ART INSIGHTS: MICHAL LUCH ONYON & RICK GRAHAM @ Southern Utah University (Cedar City, November 7 and 8)

ART INSIGHTS: MICHAL LUCH ONYON & RICK GRAHAM,

WHAT:              A special week for Art Insights features two presentations by remarkable creative individuals. Painter Michal Luch Onyon, a Zion Artist-in-Residence, discusses her time in the National Park. Then illustrator and painter Rick Graham presents about the various turns his career path has taken.

WHO:               Art Insights, Southern Utah University, Department of Art and Design

WHEN:             Wednesday, November 7, 2012: Michal Luch Onyon

                        Thursday November 8, 2012" Rick Graham

TIME:               7:00pm

WHERE:           Onyon: Centrum, Room 229

                        Graham: Centrum Arena, Section K, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT

TICKETS:         Phone: Arts Hotline: (435) 865-8800 or visit: www.suu.edu/arts

PRICES:           Free and the General Public is encouraged to attend.

SPECIAL ART INSIGHTS WEEK

TO FEATURE TWO PRESENTATIONS

MICHAL LUCH ONYON, PAINTER,

RICK GRAHAM, ILLUSTRATOR AND PAINTER

NOVEMBER 7 & 8, 2012

Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah: There is just too much great art and too many artists in southern Utah! On two consecutive nights, SUU´s Department of Art and Design´s weekly lecture series, Art Insights offers presentations by two remarkable creative individuals. On Wednesday, November 7^th, Zion Artist-in-Residence Michal Luch Onyon, painter, discusses her experience in the National Park, then on Thursday November 8, 2012, illustrator and painter Rick Graham offers his presentation. Onyon´s lecture will be held in the Centrum room 229 while Graham´s will present in the Centrum Arena, Section K. Both presentations begin at 7pm. Admission is free and the general public is encouraged to attend.

Michal Luch Onyon received her BFA from the University of Utah. Influenced by her artist parents, she began a lifetime of creating art and her home has revolved around what was happening in "the studio." A study of her work reveals a sense of delight and imagination. Michal is inspired by the surprising directness of expression by primitive and folk artists as well as many of the modern artists. She has been steadily gaining recognition for her bold and colorful work. Michal began oil painting several years ago after a career in illustration and graphic design. She jokes about her past art lives." It seems strange to see the logo of a downtown restaurant, an illustration, t-shirt, poster, or a river running catalog done in my past. Fueled by ideas and assignments, I have made giant snowmen and wooden puppets for O.C. Tanner Christmas window displays, designed and painted furniture, constructed recycled art projects with elementary children, and done a ton of sculpey stuff with my own kids. My hobby has been pleine aire watercolors done on almost every vacation for 25 years. I think all these past experiences help me as I discover that painting encompasses more than a lifetime of challenges and ideas. It is a timeless feeling to escape everyday life by trying to capture and reinvent from a world so much bigger and varied than we can imagine".

Rick Graham received both his Bachelors of Fine Arts and Masters of Fine Arts degrees from the University of Utah. He is a painter whose art is currently featured at the Mockingbird Gallery in Bend, Oregon, and the Southham Gallery in Salt Lake City, Utah. Graham´s art career has included layout and storyboard art for animation, courtroom drawings and magazine illustrations. His work in found in numerous private collections and in the Spingville Art Museum´s permanent collection. Currently he teaches drawing and painting at Salt Lake Community College. For his Art Insights presentation, Rick Graham will offer an overview of the various areas he has worked in and address how he employs the latest technology for his art.

Art Insights is a weekly program hosted during the fall and spring semesters by SUU´s Art and Design faculty. Students and community members meet weekly to experience presentations and discussions by visiting artists and art educators from around the nation who share their work and insights and attend gallery openings. Admission is free, and the general public is invited to attend.

Explore the careers and art of two special creative people by attending their Art Insights presentations. For more information on the SUU College of Performing and Visual Arts events, please call the Arts Hotline at (435) 865-8800, or visit www.suu.edu/arts.