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Show SCENE The Park Record. Editor: Scott Iwasaki Arts@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.113 THE 10TH ANNUAL SWEETHEART GALA ‘LAST CALL AT THE OASIS' SPECIAL SCREENING, C-2 GIVING A BLEEP RAISES MORE THAN $10,000, C-4 www.parkrecord.com C-1 WED/THURS/FRI, FEBRUARY 12-14, 2014 ‘ART ELEVATED' exhibit returns to the Visitor Information Center The 10th Annual Sweetheart Gala will be held on Friday, Feb. 14, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, 1505 W. White Pine Canyon Rd., from 6 p.m. until 11 p.m. The big band dinner-dance is sponsored by the Park City High School Music Department and Park City Education Foundation. The event, which will include dinner, a silent auction and opportunity drawings, provides support for the Park City High School/Treasure Mountain Jr. High band program. Tickets are $55 and $65. Michelle Ascherl at 435-602-9547 or pchssweetheartgala@gmail.com, or visit www.pcbands.net/SweetheartGala. VALENTINE'S DAY GUIDED MOONLIGHT SNOWSHOE The Swaner Eco Center, 1258 Center Dr. at Kimball Junction, will offer a Valentine's Day guided moonlight snowshoe hike on the Swaner Preserve on Friday, Feb. 14, at 7 p.m. During the 1½-hour event hikers will look for active nocturnal animals and tracks. Hikers should come prepared with boots, snowpants, layered clothing and a water bottle. The hike is free for members and $10 for nonmembers. Snowshoes are available for $2.50 for members and $5 for non members. To RSVP, call 435-649-1767 or email swanerecocenter@usu.edu. CELTIC NIGHTS AT THE ECCLES CENTER ON FEB. 15 Six of Ireland's most accomplished dancers join forces with six of the Emerald Isle's finest voices in a gloriously entertaining and genuine Celtic show called Celtic Nights, which will be at the Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd., on Saturday, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets range from $20 to $69 and are available by visiting www. ecclescenter.org. PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS Linda McCausland's oil work, "Along the Trail," left, and Barbara McCullough's "Thinking of Uganda," right, will be two of the works on display at the Park City Professional Artist Association's "Art Elevated" exhibit at the Park City Visitor Information Center this weekend. PCPAA is grateful for opportunity to show their works By SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record Last Presidents' Day weekend, the Park City Professional Artist Association hosted its first "Art Elevated" exhibit at the Park City Visitor Information Center. The show was such a success, that the association and Park City Cham- ber of Commerce/Visitors' Bureau decided to host another over Miner's Day weekend in August. The exhibit will come full circle when it returns this weekend at the Visitor Information Center, 1794 Olympic Parkway at Kimball Junction. It will open with an artist reception on Friday, Feb. 14, from 3 p.m. until 6 p.m.and continue through Feb. 17. The exhibit's coordinators, painter Robin Cornwell and photographer Dick Pick, both members of the Park City Professional Artist Association, said each show has featured different artists and medium, which gives the public an idea of the spectrum of art- ists in the PCPAA. "With every show, we've been able to show different mediums, which is kind of nice, even when it comes to the paintings," Cornwell said. "We get encaustic painters, watercolorists and oil painters. And all of them in their own mediums have different techniques." This weekend, the show will feature 14 artists, Pick said. The artists will include sculptor Judy Summer, textilist Kathy Cartier, jewelers Melissa Skarsten and Alix Railton, photographer Pick, and painters, Cornwell, Linda McCausland, Mary Perry, Renee Mox-Hall, Tamara Lindsay, Jan Perkins, Barbara Mc- Cullough, Jeanne Hansen and Sharon Sams. "We have between 70 to 80 artists in the Park City Professional Artist Association," Pick said. "Several artists, who have their own galleries or are represented by other galleries around the country, haven't been part of our show before, so it's nice to get new variety of work and styles." Cornwell and Pick sent out a call for artist entries to the PCPAA for the show. "It's not a juried show, but we have a limited amount of space," Cornwell explained. "So we set a deadline for Please see Art, C-5 |