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Show Artists selected for '85 summer Art Festival by Nan Chalat To accommodate all of the 772 artists who applied for this summer's Art Festival, Main Street would have to be three and a half times longer. And on a hot summer's day it would be tough (if not impossible) to muster the stamina necessary to see all of them. So, out of necessity, the applications were culled by five juries each specializing in one or two specific mediums. The juries were made up of working artists, gallery owners and art professors from Park City and Salt Lake City and they completed their work Thursday. Two hundred and thirty artists will receive letters of acceptance this week, said festival director Mary Runge. Ceramicists and painters made up the two largest categories, Runge said. Of 152 applicants in the clay category only 38 could be accepted. "And the decisions were difficult to make. Almost all of it was very high quality," she said. Thirty-two painters were accepted of 123 applicants. One of the more , T. unusual entrants displayed a hu- J morous style similar to the style found on the cover of New Yorker magazine. "He was accepted even though we weren't sure what category he belonged in," Runge said. Other unusual entries included hand-carved wooden walking sticks with bone and antler handles, and musical gourds, she said. "The jurors accepted some beautiful beauti-ful raku ceramics and functional wood carved bowls," Runge said. There will also be nine glass-workers, glass-workers, 13 leather workers, eight metal and three stone sculptors, 12 photographers, 12 printmakers and 23 jewelers displaying their artwork on Main Street during the festival this August, Runge said. In addition, 31 fiber artists were chosen. And, according to Runge, their work is on a par with the best weavings found in Santa Fe. The Park City Artists Association judged its own entrants separately. Ten of the 14 applicants were accepted. After the artists respond with their space rental fees, Runge will begin to make street assignments. "The technical director will come on board in May," she said. |