WHAT: Last year, dozens of art enthusiasts trekked into the southern Utah landscape with regional artists to discover how an artist interprets vistas into art. In summer 2012 art devotees can join artists on three different hikes that explore the creative process, the SUMA Art Hikes. Join artist Steve Yates as he uses the camera lens to capture the natural beauty of the landscape.
WHO: SUMA (Southern Utah Museum of Art) Community Engagement Committee
WHEN: Saturday, June 16, 2012
TIME: 9:00am
WHERE: Cedar City Main Street Park, east side (near main pavilion), Cedar City, UT
TICKETS: Free and open to the general public. All children must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
INFO: For detailed info and requirements, call (435) 586-5462 or visit www.suu.edu/pva/suma.
SUU?s SUMA Community Engagement Committee
Launches Second Year of Free Art Hikes with Regional Artists
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah: In summer 2011, dozens of art enthusiasts trekked into the southern Utah landscape with various established regional artists to discover how an artist interprets vistas into art. Once again, in summer 2012, art devotees can join artists on three different hikes that explore the creative process, the SUMA Art Hikes. Beginning on Saturday, June 16, 2012, hikers can join renowned artist Steve Yates with a trek into the Dixie National Forest from the Leeds Creek Kiln Trail. The Art Hikes have been created by the Southern Utah Museum of Art?s (SUMA) Community Engagement Committee to build public awareness for the proposed museum. All Art Hikes are free.
SUMA Art Hikes have been created to provide an opportunity for the southern Utah community to discover the special places where local artists gain inspiration for their art. Participants will get to hike to these inspiring locations with the artist as well as a representative from the Public Lands who will educate and enlighten the hikers to learn more about these unique locales. In addition, all participants are encouraged to bring their own art supplies (sketch books, pencils, pastels, watercolors or whatever a hiker?s media) and cameras to capture the natural beauty of the region for themselves.
On Saturday, June 16, 2012, Steve Yates hikes into the Dixie National Forest from the Leeds Creek Kiln Trail. On the hike, Yates plans to use photography as the medium for capturing the landscape. He will discuss how to effectively use a view finder to capture a specific area of the landscape which an artist can use back in the studio and translate onto the canvas. Participants are encouraged to bring their own cameras to the hike.
A Colorado transplant, Steve Yates defines Cedar City as home. His connection to the Southern Utah community and the beauty of the landscape that surrounds him provides ample ammunition to inspire his creations. A lover of art from his earliest years, Steve said he could still remember when he was a child and would draw images of spirits, which his parents would dutifully tuck away for safekeeping. Fascinated with the paranormal and the unexplained Steve said his artistic endeavors have always teetered on the edge of the unusual. His surreal exploitation of canvas through digital media offers an enamored public new material to gobble up beyond that of the typical Southern Utah landscape imagery. It expresses the many layers of reality Steve sees in the world around him. ?Sometimes it sort of comes out like a stream of consciousness. Sometimes there is an underlying theme. I have always thought that what we see isn?t always what we get when it comes to reality.? Though the thought is not an original concept, the idea is one that has always captured Steve?s attention. The brilliant results have continued to tickle the playful minds of his admirers. Steve hesitates to place specific meaning on a piece he has created as he knows that art is just as personal for the viewer as it is for the creator.
Additional tours this summer include exploring the wonders of Kolob Canyon with Anne Weiler-Brown on Saturday, June 30th and the Summit Petroglyphs with Todd Prince on Saturday, July 14th.
SUMA Art Hikes are free and open to the entire community. All ages are welcome. Hikers will meet at Cedar City Main Street Park, east side (near main pavilion) at 9 am. Participants are welcome to bring their own art supplies. All children must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
Hikers need to provide: Own transportation, an adequate lunch, sturdy hiking shoes or boots, knapsack, a minimum one quart of water per person, rain jacket, personal first aid kit, sun screen protection, and layered, comfortable clothing (for any type of weather). Walking sticks and insect repellant are recommended but not required.
The SUMA Community Engagement Committee thanks those individuals and organizations that have helped make the Art Hikes happen: Anne Smith, SUU Instructor, Outdoor Recreation in Parks and Tourism (ORPT), Coordinator, Outdoor Education Series, the National Parks Service and the Cedar City and St. George offices of the Bureau of Land Management.
Detailed information can be obtained by calling (435) 586-5462 or visiting www.suu.edu/pva/suma. To make a contribution to SUMA, please contact Donna Law, Director of Development: CPVA, at 435-865-8182 or law@suu.edu. Contributions can be made online at www.suu.edu/pva/suma.
ABOUT THE COLLEGE
The Southern Utah University College of Performing and Visual Arts is comprised of nationally accredited departments of Art and Design, Music, Theatre Arts and Dance, as well as a graduate program in Arts Administration. The College offers 16 different degree areas, including liberal arts Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees; professional Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Fine Arts in art and theatre degrees; and a Master of Fine Arts in Arts Administration degree. More than 60 full- and part-time faculty and staff are engaged in teaching and mentoring over 550 majors in the College. Over 1100 students enroll each year in over 195 arts classes on the SUU campus. The College presents 100 performances, lectures, presentations, and exhibitions each year. The College?s affiliate organizations include the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, American Folk Ballet, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and the SUU Ballroom Dance Company. For more information about the College of Performing and Visual Arts, contact the Office of the Dean at (435) 865-8561, or by email at cpvamktg@suu.edu.
FOR CALENDAR EDITORS: SUMA ART HIKES: THE DIXIE NATIONAL FOREST, WITH STEVE YATES
WHAT: Last year, dozens of art enthusiasts trekked into the southern Utah landscape with regional artists to discover how an artist interprets vistas into art. In summer 2012 art devotees can join artists on three different hikes that explore the creative process, the SUMA Art Hikes. Join artist Steve Yates as he uses the camera lens to capture the natural beauty of the landscape.
WHO: SUMA, Southern Utah Museum of Art, Community Engagement Committee
WHEN: Saturday, June 16, 2012
TIME: 9:00am
WHERE: Cedar City Main Street Park, east side (near main pavilion), Cedar City, UT
TICKETS: Free and open to the general public. All children must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
INFO: For detailed info and requirements, call (435) 586-5462 or visit www.suu.edu/pva/suma.
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