Show s CitelfMEl' " Artist profile Saturday the Cache Arts Festival will be held in Logan's ait center 100 South and Main The annual event by the AVA and the Cache Valley Arts Council showcases the works of participating local artists with exhibits of visual arts and demonstrations of ceramic art Ceramicist Beth Colengor is one of the many artists whose work will be highlighted during the event Pottery while appearing deceptively simple is really an intricate craft It manifests man’s transition from savagery into civilization — a symbiotic relationship wife the earth from which agricultural products were extracted from the soil then vessels created to contain them It initially required no tools since they Could be shaped and finished wife the fingers An anony- mous inventor devised the wheel which more efficiently formed the clay Firing to solidify it was a second accident Beth's homage to the past is This ’ — ——— expressed in her studio at The AVA where she teaches children on Wednesday afternoons and adults on Fridays A graduate of Fine Arts at Michigan University she earned her bachelor’s degree in painting She had observed pottery while still in high school but her deeper interest ignited when she came wife her husband to Salt Lake City in 1975 1 found something feat really excited me” fee said It is in this craft that she could combine skills she obtained in her education She became proficient enough to instruct others '' A patient ii lifted fill stuff” Two of her exceptionally talented students are two teenagers Alanna Nafsiger ' Recently Beth has been working on a special order of mugs for the Utah Society For Clinical Lab Science She has been producing 59 mugs between classes a project that took her almost two months She painted ornaments on some but most of her clients The young particularly appear to have an affinity for pottery perhaps a holdover were happy wife plain models Stop by The Alliance For Varied Arts building to attend the festival and visit Beth at her studio — Carl Kuntze Fa The Herald Journal Friday Chris Chester Providence of a Sparrow with” Lessons From a Life Gone to the Birds Lifeless loichi dowi?££ gittiig you Friday October 4tb 130 North 100 East 730pm Perk up with o " - Deli-icio- us Logan Utah lunch from the GALLERY DELI C'A'FiFjEqI b is 5JHAC105AMISUZI1 l Reading & Reception October 200 young dancers perform RePETE from the 2002 Cultural Winter Olympiad Set to live music made famous by PeteSeeger If I Had a Hammer Wimaweh Gumitammera and more Free creative movement Wonderful Workshop for Kids Oct 5 435172-908- 9 October 9: $5 master classes taught by members of Repertory 5-- 11 Repertory Dance Theatre Oct 10 & 11 Cutting-edg- e modem dance with exciting music and colorful numbers like Blue Grass excerpts from Zvi Gotheiner's Chairs and Lapse (world premiere Oct 3 in Salt Lake City) Tickets: $6 adult $5 children (age three and up) and $30 for a family of np to seven Tickets: $20 $16 and $10 Student discounts available ' Sponsored by Utah Arts Council's Utah Performing Arts 1 bur ICON Health & Fitness Inc 945-VF- X EPenfeb 6 Call (435) or visit wwwellenecclestheatreorg 752-002- — i &3STT1 i11 i11'11" iT rrrrrr’rr "Tii The 9 - Dance Theatre Sponsored by Logan City Cultural Arts Grant Utah Arts Council's Utah Pejorating Arts Tour KUER ' FM90 The Herald Journal 27 Journal Cache Valley Center for the Arts presents Children's Dance Theatre Oct 7 2002 Cache and Miranda Trostie Alanna has been preoccupied wife pottery since she was nine and Miranda entered to be wife ha friends only to discover she enjoyed throwing pots After woridng wife clay for two years Miranda confesses !Tm obsessed wife it the forms I can come up grade woman her presence is unintimidating She fades into the background after giving her students a slight nudge Waking alongside than drey can watch her as the metamorphosis of a vessel takes shape She makes it look easy which is encouraging to novices eim amtBtttut rll from making mudpies Now they work with malleable clay manipulating it wife their fingers Tm amazed at their enthusiasm and their energy” Beth said “They really produce some fine SCZ3 e uJHff L i‘ THEATRE Page |