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USU professor recreates Park City history By
Tiffany Erickson LOGAN -- A long-time Utah State faculty member has taken a step in preserving the history of Park City. Two years ago Marion Hyde, a professor for 33 years in the art department, received the Faculty Fellowship Award from the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies, an interdisciplinary center within the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. The award was a grant to fund an art project, which was creating woodcut prints of structures in old Park City that are no longer there. Hyde said he had taken pictures and sketched the buildings years ago in the 1960s before they were torn down. He ran across the sketches years later in the process of organizing his work. He then submitted a proposal for the project to the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies, describing the process and presentation of his project. Hyde has been working on the prints for two years and just completed them this summer. "The process takes some time," he said. He said that in doing woodcuts, the artists carves the picture onto the wood making something similar to a stamp. After it is carved the artist takes a rubber brayer, which is much like a paint roller using ink, and inks the wood to create a print. The prints are very detailed and Hyde incorporates his own styles and techniques into the pieces. With printmaking an artist can produce multiple prints. thus making the artwork more accessible. "With woodcut prints, you don't have to have a lot of money to get an art collection going," said Hyde. "They are remarkable," said Elaine Thatcher, associate director of the Mountain West Center. "There is more going on than just a picture of buildings. The designs that he incorporates within the prints is almost abstract." She said Hyde's project adds to the body of knowledge in the field as well as promoting some understanding of the Mountain West.
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