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Show Springville, enjoyed a romp Volume One Hundred Two Ground was broken in June during Art City Days, and excavation exca-vation began Monday for the new addition to the Spnngville Museum Muse-um of Art. "The new Centennial Cen-tennial Wing has been a long time in the planning and will be a great asset to the community when it is finished," said museum development director Fritz Boyer. "The Art Museum is a major contributor to the quality of life in Utah's Art City and is also a significant contributor to the economic health of the community," communi-ty," he said. Museum records show that 65 percent of the museum's 140,000 annual visitors are from out of town. "These visitors spend their money in local restaurants, hotels, ho-tels, gas stations and other businesses, busi-nesses, including art related businesses,". said Boyer"-- - Many citizens do not realize that there are several businesses located in Springville that came here simply because the Springville Spring-ville Museum of Art is here. "Springville has the greatest concentration of art-related businesses busi-nesses per-capita in Utah Coun-" ty," said Boyer. These businesses include Kreiger-Ricks Framing, Baer Bronze Foundry, Smith Fine Art Manufacturing and Gary L. Price Art Enterprises. by Katrina I. Gulstad Springville Herald Intern As pan of the Springville Museum of Art's ongoing education educa-tion program, the museum recently recent-ly provided posters to elementary schools across Utah through a $24,450 state grant. " "It's a unique partnership here in Utah that's not happening at the same level in any other state," said Robert Nickelson, assistant curator of education at the museum. And Springville is the hub of making that happen. " Springville Art Museum's education program, the Statewide Art partnership, was developed to Meet the candidates tonight at 8 Citizens of Springville can meet the candidates who are running for the mayor and city council seats tonight, Wednesday, Wednes-day, October 22, at 8 p.m. at the Springville Jr. High School, 165 S. 700 East. The event is being sponsored by the Springville Youth Council. . Become an informed voter and attend this meeting. Hear what the six candidates have to say about important issues facing . Springville. Those attending can take part in a special audience question and answer period. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about those who are seeking to run the city. g&mMmss tip in the leaves they were raking m m "Price is remodeling the old Reynolds Building for an art school and studios because the Art Museum attracts collectors, artists and students. " Boyer said that many citizens of the community do not realize that Springville City owns the museum building and grounds, but the art collection is owned by the Springville Museum of Art Association, those citizens that have paid memberships in the association. Many people think that the city buys the paintings and sculptures sculp-tures in the collection. "They do not," said Boyer. "The art pieces have never been purchased by the city. They are acquired through donation, cash purchase from the program expenses and by trade." Spnngville City funds the -museum building and administra-' tion. In the 1997 FY budget, the city provided $225,300 (58) while the museum program expenses ex-penses met by the museum were $161,400 (42). Income to the museum in FY 97, excluding what the city provides pro-vides and excluding contributions to the Centennial Wing, totaled $178,800. Springville sources gave $8,000 (4); out-of-town sources gave $92,300 (52); and other combined Springville and help improve area art instruction through programs like the state-funded state-funded posters. . The posters. 21 in all, are full-color reproductions of Utah art work. They will be distributed to more than 400 Utah schools. Kindergarten through sixth grade classes will each receive a set of three 18x24-inch posters. The State Office of Education agreed to pay for the posters which will be used with the elementary school art curriculum. Sharon Gray, curator of education educa-tion at the museum, worked with visual arts specialist Tom Wood at the State Office of Education to choose pieces 'that would match the state's outlined curriculum. curricu-lum. The posters feature Utah artists James T. Harwood, Mah- Meet candidates in Mapleton The Mapleton PTA and Mapleton Youth Council are sponsoring a Meet the Candidate Candi-date night Thursday, October 23, at 7 p.m. at the Mapleton School. Citizens are invited to attend and get to know those who are running for mayor and the city council positions. Those running are: Citizens Party-for mayor, Richard C, Young; 4-yr. council, Lyle L? Wasden and Linda C. Olsen; 2 yr. council, Liz Snow and Stuart N. Newton. Progressive Party-for mayor, Blaine D. Hales; 4 yr. council, William Charles "Chuck" Rawlings and Richard L. Hjorth; 2 yr. council, coun-cil, J. Reed Hansen and Brian B. Lambert. Tuesday. SPRINGVILLE, UTAH out-of-town sources gave $78,500 (44). . Breaking the above figures down even further, contributions from Springville residents were $8,000 in FY 