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Show A-18 .bducatioa THE PARK RECORD SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1997 EDUCATION EDITOR Christy Call 649-9014 ext 1 18 Briefs 'Visual literacy' classes offered at the Kimball Fall Festivals kick off at schools Several Fall Festivals will be held at local schools in celebration of Halloween. McPolin Elementary will host a variety of activities including a costume contest, game booths, and a cake walk on Saturday, Oct. 25 from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. Parley's Park Elementary is also having its carnival on Saturday from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. Parley's will have a Trick-or-Treat Town, a magician, a spook alley, and a cake walk. Jeremy Ranch will have its Festival on Saturday from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Activities will include games, a cake walk, and bingo. Prizes have also been donated by several local merchants. mer-chants. Tickets for these events are priced at 4 for a $1 .00 and may be obtained at each school office. $1 million grant for Special Education Teachers working with disabled students stu-dents in rural Utah and elsewhere may soon receive training and advice from top experts without leaving their schools. University of Utah Professor Richard Kiefer-O'Donnell has received a $1 million mil-lion grant from the U.S. Department of Education to set up a comprehensive teacher training course in severe disabilities. dis-abilities. Teachers may enroll in the program through the University of Utah, Southern Utah University, or the Unitah or San JUan school districts. For further information contact Dr. Richard Kiefer-O'Donnell at 581-3080. Experts to teach courses in art to further appreciation by Christy Call OF THE RECORD STAFF More than 60 people gathered inside the Kimball Art Center on Thursday, Oct. 24 to attend the first of four workshops work-shops on "Visual Literacy." The workshops work-shops are designed to enhance the artistic artis-tic appreciation or literacy of teachers so they can "...bring it back to the classroom." class-room." Yet, according to Eva Tobie, education educa-tion curator for the Kimball Art Center, people of various vocations signed up. Tobie said she was "amazed" at the high enrollment numbers. "A lot of people' took it for themselves. ..for their own knowledge," Tobie said. She added, "I was blown away by the response." Tobie said the series brings together a diverse and talented group of instructors. instruc-tors. "I don't know when we will be able to get these professionals again." She added, however, "It is our vision that we will continue. It is my vision and Kimball's as well that we will continue this program." David Chaplin, a resident artist and workshop instructor, described what the phrase "visual literacy," meant. He said it refers to a person's ability to understand under-stand or read an artist's visual message. Chaplin said the two fundamental components in learning to be visually literate are developing a visual vocabulary vocabu-lary and developing perspective. He said, developing a vocabulary refers to understanding words like color, texture, line, form and light within the context of an artwork. He said developing perspective perspec-tive refers to one's, "ability to see objects." Chaplin added that the goal is to, "translate objects into art or see a piece of art and translate it to language." lan-guage." At the Thursday, Oct. 23 workshop, Bernadette Brown of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, presented a slide show on the "Techniques and Mediums of the Artist." Brown encouraged her audience audi-ence to give students the "tools" to understand and appreciate art on their own. After her presentation, Chaplin and the participants worked with various mediums and materials in the hands-on segment of the class. Tobie said this portion of the workshop work-shop "was like a convention." Tobie said, "...people were buzzing around they were really into it. They were playing with all the materials." Participants had the opportunity to experiment with a variety of materials including oil and acrylic paints, water-color, water-color, charcoal, oil pastels, and water color crayons, which Tobie said were "the rage." The three remaining workshops will include instruction by experts from all Please see Lessons, A-1 9 Park City High School focuses on bold presentations to stop violence and drug abuse during Ribbon Week Teacher finds images wor1 better than preaching preach-ing about drugs & violence by Christy Call OF THE RECORD STAFF At Park City High School during the week of Oct. 20-24 students celebrated Ribbon Week with several sobering presentations. pre-sentations. Ribbon week encourages anti-drug and anti-violence lifestyles for young people. Students wear red ribbons to signify drug abuse prevention and purple pur-ple ribbons representing violence prevention. preven-tion. Gail McBride, a health teacher at PCHS and an organizer of Ribbon Week activities, said students this year focused on giving strong visual messages rather than just "preaching." On Monday, Oct. 20 in a demonstration demonstra-tion of violence prevention, a purple banner ban-ner with the names of every student, teacher and staff member was stretched Please see Activities, A-1 9 r 1 ; m n : jr i iS,54.teiVltSW r M I I " ' ' 1 jt; . ,, ,.,,.mx.ui..r.--- '"" PHOTO COURTESY OF GAIL MCBRIDE PCHS students work to reduce the number of future drinking and driving related deaths, by displaying a banner which reads "Each day 43 people are killed in alcohol related accidents." Teacher, Gail McBride, said drunk driving is an issue many students care about I , 1 I V ' - ' " - : I v.. m ... . - I . 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