47 East 200 North St. George, UT 84770 (435) 627-4525 museum@sgcity.org Mon - Sat: 10am - 5pm 3rd Thursday 10am - 9pm Return to Current Exhibits Return to Past Exhibits Return to Future Exhibits Paint the Parks: National Park Art Show available: June 07, 2008 through July 17, 2008 PaintAmerica’s “Paint the Parks” Art Competition, an exhibit that tours the nation, helps fund the PaintAmerica mission of supporting the visual arts and artists across the country. A portion of the proceeds from “Paint the Parks” are contributed annually to the National Parks Foundation and the PaintAmerica Scholarship Fund. Paint the Parks100 with the Mini Top 50 is America's leading competition and exhibition designed to illustrate the beauty and significance of America’s National Parks. Paintings must depict one of our nation's 390 areas supervised by the National Park Service. Juried paintings are chosen by a three person panel of nationally recognized artists or arts professionals. For the 2007 show, the jurors are Liliane Francuz, Ann Trusty, and William Scott Jennings. In each of the three National Park Regions that Paint America uses to divide the nation, a winner is chosen, plus the Grand Prize Purchase Award of $10,000. Art, amazing and transforming art, helped create the desire to found the Park system in order to protect and preserve the American marvels for us - for all time. The National Parks are an American invention, and as the Utah writer, Wallace Stegner said the National Parks are “the best idea we ever had”. The St. George Art Museum is ideally suited to show art of the National Parks due to St. George’s beautiful red rock location near the famed parks, Zion, Bryce, and Grand Canyon. Indeed the Paint the Parks exhibit is a prelude to the Art of Zion: A Century of Sanctuary exhibit which is the most important and comprehensive exhibit of Zion National Park ever mounted. The latter exhibit will be featured at the St. George Art Museum from August 25, 2008 to January 24, 2009. The 3rd Tuesday Art Conversations continue with four of the Paint the Park artists. On Tuesday, June 17th, we feature Arline Tinus and Don Weller, and on Tuesday, July 15th, Less Lull and Richard Lloyd Biddinger.