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Brilliant birds — Artist is inspired by nature
By Dave Gagon
Deseret Morning News
Published: December 23, 2007
Why birds?
This oft-repeated question continually plagues watercolorist Kimberly Roush. Her routine response: "It's just an instinctual attraction."
Of course, the argument could be made that she paints birds with such grace and ability because she was raised in a family where the commitment
to maintaining our natural environment was emphasized.
"I just love to watch birds," Roush said, "and I like the challenge of identifying different species."
She moved from Pittsburgh to Utah in 1978 after graduating from Carnegie-Mellon University in graphic design. While working for Thiokol in
Logan, Roush met her future husband, Scott Lewis, and together they spent a great deal of time outdoors. She also did some bird-watching with
Allen Stokes, professor emeritus of animal behavior at Utah State University.
After Roush and her husband spent a year in Sacramento, Calif., they returned to Utah.
"It was in Salt Lake that I got in with the really top-notch birders," she said. Roush's love for birds was such she even took nature classes from
Terry Tempest Williams, Ella Sorenson and Mark Stackhouse.
In 1982, she entered the University of Utah's painting and drawing program, receiving her second bachelor's degree in fine arts in 1990.
Today, Roush loves the challenge of getting a bird and its environment down on paper with watercolor. But her journey as a fine artist hasn't
always been easy or appreciated by some teachers and critics.
"My instructors would tell me, 'Kim, you can't paint birds. It's not acceptable as fine art."' This type of pigeonholing irritates Roush because, to
her, painting birds is fine art.
"Lars Jonsson is one artist I admire," she said. "In his book he states how he decided to continue painting birds because he's not concerned with
what's in vogue. I really admire that; he's committed to the birds, and I think that's part of where I'm coming from. Not only do I love them and love
to paint them, I think they're important."
Roush paints with watercolors because of her extreme allergic reaction to multiple chemicals.
"When I got my degree at the U., I had to wear a respirator in my oil painting classes because we had no ventilation and everybody was using
solvents."
Art professor Paul Davis taught Roush how to use oil paints without solvents, but it made her paintings very dry, giving them a dragged brush
stroke look.
One day, while doing some house remodeling, she became very sick from glue. "At that point," Roush said, "I started reacting to everything around
me, and that's where my whole life fell apart."
Following a long recovery, Roush tested every pigment in search of a medium that wouldn't harm her. Eventually, she settled on egg tempera and
experienced some commercial success with her art. However, while the medium didn't physically distress her, Roush ultimately found egg tempera
too restrictive and repetitive for her desired style.
After discovering a brand of watercolor that used honey as a binder instead of harmful preservatives, as well as a new Arches watercolor paper
with safe sizing, Roush began again, teaching herself the techniques and idiosyncrasies of watercolor painting.
"I just love the quality of watercolor," she said, "the range of softness to the brilliant and intense color I can get."
Recently, Roush's watercolor, "Grebe on Purple," was juried into the 2007 traveling exhibit, "Birds in Art," at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art
Museum in Wausau, Wis. (She was also in the show in 1998 and 2002.)
The watercolor is an exquisitely rendered, visually delicate piece, and a fine representative sample of the caliber of her work.
"I painted 12 versions of that piece and we chose, I think, the seventh version," said Roush. "I'd get about halfway done and I'd say, 'Nope. I don't
like it,' and I'd start another one."
Roush prefers painting from life. "It allows me a more direct connection to my subject," she said. "However, many of my paintings of birds require
time in the studio, composing and repeated study of the bird itself by painting and photographing in the field."
Although reliant on photography, Roush is not interested in a detailed, photographic look. "I prefer attempting to capture the essence and spirit of
my subject in a more intimate, painterly fashion."
Her favorite subject is shorebirds, and she tries to spend as much time as possible at the Great Salt Lake. Recently, she's thought about moving to
California so she can more easily paint the birds that so intrigue her.
Ultimately, she would like to do what Jonsson does: "Go out and do my paintings all from life, because you can tell. They're not photographic
images; you can feel the bird there. That's my ultimate goal."
For Roush, it is a conscious decision to continue painting birds. Despite what Roush calls the derogatory label of "wildlife artist" applied nearly
universally to any artist painting God's creatures, she believes it is important to paint the birds.
