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Show 8 SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, June 2, 2005 Special Art City Days concert Wednesday at museum On Tuesday, May 22, Mrs. Hadlock's third grade class at Art City Elementary made solar ovens with pizza boxes, aluminum foil and cling wrap. They are learning about the sun. Making nachos was a fun and enjoyable enjoy-able way to learn about the sun's energy. Written by Sadie Conover, third grader at Art City Elementary. As part of the Art City Days festivities, a special concert will be held at the Springville Museum of Art on Wednesday, Wednes-day, June 9, at 7 p.m. featuring featur-ing acoustic performances by Shane Jackman, Thorn Sequoia Se-quoia and Andy Shelton. Admission Ad-mission is $7. Come and enjoy great music mu-sic by three nationally and regionally acclaimed music artists, as well as several visual vi-sual artists Greg Newbold, Kindra Hancock and Ron Brown, who will be displaying display-ing their works in conjunction conjunc-tion with the concert. Start the summer with Community and Family Night The June Community and Family Night will be held on Monday, June 6, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Springville Museum Muse-um of Art. Held on the first Monday of every month, Community and Family Night has become be-come a tradition that engages en-gages children and community commu-nity members in art and entertainment. en-tertainment. This event is free to the public. Come and enjoy a presentation presen-tation by guest artist, Mary Reeder. Following Reeder's presentation, there will be musical entertainment by members of the museums art royalty. The art royalty will entertain enter-tain with vocal, dance and instrumental in-strumental numbers. Directly after the guest artist and the entertainment, there will be a children's art project, which will consist of a hands-on color activity. Reeder is proficient in acrylic, watercolor, oil, ink, pastel and pencil mediums and creates landscapes, seascapes, portraits and still life using realism and impressionistic impres-sionistic techniques in a wide variety of subject matter. Mary was born in Chicago, 111., in 1954 and comes from a family of artists and musicians. musi-cians. She sold her first oil painting paint-ing at the age of seven. Moving to California, she continued private art classes until 1962 and was self- taught until 1970. During the summer of 1972, she worked in the workshop of Academy Award-winning costume designer de-signer Tony Duquette on a project for director Vincent Minelli. Mary taught private art classes and painted in primarily pri-marily acrylic from 1972 to 1983 as a commissioned artist with pieces in private collections in Los Angeles, Houston and the Salt Lake City area. She studied art history and teacher development from Dr. Don Foster, who was principal of Woodlake Ave. Elementary School, in 1985-86. 1985-86. At Dr. Foster's request, she taught art at the school for two years and developed an art library for the school. She is self-taught since 1986. From 1983 to 1985, she taught basic art skills to mentally men-tally challenged as well as violent vi-olent criminal youths at the California State Mental Hospital Hos-pital in Camarillo, Calif., with a service group called The Tuesday School. Reeder donated her time teaching art in public schools during the years of 1983 to 1993, working with students who were labeled as difficult to teach. She assisted with arts in the community by designing de-signing and painting play production sets as well as designing de-signing costumes. The Reeder family moved to Utah in the fall of 1995. Since then, Mary has been teaching multimedia studio art classes in her private studio stu-dio in Springville on a much larger scale, teaching as many as 100 students per week. As an intern mentor from 1997 to the present, Mary serves as the enrichment teacher for the local high school advanced placement art students, working with Alan Lewis and the Work-Based Work-Based Learning teachers, inspiring in-spiring young students to produce work advanced enough for the Utah All-State All-State High School Art Show at the Springville Museum of Art. She donates countless hours, through an internship program she sponsors, to help interns develop their Kortfolios for college and has elped the local schools with art projects, lectures and implementation im-plementation of art programs. pro-grams. Because the student demand de-mand was so great, Mary started an accelerated art class in June of 2004, providing provid-ing advanced art training for about 20 students ages 16 to 23. From three to nine hours per week, these students use a large variety of mediums and are taught in various disciplines dis-ciplines while focusing on core art instruction to pre pare them for college art programs pro-grams and professional art opportunities. Come Monday, June 6, and visit Utah's oldest museum for visual arts. Enjoy spending spend-ing time with your family at Community and Family Night's educational and fun atmosphere. Join your friends and neighbors at the visually stunning Springville Museum of Art. For more information, call the museum at (801) 489-2727, 489-2727, or visit the web site at www.sma.nebo.com Jackman's newest album release "Sanctuary," is in the final production stages, and soon to be released. With eloquent elo-quent grace and masterful finesse, fi-nesse, the songs will push you and pull you into places that you may have never visited vis-ited before, but when the journey's taken, you'll shout hallelujah for Shane's unique talent to touch the human heart in both word and song. With half a million miles and over a thousand concerts con-certs in the rearview mirror, Jackman is the consummate performer. Surpassing 150 concerts a year in the college theaters, festivals and grass roots halls, he has amassed a substantial national following. follow-ing. He has shared the stage with some of the worlds most celebrated artists. ' With an enticing brand of acoustic driven contemporary contempo-rary folk, Thorn Sequoia draws from a unique blend of styles and influences as diverse di-verse as folk, americana, country, new age, jazz, euro-folk, euro-folk, world, blues, pop and southern rock. From multiple open tunings, capo mischief and harmonic slappings,' to soaring melodies, driving chords and delicate finger styles, Sequoia's highly praised instrumental skill serves up a panoramic back drop to Thorn's . lyrical prowess, and silky tenor vch cal renderings. Thom has toured the Western West-ern US as an Indie Music Artist, playing in acoustic venues, cafe's, resorts, festivals festi-vals and house concerts as diverse as Sundance Resort the Freight & Salvage, Deer Valley Resort, Tim's Cabin-Orcas Cabin-Orcas Island, Portland Sheraton, Shera-ton, Monterey Fisherman's Wharf, California Arts Pro-; ject Seminar, Pier 39, and many places in between. ; He is currently working on releasing a CD in 2005, and is hosting a new television televi-sion music interview show; that will air on Channel 20, as; part of the new UVTV pro- gramming starting in July. ! "What a set of pipes you! have, smokey, velvety and; reminiscent of Jazz greats; like Al Jarreu and Bobby Short, not bad company to! be keeping especially for the) age of 26. Your songs are ap- pealing with sophisticatect melody lines that blend Jazzj and Pop with an even hand Great imagery in the lyrics t Your percussive jazzfolk! guitar style is terrific and SQ engaging. As always a plea sure to listen to your music, said Bart Fubbles, professors of sounds, of Andy Sheltorf who will also perform. The P.T.A. at Art City hosted another spectacular field day for the students. With the sun shinning they had fun with relay races, tag games and of course, the favorite, dunking the fifth grade in the dunk tank. ''til h UV A ih'i ..( Ul ; 'MJJ n r . 1 Corimiiruty nntnir niiinii CREDIT UNION nn I .1 ii U Lj.JULI fw jpwt jmw rj p! t Vt h r ii; it u ) '1 . IV : t j 1 7 it, The Car Source has got to blow out 100 units and the UCCU is blowing away high interest! 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