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Show P3 TTV wra,'wiwe'e f 'i rre weTernvve"!, ; T nf.'OTX J&KLVvYV &&&& Sunday March 5, 1978 Section E Page One Hie smiling faces belong to the New 16, a group of artists in a variety of media whose efforts to beautify and enliven Salt Lake City are being funded by the i federal By Nancy Funk Tribune Staff Writer government through the local Council for the Arts. Talents include dance, visual arts, poetry, community development, theater, -- photography and music. Art may sprout on walls, poetry on buses. While Cincinnati is busy putting guitar players on buses, Salt Lake City and is busy putting artists in the city who knows? Some of them just might end up on buses, with guitars, or poems or plays, or paint brushes. It is all part of a new program sponsored by the Salt Lake City Council for the Arts you know, the people who brought you the festival on Main Street last year. This is just one of many projects currently offered by the council and it is called Artists in the City program. Funds are from the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), a federal program. Sixteen artists from various mediums were hired in January to be trained as community artists. They will work throughout the city with the idea of bringing art to areas often void of Tribune Staff Photo by Tim Kelly theater, music, dance, visual arts, The New 16 will also participate in ongoing Arts Council projects and council director Margaret Smoot said they will be involved in this years Salt Lake Festival of the Arts (June and the summer Arts n Parks programs. The visual artists will also take part in the Councils City Walls project, working to beautify bleak portions of the city with graphics and murals." Kathy Perrin is the coordinator for the program and said the idea first began last September. At that time d CETA was providing only six salaries in all of Utah. Portland, Ore., only slightly larger than Salt Lake City, already hired 60 artists through poetry. By going to various neighborhood centers and literally to the street with their art, the "New 16 hope to engender an interest in arts, a community interest in the arts as well as give Salt Lake City a specific art 14-1- 8) identity. One of the hopes is that eventually Salt Lake City will become known as the city where they do theater in the the city that has ;oetry on the parks, sides of its buildings, tie city with the murals on the walls, or the city that really supports the ?? tj. As part of this program, the first one in Utah, the artists will be assigned to social service agencies such as youth and community centers to conduct classes and workshops. Some of the organizations to receive are the Senior Citizens Recreation Center, the Northwest e Center, the Guadalupe Center and Neighborhood House. artists-in-residen- Multi-Purpos- THE ORIGNALTHONET arts-relate- CETA. Geoffrey Cowley, an Arts Council aide, and Ms. Smoot, proposed that the citys personnel department create the artist positions through CETA money. and The proposal was to one-ye10 positions were d, six-mon-th process got department number The artists and their specific mediums are: Visual Arts: Susan Beck, Lark Lucas, Shirley Marr, Stan . Kevin Lyman; Column 3 South Lataa 15 Eash Sity7 Ut&K B4105 ' pm- a.rr--6'O- - mon.-se- so DAY Zid6zks r lajiS c 'Sole vzj 25c ALLJADE 30 OFF -- Danish roll and tasty hot coffee 50c 2 hot cakes, 3 baby pig sausages, butter and syrup (special) 89c Ham, bacon, or sausage, 2 eggs, toast, jam, butter, coffee $2.25 AMTO E-- 8, ORIENTAL IMPORTS AO , 1 1 musicians, are in the works for a See Page scjr2 hcnrs. 1030 LUNCH Dance: All artists have expressed an enthusiasm for the project and describe it as a dream come true. It gives us the freedom to do what we do best and be paid while doing it. The consensus of the group is that art is for everyone, not just the elite and that if we can help bring that idea to the community we will be successful. We want to appeal to the creativity in all of us. The sky seems to be the limit as far e as the potential of the project and its ongoing effect. Playwright Gerald McDonough talks about Theater Up Your Alley, community theater literally presented in the citys alleys. Others talk about the possibilities of concerts in the shopping dancers. Plans graphy: John Schaefer, Scott Peterson, Barry Gillette; Mime: Noe Zavala; Salt. All Woodward; malls using mimes, Community Development: Arthur Greenup; Poetry: Charles Taylor; Theatre: Gerald McDonough; Photo- scorns BREAKFAST Music: Ronnie John Bertoii. long-rang- and Sally Snow; : McBride GraphicsMulti-media- 1516 Coffee ot artists were Urban areas have been on the said downswing for a long time, Cowley. Were now reaching the point where we recognize the need for art, culture and greenspace in our cities. A city is a living ecosystem that has to be kept aesthetically healthy. The elderly and the young cant always escape to the wilderness to find beauty, and beauty is a vital part of living. BENTWOOD ROCKER If WALNUT REG. 210. NOW IT VI K3$Hjci3i ar created. As the selection under way the personnel agreed to increase the positions to 16 and the hired. Ecxvissicrits Soup plV two- - &er okie: free 3 P.M. Appetizer, choice of 2 entrees (changed daily) soup or salad bar, hot loaf bread (from our own kitchen) honey, butter, dessert, arid choice of beverage $1.85 , Soup to Nuts GBQKlBdlEGm rWs inters cS Ases ycirchcisP- - 3 amocijimntia3ED P.S. Special MONDAYS PRIME RIB SANDWICH, APPETIZER, SOUP OR SALAD BAR, DESSERT, BEVERAGE f tea 1988 SOUTH 11TH EAST ! SLC 467-272- 7 with ba) of fortune cookies eu more 2v2ry puhz of hdppy oecSbs, I. |