"In our society today," she said, "we need to rethink how we organize our lives and what we care about."
Roush has exhibited her work at Union Station in Ogden, the Kimball Art Center in Park City and the Mockingbird Gallery in Bend, Ore. She is
seeking gallery representation in Utah.
Utah under cover for Christmas
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 12/15/2007 02:21:00 PM MST
Between Orson Scott Card, Richard Paul Evans, Robert Fulghum and Terry Tempest Williams, Utah has its share of prominent authors. But the
Beehive State also is filled with lesser-known writers who produce respected books in all genres, from literary novels to sci-fi to volumes on
Mormonism and Western history.
Here's a closer look at eight such titles, all published within the past few months. Several are by major publishers; others are self-published. Few
will be best-sellers, and most will appeal to limited readerships. But each could potentially make a worthy Christmas gift for the book-loving
Utahn on your list. Maybe even you.
All should be available online or through local bookstores. -Brandon Griggs
Wallace Stegner's Salt Lake City, Robert C. Steensma (University of Utah Press; $29.95) - This coffee-table book offers a snapshot of early-20th-
century Salt Lake through the eyes of Stegner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who spent his teens and early adulthood in Utah's capital.
Steensma, an emeritus professor at the University of Utah, weaves together biography, excerpts from Stegner's writings and vintage photographs to
form an affectionate portrait of Stegner's adopted hometown from the turn of the century through the 1930s. Steensma chronicles the author's 15
years in Salt Lake plus how the city shows up in Stegner's fiction and essays. But the most eloquent passages about Utah
e from Stegner himself. "Salt Lake City is a divided concept, a complex idea," he wrote in his essay "At Home in the Fields of the Lord." "To the
devout it is more than a place; it is a way of life, a corner of the materially realizable heaven; its soil held together by the roots of the family and the
cornerstones of the temple." Although he was not LDS and left Utah by age 30, Stegner later visited and discovered "much of my youth is there,
and a surprising lot of my heart. It has such a comfortable, old-clothes feel that it is a shock to see again how beautiful this town really is . . .
protected behind its rampart mountains, insulated from the stormy physical and intellectual weather of both coasts." Steensma's book will appeal
to Stegner buffs and anyone who wants to see, or remember, what the Salt Lake Valley was like in the days before urban sprawl.
My Family, Mi Familia: A Young Anglo Woman's Journey Into a Mexican-American Family, Rebecca Guevara (Panoply Publishing; $17) - Its
title nonwithstanding, Guevara's book is actually a novel. She is an Anglo woman and Utah native who is married to a Mexican-American: Sam
Guevara, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson's chief of staff. The protagonist of her new novel, Abby Baker, is an Anglo woman and Utah
native who also marries a Mexican-American. In other words, Guevara clearly knows her material. Abby is a na ve 21-year-old when she meets
Mauricio "Maury" Arias, a student from a Catholic-Mormon family, at Fashion Place Mall. After several years of off-and-on dating, they marry in
1988. Over the next decade or so, Abby has two sons while overcoming cultural barriers and trying to reconcile Maury's family with hers.
Guevara's tale may resonate with anyone with a foot in two ethnic or religious cultures.
The Sisterhood: Inside the Lives of Mormon Women, Dorothy Allred Solomon (Palgrave Macmillan; $24.95) - Because the LDS Church is viewed
by many as a patriarchy, the quieter contributions of Mormon women often go overlooked. Solomon blends personal experiences - she's perhaps
best known for her book about growing up in a polygamous Mormon household - with discussions of LDS doctrine and practices to illuminate the
lives of ordinary "sisters in Zion." Although many Mormon women have sacrificed careers to raise families, Solomon generally finds them to be
happy. Her thesis: Because of their unique circumstances, LDS women form strong bonds with one another and build a collective sisterhood that
wields surprising power within the church.
A Long and Winding Road, Win Blevins (Forge Books; $25.95) - No, it's not about the Beatles. This is the ninth book by Blevins, a southeastern
Utah novelist who spins colorful stories about the 19th-century American West. This tale, the fifth in his Rendezvous series, continues the
adventures of Sam Morgan, a mountain man from Pennsylvania who makes a name for himself on the wild frontier. In this novel, Morgan journeys
onto the Indian lands of New Mexico to rescue two kidnapped Mexican brides. "Blevins is a master of mountain-man lore," says Publishers
Weekly, which calls the book "a whopper of a Western yarn."
