he 2010 Cache County Fair and Rodeo continues Aug. 13 and 14 at the Cache County Fairgrounds. For more information, visit www.cachecounty. org/fair. This weekend’s entertainment lineup includes:
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4 to 5 p.m. — Pink Stilettos 5 to 6 p.m. — Comas 6 to 7 p.m. — Just Friends 7 to 8:30 p.m. — Doowah Riders 9 p.m. — Rough Stock
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12 to 1 p.m. — High Point Gymnastics 3 to 4 p.m. — Carvin Anderson and Carol Anderson 4 to 5 p.m. — Kalei Hogan 5 to 6 p.m. — Mark Gibbons 6 to 7 p.m. — Crimson Rose 7 to 8:30 p.m. — Doowah Riders 9 p.m. — Double Wide
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Although the styles of the images appear to be similar, at least two, perhaps three, episodes of painting are apparent.
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sponsor “The Art in Rock Art,” a Utah Arts Council Traveling Exhibit featuring photographs by USU professor Craig Law that chronicle Utah’s prehistoric rock art, on display Aug. 13 through Sept. 15 in the library’s atrium gallery. This traveling exhibit is part of the library’s ongoing exhibit series. Law will be featured in an exhibit lecture and public reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 2, in Merrill-Cazier Library Room 101. The lecture and reception are free and everyone is invited. The photographs included in “The Art in Rock Art” have not previously been exhibited and were selected from a larger documentary project called the BCS (Barrier Canyon Style rock art) Project conducted by Law and BCS project director David Sucec. Utah is home to numerous world-class prehistoric rock art sites. These sites and the ancient artworks are a critical record of Utah and North American cultural history. Yet, these sites are virtually unprotected. Many sites have
been seriously compromised by vandalism, others by accelerated aging and weathering. Beginning in 1991, the BCS Project sought to document any and all known sites of prehistoric Barrier Canyon style rock Law art in Utah. To date, the project has photographed more than 212 rock art sites. Law, BCS Project photographer, is a professor in the art department at USU. He is a nationally acclaimed photographer whose work has been exhibited in many university and private galleries throughout the country and abroad. His photographs of indigenous pictographs and petroglyphs in the Barrier Canyon country of Utah were published in a feature story in Smithsonian Magazine. In 2008, he was the recipient of the national Oliver Award from the American Rock Art Research Association for his work on the Barrier Canyon Style Project.
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