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Show COPPERFIELD SCHOOL MURAL AT ART CENTER One of the most striking exhibits exhi-bits in the all-Utah school arts exhibit just hung at the Utah State Are Center in Salt Lake City is a ten-foot by four- and-a-half foot wood-burned mural done as a community project by children of the fifth and sixth grades of Upper Bingham school. The mural designed as a permanent perma-nent contribution to the school, was made under supervision of Miss Edna Holbrook. Last fall and last Christmas so many of the children received woodburning sets that the classes decided to do something on a large scale by drawing and shading shad-ing with their woodburning e-quipment. e-quipment. Committees of fifth and sixth graders were chosen to visit various buildings in Bingham, Bing-ham, mine buildings and mine operations to be included in the mural. With a main figure of a miner, the mural accurately shows stores, boarding houses, schools, mine buildings and other familiar scenes to Bingham residents. resi-dents. The children of Upper Bingham school have developed the mural until it is representative representa-tive of life in this community. The wood-burned mural is one of the most ambitious projects included in-cluded in the 350 works by Utah school children in the all-Utah school arts exhibit at the Utah Art Center. It will be included in the discussion by Dr. Roy Faulkner, Faulk-ner, one of the principal speakers speak-ers at the Utah Education association asso-ciation during the meetings of supervisors of Utah schools and at the Art section, UEA meeting to be held at the Art Center, Friday, Fri-day, October 10. Dr. Faulkner is head of the Art Department of Teachers' college, Columbia University, Uni-versity, and a recognized authority author-ity on the integration of the arts into community life through the schools. |