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Show T I5 zxn n w Hd URJP Gl 199. lume 21 Number 9 Dixie College St. George, Utah Friday, February 23, 1990 J A Hr Q t k i. r fA 7 ' . 4 -- . 1 ' -- k. "Alabama" Comes to the Dixie Center March 12th mbers of tho popular country group 'Alabama, (left to right) Mark Herdon, Jeff Cook, idy Gentry, and Randy Owen will perform on Monday, March 12, 1990 at 7:00 PM at the Centers Bums Arena to a house. Three of the band's four members are packed actually Alabama natives. The group has been enormously successful throughout their career of ten years, winning several Grammy and other music awards. A few remaining tickets for the concert are still available at at the Dixie Center Box Office. Invitational Art Show Underway At Dixie Douglas Alder nt Wrtter New Mexico has Taos, rona has Sedona, and Utah stting used to St. George as art colony. We have y to go to challenge nta Fe and Sedona a a long Taos, but we beginning. St. George ulevard already boasts wal art galleries and craft a. Each year there is the attended St. George Arts itival on Now, for the Easter weekend. third year, the ",1 Invitational Art Show is der way. Familiar banners n campus and on light '8 around town announcing the show is on at the le Arts Building on campus le one with the mosaic nal) The show is ready to icome Washington County dents as well as tourists. It ned on 18 and February e n display until March The Invitational Art Show was designed by a local citizen committee to entice the region's most notable artists to show their works here. The chairman is Robert Sears. The committee seeks nominations from museum curators in Utah and elsewhere who suggest the names of the top artists to invite. This allows the how to stay current and to assemble such a dazzling collection that it entices people to from from Salt Lake or Las Vegas, Nev. and even farther to visit the exhibit and purchase the art. This year a first, second and third prize will be awarded in three categories: oil, watercolor, and other media (such as pencil and acrylic). Works that are representational rather than abstract are solicited. The "best of sbow" painting will win the $3,000 purchase prize. The winning work is donated to Dixie College and will hand in the South Administration Building Conference Room. This invitational art show has several purposes. First is n to bring the work of artists to St. George. We have a rich supply of local artist who could be invited but the aim of this invitational is to bring to southern Utah artists who are widely known and well established. Some may argue that we should be helping the local artists get visability. That is a good argument but it is not the purpose of this show. Rather, this show attempts to b e a lodestone, to attract people from a wide distance to drive t Utah so they can see a stunning collection of the very best art in the Intermountain West. So the purpose is to attract people to come here. A third purpose is to buy well-know- bricks that will gradually accumulate into an art museum. It is a dream of this committee that a major art museum will be built on the Dixie College campus. Proceeds from the Invitational Art Show go into a fund toward that dream. Each painting sold at the show generated 30 percent of its price as a tax deductible gift to that fund. The remainder of the price goes to the artist. It takes hundreds of hours of work to put together this show. It is gratifying to see the efforts of Max Bunnell and Spencer Esplin of Dixie College who are responsible for gathering and hanging the bricks artwork. Richard White assists them. It also takes scores of people to serve as hosts and hostesses for the several and show provide organizations volunteers in halfday shifts. Barbara Watson oversees that mammoth effort and we appreciate each person who gives precious time to help us. We are also grateful to teachers and civic groups who bring their students and members to the show for a memorable experience. Something like an art show is beneficial only because scores of good people are willing to devote personal effort to its success. Countless numbers of people help behind the scenes with this event. So come to the art show. It is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (and Sunday afternoons from 2 to 6 p.m.). It will give you an opportunity to see 150 new works has to offer. -- - the best Utah (For the results and further information on the art show, and also a photograph of the "Best Show award winner, see page 5). |
