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Show SCENE The Park Record. PurIM CElEBraTES THE COuraGE OF ESTHEr, C-3 www.parkrecord.com NaSHVIllE DuO WIll PlaY aT SIlVEr STar, C-4 C-1 SAT/SUN/MON/TUES, FEBRUARY 23-26, 2013 Editor: Scott Iwasaki Arts@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.113 aPPlICaTIONS FOr THE KIMBall arTS FESTIVal artist deadlines for the 44th annual Park city Kimball arts festival that will be held aug. 2 through aug. 4, is friday, march 1. artists from every discipline are encouraged to apply by visiting www.zapplication.org. a $40 application fee is required. each year, 220 jury-selected artist in 12 media categories are accepted into the arts festival. the festival has attracted more than 55,000 attendees and is still growing. for more information, visit www.kimballartcenter.org. NEW HOurS FOr THE FOOD PaNTrY the christian center of Park city has changed its food pantry hours to 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. mondays through saturdays. the pantry welcomes any food donations dropped off between those times. for more information, visit www.ccofpc.org. aDaM THOMaS rEES aT TErzIaN GallErIES terzian galleries, 309 main st., will host sculptor adam thomas rees as he give a demonstration on saturday, feb. 23, from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. rees creates sculptures based on an ancient roman technique used in glass blowing called millefiori. the bodies of the animals are modeled after their true forms but the skins are a collage of images that capture the animals character, strength and power. for more information, visit www. terziangalleries.com. WEAVING A REVOLUTION ONE COMMUNITY AT A TIME Natural History Museum brings Navajo basket exhibit to Park City ParK CITY FITCaMP SNOWSHOE HIKE Park city nutrition center will host a fitcamp snowshoe hike on sunday, feb. 24, beginning at 2:15 p.m. the group will meet at Park city nutrition center, 1787 sidewinder dr. third floor, and then head out to lost Prospector for a the hike. a happy hour will follow the hike from 4:15 p.m. until 5 p.m. for more information, visit http://www.facebook.com/ pages/Pcnc-Park-citys-nutritionalcenter/148462508602743 PaINT MIXEr TO HOST FISHEr HOuSE FuNDraISEr the Paint mixer, 738 main st., will host the "Paint the town red, White & blue" fundraiser for the fisher house in salt lake city on tuesday, feb. 26, from 5:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. the fisher house is a complimentary temporary housing facility for families of military personnel being treated at the va medical center. the event is open to the public and admission is $45. the cost will cover materials, instruction, refreshments and donations to the fisher house. there will also be door prizes handed out. for more information or to register, call (435) 6040820 or visit www.thepaintmixer.com. By SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record Woven baskets are an important tradition for the Navajo nation. These shallow sumac bowls are used for weddings, but are also used in other ceremonies throughout an individual's lifetime, said Becky Menlove, director of exhibits and public programs at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Earlier this month, the museum opened a 7,000 square-foot interactive Navajo basket exhibit called "Weaving a Revolution," which is comprised of nearly 250 baskets. To celebrate the museum has taken a few of these baskets and put them in a new "Weaving a Revolution" Traveling Treasures exhibit that will make stops at different communities throughout Utah. It opened at the Zion's Bank at Newpark on Wednesday and will be on display until the middle of March, Menlove said. "Because Zion's Bank is sponsoring the larger exhibit in Salt Lake and sponsors our Traveling Treasures program, we thought it would be great to open a display in the Park City Zion's Bank," Menlove explained. "It's a beautiful presentation of these baskets that we have acquired in our collection and it introduces the big exhibit in the museum that will be on display through April 28." The basket weavers and their methods There is a group of Navajo weavers who live on the Utah strip of the Navajo reservation near Monument Valley. "The group has been making baskets for generations, and over the past 30 or so years, several of them started to move away from the traditional basket design and began pushing the boundaries of what the baskets could look like and make new designs," Menlove said. "They started making larger and smaller baskets and added different elements in the designs. "They got bold and began weaving in images of holy figures that are found in sand paintings," she said. "They also started weave in scenes that depicted legends and other traditional stories." At the same time, some weavers created new geometric patterns and color studies. "These designs are just beautiful," Menlove said. "So, out of the traditional art has emerged a contemporary art form, which is a revolution in design." Although the look is different, the materials and methods of creating the baskets have remained the same for toP Photo by tyler cobb/Park record. inset Photo by Kristin roPer, courtesy of the natural history museum of utah Top: Woven Navajo baskets are on display in the lobby of Newpark Branch of zion's Bank. The exhibit is culled from a larger collection that was acquired by the Natural History Museum of utah. This sampling exhibit is part of the "Weaving a revolution" Traveling Treasures show that will make appearances in small communities throughout utah. It will be in Park City until the middle of March. Inset: The Navajo baskets are made from dyed sumac laces. The weavers gather sumac sticks from dry riverbeds and shave them down to workable strands. hundreds of years. "The baskets are still made from sumac, which is a bush that grows in dry riverbeds," Menlove said. "It's a strong-smelling plant and some people call it Lemonade Berry." Weavers cut the branches close to the ground in order to cultivate long shoots. "They use a coiling technique where the basket is stitched from the center outward," Menlove said. "The inside of the coils is made from sumac sticks and each of the stitches are made by splitting the sumac into three pieces and shaving them down to a nice even size. These strands are moistened so Please see Baskets, C-5 |