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Show U 1 -1 L READIES WORK FOR ART EXHIBIT. Tom Leek, chairman of the Cedar City Art Committee Com-mittee displays entry for the 34th Annual Art Exhibit to be held in November. The event has been moved to the fall to avoid numerous conflicts con-flicts that developed during annual spring presentation. Invitations issued for 34th annual Cedar City Art Exhibit cepted exhibit. Contributions are encouraged as are sales. The annual exhibit has had good sales. The 33rd annual exhibit recorded almost $4,000 in sales, including annual purchases by public schools, colleges, universities, businesses and private citizens. A 20 percent commission will be retained by the Cedar City Art Committee on ah" sales. Over three hundred invitations have been mailed to artists throughout the United States who wish to display their particular area of skill in the thirty-fourth annual invitational professional Cedar City Art Exhibit to be held in the South Elementary School Multi-purpose Room Nov. 2 through Nov. 15. The artists will be competing for $2000 in purchase pur-chase and cash awards in painting, watercolor, drawing and prints. Judge of the exhibit will be Professor W. Wayne Kimball, Jr., Art Department San Diego State University. Professor Kimball will present a demonstration demon-stration on processes in fine art color lithography at the exhibit on Saturday, November 2, at 8 p.m. The following Saturday, Nov. 9, at 8 p.m., the Cedar City String Quartet will perform. The initial program w ill be follow ed by a tea and there will be a special drawing for a contributed painting. On the 9th there will be a drawing for a $100 purchase award for the winner. Tickets for the second drawing will be given for each $5.00 donation and the ticket holder need not be present to win. At the opening of the exhibit on the 2nd, the winner w ill need to be present to win the donated painting. Committees are busy making preparations for the exhibit, under the general chairmanship of Professor Tom Leek, Southern Utah State College. The finance committee has a special chore in raising matching funds in the amount of $11,000 from the national endowment of the arts through the Utah State Institute of Fine Arts. The Cedar City exhibit will receive $3,000 to be matched during fiscal 1974-75, $3,500 to be matched during fiscal 1975-76 and $4,500 to be matched as a proposed bi centennial sculpture program. The finance committee is under the guidance of Robert L. Gardner. The exhibit is open to artists by invitation only. Works must be dated after 1971 and not shown before in southern Utah. There is no entry fee and each invited artist may submit two works. The public in the entire color country area is invited to this prominent and nationally ac- |
