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Show "The Works 76" to feature outdoor festival of Artists and Craftsmen Snowballing enthusiam from interested artists and craftsmen to participate in "The Works '76," an outdoor festival of the arts being held May 28-31 at Southern Utah State College, has waranted an extension of the jurying date for exhibitors. "We had previously planned that artists submit slides of their works to be juried by March 14 but increased interst in the event has merited the extension until April 1," Steve Rohl, event The pioneer music group is but one of several groups of musicians and demonstrating artists that have made plans to visit SUSC for the Memorial Day weekend. Rohl noted that successful radio and television contacts have been made concerning "The Works" and that several hundred packets of information had been sent high schools and other interested groups. . "The background for our poster is Kolob Canyon," he said, "because we wish to introduce peoplefrom surrounding areas to the beauties of a southern Utah spring as well as to invite them to become involved in the festival." More information about "The Works" is available by contacting con-tacting Mr. Rohl, in care of the SUSC Art Department, SUSC, Cedar City, UT 84720. driector, notes. The four-day festival, which is planned in the manner of a Renaissance fair, will be held outdoors on the SUSC campus. Fair visitors are invited to take advantage of the four-day festival, which will include art shows, musical presentations, a panel discussion, movies, guest speakers, art-music-drama workshops and outdoor arts and crafts sales. "Most of the productions and all of the workshops, demonstration, demon-stration, and lectures will be free to the public," Rohl, a senior drama major from Las Vegas, said. "The Works 76, A Concurrence Con-currence of the Arts," is being cooperatively sponsored by SUSC art, drama, and music departments and is designed to attract spring tourists to the campus, to involve the student,' teacher, artist and the community com-munity and to serve as a common com-mon ground for inspiration between the arts. Rohl reports that the Deseret String Band, a group of historical musicians, will present an outdoor concert May 28 and will participate in workshops during the festival. |
