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The Salt Lake Art Museum (SLAM) Finds Sanctuary in the Temple

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Completed in 1890 for Salt Lake City’s first Jewish congregation, the B’nai Israel Temple carries a depth of cultural memory rare among the city’s remaining historic buildings. Its survival is uncommon in a city where progress has a habit of erasing the physical traces of its own past. Restoring the temple and establishing the Salt Lake Art Museum (SLAM) within it brings into view a narrative that has long remained at the margins of the city’s broader historical accounts.

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Sheila Nadimi Receives Utah Historical Society’s Outstanding Achievement Award for Eagle Village

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Photographer, researcher, and preservationist Sheila Nadimi has been honored with the Utah Historical Society’s 2025 Outstanding Achievement Award in recognition of her decades-long project Eagle Village, which documents the site and memory of the Intermountain Indian School in Brigham City. The award acknowledges Nadimi’s extraordinary service in preserving […]

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Projects Like The Year of the Snake Exquisite Corpse is Why Stefanie Dykes Keeps Showing Up

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At the entrance to Saltgrass Printmakers’ Salt Lake City studio, a sinuous form winds across the wall. The dozens of two-foot-square woodcuts, each carved by a different artist and fitted edge to edge, form the Year of the Snake Exquisite Corpse, a sprawling, collaborative print project conceived by […]

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