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Show I - ? i .r ;:( V . . ; - ; j iy . x . ? . r i M t-. v f : ' ) r. v- U. : , : 3 f ' ' I - 1 3 ? -a i i . ! - I I ..: . ' ' . J i v ' . ; ' . - WOOD LAMPS MADE by George Johnstun are examined by participants in the Youth Craft and Youth Festival labeled 3 success Community participation in the Uintah School District's Week of the Festival of the Arts for the Young was the greatest ever this year, according to Ted Taylor and Rhoda DeVed, co-chairmen co-chairmen of the week's activities. The Vernal Junior High School Auditorium was filled to capacity both Monday for the Dance Festival and Wednesday for the Music Festival with audiences that were very responsive to the students' presentations. The Friday and Saturday Festival of Fine Arts and Crafts was enjoyed by hundreds who came to see the displays provided by adults in the community and the exhibits from each school. The Little Gallery of Arts was in charge of the adult art exhibit and this year's was especially fine with many different artists exhibiting their works. The Uintah's Potter's Guild had a display of pottery made by Guild members and also provided the experience ex-perience of watching pottery being made as Pat Brown, Liz Enyeart, and Ralph Heft demonstrated on the potter's pot-ter's wheel. Erland Preece was chairman of the fine exhibit of photographic art with many amateur and professional photographers from the community represented. Other exhibits and demonstrations by m e m bers , 6 f- th cbnimte: fjiftfilu'ffed ' ? afghans by Mr. and Mrs. Martin Curtis; bronze and silver sculpture and dried flowers by Helen Bennett; ceramics by Katherine Gotfredson; making chocolates and tole painting by Kaye Brady; decorative painting by Maureen Spencer; egg shell carving by Dr. Lewis Jensen; gift ideas by Ethel Bowden and Pearl Shaffer; jewelry of horn by George Swett; lapidary and silver and turquoise jewelry by Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Zufelt; leather tooling by Tiny M. viark; needlecraft by Amy Arts Festival. The festival was well attended by many Basin residents. Lube; netting and needlepoint by Edna Raines and Florence Williams; quilt making by the Vernal Utah Stake Relief Society, Erva Bowden, president; rug making by Alta Rust; tatting by Dorothy Allen; tatting and crochet by Eva Hatch; woods display by George Johnstun; yarn dolls and crocheted flowers by Lonnie Hadlock. David Ahrnsbrak and Roy Freestone gave painting demonstrations. Fun for children with arts and crafts was a new event this year. On Saturday many children came to join the fun and enjoy the collage, dress-up, face painting, finger painting, music, potter's pot-ter's wheel, printing press, sculpture, and vegetable prints. The finger painting and vegetable prints were supervised by Debbi Slagel of the Uintah Learning Center staff; music was under the direction of Cindy Faust, band instructor at the Vernal' Junior High; the potter's wheel, sculpture, and printing press were supervised by John Davisson, art instructor in-structor at Uintah High, and Kirbin Bullock, a Uintah High School student potter, assisted the children in working on the wheel. Ted Taylor and Lawrence DeVed manned the helium tank as several hundred Festival of the Arts balloons were distributed. Downtown merchants welcomed art r exhibits from the schools in their show 'windows which gave a festive air to the business district. Advertising posters also called attention to the week's events, and the cooperation of the business community was also much appreciated, Mrs. DeVed stated. The week of the Festival of the Arts for the Young is sponsored annually by the Uintah School District. The goal of the festival is to bring the community and the schools closer through the sharing and mutual enjoyment of the fine arts and the performing arts. During the Middle Ages a person's social class could be seen by whether he sat above or below the salt at a table. I - - , :.!.ry -la I , if r;f ( ; --iTff: . Si i - . ---v " 7 )---- v .4 ( I k ' s - - - ' 1 I p ' . . : V ; J r i -.V v A ' V, CRAFTS, PAINTING AND HOBBIES were displayed during the Youth Festival in the Vernal Junior High. Both students and local residents participated. u vi ' - , y . - ''I t i V -) y- FACE PAINTER extraordinaire, Rick Allred, delighted dozens of youngsters who came to have him paint their faces during the youth festival. Rick is a member of Uintah High School's drama department. '-'K-rVVr-'. ' 1 1 I (- 1 - Meg Hatch and Colleen Martin, president and secretary of the Little Gallery of Arts, were in charge of the "dress-up" and Mrs. Hatch, in the clown costume, led the parade of children in fancy-dress fancy-dress as they played follow the leader. |