The Mormon Trail Revisited, Gregory M. Franzwa (Patrice Press; $24.95) - If you've wanted to follow every inch of the 1,400-mile trail that
brought Brigham Young and thousands of other pioneers from Nauvoo, Ill., to Utah, this is the book for you. Franzwa, a Tooele-based historian,
retraces the old route down to the tenth of a mile and offers detailed driving directions, complete with odometer readings, for anyone looking to do
the same. In some places, the pioneers' 150-year-old wagon-wheel ruts are still visible. With passion for his subject and some witty advice,
Franzwa makes a companionable guide. "Do not try this alone," he writes. "There is the driver and there is the reader, and they should never be one
and the same."
The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson (Tor Books; $27.95) - Sanderson is a Provo writer whose award-winning debut fantasy novel, Elantris,
was discovered at a fantasy convention while he was still in college. Now he's back with the second installment in his Mistborn trilogy about a
Lord of the Rings-like kingdom of magical powers and evil forces. In the first volume, a band of rebels overthrew a savage dictator; in this book,
they discover that filling the resulting power vacuum may be an even greater challenge. From his evocative opening sentence, "The army crept like a
dark stain across the horizon," Sanderson wastes no time in plunging the reader into his epic tale.
Lost Landscapes: Utah's Ghosts, Mysterious Creatures, and Aliens, Linda Dunning (Cedar Fort; $16.99) - A few minutes with this book and you
may be convinced Utah is a spooky place. Dunning gathers Indian legends, folklore and pioneer histories to chronicle Utah's ghosts, UFO sightings,
crop circles and other bizarre, unexplained happenings. She also profiles such mythical critters as Bigfoot (spotted around the state in the 1970s
and '80s), the Bear Lake Monster and an alligatorlike creature seen more than a century ago in the Great Salt Lake. In one chapter, Dunning even
offers a first-person account of encountering the ghost of a woman in a Utah antique shop. Oooh.
Read, Remember, Recommend: A Reading Journal for Book Lovers, Rachelle Rogers Knight (Bibliopages; $14.95; available from The King's English
Bookshop in Salt Lake City or www.bibliopages.com) - This volume will assist bibliophiles who want to catalog their reading experiences or work
their way through the literary canon. To help readers fill their nightstands, Knight gathers respected lists of recommended books, from Pulitzer
winners to Oprah's picks to the Modern Library's 100 best novels. She then creates space for readers to jot down their thoughts about what books
they've read and which passages they found most memorable
RSVP: Your guide to Utah's social scene and the people who make a difference
By Judy Magid
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 12/01/2007 10:44:09 AM MST
The 2007 Deseret Foundation Holiday Quilt Show and Auction Nov. 9 brought 450 guests to Little America Hotel for a stunning display of hand-
quilted, hand-pieced quilts of varying sizes and subjects ranging from baby quilts of "Brambleshoots and Quackers " and "Children's Zoo," to the
full size, traditional "Americana Row Quilt," and the 25-by-25 inch "Miniature Magnificent Possession."
When the bidding was over, proceeds from the auction and the six-day pre-auction show came close to $165,000 for medical research and education
for Intermountain Medical Center, LDS Hospital, Alta View Hospital and The Orthopedic Speciality Hospital (TOSH).
Started as an annual event in 1983, the quilt show quickly became a biannual happening because of the length of time it takes to complete a quilt. In
early years, occasional machine-quilted work was allowed but today, all are hand quilted.
Show stoppers included "From Our House to Yours," selling for $15,000; "Gentlemen's Club," $5,800; "Safari Sunset," $8,000; and "Star Burst,"
$7,000.
Quilting groups' names are as colorful as their creations: Tooele County Quilters, Morgan Family, Ties that Bind Quilt Group, Crazy Quilters,
Piecemakers, Bountiful Ridges Quilt Group,
-
Southridge Quilters, Corner Canyon Quilters, South Cache Quilters, Gone to Pieces, Maple Mountain Quilters, Cornpatch Quilters, Piece of Mind
Quilt Guild, Thimble Creek Quilters, Roy Pioneer Quilters, Main Street Quilters, Quilt Addicts, Quilt Set Quilt Guild of Brigham City, Heritage
Quilters, and Girlfriends Quilt Group.
