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Show Art Program Initiated at Arches National Park j A new program at Arches Ar-ches National Park began be-gan Monday. The Artist in Residence in the National Na-tional Parks project involves in-volves painters (later sculptors, poets, photographers, photo-graphers, composers, compos-ers, etc.) living and working work-ing within selected parks for extended periods. The project provides opportunities for individual indi-vidual responses to landscape land-scape and reflects the interplay in-terplay between the artist and his environment. The parks, according to program pro-gram planners, are excellent ex-cellent for this project because they have preserved pre-served large tracts of natural na-tural land, they can lend logistical support to the artist, and they occasion the possibility of communication com-munication between the artist and park visitors. The project is funded by the National Endowment Endow-ment for the Arts in cooperation co-operation with the Park Service, and it is the result re-sult of the ideas and efforts ef-forts of Alan Gussow of Congers, New York, who is a painter and author of the book "A Sense of Place." Joe Miller is the artist in residence in Arches National Park. In September, Septem-ber, he will be working at Bryce Canyon, then on to Zion and Grand Canyon, Can-yon, finishing his particular par-ticular project in the Painted Desert in late November. At each park he will work out in the field, often at isolated locations. His response is not representational, but rather uses the random ran-dom systemological aspects as-pects of the land forma- tions as models for the process of his painting. Mr. Miller was born in Salt Lake City in 1939, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from i the University of Utah and earned a masters degree in art from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He and his wife and children pre- sently live here in Moab. , |