97. Contributions from individuals and foundations outside of Springville were $17,-400. $17,-400. The museum rents space for weddings and other events. In FY97 they earned $25,900 from rentals, 16 from Springville and 40 from out-of-town rentals. Memberships in the art association associ-ation totaled $2,100, with 121 members from Springville and 88 members from out-of-town. The museum received $74,800 in FY97 in grants, all from outside out-side sources. Other income included in-cluded donations at the door, interest earned, museum store, entry fees, education packets, etc. ... for $50,600, , most from . outside r sources. "Spnngville City's FY 98 expense budget by department shows 1 devoted to the ARTS, including $271,000 for the Art Museum and $54,000 to the Arts Commission which gives out portions to many arts related groups like theatre etc.," said Boyer. This compares to 4 for Parks and Recreation for FY98. 2 for the Springville Library, Continued on page 8 onri Young, Cyrus E. Dallin, Maynard Dixon and CCA. Christensen. Other artists featured fea-tured include Lee U. Bennion, Gary Ernest Smith. Dennis V. Smith, James C. Christensen and Jeanne Leighton-Lundberg. Pictured on the pack of each poster is the work's title, the artist's biography and the suggested sug-gested classroom activities. The posters are free for those classes involved in the program and can be purchased by the public for $10 each or $210 a set. The Statewide Art partnership which sponsored the posters, is an extensive education program that developed through the vision of a group of art teachers from the Nebo School District. The 1991, the group of art educators followed Nickelson's suggestion to study the education programs at various California museums. After visiting the California museums the group met with both the Nebo School Board and the museum board. That started the collaboration that grew to what is . now the Statewide Art Partnership. Partner-ship. . "It's just snowballed." Nickel-son Nickel-son said. "We now have three . Evenings for Educators at the museum, as well as at BYU, the U of U, SUU, Brigham City and other places." The partnership has expanded from Springville to include nine different outreach sites in Nebo, Provo, Alpine, Salt Lake, Davis and other area communities. So far the two main components compo-nents of the partnership are the educator evening and the restoration restora-tion of Utah public schools' artwork, said Louise Nickelson, museum employee. The educator mm 84663 - October 22, 1997 to Parks & Recreation 4 Shown on the above graph are department in the Springville evening hosts a main speaker, hands-on workshops for teachers and guided tours of the museum. The workshops are meant to educate teachers how to better teach art and how to link art to other subjects, Louise said. The evening is free and open to the public. For $5, participants can buy a folder with slides of artworks, artists' biographies and suggested curriculum. "We hope the evening will help teachers and others to start using art in a broader way and to link it to other disciplines," Louise Lou-ise said. She has edited the packets pack-ets and says the program has gotten better as it goes on. The next educator evening, "Pioneer Images of Utah," is 7 to 9:30 p.m.. October 29. The free event will host guest speaker Dr. Vera Swanson. The next evening for educators, "Tales to Tell" is November 12 at 7 p.m. The other area of concentration concentra-tion for the partnership is the restoration of area schools' collections. col-lections. "Utah public schools have more quality art than any other state," Louise said. The partnership has worked to catalogue cata-logue the works, evaluate their worth, restore and frame them? The museum has yearlong education programs meant to reach students, educators and all members of the community, Louise said. It hosts more than 16,000 elementary, secondary and college students a year and offers tours to Student groups, families, clubs and organizations. It also sponsors an All-state High School competition for aspiring young artists and Portfolio Day for prospective art students to meet college and university art professors Price 500 XMDiMiilfy Golf 2 Library I Solid Waste 3 Water 13 Sewer 10 the expenses by budget. The arts, cemetery and swimming pool City FY 1998 each get only 1 of the total budget. The museum has a webstie at http:www.shs.nebo.edumus-uemmuseum.html http:www.shs.nebo.edumus-uemmuseum.html that is main Jim Glen and Jean Irwin of the Utah Arts Council and Dr. Carol Ann Goodson, Fine Arts Specialist with the Utah State Office of Education, are shown outside the Springville Museum of Art looking over some of the art education posters that are being distributed to all the elementary schools in the state. Prepared through the efforts of the education people at the museum, the project was funded by a grant from the state. Plans are to produce art education posters for jr. high and high school age students in the future. Number Forty-Three Electric 43 tained through the help of SHS students. The site offers background back-ground information on the museum muse-um and a calendar of events. |