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Show Saturday, May 23, 1998 The Park Record A-15 To use an old refrain... 'A joy to behold' by Edd Kincaid RECORD GUEST WRITER Two years ago I had difficulty keeping my pen from an all-out attack on the subject of the lack of the arts in our schools. Today, at least in some schools, there appears to be a revival of interest. The Kimball Art Center's Cen-ter's present show is spotlighting the best, and the "Best of Show" is remarkable. Jessica Jerome's "Bamboo," an ink drawing done in traditional Oriental style is simply stated beautiful. Normally artists will spend years practicing this technique. Perhaps Jessica has but not too many. Besides Best of Show, she took first place in her grade group with "Jessica's Bedroom," Bed-room," a pencil drawing. The Jeremy Ranch student stu-dent is a 5th grader...what talent. (The awards were split into four grade divisions: grades K-3rd; 4th-6th, 7th-9th and 10th-12th.) As I circled the gallery a number of times, I became conscious of how often I was seeing Wasatch High School, and accompanying the name would be a ribbon hanging on the side. So the question arose,"What makes Wasatch High tick in such abundance?" I needed to meet the artists and their teachers. Stephen Gale, chairman of the art department, depart-ment, a BYU graduate and completing his 30th year at Wasatch High in Heber, met me at the high school door. He had arranged for me to meet with a number of the award-winning students stu-dents and the other two instructors in the department, depart-ment, James Lauritsen, with a B.F.A. in painting from Utah State, and Sue Villella, who holds an art education degree from the University of Minnesota. Min-nesota. The first student I spoke with was Kira Loertscher, 10th grade, whose charcoal drawing, "Fear," won third place. She also had hanging next to it another drawing, "Anger," while near by, was "Surprise." Kira explained that she was in the studio program pro-gram where she can come and work on her own. The fact that she had three drawings accepted in the show (the maximum one could submit) was a delightful surprise and has encouraged her further. fur-ther. In the same grade division and winning second sec-ond place was Kristin Camper, 10th grade, with "Planter's Air Balloon," a found objects sculpture. sculp-ture. Clever and fun. I asked Bryan Hansen, whose honorable mention men-tion of "Kim," a portrait of a young girl, who his attractive model was. He pointed over to a young lady sitting close by "That's her." I should have noticed as the sketch, pencil on colored paper, is a perfect likeness. Kim's comment was "He kept telling me to keep my chin up." Kim too has a detailed pencil drawing of "Orange" hanging on the Kimball wall. Max Seawright, 9th grade, whose "Bad Moon," a mixed media, won first place in category catego-ry 7th-9th grades, listened to me read the notes I had jotted down regarding his drawing. "A man's head, bent forward... topping the head a muscular muscu-lar arm reaches down, clawing face and head... to the side or coming out of the skull, a grotesque figure pulling red veins... in background a mass of brain structure going nowhere." Max's comment: "Right on!" Honorable mention in the same category went to Ryan Hales, 9th grade, for his beautiful pencil drawing of "Onions," a sketch of a basket of onions. I asked' Ryan who the first person was to encourage him in his drawings. Without a second of hesitation, he stated "Mrs. McNaughton, my teacher in Midway." Turning the same question to Bryan and Max, they both responded their elementary teacher at Midway, Mrs. Jensen. Teachers do make a differ ence. Another Wasatch winner was Dallas Dean, 9th grade, with a second place for his fantastic "Last Journey," a sculpture of a boat of bones and twine on a sea of blue glass. Great imagination imagina-tion and design. Responding to the question, "Is there anything any-thing you can think of to make the Youth Art Show even better?" the first reply was seconded by all Keep the same category system but starting at grades 7, 8 and 9, have separate awards for painting (to include oils, watercolors, acrylics), drawing (pencil, charcoal, etching and block prints), sculpture, ceramics and jewelry. Makes sense to me. Two other Wasatch students .whose work would have been on my awards list are 9th grader grad-er Stacie ColemanTs "Play ball," an oil painting of a sight seen frequently on TV a basketball player yelling. The painting's texture, color and contrasts are exceptional. The other, Yohei Mukai's (a Japanese exchange student who has since returned to Japan) "Sumo," a fantastic contemporary con-temporary pointillism painting. In addition, a pencil drawing, "Divided," also by Yohei can certainly cer-tainly draw and keep your attention. Though I have named a couple of my favorites, I have no objections to any of the awards in the show. The three judges Virginia Catherall, Ann Parker and Bernadette Brown, all from the Utah Museum of Fine Arts did a great job. Judging is not easy. To Stephen Gale, James Lauritsen and Sue Villella, thank you for your commitment to your students and the arts. For the second go 'round, the Kimball Art Center and staff are to be congratulated for giving giv-ing our youth a chance to display their art and a chance for the public to enjoy. It's youth art at its best. 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