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Show SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, May 19, 2005 Report on Art Museum given at Annual Meeting 18 Dave Cook, president of the Board of Trustees at the Springvffle Museum of Art, gave a report on the condition of the museum and the activities activi-ties of the past year at last week's Annual Meeting of the Art Association members. Cook also announced the results re-sults of the voting for four positions po-sitions on the Art Board. Candy Can-dy Bown and Kimball Warren will serve on the board for one-year one-year terms, and Debbie Balzot-ti Balzot-ti and Michael Baer will serve for three-year terms. "We have another successful success-ful and busy year," said Cook. "We hired Virgil Jacobsen to be over education replacing Sharon Gray who is now teaching at BYU." Virgil has taken right over and is very involved in-volved in the educational programs.'' pro-grams.'' Cook said that plans are to start the Sculpture Garden on the south of the museum building build-ing soon. "We are excited to start construction. The garden will continue in the Spanish-Moroccan Spanish-Moroccan style and will also include a children's Secret Garden," Gar-den," he said. The centerpiece of the Sculpture Sculp-ture Garden will be Cyrus Dallin's large sculpture "Spirit of Life" that depicts a woman holding a baby high above her head. V fa. ' t A VA 1 i V, k ' V- Vi 4 v , I I It -I -V J 1 I V - ft -Wife., f "Afternoon Shower" by Bruce Brainard, was donated to the Springville Museum of Art and unveiled last week at the Annual Meeting Meet-ing by Katie Wells, right, and Nikki Payne, left, members of the Art Royalty. i V ' I wf:r I Louise Clyde, right donated this landscape painting, "Deep Lake," by Mapleton artist Kimball Warren to the Springville Museum of Art. It was unveiled at the Annual Meeting of the Art Association last week by 2005 Art Queen Allison Morris, on left by Clyde, and Heather Barton, Bar-ton, Art Royalty. Clyde and her family have donated many works of art to the museum. Cook also reported on the success of the Art Ball with over 635 attending, a record crowd; the very popular All-Utah All-Utah High School Art Exhibit, and the Spring Salon which had 987 entries with 267 accepted. ac-cepted. "The value of the pieces collected, col-lected, donated or purchased during the past year is $737,000 with the average piece being worth $9,000," Cook said. Several of the art works acquired are very popular popu-lar with the citizens especially "Moon Pool," the water driven assemblage piece by Andrew Smith that is in the museum atrium Three conservative paintings paint-ings that were recently donated donat-ed to the museum were unveiled un-veiled by the 2005 Art Royalty. "Deep Lake," a landscape of the Windriver range of mountains, moun-tains, painted last year by Mapleton artist Kimball Warren, War-ren, was donated by Louise Clyde of Springville. Clyde's husband, Blaine, started donating donat-ing art several years ago, and Louise has continued in that tradition every year since his passing. Also unveiled were "Backstage," "Back-stage," by Salt Lake artist Amy Davis, who also won a Merit Award for the piece; and "Afternoon Shower," a tonalist painting by Bruce Brainard. Natalie Petersen, associate director of the museum, talked at the meeting. "The mission of the Art Museum includes the vision of artist John Haf en, 'to refine the minds of youth and build character in everyone,'" said Petersen. She read some history of the museum and talked about the contribution of individuals such as John Haf en and Cyrus Dallin and others who were prime movers in starting the art collection in 1903. "In 1907, a number of other Utah artists donated their works, and in 1921, the Annual Spring Art Exhibit was started," she said. In 1935 the community raised $100,000 towards a museum mu-seum building, and in 1937 the present Art Museum was finished. fin-ished. In 1964 another wing was added to the west, and in 1965 the high school that was on the east side of the museum property, was moved to its present location. In 2004, a large addition to the south was Si. I I ji J Y Protect our water resources for our children. A reminder from Central Utah Water Conservancey District Your partner in wise water use 4 l4 completed. "The Springville Museum of Art strives to be a community gathering place. During the past year we have used almost 500 volunteers in various capacities ca-pacities including docents, specialists, spe-cialists, interns, desk volunteers, volun-teers, reserve specialists, Board of Trustees, Jr. Art guild, Art Royalty and the Hafen-Dallin Guild members." said Petersen. "We served 80,000 people on site last year and 25,000 off site with the education programs in the schools, such as Art Talks, and the Evenings For Educators that were held eight times during the year," she said. "We had over 11,000 volunteer volun-teer hours last year. We rely on volunteers to keep us going," go-ing," Petersen said. Petersen also indicated that the Springville museum is the key promoter and contributor to Utah Art in the state. Petersen read a letter written writ-ten by a patron to the museum which said: "I do not have the right words to describe the Springville Museum of Art. I have been to many museums around the world. Many are not comfortable. At the Springville Museum of Art I get an immediate feeling of comfort and ease. You have a feeling good place on your hands." "Vern (Swanson, museum director) has done an amazing job of creating that feeling of welcome and getting people involved," in-volved," said Petersea i.1 f V ' if i $ . f k . s 1 i : I f f I - 's ' i IS ' H J ' V V,,' M 4, V I.""? f ? Ill t I 4 k 1 ? Very Swanson, left, director of the Springville Museum of Art, is shown here with Eliza Young, left, and Natalie Miner, right, members of the Art Royalty who unveiled this painting last week. Titled, "Backstage," "Back-stage," it features three ballerinas and was done by Amy Davis who won a Merit Award for it. It was donated to the museum. Baby contest kicks off Art City Days The Art City Days Baby Contest Commi-tee Commi-tee has been meeting and planning for this years event. This year the contest will be held on June 4th at the Art City Elementary Elemen-tary located at 121 N. 900 East. We are very excited for this year's event and hope everyone else is too. The theme this year is "Memories in the Making". In keeping with the last few years they have decided to continue with the babies being judged in a white onesie or a white T-shirt only. The babies are welcome to wear hats, bows, headbands and shoes. Shorts, jeans or jumpers will be prohibited. They have had a very positive reaction to this and feel it shows off the true individuality of each baby. The contest will be open to Springville and Mapleton residents only. The age cutoff cut-off will be 24 months by June 4th. It is best if you can pre-register. You can do that by cutting out the form in the Springville Herald Her-ald and taking it down to the Springville City offices. You can also get forms at the Springville or Mapleton city offices or on the Springville website at www.Springvil-lecity.org. www.Springvil-lecity.org. You , need to turn in all registration forms at Springville City and pay the fee of $10 by the deadline of Friday, May 27. If you cannot pre-register then you may register the day of the contest at Art City Elementary before your babies judging time with a fee of $12. Remember to register regis-ter soon, there is only a couple of weeks left until the big event. This event will be one of the first events in Art City Days Celebration. The contest will help kick off all the fun Art City Days brings. Please come and support our city. It is always so much fun to interact inter-act with your babies, so come on out and make some memories and have some fun. If anyone has any questions or is interested inter-ested in volunteering the day of the event please feel free to call Laycie Call, 489-5189. 489-5189. Thank you for all of your support in making this event such a great success. 2 jtefiyjWafi intitftiWW rtll'i'lil ftttiiW : jffitlMt .,,14)1 iifewiiiftiffrrti l(nWU Sw $0 1 -T, i -i a i wo- 40 r West 200 Soutli r - r - r , r, n - 3 FREE FLORAL ! DELIVERY J From Orem to Payson! 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