2/5 SALT LAKE CITY ARTS COUNCIL
The Salt Lake City Arts Council’s Public Art Program has announced the selection of Seattle-based artist-led team Haddad|Drugan for the 400 South Viaduct Trail project, a key initiative aimed at revamping the corridor linking the city’s West and East sides. Laura Haddad and Tom Drugan will work closely with the project’s design team to infuse the corridor with artistic elements that enhance visual identity, ensure safety for all users, and celebrate the community’s involvement. Prioritizing pedestrian, cyclist, and mobility device user safety, the project seeks to bridge the East-West divide in Salt Lake City with a focus on transportation equity. Haddad and Drugan plan to engage with West Side communities through events and consultations to reflect their voices and aspirations in the corridor’s design, emphasizing light, color, and wonder in their art. Selected from 72 candidates, their work will culminate in a design process through 2024, with construction expected to begin in 2025.
2/2 SLTRIB: The movie business is booming in Utah and other takeaways from a new culture industry report
Utah’s cultural industry is supporting more jobs than before the COVID-19 pandemic, with the movie and sound recording industry growing faster than any other sector, according to a new report.
The report, released Friday by the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, found that the culture industry — film, performing arts, museums, publishing and so on — directly supported nearly 70,000 jobs in 2022, spending $14.9 billion.
1/29 CANVASREBEL: Meet Elizabeth Sanchez
Last year I worked on a set of paintings that were very intimate and close to my heart. The show titled “Así se Acaba el Mundo/This is How the World Ends” was exhibited at Brigham Young University and was inspired by a turbulent time in my life. The paintings invite reflection toward the constant endings and life’s beginnings. This group of paintings was inspired by what at some point felt like the dominoes of many ends of my world. …
1/26 SMALL LAKE CITY: FANTASY ARTIST – HOWARD LYON
Embark on a fantastical voyage with the illustrious Howard Lyon as he paints a vivid picture of his evolution from a dragon-doodling youngster to a masterful artist for Magic: The Gathering and Brandon Sanderson’s enchanting novels. Our conversation threads through Howard’s early infatuation with the artistry of fantasy and Dungeons & Dragons, revealing how these childhood passions laid the groundwork for his remarkable career. As we journey through the chapters of Howard’s life, he recounts the pivotal moments that led him from the digital landscapes of video game design to the tangible delights of the canvas, showcasing the courage it takes to follow one’s true calling.
1/25 SLTRIB: ‘That’s not Jesus’: LDS artists team up to challenge the image of a white Christ
Why paint Jesus as a man with dark skin? Because odds are, that’s how he looked. Plus, it’s what he would do.
That’s the philosophy behind an art show opening Feb. 2 at Provo’s Writ & Vision gallery. Titled “Mosaic of Christ,” the exhibition will run through Feb. 24 and is focused entirely on depictions of Jesus chosen based on their “emphasis on cultural expression and historical accuracy,” according to the event’s news release.
“I’m a big proponent of the idea that it’s not wrong to paint Christ as white,” said show juror and participant Esther Hi’ilani Candari, a Latter-day Saint artist who grew up in Hawaii in an Asian American mixed-race household. “What is wrong is when we only take Christ in one way. And that’s what we have at the moment.”
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