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Show Fine Arts Festival A Community Project By RALPH HUNTSMAN Chairman Fine Arts Festival Several years ago a very worthwhile program was started at the Dixie junior college. Later, an effort was made to make the project a community program. But only a few people and organizations grasp the best opportunity that has come to Dixie really to make this city and school noted and an art center and really place Dixie on the map. This program is far reaching in its advertising. It it well known in the large art centers of California, Idaho, Arizona, Nevada Ne-vada and considered one of the outstanding programs of our own state. Visitors from up state, in programs of the past, praise the program very highly arid state that it is the only project proj-ect of its kind in the state and equal to any in Utah as to standards. Yet our people will not, or have not, given the support the program must have to continue. Our Fine Arts Festival is filling the call of President Roosevelt and others concerned for National Art Week. The slogan is, "American Art for Every American Home". In our Dixie exhibit we have around 150 paintings priced just to fit every Utah home budget. Many of our Dixie homes do not have paintings or wall decorations equal in standard and quality to other furnishings of the home. There is a tremendous difference in having an original or-iginal work of art and having a print copy. It's like having hav-ing a photograph of your mother instead of the real mother in person. Our people should think of the value both in material and in a cultural way, which an original work of art brings to the life of a family. If our program is to become permanent and grow, as Dixie ought to grow, we must purchase paintings and fill the need of so many homes of our community. Pictures make the best kind of Christmas presents. They can be enjoyed all through the year. The cost is small when spread out over the years they serve us. So why not advertise Dixie on a high standard in a powerful way, throughout Dixie Fine Arts Festival program ? December 4, 5 and 6. |