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Show rAifii ncounu "The Park City Arts Festival symbolizes the uniqueness of Park City." "Tina Touch" Graces 10th Annual Park City Arts Festival directors. In 1977, local artist Pat Smith was sole director, and - in 1976 Joan Seaman directed the event. Tina Lewis has been working on the festival since the middle of January, a job she said is "all consuming." In the past two months, Tina has worked 16-18 hour days, beginning at 7 a.m. and sometimes not leaving her office at the Kimball Art Center until after midnight. "There are so many details," Tina said. "The fun of it for me has been dealing with all of the people who have a part in the festival. It's an energizing kind of thing, working up to the last two days. As each day passes, it gets more exciting, I get more energy And there's a crisis every day. I thrive on chaos, and there is chaos every day preparing for the Arts Festival." The Park City Arts Festival Festi-val is like a locomotive, Tina added, "It. has its own momentum and energy." The massive job of preparing prepar-ing for the festival can be both challenging and exhausting, ex-hausting, Tina laughed, adding, add-ing, ''You have to be crazy to have this job!" And after the festival is over Sunday, the 32 year old Director said she plans to sit back, relax and "catch up on some, reading." "But ten years from now," Tina smiled, "I would like to be here to see the 20th Annual Park City Arts Festival." - illiiSpS:: fit: "f : s ,iiiP' ii - ;l.M 11 1 L i s i j V ' ' 0r n Festival Director Tina Lewis Park City's, annual summer sum-mer arts festival has grown in stature Over the years and is now considered one of the most important festivals in the country. This year it takes on a special historic significance as it celebrates its tenth anniversary. And no one is more aware of what this year's art festival will have to offer, than the director, Tina Lewis. v "The Park City Arts Festival, more than any , other single event, symbolizes symbo-lizes the uniqueness of Park City," said Tina.. "It is funded, coordinated and - juried by Park City people. It's truly a community festival." The largest selection of art work and crafts in the state will be on display this weekend. 170 artists and craftsmen, 96 of whom are " from Utah, will exhibit their work. Over 20 performers, including singers, dancers and musicians will be entertaining enter-taining this weekend at two stage areas, one located at the bottom of Main Street and the - other next to The Park Record office. Thirteen of the artists live in Park City, ane fifteen states will be represented (Oklahoma, New York, Texas, Idaho, California, Utah, , Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Missouri, Ore- gon, Washington, Mississippi, Missis-sippi, Nex Mexico, as well as Washington, D.C. Tina said the art work on display this year can be divided into thirteen categories, categor-ies, including paintings, clay, fiber, glass, jewelry, woodprint making, medal, photography, drawings, leather, lea-ther, collage, and "other" of miscellaneous. "The variety is marvelous," marvel-ous," Tina said. "Just in the category of wood we have carved birds,' toys, hollow ware, pipes, lamps; musical instruments, and miniature replicas of Victorian fiouses." ':.;jA children's Arts Festival, "TJie Whippersnapper Wonder "Show," will be held this weekend at city park in conjunction with the Park City Arts Festival.-There will be sixteen performances, eight Saturday and eight Sunday, beginning at 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. A sampling , of. performances include j chamber music, the After- ( ..-moon Players from Pioneer ( Memorial Theater, Utah - i : A cademy of Gymnasts, folk c singing, mime, folk dancing, f a childrens percussion band, Utah Opera Company, the ; local drama group Park City Players, and improvisational theater. The Childrens Festival will be connected to the Main Street festival by way of a hay wagon shuttle which will travel to and from the Coalition Building and city ; park. yy-J- w-Z. Considering this is the Tenth Annual Park City Arts Festival; Tina Lewis sais she spent a lot of time learning about festivals held here in the past. "I wanted to get a broad picture of what the festival meant to people who had been involved in it in the past," she said. As the years passed, the arts festival evolved into a reunion for many artists who returned here in the summer to participate in the event. In fact, some artists who for the first time participated in the, festival decided . to live in Park City permanently (local . artist John Arenskov, for; example)- 6 Thave tried to make this , year's festival a very special x vent for the artists who will be participating," Tina said. "I think artists are often forgotten." An artists check in party will be held Friday night at Kimball Art Center at which time the artists will receive a variety of complimentary tickets to events in Park City. In keeping with the historic histor-ic significance of this year's festival, Tina said the Depot will be open and "full of life." Historic photographs of Park City will hang inside, and a food booth as well as an information booth will be located on the dock. Park City's arts festival has attracted tremendous popularity over the years; many artists have sent requests for applications. As Tina Lewis explains, "We are now attracting artists from all over the country who've heard about the Park City Arts Festival and want to be part of it. We sent out over 5000 applications to 45 states this year." This is the first year the festival has had a full-time paid Director. There is also a six person Arts Festival Executive Committee, representing repre-senting the Chamber of Commerce, Kimball Art renter, Park City Municipal Corporation, private busi-less busi-less and the local artist community. Last year, the estival had five volunteer |