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Show 5] Project Discovery set for July W n intensive weeklong experience with activities in science and the arts awaits junior high school students who qualify for the 12th annual Gifted and Talented Institute, Project Discovery, July 10-15 at Southern Utah University. "A select group of 50 motivated students can qualify · for what we intend to be a learning adventure with emphasis on science and the arts," Sage Platt, project director, explains. "Students who will be in the seven th or eighth grade this fall may start the application process by contacting J.P. Hendricks at the SUU Division of Continuing Education. Enrollment will be limited, so early contact is important." A complet ed application form and a handwritten letter of interest will be required of each applicant, and a $100 deposit will be due with the completed application. Cost of Project Discovery is $395, which includes classes, meals, lodging, field trip transportation and tickets to productions of the Utah Shakespearean Festival. "Activities will highlight the week," Platt said. "We will have field trips, attend plays, explore some of the beautiful and rugged southern Utah mountains, and learn a lot by doing things. We also want to give students an opportunity to experience campus life in a challenging atmosphere with members of the SUU faculty." For further information, those interested may contact Platt at (801) 586-3008 or Hendricks at (801) 586- 1994. I i'.:h the arrival of the Utah Shakespearean Bill Black has been teaching and supervising costume Festival to S.V.U, the campus will be filled with production for the University of Tennessee and Clarence the artistry of brilliant costumes and set designs Brown Theatre Company in Knoxville for 17 years. of the summer's plays. The artwork can be seen all surnrner Dean Mogle is a resident custume designer and the head of long during the Festival, but it will not be confined to the the costume design and technology program for the theatre. University of Cincinnati's Conservatory of Music. He bas Starting July 7, the Braithwaite been designing with the Black Fine Arts Gallery, on the campus Hills Playhouse for 15 years and of SUU, will house the works of 35 productions. professional costwne and set Linda Roethke worked at the designers of the six Festival plays. Festival in 1988 and is currently The title of the exhibit is teaching design at Northwestern "Shakespeare Designed and University. She has also taught at Realized." The works will include Utah State and the University of photos, drawings and models of Iowa. costume patterns, wardrobes and Janet Swenson is the final the actual set designs appearing in costume designer whose work will the theatres. be featured at the exhibit. She is a The According to the director of resident costume designer and museums and galleries, Mandy chair of the technical theatre Brooks, the display will show the program at BYU and this will be step by step design and the her second year designing here. finished product of the plays. John Philip Martin and Linda Costumes from 'As You Like It' by Dean Mogle. "Everyone sees the wonderfully Essig are two lighting designers finished plays," explains Brooks, with a long list of plays and "Bu t no one sees all the work that goes on behind the experience behind them . scenes. " Penn State Assistant Professor Daniel Robinson designed T he artists whose work will be displayed include costume, the scenery for the Greensbow and "The Royal Feast" at last lighting and scenic designers. year's festival. Thomas C. Umfrid is also returning for his Holly Cole has been designing Shakespeare plays in second season after designing scenery for The Royal Family, regional theatre since 1985. Her costum.e designs have Our Town, and Taituffe. earned her a Washington D.C., Helen Hayes Award and a The exibit will run until September 3 and the summer Denver Critics Circle Award. hours for the Braithwaite Gallery are: 10 a.m . to 8 p.m., Kimberly L. lnstenes, another costume designer, is Monday through Friday, 1-8 p.m. on Saturday, and 1-5 p.m. returning for her third Utah Shakespearean Festival and has on Sunday. is currently working as a free-lance designer in the Chicago/ To coincide with the display, a museum gift shop featuring Milwaukee area. ceramics, jewelry and other Utah artists' work will open July 7. he Governor's Honors Academy will conduct its sixth program at SUU, July 10-22. The Academy is co-sponsored by Gov. Michael 0. Leavitt and SUU. The Academy is intended for Utah's finest high school students entering the 11th and 12th grades. Academy participants are students who demonstrate excellence through academics, leadersh ip, extra-curricular activity, personal achievement, and community service. The two-week program provides students a stimulating curriculum of study. Subjects ranging from personal development to intellectual discovery will be discussed by a dynamic Academy faculty and a diverse participation group. The intense course has the objective of giving students a college orientation; a broader vision of personal potential for success; a keener ability to create, then implement new SUU This Summer A WEEKLY PUBLICATION OF SOlITHERN lITAH UNIVERSITY Editor Associate Editors Contributors Larry Baker Lynn Dennett John McCloskey Dave Meanea Jim Robinson Neil Gardner Cal Rollins SUU This Summer is a publication of Southern Utah University, its Summer School program, its depanment of communication, its Office of Student Activities and the SUU Student Association. It is published eight times during the 1994 summer session: JUNE 27, 27, July 5, 11, 18, 25 and August I. For information regarding the Almanac or advertising, please phone 586-7759 between the hours of LO a.m . and noon, Tuesday through Thursday. Special thanks to Sterling Church, Craig Porman, Tiffany Evans, Phillip C. Carter and David Nyman. ideas; new approaches and skills in group dynamics; increased awareness of person al goals and objectives; and a better understanding of today's problems and how to deal with the problems that will be faced by their generation. This special academy was conceived to "nurture the life of the minds" of Utah's young leaders, and to give them an experience to expose them to all parts of their state. In the future, Academy graduates will develop into state wide leaders in politics, business and community service,bonded to Utah's future success through this experience. The Academy is a residential program, in which participants live, talk, eat and attend class together for 13 days. Fifty students will begin the Academy with registration and an evening buffet on Sunday, July 10. The experien ce ends Friday, July 22, with an awards banquet attended by state and university officials and Gov. Leavitt, an SUU graduate. week of art training in drawing, painting, ceramics, and sculpture will be offered July 11-15 at Southern Utah University to students who will be entering the second through sixth grades this fall. All necessary art supplies for the course are included in the $75 registration fee, according to Debbie Drake, course instructor. Registration for the course may be completed at the offices of the Division of Continuing Education in the R. Haze Hunter Conference Center up until the first day of class "We are encouraging anyone interested to register as early as possible to hold a spot in the class, but we will register students even at the fi rst class session, if openings are still available," Drake said. "Enrollment will be limited to the first 20 students registered." Classes will be taught each day from 9 a.m. through 3 p.m., with a break for lunch, in the SUU art department area of the Centrum. Students will be responsible for their own lunch. "We will be teaching a lot of the basics, and we are going to make it fun. Art is fun," Drake said. "Students will not need any special art talent to take the class. We are going to make this a fun week to remember." Drake is a 1994 SUU art graduate. She recently exhibited a successful one-person show at th e Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery. |