JANUARY 2014 ARTS INSIDER
The Board of Directors of the Cedar City Arts Council wants to thank you for your membership, support, and contributions to the arts community in Cedar City. 2013 has been a great year for us and our community and we are looking forward to 2014!
Please join us for our next networking event on February 10 at Gallery Gala, located at 63 W. Center Street. Let's welcome our newest art gallery, enjoy live performances by Lynn Vartan and Suzuki Strings, nosh and network! This free event begins at 7:00 p.m. Gallery Gala is a fine art gallery focusing on modern contemporary and non-representational art.
The Cedar City Arts Council Professional Development series begins on February 8, from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. at the Aquatic Center. For more information about the professional development sessions being offered, please contact Debbie Drake, CCAC Board Member at ddrake@swatc.edu.
The Cedar City Arts Council provides financial grant opportunities to artists and arts organizations and has recently revised the grant application and guidelines. Anyone who may be interested is encouraged to apply for the next deadline of February 28! Visit our website at http://www.cedarcityartscouncil.org/grant for more information.
Additional questions can be submitted to artistgrant@cedarcityartscouncil.org.
EVENTS CALENDAR
On Wednesday, January 8th, the Cedar City Arts Council Literary Group will meet in the Library in the Park at 7:00 p.m. to discuss Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies . This is the second of a trilogy about Thomas Cromwell. For more information, please contact Mary Anne Andersen, CCAC Board at 865-6882.
Cedar City Music Arts presents: Michael Ballam at the Heritage Theatre, 7:30 pm on January 17, 2014.
Works of Korean fine artist Young Sil Rho are on display at Southern Utah University in the third floor of the Gerald R. Sherratt Library. SUU’s Introduction to Art Gallery & Museum Studies class selected thirteen yet-to-be-exhibited works for this exhibition. This exhibition will be on display through February 1, 2014.
Shifting Velocity Dance Company will be premiering in Cedar City on February 14 & 15 at 7:30 pm in SUU's Multipurpose Center, Studio 116. The concert will showcase danceworks by Denise Purvis and will include guest performances by St. George Dance Co., Boizelle & Dancers, Kay Andersen, Paul Ocampo & Chien-Ying Wang. The event will be the official launch of Cedar City's own professional modern dance company. Tickets are $10/general admission, $5/students, $30/family of 6, available at the door. Couples attending on Valentine's day will receive $1 off per ticket. Call 804-971-7657 for more information.
Music Event Weekly Update compiled by Tim Cretsinger at Groovacious: http://groovaciousutah.blogspot.com
Festival City USA offers a Cedar City community calendar to which you're encouraged to post events. You may also receive a weekly update of events. http://festivalcityusa.com/cedar-city-events/
Southern Utah University provides a multitude of cultural events.
For current listings visit http://www.suu.edu/pva/arts/
Please submit Calendar events for the CCAC newsletter by the 15th of each month.
We want to invite you and your friends and family to join the Cedar City Arts Council.
Membership forms are available to download athttp://www.cedarcityartscouncil.org/membership
Reprinted from Iron County Today
Written by Teri Saa
Calling all artists craftspeople and art enthusiasts
Cedar City has, for many years, supported and appreciated the arts in all of its forms: visual, performing, literary, and film.
Southern Utah University, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Heritage Theater, the Neil Simon Festival, the Orchestra of Southern Utah, Groovefest, and many other performers and organizations (think dance, community theater, and art galleries) have made Cedar City the wonderful art-focused community that it is today.
But, Cedar City is not stopping at today. Tomorrow is just around the corner and tomorrow promises to be great!
The Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts, which includes the new Southern Utah Museum of Art or “SUMA” and an expanded Utah Shakespeare Festival, will be completed in the not-too-distant future.
The Arts Council, the city council, and the downtown “Cultural Crescent” of businesses will collaborate on a new cultural corridor. The Cedar City Arts Council will expand its artists’ grant program and will begin offering professional development workshops. And this is just the beginning.
Cedar City and Iron County are poised to explode on the arts scene, but, to accomplish this, your help is needed.
If you’re an artist, craftsperson or enthusiast, we need you:
• To share in the excitement as Cedar City matures into the next cultural hub of the Intermountain West (Proudly invite your friends).
• To participate in our many electrifying events (Volunteer).
• And to become part of an expanding network of people supporting our mission of fostering a thriving arts community in Iron County through advocacy, appreciation, education, and support (Many small hands make a big difference).
If you’re an artist, craftsperson, or enthusiast, you need us:
• To advocate for the arts and artists in our community (We can help advertise your event).
• To encourage the creative spirit and support the arts as a vital economic force (People will spend money here to attend first-class events).
• To educate and engage people of all ages in visual, performing, and literary art forms through diverse programming and community outreach (Let us help you find some volunteers).
• And to support as well as help fund the creative endeavors of our community artists and small arts organizations (Could you benefit from a little financial help?).
Help make Cedar City the new arts destination of Southern Utah and we need you to join the Cedar City Arts Council, thus ensuring that tomorrow becomes today.
Joining the Cedar City Arts Council is easy. Simply go to the website www.cedarcityartscouncil.org, fill out and print the membership form. Mail the form along with your yearly membership fee of only $25 to the Cedar City Arts Council, PO Box 2655, Cedar City, UT 84721. Or send an email to membership@cedarcityartscouncil.org.
The Cedar City Arts Council is supported in part by the Utah Arts & Museums, with funding from the State of Utah and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Happy New Year from the Cedar City Arts Council!
