Iron County Record | 1964-04-23 | Page 3 | Final Program to be Held at Art Exhibit

I Final Program to Be Held at Art Exhibit I The Twenty-fourth Annual Cedar Ce-dar City Spring Art Exhibit will close Sunday evening April 26, after two weeks in which enthusiastic enthus-iastic reception by hundreds of ! people, from school children to-' to-' the general public, from Cedar I City, the county, southern Utah and many distant places, who ' I 1 havp visited the exhibit. Final program of the exhibit will take place Sunday at 4:00 p. m. at which 'art lovers will hear a concert by a string ensemble en-semble directed by Roy L. Hal-versen Hal-versen and composed of Robert Bradshaw, June Thorley, Carol Ann Jones, Mary MacDonald and Evelyn Jones. The exhibit will remain open after the concert until 10 p. m. for the final day of the exhibit. Dr. Roy den C. Bra vaite, Director, College of Southern, Utah, spoke at the exhibit program pro-gram Sunday afternoon, on the topic "The Artist in Each of Us; Our Basic Struggle for Integrity, Freedom and Fulfillment." Emphasis was placed on the aspect of creativity and art being the responsibility of us all. Art i should be encouraged because all people have the need and i ability to be creative, the speaker said. "True expression is per- mitted only in a free culture, one j which permits growth, experi-mentation experi-mentation and fulfillment of the inner person," he continued. "Often, "Of-ten, sacrifice is an essential and iutegral part of art, our artists, deserve recognition for these con- tributions in the expressive me- ' dia of the theater, music, litera- ' ture and the visual and tactual ; art forms as well," Dr. Braith- i waite concluded. ! Sales interest, particularly among individual buyers, seems to be running much higher than for the past several years, which indicates that a substantial number num-ber of paintings will b.- sold before be-fore the exhibit closes Sunday.