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Show SOI : : Saturday, January 12, 2002 The Park Record C-7 Grassroots effort pays off for artists T,What began as a letter to the editor in the Salt Lake Tribune to protest the location of the official Olympic exhibition of visual art ir Springville, Utah, has resulted in a juried exhibition of visual art called Utah Art 2002. The event, scheduled to run concurrently with the Winter Olympics, will be held Feb. 1-28 in a newly-restored newly-restored gallery located at 780 S&uth, 300 West in downtown Salt Lake City. - Utah Art 2002 is the brain-child brain-child of local artists Randall Lake, Michael Hullet and others as the result of the decision by Olympic organizers to locate the official exhibition of the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Arts Festival at-the Springville Museum of Art. Fearing that the exhibition in Springville wouldn't receive enough exposure, Lake and Hullet partnered with other local artists and Visions for Learning, a non-profit organization dedicated to art education, to produce Utah Art 2002. A call for entries was mailed this past September to more than 1,800 Utah-based artists. Each artist was invited to submit up to six pieces for consideration by Oct. 15, 2001. More than 1,000 submissions (individual works) were received and juried by Michael Quick, former director of American art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art arid a graduate of Yale University. Quick chose approxi mately 75 pieces for the exhibition. exhibi-tion. Mary Tull, director of Visions for Learning, supervised the submission sub-mission process and commented, "The works that have been chosen cho-sen represent the depth and breadth of Utah's visual arts community. com-munity. We think that visitors to the exhibition will be extremely impressed by the beauty and precision pre-cision of the pieces that have been included." Some of the artists participating include Lee Deffenbach, Pilar Pobil, Bob Kleinschmidt, Randall Lake, Tony Smith, Anthony Siciliano and Richard Miles. Utah Art 2002 will include entries in the categories of original origi-nal oil, pastel, acrylic, mixed media, graphics, photography, sculpture and intermedia. Some pieces will be available for sale with a portion of the proceeds benefiting Visions for Learning and the New York City Foundation for the Arts. A four-color four-color catalog will be published with photos of all of the pieces included in the exhibition. The catalog will be offered for sale at the exhibition and through Visions for Learning by calling (801)539-1489. The exhibition will be open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven, days a week, and on Fridays it will remain open until 9 p.m. An opening night reception will be held 6 to 9 p.m. on Feb. 1. The public is invited. Company to feature contemporary dance at Games The one-time only performance perform-ance of "American Showmen" features choreographers Daniel Ejzralow and Doug Varone, as they bring down the house under the global spotlight of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. On Wednesday, Feb. 13, 8 p.m., you will witness the finest in contemporary contem-porary dance choreography. The Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company performance will be at the Capitol Theatre, located in downtown Salt Lake City. For tickets, call (801) 355-ARTS or 1,888-451-2787. Ezralow continues setting new standards in classic and contemporary con-temporary dance on stages as diverse as the Paris Opera Ballet and the Oscar Awards. Ezralow was the recipient of the 1996 American Choreography Awards: Innovator's Award and an Emmy Award for the PBS Special Episodes. With the creation cre-ation and world premiere, "Prelude d'Olympiad," standards stan-dards are set for another change. Varone's powerful dances and keen perception of humanity elevate his movements into "music made visible." "Let's Dance" combines the physical daring of his choreography with the legendary swing sounds of the '30s and '40s. Varone has danced with the Limon Dance Company, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and established his own company, Doug Varone and Dancers, in 1986. He has received numerous choreographic awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim and New York Foundation, and the Choreography Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts yearly from 1988-1996. He has taught and choreographed extensively nationally and internationally. inter-nationally. In addition, the Company plus 16 Utah dancers will present pres-ent co-founder Joan Woodbury's "Ready, Set!" a spirited improvisation improvi-sation that is inspired by the determination, desire and ath leticism of the Winter Olympic Games. It is an ode to dancers, athletes and all human beings as we strive for our place in the sun. Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, founded in 1964 by University of Utah professors Shirley Ririe and Joan Woodbury, has spent the last 38 years exciting audiences, teaching teach-ing children and adults and nurturing nur-turing artists. The Company has performed in nearly every U.S. state as well as the British Isles, Canada, China, Eastern and Western Europe, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa and the Virgin Islands. Ririe and Woodbury continue their mission to create new generations gen-erations of arts enthusiasts who agree with the Company's phi losophy "dance is for everybody." every-body." 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