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\"\"<\/a>3\/6 Salt Lake City Weekly: 180-page portrait collection featuring over 500 Pride participants to benefit Utah Pride Center<\/strong><\/p>\n

A new portrait project celebrating Utah\u2019s LGBTQ+ community has grown into a major publication effort: a 180-page book featuring more than 500 participants photographed during Utah Pride celebrations. The project gathers portraits made in a pop-up studio during the festival, where participants were invited to step in front of the camera for a carefully lit portrait that captures the many ways people express identity, community and pride.<\/p>\n

The resulting collection brings together images that range from flamboyant drag personas and colorful self-expression to quieter moments of intimacy and solidarity among friends and families. The book aims to reflect the breadth of Utah\u2019s LGBTQ+ community while documenting a moment in the state\u2019s cultural history.<\/p>\n

Proceeds from the publication will benefit the Utah Pride Center, which provides advocacy, education and support services for LGBTQ+ individuals across the state. The project underscores how portraiture can function not only as art but also as community documentation and fundraising.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>3\/5 SLUG Magazine: Materializing Hope and Expression at Material Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colour Maisch and Jorge Rojas have worked alongside one another for nearly 13 years, sharing studio space before establishing their gallery. After being priced out of a former space in the Granary District, they relocated to South Salt Lake and transformed an aging building into studios and a public exhibition site. As practicing artists, they approached the project with an understanding of structural gaps facing creatives. \u201cBeing artists, we had really clear ideas about how to work with other artists and how to support them in a really good way \u2014 what that would feel like for us,\u201d Maisch says. \u201cWe know great people making great work, and we wanted to show that work.\u201d<\/p>\n

That philosophy shapes both the artists they represent and the environment they cultivate. Rojas emphasizes the importance of creative identity, noting that developing a distinct visual language takes years of experimentation. The gallery prioritizes artists whose work demonstrates strong direction and voice while centering cultural diversity within its programming.<\/p>\n

The name Material reflects both the physical substances artists work with and the generative possibilities of creative practice. Maisch stresses accessibility as a guiding principle: creating a welcoming space where visitors\u2014regardless of their knowledge of art history\u2014can encounter and enjoy meaningful work.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>3\/3 The Utah Review: Spiritual exuberance in Utah\u2019s diverse ecosystem: Liberty Blake\u2019s abstract collages at Phillips Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n

Visiting Liberty Blake\u2019s studio is like stepping into a portal that gives the fortunate visitor a glimpse into the muses and the spiritual journey which the artist traverses. Her workplace and what she surrounds herself with allow visitors to appreciate the foundations of her visual expressive language in the body of abstract collages she creates.<\/p>\n

The Ancient Roman augurs marked rectangles in the sky with their lituus, a sacred staff. These rectangles, known as templums, allowed the observer to focus on the flight behavior and patterns of birds while also considering other natural elements\u2014sunlight, clouds, wind, storms and lightning. Blake\u2019s collages echo this process of drawing geometric frames and contemplating the forces contained within them.<\/p>\n

Her works, assembled from precisely cut blocks of salvaged and found paper, create abstracted landscapes that highlight striking features of place as well as the artist\u2019s visceral responses to them. The compositions draw from Blake\u2019s encounters with Utah\u2019s landscapes\u2014from the Great Salt Lake and Antelope Island to Zion, Spiral Jetty and the slickrock terrain around Moab.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>3\/1 Utah Stories: Ben Steele Builds a National Art Career from Helper, Utah<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople don\u2019t buy art during their workday. They buy it when they\u2019re on vacation.\u201d Ben Steele structured his career around that insight, and Helper fits naturally into that pattern. Steele\u2019s gallery, Beg Borrow & Steele Art Co., sits among the brick storefronts of the former coal town, where he has built a career creating paintings that blend Americana, satire and pop culture.<\/p>\n

Steele describes his work as \u201cpop realist,\u201d drawing imagery from everyday American objects and cultural references while executing them with meticulous technique. His paintings\u2014often featuring recurring motifs like crayons\u2014combine nostalgia and playful imagery with carefully controlled craftsmanship.<\/p>\n

After studying art in Utah and attending workshops in Helper, Steele moved to the Carbon County town in 2003, attracted by its low cost of living and supportive arts community. From that base he has gradually expanded into national gallery markets while maintaining a studio and gallery that remain accessible to locals and visitors alike.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>3\/1 The Salt Lake Tribune: \u2018I have not held back\u2019: In her new book, Utah\u2019s Terry Tempest Williams seeks moments of beauty in a busy world<\/strong><\/p>\n

Utah author and environmentalist Terry Tempest Williams is releasing a new book, The Glorians: Visitations From the Holy Ordinary. In it, she reflects on how small moments of beauty and connection can offer meaning amid the rush and distraction of contemporary life. The book continues Williams\u2019 longstanding practice of blending personal narrative with reflections on landscape, community and spirituality.<\/p>\n

Williams has built a national reputation as a writer whose work grows out of the landscapes and environmental concerns of the American West. In interviews around the release of The Glorians, she describes the project as an effort to notice and record fleeting encounters\u2014moments that suggest, in her words, \u201csomething larger than ourselves\u201d embedded in everyday experience.<\/p>\n

The new collection continues themes that have shaped Williams\u2019 career: attention to place, ecological awareness and the search for meaning through observation of the natural world and the lives around us.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>2\/8 The Salt Lake Tribune: University of Utah\u2019s president explains why school bought a $4.5 million statue \u2018that screams love\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

A 12-foot-high version of Robert Indiana\u2019s iconic LOVE sculpture has been installed outside the Utah Museum of Fine Arts after the University of Utah purchased the work for $4.5 million. The sculpture\u2014one of the most recognizable works of Pop art\u2014was previously displayed in New York City and is now part of the university\u2019s public art landscape.<\/p>\n

University President Taylor Randall said the acquisition reflects the institution\u2019s goal of using art to shape public space and community experience. Speaking at a ceremony marking the sculpture\u2019s installation, he described the work as something that \u201cscreams love,\u201d emphasizing the symbolic role art can play on campus and in the broader city.<\/p>\n

Visitors quickly gathered to photograph themselves with the sculpture, continuing a tradition that has followed Indiana\u2019s work wherever it appears. With its bold letters and tilted \u201cO,\u201d the sculpture has become one of the most recognizable and widely reproduced images in modern art.<\/p>\n

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