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Show Saturday May 6. 21)00 Till DAILY RAl 111 I uli (uwu WaiiJ'hcHialJ conn. IX Page A3 LOCAL Mimes toeadledl for .Benmafk Local artist selected for work 7 W significant hills in the otherwise flat country. About The Daily Herald 400,000 people visit the each year. ALPINE Kristina, the park in his studio Working young Danish woman who recently, Smith said the came to Utah, was flesh is important to him. and blood, then she was project ancestors came from ' "My clay. I served a and Denmark ' But now she is brass and mission there Smith said. is returning to Copenhagen his art After where she will stand on the studies finishing at BYU, Smith shore looking permanently returned to Denmark for back across the sea toward advanced studies at the America. Danish Royal Academy of ' Kristina is one of two tall Art. ' ... statues sculpted by nationHe said the inspiration", ally recognized Alpine- - for his Kristina sculpture mgmana arusi uennis was his Smith for the Friends and Kristina who to Descendants of Denmark? Utah with her emigrated family. The group has financed the She is also portrayed in placing of the two bronze The Mormon Emigrant sculptures in prominent Family statue along with her grandmother, father, July for the 150th anniver- mother and two siblings. sary of the exodus of Ford Stevenson, one of Mormon emigrants who left the directors of the Friends their homeland to travel on and of Descendants ships to America in the Denmark ', that commism u ia sioned the statues, said the By PAT CHRISTIAN r.-- at TV A - ' ;;.,.f Jf T j ' '. - tv. 1 - great-grandmoth- 1 The two completed stat project was made possible by a large endowment from ues will be shipped this month from Smith's studio at the Adonis Bronze-Alpin- e Art Center to Denmark. But one day is being set aside for the public to see the sculptures before they an anonymous donor in Salt Lake City. He said the interest from the original endowment has been used for several years to bring Danish government leaders and other influential people to Utah and BYU to strengthen relationships between the LDS Church and those in leave U.S. shores. are having a public open house Wednesday," said Tim LaComb, a representative for Smith. He said the first session will be from p.m. with another from p.m., at the Alpine Art Center, 450 S. Alpine "We Denmark. The visitors who came fell in love with an earlier Kristina statue on display at the university in Provo, and that the growing bonds between Utah and those in Denmark helped pave the way to get permission to place the statues this July in Denmark. 2-- 4 6-- 8 Highway. The Kristina sculpture is destined for the docks of Copenhagen just a couple of blocks away from the famous Little Mermaid statue, LaComb said. It's a young woman looking out to sea with the wind blowing her long dress and hair. , The second statue is of an 1800s Mormon emigrant family of six waiting to board a ship for Utah. It will be placed in Rebild National Park, one of the few places where there are i JAZZ Continued from A 1 down to the wire for a win Friday night. The victory vaults the Jazz into the conference semifinals where they will on Portland meet Sunday.Students have been showing their Jazz spirit at 96-9- 3 series-clinchin- g ' Westridge with purple shirts, socks, sunglasses and fingernail polish, pur- ple ribbons and small stulled Jazz bears every Friday for seven years. Jazz Days started when diehard tan and caletena manager Cathy Ford got tired or seeing U.tah residents wearing Chicago colors. "They'd Michael ' all come with Jordan shirts," Ford said. During basketball season, Friday is a day to celebrate for young fans like fourth-grade- r Greg Schofield. "I'm a major fan of the Jazz," the Greg said. "My mom painted the Jazz mountain on my wall." ld The Greg wears Bryon Russell's No. 3. ld "He's my favorite player," Greg said. "I think he's an good player defender, good dunker, good That's my on impersonal opinion." Karl Malone's No. 32 was another favorite number. all-roun- ed here. Other members of the Friends and Descendants of Denmark include, Krlend e between Denmark and the United States. "They were the first country to recognize us the American after their and Revolution Constitution'-- . is a mirror Peterson, a dean at BYU; Smith, and architect Niels Valintiner. who designed Bank the copper-toppeOne skyscraper in Salt Lake City, Stevenson said the project is about three-quar- t its funded, mostly paid for by selling paving stones that I'M to Denmark: MKlNll W ItvD.nK ( artist Dennis Smith, above, talks about his sculpture that has been cast in brone and will be placed with his "Kristina" sculpture, at left, in Denmark later this summer. Off Alpine-Highlan- d , image of ours," Stevenson said, adding that nearly 300,000 of Denmark's 4 million residents immigrat are to he used around the statues. Donors can still can pay $500 for the stones and have their Danish ances- tors' names inscribed to he - '.permanc.nt.lv memorialized' in Ileum, uk. - lrt Clinslnin ran UUUJ 1 ill IV, I ji . ill o . Ui ullUJJLUdUJVMJ 1 MM17MM, I nnfn) a 1999 the team colors said they didn't like the team, but Alejandro Salmone said he wasn't wearing his Jazz best Friday because it was in the laundry hamper. Friday night's key game added a bit of fervor to the Friday lunchtime celebrastudents where tion purple-glazereceived and donuts, purple Jell-erasers shaped like purple $00 S0 0 ia,inv;-b- ut MMlHGAMlllBLi - 1. 90DMS fart SMMRSXm . d 1 0 w:.:-iio.m- and yellow flowers. Almost lost in the sea of purple, there was one spot of dark green and rust. Second-grade- r Andrew moved who Manwaring, from Seattle three years ago, wore the No. 40 of former Sonics center Shawn Kemp, who now plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Andrew, 8, was hoping for a Sonics win. .irwp wi KA, 0 ma fflfflffil - UOJilUiiQ O l.ii. U11"" t. rtl . Ho1., ".-A- rt . .... of The interest in Utah's only NBA basketball team isn't just for fun, and it doesn't stop in the cafeteria. The students in teacher Debbie Heber's second-grad- e class read the basketball stories in the newspaper and circle all the words they know and learn the ones they don't. "Their homework is to cheer for the Jazz," Heber i0,,T -- m lOW - . . 0M ..Kill v- - ol 0O"- - .ke aoWT" oW ETA FJOITUIE CCM5ULUMT TO CFHI CUl CUSTCriES A Cmii! SELECTION said. d fast-break- 0 s. Third-grade- r Kimberly Soerensen didn't have a 32, but she still calls Malone her favorite. "He has my dad's first name," the girl explained. Mark Taylor prefers No. svoniCciiiiniBDf' Oi. FEI?!l n. Hi! terras Ht mi- - 12. "(John Stockton) is good the at 3s boy said. About a third of the students wore purple to lunch Friday. A few who didn't wear ; . I 17 tmSSKI (0SI1I tt$I. KO. sicaisa ra.JHTjicii.JFa-aosEDJir1056 SOUTE1 STATE ; lUUljii 00-212- 9? JHA ay STREET ORE17. 3934 WEST 3500 ' SOUTH WEST VAUEY CITY "i AC C E PT WSM, VI3A, JU3 i a DISCOVER. CUAKTITIK UMiTED he or at ivtichcd ut .' pchrisli Iwra hlcxlra.com. PHlffll Stevenson said the famibe will ly sculpture unveiled at the Festival on July4, in a major holiday the with Denmark, Kristina statue being unveiled at another ceremony July 6 on the" Amerika Docks where ships continued to leave for America until 1960. Danish-Amerik- -- July 4 is a big holiday, Stevenson said, because of close ties the long-tim- TO STOCK DW HAKO. ALl SALES FINAL |
