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Show :m!W4J' .:,-V- Workers erected KPCWs antenna Sunday on top of the Memorial Building. Navajo Photo Exhibit Opens Navajo Home Life, an; exceptional exhibition featuring featur-ing photography by the Navajo children of Montezuma Creek, opened June 9th at the Utah Arts CounciPs Glendinning .Gallery An outgrowth of an ; ArtistV-in-the-Schools prcP gram that has .beenpperatng3 at the reservation for over a year, "Navajo' -Home Life will be on display through June 27th. "J..; The photographic works on exhibition represent the culmination cul-mination of the efforts of a dedicated teacher and photographer. photo-grapher. Bruce Hucko. Employed Em-ployed as an oral language specialist at Montezuma Creek Elementary School on the Utah Navajo Reservation, Bruce has, through his passion pas-sion for the art of photography developed a unique children's photographic workshop at the school. Assisted by the Council's Coun-cil's Artists-imthe-Schools program, the workshop has, in addition to producing exceptional excep-tional photographs, enhanced the children's awareness of themselves, their environment and their personal sense of. responsibility. , The works themselves intimately inti-mately portray the children's perspective of life on sl reservationSometimes touch- ing, sonietimes humorous, but ? always sensitive jn nature, the ; exhibition weaves a moving CjKf trait -of thinahve Ameri-ban Ameri-ban ujture. ?Perhaps as 'singular' as leir emotional content is the technical excel-s lence of the prints. They clearly display the amazing creative as well as mechanical abilities these childre, whose average age is 10. 4 ; " All works in "the , exhibition are for sale. Proceeds will be , used to fund supplies , and equipment sorely needed to keep the worksop functioning. J The Glendinning .Gallery is ; located at; 617 East South Temple in Salt 5 Lake City. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday from 9:00-5:00. "The programs of the : Utah Arts Council do not discriminate on the basis of handicap in' admission,, access or employ- f ,menl, and are in compliance with the Section 504 regula- ; lions of the Rehabilitation' Act of 1973. |