Cedar City Arts Council Updates

  The Cedar City   Arts   Council (CCAC) invites local   artists   to create a poster for the   America  250 City  Art  Poster Project.   This project is to show the breadth of American cities and selected  posters will be displayed at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C. in January. As the Local  Arts  Agency, the CCAC is coordinating the Cedar City effort with cash prizes for three of the Cedar City entries. The top entrant will receive $500 with two runner up awards of $100 each. Deadline for submissions to CCAC is Oct. 15.  The specifications for the posters are available at  https://www.usmayors.org/ wp-content/uploads/2026/07/25. 101.USCM_.250.Poster.Specs_.3. MEC_.pdf You can submit your Cedar City  Art  Poster to both the national and local contacts (1)   pdf  directly to national  contest  at  https://docs.google.com/forms/ d/e/ 1FAIpQLSes43uS4Sgjhqu4EkHOnL...

  A Poetry Soulstice Danielle Beazer Dubrasky (Guest column for Iron County Today)   At a time when the arts struggle for validation, advocacy, and funding, why would anyone devote decades to reading, writing, or teaching poetry? The medium poets use is words—those intangible lenses that shape our perceptions. When we tell frustrated toddlers, “Use your words,” we are actually training them to become poets. Because that is what poets do—we use our words from our inner worlds to create a linguistic work of art, often inspired by the exterior world.   I teach poetry, and the first assignment I give is a “Cyclical Haiku.” Students write a series of haikus, one each day at set times: dawn, mid-morning, noon, afternoon, twilight. I did have one student protest, “But I’ve never seen the dawn.” To dispel any ideas that haikus are trite or limited to only a 5-7-5 syllable count, we study The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa , translations of ancient Japa...

  Having a Place to Play (column for Iron County Today) by Sara Penny, CCAC Vice President Putting on a concert requires having a place to perform. The original Social Hall, public school auditoriums, SUU facilities, and the Heritage Center Theater have all provided venues for concerts, plays, and dances. We are now looking forward to the opening of the new SUU Music Building, which includes a concert hall.  Cedar City has embraced music since the first people who called this valley home.  The Paiute traditions remain strong, as domonstrated by  the annual Restoration Pow Wow.    By the time the pioneers arrived in Cedar City, there was already both an English choir and an American choir according to Morris Shirts, whom my daughter interviewed for a school project.  When the pioneers began settling the area in 1851 they held dances accompanied by fiddles.  By 1861, they needed a place for concerts and community events, so a Social Hall was propose...

 Thanks to everyone who participates.  Here are a few photos.  Looking foward to seeing you again July 31. Coyote Bluegrass, a video snippet:  short music video link Southern Utah Handbell Choir Peter Buis at IG Winery Jason Tyler Burton at Shape Theory Ceramics Community Studio April Richardson and Tanisa Crosby, clarinet and flute at Johnson Art Center  (Orchestra of Southern Utah musicians) Richard and Marla McMaster and friends at Stone Path And at the Johnson Art Center SideNote at Artisans Gallery Laughing Larks Flute Ensemble Badwater at SUMA Plaza Lots of variety at the Green, on the corner of 100 West Center Started out windy, but ended up being a pleasant evening. There was also music on 200 West as part of the Beverley Center for the Arts tenth anniversary Galleries at 111 South Main are also open for the Art Walk Gold River Gallery Kolob Gallery Art Walks continue July 31: