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Show 4 fc m mi t " ' v jjj :5;;.- .' O zL J . .. f ..... . . . J - d . . j Probably the most popular booth at the Southern Utah Fine Arts Festival was the face painting booth. Above, Joyce Flanigan adds the finishing (ouches to a design for Mike Bleak. A member of the Children's Theater Workshop from Salt Lake City takes a performance out among the audience during its production of "Caretakers of Wonder." The play was part of the Southern Utah Fine Arts Festival last week. So, Utah Fine Arts Festival deemed very successful Balloons and creative clay were the favorite activities ac-tivities for Caleb Williams of Enoch. Children were allowed to fashion anything they wished from the clay. CEDAR CITY Face painting; maypole dancing; dancing; drama; and art in clay, wood and balloons. Arias from the Utah Opera Company, country fiddlers fid-dlers and doggers. They were all part of the Southern Utah Fine Arts Festival which wound to a close last week. And the festival is being called an overwhelming over-whelming success by those involved. "We had double the number of people than we expected, said Claire Rigby, a member of the Cedar City Fine Arts Council, which put on the three days of activity at Southern Utah State College. She also noted that hundreds of people contributed their time and talents in the many booths at the festival. "Every bit of it was volunteer," she said. "It was a community effort that I just can't believe happened." In addition, the people from the Utah Arts Council, which provided half of the $3,000 were very impressed with the festival, said Rigby, and she hopes that they will make even more money available lor next year. "They were very pleased and happy with what we were doing." The festival, said Kathy Mclntyre, chairman, is the first for Cedar City, but it will be an annual event. Festivities were underway un-derway at 11 a.m. each morning and went until around 5 p.m. With the exception of food and art-cralt art-cralt booths, everything was tree, including a delightful Children's Yard. The children's yard included a hat factory, wood creations and hand painting on a huge communtiy canvas. Up, Up and Away was another activity where children drew pictures or composed poems then sent carbon copies of them into the sky in helium-filled balloons. Also, the Utah Opera Company, Salt Lake Children's Theatre, the Country Fiddlers, the Sundance Kids and Cloggers and Dr. Warren Burton, among many others, appeared on the stages of the festival. It was, in the words of one person in attendance, an activity for the delight of children of all ages. Rock painting, as evidenced by these samples above, was a popular activity ac-tivity at the Southern Utah Fine Arts Festival last week. The festival will now be an annual event. |