Among the bidders
Deseret Foundation Board Chairman Ronald S. Hanson and Shirley Hanson, show chairwoman Jolene Bennett and Noall Bennett, Carol Holding,
Nathali Ainslie, Jodi Howick, David and Lisa Larsen, Julie and Tom Thorum, Donna Thorum, Mitzi Siebert, Ruth Ewers, Kim and Jennifer Bertin,
Lynn and Carolyn Pett, Nancy Henderson, Tom and Kathy Kelly, Judy and Ray Peterson.
Entrada Institute
Celebrating Colorado Plateau
The invitation to the Nov. 3 Entrada Institute party was for an evening of " . . . fun, camaraderie and the opportunity to wear casual attire to a
formal occasion," and from all reports, the 140 folks attending had a good time at the Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business Auditorium,
Westminster College.
The Entrada Institute celebrates the Colorado Plateau, promoting appreciation of the national, historical and cultural heritage of the Capitol Reef
area.
Artist Doug Snow received the Ward Roylance Award, named in honor of Entrada's co-founder to recognize individuals and organizations
combining an interest in arts and education, with a focus on outdoor education.
The evening brought close to $15,000 for institute projects.
Guests included Robert Adler, Michelle Straube, Tony and Catherine Weller, Judy B. Rollins, Chris Montague, Brooke Hopkins, guest speaker
Ron Carlson, Don Gomes and Annie Holt, Carole Gnade.
Coming up
* Great Salt Lake Council of the Boy Scouts of America annual Holiday Auction is Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Salt Palace Ball Room, 90 S. West Temple.
Dinner, auction. Tickets are $150; call 801-582-3663.
* Cole Sport and the Italian Trade Commission co-host an evening of Italian fashion and opera by The East Village Opera Company, Saturday,
Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City. Proceeds benefit Performing Arts Foundation student outreach programs.
Tickets from $18 to $65; call 435-655-3114.
By Dave Gagon
Deseret Morning News
Published: December 23, 2007
Why birds?
This oft-repeated question continually plagues watercolorist Kimberly Roush. Her routine response: "It's just an instinctual attraction."
Of course, the argument could be made that she paints birds with such grace and ability because she was raised in a family where the commitment
to maintaining our natural environment was emphasized.
"I just love to watch birds," Roush said, "and I like the challenge of identifying different species."
She moved from Pittsburgh to Utah in 1978 after graduating from Carnegie-Mellon University in graphic design. While working for Thiokol in
Logan, Roush met her future husband, Scott Lewis, and together they spent a great deal of time outdoors. She also did some bird-watching with
Allen Stokes, professor emeritus of animal behavior at Utah State University.
After Roush and her husband spent a year in Sacramento, Calif., they returned to Utah.
"It was in Salt Lake that I got in with the really top-notch birders," she said. Roush's love for birds was such she even took nature classes from
Terry Tempest Williams, Ella Sorenson and Mark Stackhouse.
In 1982, she entered the University of Utah's painting and drawing program, receiving her second bachelor's degree in fine arts in 1990.
Today, Roush loves the challenge of getting a bird and its environment down on paper with watercolor. But her journey as a fine artist hasn't
always been easy or appreciated by some teachers and critics.
"My instructors would tell me, 'Kim, you can't paint birds. It's not acceptable as fine art."' This type of pigeonholing irritates Roush because, to
her, painting birds is fine art.
"Lars Jonsson is one artist I admire," she said. "In his book he states how he decided to continue painting birds because he's not concerned with
what's in vogue. I really admire that; he's committed to the birds, and I think that's part of where I'm coming from. Not only do I love them and love
to paint them, I think they're important."
Roush paints with watercolors because of her extreme allergic reaction to multiple chemicals.
"When I got my degree at the U., I had to wear a respirator in my oil painting classes because we had no ventilation and everybody was using
solvents."
Art professor Paul Davis taught Roush how to use oil paints without solvents, but it made her paintings very dry, giving them a dragged brush
stroke look.
