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Show Braithwaite Gallery Woodcut art to be shown CEDAR CITY The senior portfolio of woodcut print specialist Stephen Roth opens today at the Southern Utah State College Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery. Roth's student exhibition is being shown concurrently with the works of the Los Angeles artist Joseph Mugnaini. A public reception to mark the dual opening will be conducted at the gallery from 7 to 9 p.m., with a lecture and art demonstration by Mugnaini at 8 p.m. Many woodcut prints will be shown in Roth's 20-piece portfolio. Most of them depict southern Utah scenery, including one of the Great White Throne in Zion National Park which has been purchased by TWA for sale in its lodges. The artist plans a series of nine prints, three each from Zion, Bryce and Grand Canyon national parks. Roth, SUSC's Outstanding Out-standing Art Student in 1382, will graduate this quarter with a B.A. in art. He is building a home in Springdale where he plans to pursue a career as an artist and cabinet maker. A sample of his . woodworking skills a maple blanket chest is included in his senior portfolio. "Successful art is successful communication," com-munication," he says. "If there is no feeling, there is no art." Roth is originally from Marysvale, a graduate of Piute High School. He has spent a considerable amount of time in the national parks. "I have a deep appreciation for the western landscape," he says, "which I am constantly con-stantly striving to communicate through my art." The SUSC student has worked as an assistant at the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery for three years. He has additional experience ex-perience as a gallery assistant at the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite National Park. Roth has received two scholarships while at SUSC, the Bastow Distinguished Service Scholarship in 1981 and the Broadbent Scholarship in 1982. He has exhibited works in several shows including in-cluding 1981 and 1982 University of Utah Intercollegiate In-tercollegiate Exhibitions; the Virgin Valley Art Exhibition in Mesquite, Nev. ; and in several SUSC art student exhibitions at the Braithwaite Braith-waite Gallery. His woodcut "Power Plant, Cedar Canyon" received an honorable mention, print making-photography making-photography category, in the 1982 U of U exhibition. Roth is the son of Arthur Ar-thur and Kathryn Roth, Marysville. He is married to Rosalind Clark and they are the parents of two children. |