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Show .V."' ' - w j l. jiu ji ii ii irn i T' ' " ' ' ' ' ;v C 1 ! ' ; V ' - ' Li TO EXHIBIT HiZFtE. Sigmon Kozlow, prominent American artist is shown here with painting "Winter Warmth", which was rsed by the Multiple Scherosis Society as its Christmas Cards for 19GG. lie will be exhibiting in Cedar City Spring Art Exhibit this year. Rich Visual Experience lissured In Coming Annual Cedar Art Exhibit Art patrons of southern Utah can look forward to a rich visual experience at the forthcoming 2Gth annual Cedar City Art Exhibit, Ex-hibit, according to Professor Thomas Leek, chairman of the show. The exhibit will open Sunday, April 17, and continue through Sunday, May 1 and will again be housed in the South Elementary Elemen-tary School activity room. It will be open daily from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. on week days and from 2 to 10 p. m. Sundays. , workshop at his studio at Mt. ! Carmel, Utah. He has been an j art instructor at a number of colleges and universities, includ- I ing University of California, Pasadena Pas-adena School of Fine Arts, Riverside River-side Art Center, and Rex Brandit Summer School of Painting, Corona Cor-ona del Mar, Calif. His paintings have been exhibited at national and regional exhibits with numerous num-erous awards. Many of his arti- I cles and illustrations have been published in books and magazines. maga-zines. He holds membership in thp National Academy of Desien special Dumiay tuieinuuii programs pro-grams will be held at 4 p. m. on April 17 with Professor Ellery L. Gibson, art department, Arizona State College, as guest speaker. Peter L. Myer, professor of art, Southern Nevada College, will be on the second program, April 24 and Dr. Blaine Johnson will conduct con-duct the final program on May 1. Renovating Project . A number of paintings have already arrived but before putting put-ting them into place the display committee, headed by Bob Spencer, Spen-cer, has been busy completing a renovating project. This included in-cluded painting all of the exhibiting ex-hibiting panels in order to provide pro-vide a background that will set off the artists' works to their best advantage. As an indication of the talent which will be represented during the exhibit the qualifications of a few of the artists include: Paul W. Mannen, professor of art at New Mexico State University, Univer-sity, was born in Topeka, Kan., received his BFA degree from the University of Kansas and his MA from Ohio State University. He has traveled extensively in USA, Mexico and West Germany. He has exhibited in 41 one-man and 285 other shows receiving various prizes in oil and water-color. water-color. He is listed in "Who's Who in American Art"; "Dictionary of International Biography" (published (pub-lished in London); "International "Internation-al Dictionary of Arts" (Berlin, Germany), and other volumes in America. Art Instructor Milford Zornes, Claremon, Cal., is presently conducting a spring American Water Color Society, any many others. Educational Bacltqround Robert Race, presently instructor instruc-tor of painting and sculpture at Jewish Community Centers, Denver, Den-ver, Colo., received his BFA and MA from University of Denver, Paris, France; University of Fine Arts, Mexico. He has participated participat-ed in national shows and was winner of the show of the 52 States. Paris France. Works of oil paintings, watercolors, drawings draw-ings and sculpture are in private pri-vate collections in many states, coast to coast. Some of his paintings paint-ings are currently exhibited at Madison Gallery in New York. Charles LaMonk, Palmdale, Calif., famed for his paintings of Indians and for his contributions to archaeology and art in preserving pre-serving the Pictographs and Per-roglyphs Per-roglyphs of the American Indian, will again exhibit some of his fine works. Air. LaAlonk brings to art a type of abstract symbolism symbol-ism uniquely American. He has spent many hours studying the, mechanics of Indian paintings, their color, design, differences , in "brush" work and each canvas can-vas is prepared to match exact-1 ly the color and rock texture of the area. Outstanding Reputation The Cedar City invitational show has become recognized as one of the important shows of its kind in the West. Owing to annual purchases by the college,: public schools, and private citizens citi-zens the show enjoys a high percentage per-centage of sales. In addition, an annual purrchase prize of $350' will be awarded, commencing j this year. j An artist from back east whoj will also lend prestige to the show in Sigmon Kozlow, Fines-! ville, N. J. He received his art: education at the National Aca- j demy of Design, New York and j the Fontainbleau School of Fine Arts, France. He has participated in major expositions all over the' United States as well as in many foreign countries. Mr. Kozlow has been the recipient of many awards including the Pulitzer Prize, S. J. Wallace Truman Award at the National Academy, for the best landscape by an American artist, and many other important awards. He is currently current-ly painting instructor at the Hunterdon County Art Center, at Clinton, N. J. |