One day, while doing some house remodeling, she became very sick from glue. "At that point," Roush said, "I started reacting to everything around
me, and that's where my whole life fell apart."
Following a long recovery, Roush tested every pigment in search of a medium that wouldn't harm her. Eventually, she settled on egg tempera and
experienced some commercial success with her art. However, while the medium didn't physically distress her, Roush ultimately found egg tempera
too restrictive and repetitive for her desired style.
After discovering a brand of watercolor that used honey as a binder instead of harmful preservatives, as well as a new Arches watercolor paper
with safe sizing, Roush began again, teaching herself the techniques and idiosyncrasies of watercolor painting.
"I just love the quality of watercolor," she said, "the range of softness to the brilliant and intense color I can get."
Recently, Roush's watercolor, "Grebe on Purple," was juried into the 2007 traveling exhibit, "Birds in Art," at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art
Museum in Wausau, Wis. (She was also in the show in 1998 and 2002.)
The watercolor is an exquisitely rendered, visually delicate piece, and a fine representative sample of the caliber of her work.
"I painted 12 versions of that piece and we chose, I think, the seventh version," said Roush. "I'd get about halfway done and I'd say, 'Nope. I don't
like it,' and I'd start another one."
Roush prefers painting from life. "It allows me a more direct connection to my subject," she said. "However, many of my paintings of birds require
time in the studio, composing and repeated study of the bird itself by painting and photographing in the field."
Although reliant on photography, Roush is not interested in a detailed, photographic look. "I prefer attempting to capture the essence and spirit of
my subject in a more intimate, painterly fashion."
Her favorite subject is shorebirds, and she tries to spend as much time as possible at the Great Salt Lake. Recently, she's thought about moving to
California so she can more easily paint the birds that so intrigue her.
Ultimately, she would like to do what Jonsson does: "Go out and do my paintings all from life, because you can tell. They're not photographic
images; you can feel the bird there. That's my ultimate goal."
For Roush, it is a conscious decision to continue painting birds. Despite what Roush calls the derogatory label of "wildlife artist" applied nearly
universally to any artist painting God's creatures, she believes it is important to paint the birds.
"In our society today," she said, "we need to rethink how we organize our lives and what we care about."
Roush has exhibited her work at Union Station in Ogden, the Kimball Art Center in Park City and the Mockingbird Gallery in Bend, Ore. She is
seeking gallery representation in Utah.
Utah under cover for Christmas
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 12/15/2007 02:21:00 PM MST
Between Orson Scott Card, Richard Paul Evans, Robert Fulghum and Terry Tempest Williams, Utah has its share of prominent authors. But the
Beehive State also is filled with lesser-known writers who produce respected books in all genres, from literary novels to sci-fi to volumes on
Mormonism and Western history.
Here's a closer look at eight such titles, all published within the past few months. Several are by major publishers; others are self-published. Few
will be best-sellers, and most will appeal to limited readerships. But each could potentially make a worthy Christmas gift for the book-loving
Utahn on your list. Maybe even you.
All should be available online or through local bookstores. -Brandon Griggs
Wallace Stegner's Salt Lake City, Robert C. Steensma (University of Utah Press; $29.95) - This coffee-table book offers a snapshot of early-20th-
century Salt Lake through the eyes of Stegner, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who spent his teens and early adulthood in Utah's capital.
Steensma, an emeritus professor at the University of Utah, weaves together biography, excerpts from Stegner's writings and vintage photographs to
form an affectionate portrait of Stegner's adopted hometown from the turn of the century through the 1930s. Steensma chronicles the author's 15
years in Salt Lake plus how the city shows up in Stegner's fiction and essays. But the most eloquent passages about Utah
e from Stegner himself. "Salt Lake City is a divided concept, a complex idea," he wrote in his essay "At Home in the Fields of the Lord." "To the
devout it is more than a place; it is a way of life, a corner of the materially realizable heaven; its soil held together by the roots of the family and the
cornerstones of the temple." Although he was not LDS and left Utah by age 30, Stegner later visited and discovered "much of my youth is there,
and a surprising lot of my heart. It has such a comfortable, old-clothes feel that it is a shock to see again how beautiful this town really is . . .
protected behind its rampart mountains, insulated from the stormy physical and intellectual weather of both coasts." Steensma's book will appeal
to Stegner buffs and anyone who wants to see, or remember, what the Salt Lake Valley was like in the days before urban sprawl.
