Arts

OREM -- A 116-year-old Steinway concert grand piano is being restored after students and alumni helped raise $32,000 to preserve the instrument.

NORTH OGDEN -- Tempers flared Saturday afternoon at the North Ogden Arts Festival when local artist and Weber State University professor Steve Stones got some strange looks and comments over his art display.

OGDEN -- Nella Forsberg and her family fancied their mini-meatball submarine sandwich for dinner Friday.

KAYSVILLE — Davis School District students were honored during a reception at Zion’s Bank for their exhibits in the Gloria Nielson Annual Art Show for Senior Students from Davis School District.

The event is sponsored by the American Association of University Women, Kaysville/Davis Branch.

Students were presented with certificates, ribbons and cash prizes.

LAYTON -- Several Top of Utah teachers have turned to a program sponsored by the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theater Company to encourage their students to write and compose their own operas.

Luke Tuttle took Best of Show in Bountiful/Davis Art Center's annual Davis School District Secondary Student Exhibition, with a photograph titled "Holi Delhi."

"What I think is amazing about the photograph is that it looks like a National Geographic cover," said Emma Dugal, executive director of the art center.

Tuttle, a senior at Bountiful High School, took the photo at a Holi festival put on by the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork. During the annual spring celebration, participants throw colored powders.

One lecture from my world civilization teacher changed my whole outlook on everything.

Now, all my life I've always liked being creative. Art class was fun; being able to color and paint without being in trouble was a dream. But never did I know that classes like these aren't only fun, but enrich our society and can save America from the troubles it's facing. So why then do school districts and the government cut art programs first?