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Show Paintings Arrive for 19th Annual Art Show; Opening Set April 12th The nineteenth annual Southern South-ern Utah Spring Art Exhibit will officially open Sunday afternoon, April 12, when Donald A. Wright, assistant professor In the department depart-ment of fine arts at Utah State University, will deliver an ad-dress ad-dress on the subject of "The Craftsman's Place in Contemporary Contempor-ary Society," and demonstrate and exhibit his craftsmanship! He is a metalsmith and features sterling Jewelry and hollowware, and will have a most interesting demonstration prepared for the patrons of the annual a-t exhibit. exhi-bit. The exhibit will open at the Cedar City High School gymnasium gymnas-ium on that day and continue through Sunday, April 26. Two other lecture programs will be presented, one on each of the two following Sundays, Apii! 13 and 26. Emil Kosa, prominent Los Angeles artist and popular exhibitor in the Cedar City annual an-nual show, will be speaker on the second Sunday. On the final day a lecture program of chamber cham-ber music will be featured. Schedule Told The exhibit will open daily, Monday through Friday. The hours will be 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. and 7 p. m. to 10 p. m. On Saturdays Sat-urdays and Sundays the exhibit will open at 2 p. m. and remain open until 10 p. m. Visitors are welcome at any time durir.g regular reg-ular hours. Arrangements can be made for conducted tours of the exhibit at any time with local artists available avail-able to discuss the paintings with groups who wish to visit the exhibit under these arrangements. arrange-ments. Mrs. Charles R, Hunter will be In charge of gulue ser-v!? ser-v!? a lid arrangements for group visits may be made by contacting her. As in the past all paintings exhibited will be offered for sale, providing an unusual opportunity opportuni-ty for citizens to make selections to add to their collections and also for institutions and organizations organi-zations to find variety In media and subject matter for collections. collec-tions. Any one Interested In making mak-ing a purchase should make the selection as early as possible, and not run the risk of losing a choice painting to an earlier purchaser. pur-chaser. Response High The response to Invitations to exhibit has been unusually encouraging, en-couraging, . and a look at the many paintings already delivered deliv-ered to the committee Indicates that range and quality of art to be found in the 1959 exhibit will surpass any of the past 18 years. No one should fail to visit the exhibit, whether Just to view and enjoy the paintings, or to make purchases. Clubs and other groups are especially Invited to arrange visits to the exhibit at any convenient hour. |