Show Ancient pictographs and petroglyphs at last have bodies and voices news service long centuries of bitting as flat and silent ns on Southeastern Utah's canyon walls pictographs and petroglyphs at last have bodies and voices And they are on display in I lelper's Sfter PhantomGallery CarbonCounty sculptor KarenTempleton and puHNancy T akacs a re piinuvring a new art form that uses rock art as a common inspiration Templeton transforms the figures into stained glasssculptures Takacsimaginesspokenwordsand creates poetry about them Then the artists display each sculpture and poem as a unified work ofart They havecollaborated on20piecesso far enough for two showsat theColk'geof Eastern Utah PrehLstoricMaseum in Priceand a traveling exhibit in Vernal Although both aresuccessful in their own fields "there's somethingrichintheaxnbirutionthatthepoemakineorthe sculpturcalone wouldn't have "Takacs explained Those who come to the shows are just as likely to comment on a favorite linefromapoemasonaparticularstatueshesaid The idea took shape in early 1995 when the poet and sculptor who had beenpassing acquaintances began to sense the possibilities of workingtogither TakacsaninstructoratCEUinvitedTempletontospeak atherWomeninLiteratureand the Arts class Thesubject washowgcnderaffectsthecreativeprooess Asa trainingaid for the lecture Tempietonbroughtoneof her early rock works "Sisters of the Wind" After class they met for the lunch they'd been promising each other Conversation turned intocollnbora tkin and then came a planof action They requested and received a grant from the Utah Arts Council in March 1995 then raced to complete theirshow for a grand opening at the Prehistoric Museum that June The show was a success The museum invited them back n for an encore so they collaborated on a new pieces this year Takacs says their creativity is a process Templeton's view of the "Story Teller" pictograph as a grandmother and two granddaughters inspired Takacs's acornpanying poem ThenalinefiomTakacs'spocm about art-inspir- ed half-doze- brought before legislators Listed so long They were madewithsuchsimplemateria Is then left behind by people wlio just vanished without any kinnvn descendants " standingontheedgeofadiffinspircdTempletontousea ’ ! by Becca Thornton staff writer - o — O' VM - - ‘1 v yv V 1:1 f r V- rCrKtoisainentty 1' ?-r thisutntofthefinandalresirces ' a a ' a "White Lady" forexample is based on pictograph but TempIeton'setherealsculpturcandTakacs'pivmcv'okethc name form and voice of a Carbon County coal miner's widowwhcwghostn'putedlyhauntsacanyonncarl lelper In looking back at their work the artists discovered something about themselves Each work has a decidedly female theme " Wedidn't notice at first and didn't plan it that way but there it is" Takacs said Based on thcirsucccss in Price and Vernal theartists hope the 20 sculptures and tolauncha morewide-rangingtour- kgsmdunjveaitiahtllahl of theart and poetry together as they are meant tobe Meanwhile they continue topursue their individual specialties apart from the teameffort Templeton who lives in Spring Glen is a registered nurse Her wholeftherprofessiontobeginacareerasanartist works are on display at Old Town Gallery in Park City IslationarewritteriasbiUsandeachriiOvOiViuUI Second Street GaUcry in Brandon Oregon PittsburghCcn-te- r for the Arts and Gallery East in Loveland Cola steel and One ofher works "Story Teller" isa stained glass sculpture displayed outdoors on Grand Junction's Main Street until May 1 997 NancyTakacs(pronouncvdTack'iss)tcaches poetry creative writing and Women in Literature and Arts at the CollegeofEastemUtah in Price Herpoems are published in numerous journals and magazines and she reads her works at poet's gatherings across Utah I lereare a few lines from "White Lady" Lknd where should a woman wander after this arid if not met by him after fife because memory had been base for the work The original intent of their partnership was to was relate iMcc?' ed blown from his body should she tide the “White theland aid culturesoftheroughlytriangular region bounded I Idperand Moab Thcreisplenty of by rock art for inspiration "It is an incredible thing we have right here in our back 5-- stances? And to solve it WiLson looks at the outsides and insides of his tiny Middle- - Western town I le looks womanwho falls ata middle-agin- g in love with the young man who comes to work in her ca fe He looks at a nurse nasty woman mistreating her senile mother who is obsessed with visions of Eldritch being evil Middle-Weste- and headed for blood spilling I le looks at a tender relationship between a young man and a dreamy crippled girl But Wilson sees far more than this He is grasping the America very fabric of Bible-Be-lt with its catchword morality (virgin and itscapability for the vicious I le senses the rhythm of its life and the cruelty it can impose I le understands the speech pattern of its loveless gossips its boys its compassionless preachers blonds its In the end his portrait of Eldritch is "Gxl-fearing- ") sex-hung- us ry rn tteDliOsEU -- Kforra rfl rAtth' light this lantern andwald along a creedbed forever? Dramatic play centers around tiny Rimers of Eldritch" is set to open on the Geary Theatre Feb 8 under thedirection of Lee Johnson Written by Landord Wilson the mystery is who he is who murdered him and what were the circum- artEtf Lady Nine-MileCany- "The v egationvviUcost uarcrf$9p0and Not much is known about the Fremont and Anasazi who lived inSoutheastem Utah ages ago but thanks to the later cuIturaldiversit)’oftheareatheduo'sartistic interpretations of rock art are free to range far beyond the prehistoric culturesoftheoriginal artists give-and-ta- ke cliff-shap- f yard Templeton said "Weget a gl impseofbeauty from another time It ismiraculousthit these worksof art have John Serfustinni by CEU Bills to better the lives ofVstudents 1 r 2-Tia- 4 A Tinea to Kill 5 - Chain Raaciioa 6 Draflosihaart Gay 8 - Island of Dr full length and the truth of its revelations will be pondered long after thestage lights havedimmed and the abla es DeLceuw Matilda Cap S The Dock town playhasended Grady McEvoy is technical director for the production The cast Natalie Jones Melissa Dalton Rebecca 1 less Daniel Bishop Ryn Kehr Preston I lorman Gentry Thompson Jennifer Sorensen Brandon Jones Juelie Adams Michael Leona rd Jeremy Ta nnahill Timothy KrankerRonda Woodland Sadie Steinert Michelle Mitchell and Ann -- 9 -- Moreaa Tha Natty Professor 18 Strip Tease BgiOBfH17" — teteoo OuftinliiD (PBCnglrraysCfTtmmnm 8c32U73GtxS)iliCf i ' SJ3Em(2h!miQ£tirl&& |