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Show SCENE The Park Record. Editor: Scott Iwasaki Arts@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.113 REGISTRATION FOR THE PARK CITY ELECTRIC PARADE Registration for the Park City Electric Parade, which will be on Saturday, Nov. 26, on Main Street, is free. Anyone who wants to enter a motorized vehicle may do so by emailing Lisa Phinney at lisa@historicparkcityutah. com. For more information, visit www. http://www.historicparkcityutah.com. PARENTING THE LOVE AND LOGIC WAY Christian Center of Park City’s Parenting the Love and Logic Way seminar will be from 6-8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 19, at the Park City School District Office, 2700 Kearns Blvd. The seminar is designed for parents and guardians to polish their love and logic skills. For more information, visit app. etapestry.com/onlineforms/ChristianCenterofParkCity/loveandlogicnovember2016.html. FILM, TV AND COMMERCIAL ACTING WORKSHOPS WITH LIZ MCCAFFREY Stars Talent Studio will host a film, TV and commercial acting workshop from 6-8 p.m. every Monday through Jan. 9, at the Park City Library, 1255 Park Ave. The workshops will offer information about what casting directors prefer. McCaffrey’s daughter Shayla has been cast in “Christmas Land” which will be aired on the Hallmark Channel this holiday season. For more information, contact Liz at 435-901-1723 or email liz.starstalentstudio@gmail.com. SUMMIT COUNTY LIBRARIES CLOSE EARLY The Summit County Libraries -- Kimball Junction, Coalville and Kamas branches -- will close at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 23, and will remain closed for Thanksgiving weekend. The branches will reopen on Saturday, Nov. 26. For more information, visit www.thesummitcountylibrary.org. PARK CITY LIBRARY CLOSED ON THANKSGIVING Park City Library, 1255 Park Avenue, will be closed on Thanksgiving, Nov. 24. The library will reopen on Friday, Nov. 25. For more information, visit www.parkcitylibrary.org. PCHS SOPHOMORE HEADS TO AMERICAN MISS PAGEANT, C-2 www.parkrecord.com ‘GIVING A BLEEP’ RAISED $11K FOR LOCAL NONPROFITS, C-3 C-1 SAT/SUN/MON/TUES, NOVEMBER 19-22, 2016 Manneck ads a twist to visual art Pop-art exhibit will open Saturday at the Kimball Art Center By SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record Holly Manneck wants her art to unite the past and present and she meshes the two times together to make 50s and 60s images relevant to the modern day. “I draw a lot from history because I find it interesting,” Manneck said during a telephone interview from Florida. “I try to use popular culture from different time periods and develop a visual relationship between the old and the new.” Holly Manneck’s “Pop & Twisted” exhibit will open Saturday, Nov. 19, and run through Jan. 8 at the Kimball Art Center [KAC]. The artist’s style is a direct reflection of her life experiences. “I have a degree in social work and traveled all over the world and lived in Germany, Norway and on a cruise ship in the Caribbean, so I’ve always been interested in culture and people,” Manneck said. “I always had a camera and always had a darkroom for developing, but I decided to go back to school and study graphic design.” A style emerged and I call it New American Pop Art, because it’s a new style that merges technical and fine art aspects...” Holly Manneck Visual artist To get her degree, she had to take painting and printmaking classes. “All of those skills blended together when computers came into play and I was able to mix the graphic art and fine art skills,” Manneck said. “A style emerged and I call it New American Pop Art, because it’s a new style that merges technical and fine art aspects.” Manneck dabbled in different mediums to find her current style. “I used to do non-objective abstract, and worked with texture and color,” she said. “I used oils as well, but we started spending half the year in the West and half the year in the East, so that got difficult to continue painting with oils. So I switched to acrylics.” At that same time, Manneck began taking more photographs. “I tried to learn the history of the areas we visited through the photos,” she said. “Slowly, my style with photography started to come into play.” In addition to her own photos, Manneck seeks old press and entertainment photos for her art. “I will go into consignment stores and find things that I can use,” she said. “ I usually find something that I have connected with in the past or COURTESY OF HOLLY MANNECK “Popcorn and Movies,” above, and “Patroling the Slopes” illustrates artist Holly Manneck’s knack for blending the past and present in modern art. Manneck’s “Pop & Twisted” exhibit will open at the Kimball Art Center Nov. 19. something that I recently connected with.” The Beatles, Marilyn Monroe, Sean Connery’s James Bond and the Rolling Stones are some of the icons Manneck uses. “For example, I’ll use Beatles, which is part of my time period and still relevant today, and mix them with social-media imagery,” she said. “I try to create a dialog between the images. I feel when we draw from history we learn and become a richer people. When I see an image I really Please see Manneck, C-5 |