November 2, 2009, 3:40 pm
Visual artists across the country are encouraged to apply by
Saturday for a four-week artist-in-residence program at Zion National
Park.
Zion
and the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery at Southern Utah University's
College of Performing and Visual Arts are joining to offer the program,
in which one artist will be selected for each session between February
and April. The artist will be given a space to live and work, free of
charge, and will create artwork and present a public program to talk
about their experiences at the park. At the completion of the four-week
period, one piece of artwork created at Zion will be donated to the
Zion Natural History Association.
The
program is in its third year at Zion, but artists have been a part of
the park for more than a century. Artwork created in the national parks
serves as a voice for conservation efforts and creates a permanent
record of the parks.