My Family, Mi Familia: A Young Anglo Woman's Journey Into a Mexican-American Family, Rebecca Guevara (Panoply Publishing; $17) - Its
title nonwithstanding, Guevara's book is actually a novel. She is an Anglo woman and Utah native who is married to a Mexican-American: Sam
Guevara, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson's chief of staff. The protagonist of her new novel, Abby Baker, is an Anglo woman and Utah
native who also marries a Mexican-American. In other words, Guevara clearly knows her material. Abby is a na ve 21-year-old when she meets
Mauricio "Maury" Arias, a student from a Catholic-Mormon family, at Fashion Place Mall. After several years of off-and-on dating, they marry in
1988. Over the next decade or so, Abby has two sons while overcoming cultural barriers and trying to reconcile Maury's family with hers.
Guevara's tale may resonate with anyone with a foot in two ethnic or religious cultures.
The Sisterhood: Inside the Lives of Mormon Women, Dorothy Allred Solomon (Palgrave Macmillan; $24.95) - Because the LDS Church is viewed
by many as a patriarchy, the quieter contributions of Mormon women often go overlooked. Solomon blends personal experiences - she's perhaps
best known for her book about growing up in a polygamous Mormon household - with discussions of LDS doctrine and practices to illuminate the
lives of ordinary "sisters in Zion." Although many Mormon women have sacrificed careers to raise families, Solomon generally finds them to be
happy. Her thesis: Because of their unique circumstances, LDS women form strong bonds with one another and build a collective sisterhood that
wields surprising power within the church.
A Long and Winding Road, Win Blevins (Forge Books; $25.95) - No, it's not about the Beatles. This is the ninth book by Blevins, a southeastern
Utah novelist who spins colorful stories about the 19th-century American West. This tale, the fifth in his Rendezvous series, continues the
adventures of Sam Morgan, a mountain man from Pennsylvania who makes a name for himself on the wild frontier. In this novel, Morgan journeys
onto the Indian lands of New Mexico to rescue two kidnapped Mexican brides. "Blevins is a master of mountain-man lore," says Publishers
Weekly, which calls the book "a whopper of a Western yarn."
The Mormon Trail Revisited, Gregory M. Franzwa (Patrice Press; $24.95) - If you've wanted to follow every inch of the 1,400-mile trail that
brought Brigham Young and thousands of other pioneers from Nauvoo, Ill., to Utah, this is the book for you. Franzwa, a Tooele-based historian,
retraces the old route down to the tenth of a mile and offers detailed driving directions, complete with odometer readings, for anyone looking to do
the same. In some places, the pioneers' 150-year-old wagon-wheel ruts are still visible. With passion for his subject and some witty advice,
Franzwa makes a companionable guide. "Do not try this alone," he writes. "There is the driver and there is the reader, and they should never be one
and the same."
The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson (Tor Books; $27.95) - Sanderson is a Provo writer whose award-winning debut fantasy novel, Elantris,
was discovered at a fantasy convention while he was still in college. Now he's back with the second installment in his Mistborn trilogy about a
Lord of the Rings-like kingdom of magical powers and evil forces. In the first volume, a band of rebels overthrew a savage dictator; in this book,
they discover that filling the resulting power vacuum may be an even greater challenge. From his evocative opening sentence, "The army crept like a
dark stain across the horizon," Sanderson wastes no time in plunging the reader into his epic tale.
Lost Landscapes: Utah's Ghosts, Mysterious Creatures, and Aliens, Linda Dunning (Cedar Fort; $16.99) - A few minutes with this book and you
may be convinced Utah is a spooky place. Dunning gathers Indian legends, folklore and pioneer histories to chronicle Utah's ghosts, UFO sightings,
crop circles and other bizarre, unexplained happenings. She also profiles such mythical critters as Bigfoot (spotted around the state in the 1970s
and '80s), the Bear Lake Monster and an alligatorlike creature seen more than a century ago in the Great Salt Lake. In one chapter, Dunning even
offers a first-person account of encountering the ghost of a woman in a Utah antique shop. Oooh.
