any of my roommates were home, but there was nobody." Harris said her first haunted occurrence was when she was home alone and lay down to take a nap. "I was pulling the blankets up, getting comfortable and then there was just a soft whisper close to my ear that said my name: 'Monica," Harris said. They said a cold spot could be felt in the closet; one night late they noticed the necklace spinning on its own. Harris and Ervin said they have never tried to get rid of the necklace. "We've seen too many horror movies where people try to get rid of the haunted items, and that is when everything goes bad," Harris said. BY CANDY ROLAND "Thriller." "Halloween Tuacahn Center for the Arts 1100 Tuacahn Drive It's true mummies, een as a kid. If you're . f, 111i. - Her featured art piece, "Familiar" was created with colored pencils and water color pencils, a medium I had not heard of about $13. Storm-troope- by display at the exhibits entrance made from guitar picks with different colored skulls hanging on the bottom themed with its featured character and its color. Of course, the earrings were for sale if you wanted to display the art from your ears this Halloween. West said the exhibit brings some of the Halloween spirit that we don't really have at DSU. "It is a holiday that lots , of people enjoy and this is a new way to celebrate it," West said. The Halloween art exhibit will be on display until the end of October and is open Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dixie State University Screams, which will get you and a friend in for io. Another piece was one you could actually wear. Earrings hung on a near to hold onto. better as it goes." The Starving Student Card is the only discount offered for Field of Y 4 N , 0,;')Illt, features spooky.closét necklace was damp, and the smell of wet sagebrush was in the air. Clouds touched the top of the red cliffs as I walked past zombies to find my seat to watch "Thriller," a Halloween dance concert, at the Tuacahn Center for the Arts Monday. The chilly weather felt appropriate, with most of the audience wearing a few extra layers and some wrapped up in blankets. I half expected a lighting bolt from a lingering storm to hit the stage and bring Frankenstein and his bride to life. The show was mostly comical, but a few scenes were more on the horrid side. The scenes were segmented with videos of dancing Stormtroopers by YouTuber Scott David Winn; I wish the could have been on stage rather than just on screens. My favorite scene by far was from the "Children of the Corn." It played out a short story between teenagers and haunted scarecrows in a corn maze. The scene gave me a nostalgic feeling of mixed fear and giddiness as I watched the teenagers' reactions; which varied between horror and comedy as the scarecrows danced to life. Kiana Little, a dancer with Odyssey Dance Theatre, said Halloween is her favorite time of year and has been celebrating it continually for the last four years by performing for . , I a ; I t, Local haunting . -- - - - - ,,-- loween to St. George," West said. "There really isn't any other place in the community that displays Halloween art.", McGarren Flack, another juror for the exhibit and faculty member in the art department, said there were over 75 pieces of artwork submitted, including sculptures, paintings and photo- s. , ., - - ''. , ,, .' (.1: . "For the first year with the exhibit. "The Halloween gallery is kind of introducing Hal ter. Yule said his Halloween to get accepted into said. "The course includes class is probably going to the exhibit was stiff. some reading about Hallowbe offered again if it gets said students in his een, class discussions and Halloween-base- d stuBusiness of Art class, which from projects." enough support dents wanting to take it in was designed to teach West, who is one of the 18 the future. students in the Halloween students how to market and sell their artwork, all sub"The Halloween class class, said she loves learnis kind of a cross between mitted pieces to the exhibit. ing about all the different a seminar and a Choose elements of Halloween in Out of the 30 students in the the Halloween class. Your Own Adventure," Yule class, Flack said only six of them had pieces accepted to ,,, the Halloween Art Exhibit. ,.. 041 N "After that, a couple of :i' the students were like, 'I I ', ,4 1,i e.,,,,.,..., don't want to submit to ' i'l , .1 shows anymore," Flack ,' said. "I was like, 'Dude; ' i ..., this is only one art show.' ' to Making a living selling art shows isn't always easy '';''' T ': for an artist." r 2 , 'N,:. The Halloween spirit in the North Plaza building , ' . won't end when the Hallow- - c een art exhibit closes after g Oct. 31. Yule's Halloween class will keep studying the A sculpture from the Halloween Art Exhibit displays seasonal flair. history, traditions, literature The exhibit coincides with the Halloween class being offered this Halloween and artwork of semester by Jeff Yule, associate professor of interdisciplinary arts and sciences. until the end of the semes- , graphs. late notice, to have 75 submissions, that's pretty good," Flack said. "The majority of the submissions were really creepy stuff." He said they had to eliminate about half of the submissions because they didn't fit the "cliché of Halloween" they were going ork ':,1 k .. . - 1 , - -,- , ',' , ,,,, . .. for. Flack said the competition , . - , ...,, . ,. - , , , ,. .. ... - ,,, - . |