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Show Three artists hang last show in City Hail; opening Jan. 15 at 242 East 4th South, Springville Spring-ville and his wife, Lori Brooks, formerly of Provo, is a teacher at Springville High School. Both Mr. Castleton and Mrs. Wiscombe are long-time residents resi-dents o f Springville. M r. Castleton has studied art under un-der Professor Turner and Oliver Oli-ver Parson. Mrs. Wiscombe, the former Kay Bird, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. Freeman Bird, Springville, Spring-ville, has studied under Stanley Burhingham in high school and is presently a student of Ruth Long of Spanish Fork. The last art exhibit at the City Hall, before the building is razed, will be hung, beginning begin-ning December 15, by three local lo-cal artists. It will be open to the public tor one month, until un-til January 15. Exhibiting artists are, W. R. Brooks, who will have approximately approx-imately a dozen entries; Kay B. Wiscombe and Vernon Castleton who will have three or four paintings each. Mr. Brooks, presently an art major at BYU, is a native of Ashville, N. C. He spent two and a half years at the American Ameri-can Academy of Art in Chicago, Chi-cago, from which he graduated; gradu-ated; also a year and a half as a commercial artist in Chicago Chi-cago and two years doing illustrations il-lustrations with the U. S. Navy. Na-vy. He also studied one semester sem-ester with Professor Glen Turner. One artist who had seen his work remarked that his water colors are among the very best he had seen. Mr. Brooks became a convert to the LDS Church in January 1961, and subsequently moved to Utah. He makes his home |