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Show SPRINGVILLE HERALD, Section 2 Ihursday, June?, 2005 Mary Reeder chosen as 2005 Art City Days Resident Artist Springville resident Mary Reeder has been chosen to be honored as Springville's Resident Res-ident Artist during the 2005 Art City Days celebration. 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 spent her early childhood in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. At the age of 6, she began taking art classes in a New York art studio above a gallery owned by her teacher. Her experience experi-ence there convinced her that art was her life. Painting and drawing realism came naturally to her and she sold her first oil painting at age of 7. Moving to California, she continued private art classes until 1962 and was self-taught self-taught until 1970. Majoring in art at El Camino Real High School, she was instructed by teachers from France and Italy, being one of 12 in an experimental multimedia studio stu-dio art program. During this time, she was asked by the high school to teach art to an 86-year-old man who had been a prisoner of war during dur-ing World War II in a German Ger-man concentration camp. He spoke no English, but that did not keep them from communicating com-municating or him' from learning how to oil paint. One of her acrylic paintings paint-ings was on exhibit throughout through-out the Los Angeles City. School District . during her entire school year. She graduated grad-uated from high school in 1972 and was one of the top 10 young artists in Los Angeles Ange-les to receive a summer art scholarship to California State University at North-ridge. North-ridge. During the summer of 1972 she worked in the workshop of Academy Award-winning costume designer Tony Duquette Du-quette on a project for director direc-tor Vincent Minelli. Mary taught private art classes and painted in primarily 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 won first prize in a California community art show (west end Sand Fernando Fer-nando Valley) in 1973. She completed two years at Pierce e College in Los Angeles Ange-les from 1972 to 1974 as well as a stained glass course from Los Angeles Community Communi-ty College in 1980. 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. Mary married Michael G. Reeder in the fall of 1975 and has raised four children. 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 Carmarillo, CA, with a service group called The Tuesday School. Mary 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 de- Army Band concert Saturday at Arts Park before fireworks This year's Art City Days works display, festivities will culminate The 23rd Army Band of with a concert by the 23rd - the Utah Army National Army Band on Saturday, Guard has been playing June 11, at 7 p.m. at the Spring Acres Arts Park, 620 S. 1350 East, Springville. Admission Ad-mission is free. The band has performed as part of several past Art City Days celebrations. Following Fol-lowing the band's performance, perfor-mance, entertainer Marcus Wilson will present a magical magi-cal variety snow for the audience. au-dience. After Wilson's performance, per-formance, the crowd will have perfect seats to view the 2005 Art City Days fire- concerts throughout Utah since the late 1940s. Over the years, the band has played in virtually every county in the state and most of Utah's cities. Thousands of people have attended concerts presented by this organization. The band consists of more than 60 members, all of whom work full-time jobs outside of the band. Several of the members are school teachers, while others work as attorneys, accountants, high school counselors and law enforcement officers. There are even some full-time full-time musicians in the band. The band's main function is to bring goodwill and great music to people throughout the state. All concerts are presented free of charge for those attending. attend-ing. Every year, the band plays a major Veterans' Day concert, complete with an enormous choir made up of area high school students, stu-dents, at the University of Utah Special Events Center. This concert is among the largest Veterans' Day celebrations cele-brations in the nation and is attended by thousands of people. The band also plays a series se-ries of "full house" concerts at the Tabernacle on Temple Tem-ple Square in Salt Lake City every year on the 4th of July. The band has occasionally left the state to perform in other areas of the country and can be seen every four years playing at the inauguration inaugu-ration of the new governor at the Utah State Capitol Building. t5iqwHW'S iwf'i!MMmmmmmmimimiiit nnnm m i mn iwwiMMmiMuroiiMMiTO The popular 23rd Army Band will perform again this year at the final event for Art City Days. They will be at the Arts Park Saturday, June 11, at 7 p.m. performing before the big fireworks show, the concert is free to the public. Bring your lawn chairs and blankets and enjoy an evening at the park. signing and painting play production sets as well as designing de-signing costumes. Commissioned by the Ventura Ven-tura County Council of the Boy Scouts of America, Mary painted a four foot by eight foot painting of the Ea- ;M s zr.J ..... jfi- . rVb' ' . 'svv ;v - :- ". . ; . . .;: gle rank in 1994 which completely com-pletely covered the canvas. This work replaced one that had been destroyed in a fire and had been used as an Eagle Ea-gle Scout Court of Honor backdrop. It is used weekly to this date by the community. communi-ty. 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. From 1998 to 2001, she co-chaired co-chaired an art show for Art City Days, showcasing a variety va-riety of artists using many different mediums. 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 High School Art Show at the Springville Museum of Art. She donates countless hours, through an internship program pro-gram she sponsors, to help interns develop their portfolios portfo-lios for college and has helped the localschools with art projects, lectures and implementation im-plementation of art programs. pro-grams. Months were spent were spent by Mary designing and painting another Eagle Scout Court of Honor backdrop which was made available to the Utah National Parks Council of the Boy Scouts of America. She was a board member of the Incredible Journey Arts Foundation in Springville from 2001 to 2003. She sponsored an apprentice, ap-prentice, Brandon Gonzales, from 2002 to 2004, not only teaching him art techniques but also the business of art. 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 prepare pre-pare them for college art programs pro-grams and professional aft opportunities. The result of six months of work culminated culmi-nated in a three-day art show held in Mary's studio last January that show-cased 160 pieces of student art works. ' ' IK f! 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