Read, Remember, Recommend: A Reading Journal for Book Lovers, Rachelle Rogers Knight (Bibliopages; $14.95; available from The King's English
Bookshop in Salt Lake City or www.bibliopages.com) - This volume will assist bibliophiles who want to catalog their reading experiences or work
their way through the literary canon. To help readers fill their nightstands, Knight gathers respected lists of recommended books, from Pulitzer
winners to Oprah's picks to the Modern Library's 100 best novels. She then creates space for readers to jot down their thoughts about what books
they've read and which passages they found most memorable
RSVP: Your guide to Utah's social scene and the people who make a difference
By Judy Magid
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 12/01/2007 10:44:09 AM MST
The 2007 Deseret Foundation Holiday Quilt Show and Auction Nov. 9 brought 450 guests to Little America Hotel for a stunning display of hand-
quilted, hand-pieced quilts of varying sizes and subjects ranging from baby quilts of "Brambleshoots and Quackers " and "Children's Zoo," to the
full size, traditional "Americana Row Quilt," and the 25-by-25 inch "Miniature Magnificent Possession."
When the bidding was over, proceeds from the auction and the six-day pre-auction show came close to $165,000 for medical research and education
for Intermountain Medical Center, LDS Hospital, Alta View Hospital and The Orthopedic Speciality Hospital (TOSH).
Started as an annual event in 1983, the quilt show quickly became a biannual happening because of the length of time it takes to complete a quilt. In
early years, occasional machine-quilted work was allowed but today, all are hand quilted.
Show stoppers included "From Our House to Yours," selling for $15,000; "Gentlemen's Club," $5,800; "Safari Sunset," $8,000; and "Star Burst,"
$7,000.
Quilting groups' names are as colorful as their creations: Tooele County Quilters, Morgan Family, Ties that Bind Quilt Group, Crazy Quilters,
Piecemakers, Bountiful Ridges Quilt Group,
-
Southridge Quilters, Corner Canyon Quilters, South Cache Quilters, Gone to Pieces, Maple Mountain Quilters, Cornpatch Quilters, Piece of Mind
Quilt Guild, Thimble Creek Quilters, Roy Pioneer Quilters, Main Street Quilters, Quilt Addicts, Quilt Set Quilt Guild of Brigham City, Heritage
Quilters, and Girlfriends Quilt Group.
Among the bidders
Deseret Foundation Board Chairman Ronald S. Hanson and Shirley Hanson, show chairwoman Jolene Bennett and Noall Bennett, Carol Holding,
Nathali Ainslie, Jodi Howick, David and Lisa Larsen, Julie and Tom Thorum, Donna Thorum, Mitzi Siebert, Ruth Ewers, Kim and Jennifer Bertin,
Lynn and Carolyn Pett, Nancy Henderson, Tom and Kathy Kelly, Judy and Ray Peterson.
Entrada Institute
Celebrating Colorado Plateau
The invitation to the Nov. 3 Entrada Institute party was for an evening of " . . . fun, camaraderie and the opportunity to wear casual attire to a
formal occasion," and from all reports, the 140 folks attending had a good time at the Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business Auditorium,
Westminster College.
The Entrada Institute celebrates the Colorado Plateau, promoting appreciation of the national, historical and cultural heritage of the Capitol Reef
area.
Artist Doug Snow received the Ward Roylance Award, named in honor of Entrada's co-founder to recognize individuals and organizations
combining an interest in arts and education, with a focus on outdoor education.
The evening brought close to $15,000 for institute projects.
Guests included Robert Adler, Michelle Straube, Tony and Catherine Weller, Judy B. Rollins, Chris Montague, Brooke Hopkins, guest speaker
Ron Carlson, Don Gomes and Annie Holt, Carole Gnade.
Coming up
* Great Salt Lake Council of the Boy Scouts of America annual Holiday Auction is Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Salt Palace Ball Room, 90 S. West Temple.
Dinner, auction. Tickets are $150; call 801-582-3663.
* Cole Sport and the Italian Trade Commission co-host an evening of Italian fashion and opera by The East Village Opera Company, Saturday,
Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd., Park City. Proceeds benefit Performing Arts Foundation student outreach programs.
Tickets from $18 to $65; call 435-655-3114.
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