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Show Art scene f/r/i Faculty art on display by George Dibble Exams catch up with the student at the year's end but usually get to the art faculty at the begin-ning. The Salt Lake Art | Center is |opening new ac-itivities I with a fa-iculty exhibition I by an ex-jpanded I staff of Mr. Dibble 19 instructors who will teach subjects ranging from Children's Workshop to calligraphy. The latter, taught by Gail Kass, offers an introduction to the art of handwriting with intensive work on 16th Century scripts and experience with calligr raphic techniques. Mrs. Kass' exhibit in-eludes book covers, music script and examples of fine calligraphic writing. The new course with others will bring the total student enrollment to 300, according to Wayne Gledhill, Director of the Art Center. Ceramic Display The ceramic display includes pottery by Milt Beens and Ellen Gibson and some outstanding blown glass made by Beens at the Snowbird studios during the summer. A green bowl is notable as well as double element pieces performed with two globules of heated glass. A rose colored vase features textures arising from tiny bubbles developed in the forming process. A new wrinkle involves canes â€" imported colored glass rods â€" in design applied to an opalescent vase. Sam Collett's painting of a scarf has an animate warmth. Metal figures in a cafe setting and a group of small figurines are by Sally Nelson. They have a wiry vitality that appeals. Wall pieces that deal with urbane subjects are rather involved in a crafty engagement with shrubbery, porch railings and the like â€" a sort of three-dimensional pen and ink, but very busy. Poetic Feeling I*aul EUingson's waterl L color n HousP11 comes off well with a goad manner |^y^_ S^il^^ for ^^j^oHBSFiEiay of "Francisco seems hung up with fairly dull passages and some tedi-ious engagement with 1 washes. His watereolors entertain considerable poetic feeling with confident reliance on intuitive kg£s:,. "Sam's Fantasy" is an oil study of a young boy caught up in a facied role of big game hunter. Earl Jones has portrayed the would-be nimfod at the ecstatic shiny-eyed moment when the real world has faded. Opulant trophies glow in resonant painting. It is another of Jones' outstanding studies of youthful figures which he does well. A circular motif by Dale Gibbs forms an effective overmantle piece â€" a spot that seems to draw attention in the east gallery. Sharlene Christensen's watercolor "Tree" is a forth-right statement with deft rendering and a positive manner. A companion study is rather involved with some, labored passages and fairly complex in design. Crayon and watercolor are exercised in interesting interchange in Blake Larsen's drawings. A group of photographic studies by Harold Excell, Kim Whitney and Mark eyer seem grouped too closely for good viewing, especially with a diversity of framing and matting techniques. D. Brent Bird D. Brent Bird grew up in Springville surrounded by the themes that he later developed in his incisive pen and ink drawings. Limned in his studies are the fine old barns, pioneer homes and vintage farm tools featured in interesting shapes and delicate decorative detail â€" subjects that compel attention for their warmth and understanding. Graduating in art from Brigham Young University, he turned his attention to drawing and painting and in partnership with A. Dean Massey and Fred D. Williams helped to found the Hole In The Wall Art Gallery. He subsequently turned to full time production supplying art to galleries in the intermountain states and in the Mid-west. He recently moved to Salt Lake with his wife and four children where he also developed production of prints from his original drawings. The artist was killed in an airplane crash in the Uinta Mountains, interrupting a promising career that has impressed all who have come to know him personally and through familiarity with his works. I |