Cedar City Arts Council Fall Social honors Carol Ann Modesitt
By Sara Penny
The Cedar City Arts Council is excited to host a public fall social to give community members an opportunity to become acquainted with some of our local artists. The Cedar City Arts Council Fall Social will be held Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. at the Heritage Center’s Festival Hall. Enter by second floor of parking garage or through office and upstairs. The event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.
The Cedar City Arts Council socials are held three times a year and are meant to showcase and celebrate some of the artists who have received mini-grants from the Cedar City Arts Council. Live music, art displays, and reports on the use of mini-grant funds are just some of the exciting events you can expect to find at these fun-filled networking social opportunities.
The arts award for this year will be presented to Carol Ann Modesitt. She served as president of the Cedar City Arts Council and helped with restarting the group as well as obtaining nonprofit status. She continues to lead the opera program at SUU. Her students have succeeded nationally and internationally as performers and teachers.
The fall social will feature music and art displays by Steven Swift, a local musician and artist who was the recipient of a Cedar City Arts Council mini-grant in 2018. Stephanie Watters Flores, also a recent recipient of a Cedar City Arts Council mini-grant, is an artist and owner of AE&D Art Studio. Flores will provide an art demonstration and discuss some of the opportunities available through the studio, which includes art classes, workshops, private lessons, and an array of equipment and supplies intended to help and encourage creative individuals to express themselves through visual art and design. Also featured will be musical selections played by talented members of the Suzuki Strings Cedar City program and art displays by local artists Michael Bové, Alexa Harding, and Lawrence Laskowski.
The Cedar City Arts Council has been a strong advocate for the arts in Iron County since the 1980s and has sponsored a variety of community music and arts events including a long-running arts festival, the monthly Final Friday Art Walk event, and the triannual Cedar City Arts Council Social. The group is currently celebrating ten years of helping to support local artists through their highly popular mini-grant program.
