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Show zAJJGUST7&8 3 ;H hi . '; r'- mil i p8' ,,,,, ;i :v A-ti AJh photo by Nan Chalat The year's best weekend 'special5 '''iif'y, relate to the feeling ItWwi It's like coming r WW'VJv. over tne summit or wM?arley'sCanyn iust as vour favoi f tune is winding up on the radio, and there are giant clouds loafing around all the peaks and a hawk is diving into the aspens. It's just one of those moments when you don't feel like a regular person. You feel special. That really is what the Park City Art Festival is all about. With 235 artists, 28 performances, mountains, sunshine, food and everyone you have and haven't seen for the last 10 years, there are bound to be some of those moments. As you stand back to admire an etching that sort of spoke to you just as a few big band chords roll down from the Treasure Mountain stage and blended with the barest whiff of shish kebab, you might catch yourself nodding to the crowd in general and saying, "Well, alright!" Feeling quite pleased with life in general, you mosey through a sea of elbows until you happen to see a semi-familiar semi-familiar face who happens to be the older sister of a friend you haven't seen for ages who she says was here just a minute ago but went down the street a little way. Now you have a mission which will take the better part of the rest of the day, during which you will fall in love with at least one exotic lamp, two vases and a watercolor, after which you will need something to drink, during which you will stop to listen to some more music, inadvertently forgetting forget-ting who you were looking for and simultaneously losing the person you came with, thereby deciding to go have another look at that etching where you find your long lost buddy standing next to your mate, who is saying "Look who I ran into." The Festival is like that. More than a marketing or media event, the Park City Art Festival is meant to nourish that part of the spirit which is usually neglected in everybody's day-to-day routine. It is meant to stir the imagination, to indulge in esthetics, to remind people how creative they can be. It is a chance to wear something risque (or to giggle at those who do), to dance in the street, to eat something you've never dared to order or-der in a restaurant. For two days, everybody feels like an artist. For Park City locals it is a special treat. In light of the fact that the Art Festival falls six months after some of the heaviest snow storms in recent history, it can be considered the social equinox of the other end of the spectrum. During the height of the ski season, Parkites work overtime, they keep their noses to their jobs and their shoulders to their snowplows. But during the summer, it's another story. Parkites let their hair down at the Art Festival and celebrate along with the 100,000 out-of-towners who arrive each day. It is hard to believe that 13 years ago Jim Patterson, one of the co-conspirators of the first festival, parked his old van at Kimball Junction and painted "Park City Art Festival" on the side because he was afraid no one knew where to turn Sean Toomey The Art Festival sheriff JLhe . HE HEA D HONCHO Master of Ceremonies Music Coordinator Coordi-nator and Chief Flak Catcher of this year's Art Festival is Sean Toomey. Sean is a New Jersey native, a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute and an experienced concert promoter. His company, Creative Concerts, brought several nationally known performing artists to Park West last summer. His varied talents will all come into play as he presides over the largest Park Citv Art Festival ever nlanned. pfS j i Child care services G ' HILD CARE SERVICES will be offered by the Park City Community Church during the 1982 Park City Art Festival August 7 and 8. The Community Church can accommodate accom-modate children from infancy to six years old. The children will be cared for by adult supervisors and teenage helpers. A doctor will also be on staff. Older children will be entertained with crafts, music, stories and outdoor activity in a fenced and grassy play area. A healthy snack will also be provided. Infants will be cared for in cribs, playpens, or on carpeted flooring with supervised play appropriate to their age. The care center will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Charges for the child care service will be $2.50 per hour with a recommended two hour limit. The Community Church is located at 402 Park Avenue, one block west of Main Street on Fourth Avenue. The Church has just opened the Early Discovery Preschool and is well equipped to offer excellent child care. ft' ; j, 71 V T' W . :. V -3 t t v: . y s 0 U b MI ' ----- n .. 1 -J off for Park City. He was not even sure whether any or all of the artists would show up. But they all did, and right from the start it was destined to be a success. Still, said Jim, it was a long time before anyone thought about it as a way for the organizers to make money. It was just an excuse to bring people into town during the summer, to give local artists a chance to show their work and for everyone to have a good time. That it still is, and more. No one worries about whether anyone will show up. They worry more about too many, about traffic congestion, about how to feed and keep a hundred thousand guests happy. They worry about the caliber of the artwork, about childcare and parking. But not about whether people can find Park City. A few things, however, have not changed. Everyone still wonders whether it will rain. (It usually does, but just for a few minutes.) And everyone still wanders around to find their own special moment at the Park City Art Festival. -NC The Staff The Souvenir Edition for the 13th Park City Art Festival was produced by the staff of The Newspaper. Published by Ink, Inc. Publisher Jan Wilking Editor Nan Chalat Design Becky Widenhouse Advertising Sales Jan Wilking Bill Dickson Don Hart Business Manager Rick Lanman Graphics Liz Heimos Reporters Rick Brough Nan Chalat David Hampshire Rick Lanman Jay Meehan Tina Moench Morgan Queal Photography Nan Chalat Morgan Queal Typesetting Sharon Pain Production Marion Cooney Bill Dickson Mike Spaulding uafcnitiMMtalKk |