{"id":106935,"date":"2026-11-08T14:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T21:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=106935"},"modified":"2026-11-11T14:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T21:53:26","slug":"in-this-together-art-belonging-and-the-urgency-of-social-connection-at-smof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/in-this-together-art-belonging-and-the-urgency-of-social-connection-at-smof\/","title":{"rendered":"In This Together: Art, Belonging, and the Urgency of Social Connection at SMOF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Diane-Brazzeal-Conner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-106936\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Diane-Brazzeal-Conner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Springville<br \/>\nNovember 18, 2026 &#8211; July 3, 2027<\/p>\n<p>In This Together: Art, Belonging, and the Urgency of Social Connection is a first-of-its-kind multiyear collaboration between Springville Museum of Art (SMA) and the work of Julianne Holt-Lunstad, PhD, the nation\u2019s leading social connection researcher, as well as professor of psychology and neuroscience and director of the Social Connection &amp; Health Lab at Brigham Young University.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when loneliness, isolation, and disconnection are impacting individual and community health in fundamental ways, the larger initiative engages art to illuminate what research alone cannot.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><i>In This Together <\/i>explores belonging, loneliness, connection, and community through contemporary art.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Rather than illustrating research directly, the selected artists approach connection from distinctly human points of view\u2014through relationships, place, identity, memory, isolation, care, loss, repair, and lived experience.<\/p>\n<p>Participating artists Include:<\/p>\n<p>Paige Crosland Anderson, Valerie Atkisson, Ryan S. Brown, Andrew Ballstaedt, Olivia Christensen, Jared Clark, Diane Brazzeal Conner, Aloe Corry, Lee R. Cowan, Tyler Gathro, Sheryl Gillilan, David Habben, Michael Aaron Hall, Dara Hartman and Collaborators, Ryan Moffett, Tyler Pack, Kathleen Peterson, Ondre Pettingill, Jorge Rojas, John Sproul, Sarah Winegar, Soupsox and Jairo Dealba.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smofa.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Springville Museum of Art<\/a><br \/>\n126 EAST 400 SOUTH<br \/>\nSPRINGVILLE, UTAH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Springville November 18, 2026 &#8211; July 3, 2027 In This Together: Art, Belonging, and the Urgency of Social Connection is a first-of-its-kind multiyear collaboration between Springville Museum of Art (SMA) and the work of Julianne Holt-Lunstad, PhD, the nation\u2019s leading social connection researcher, as well as professor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":106936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","category-to_the_south"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2027-07-04 14:50:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Diane-Brazzeal-Conner.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106937,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106935\/revisions\/106937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}