The Salt Lake County Council approved its 2010 Art Acquisition Budget at $10,000.00. The Salt Lake County Art Committee thanks all those who contacted their representatives.
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SL County Art Funding Threatened
Salt Lake County Arts Funding Threatened – Act NOW to Save It!by Sue Martin If you care about Salt Lake County’s support for visual arts – specifically, the county’s art collection – now is the time to weigh in on budget deliberations by the county council. Salt Lake County has an extraordinary collection of art...
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Trent Alvey’s Dress
Someone has decided that the Trustees of Westminster College shouldn’t be looking up Trent Alvey’s dress. That seems like a self-evident, uncontroversial proposition. But the dress is actually a work of art Alvey created in 2007, and has been hanging in the Giovale Library as part of the Westminster alumni exhibit. 9-foot tall bride’s dress,...
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Utah Arts Orgs Can Labor a Little More
The Utah Division of Arts and Museums and the Utah Arts Council Board of Directors has released a list of 14 arts organizations awarded federal stimulus funding to reinstate jobs that were lost or preserve positions at risk of elimination due to the economic downturn. This funding will save or restore jobs in Cedar City...
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Budget Crises and the Utah Arts Council
From our article "The State of the Community" . . . No outside organization currently exists to fill the role of the Folk Arts Program, however; and many, including former directors of the Utah Arts Council, don’t believe the program should be contracted out. The general unease felt at the Cultural Alliance Forum may not...
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Fine Arts in Survival Mode
USA Today published an article today entitled "Fine arts are in survival mode as funds dry up". Our upcoming edition of 15 Bytes (out Wednesday) will feature an article on how Utah’s own visual arts community is doing in this difficult economy, including the results of our survey on the topic in the February edition....
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Arts Funding Hangs in Balance
Yesterday the Senate passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act with a vote of 61 to 37. As the bill heads to Congressional conference, $50 million in recovery funds to be distributed by the National Endowment for the Arts hang in the balance. Unlike the Senate bill, which with the Coburn Amendment bars funding going...
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Congress says the Arts don’t need recovery
Recently, Americans have become upset with economic recovery funds going to rather dubious ends, like, say bonuses to the bank execs who helped cause the whole problem. Not to worry, Congress (who also helped cause the problem) is on top of things. Earlier this week Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) proposed an amendment to the economic...
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CUAC Shows its Commitment
Old Story: a Norwegian, a Scotsman, and a German walk into a community center in a tiny rural town. They’re carrying a suitcase that they claim contains treasures from the wider world. In an alternate version they claim the valise contains a time machine that can show the townspeople a glimpse of their own future....
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SL County Art Appropriation Makes the Cut
The Salt Lake County Art Committee held its annual Open House Tuesday Evening at the County Building on State Street. At the event, the committee unveiled its 2008 acquisitions and donations and showed a video of interviews with a number of the artists whose works were purchased (these videos will be appearing in our pages...
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Art Platforms
Last week the Salt Lake Tribune’s Julie Checkoway broke the story about the two presidential candidates platforms regarding the arts. As Checkoway reports, "artists and art-related nonprofits generate about $166.2 billion in revenue per year and $12.6 billion in annual taxes." Obama has for a long time hadhe explains, Obama has long had an arts...
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New Statewide Arts Education Program
Last week the Utah Arts Council announced the implementation of a new arts education program, the Beverly Taylor Sorenson Arts Learning Program (BTSALP). The Legislature has funded four years of the program named after the Utah philanthropist, arts activist, and founder of ARTWORKS FOR KIDS! Janet Wolf, former Director of Youth and Family Programs for...
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