{"id":22637,"date":"2013-09-05T09:23:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T15:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=22637"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:24:22","slug":"pilar-pobils-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/pilar-pobils-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilar Pobil’s Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Salt Lake City artist Pilar Pobil was the subject of one of our earliest artist profiles, which appeared in the
\nMay 2002 edition of 15 Bytes<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even then the Mallorca, Spain native was an established fixture in the Utah art scene. Her colorful paintings, held together by a sinuous line, were already in most public and many private collections.<\/p>\n

Her Art in the Garden<\/em> event, held annually in June and featuring the work of local artists in the unique setting of her garden, was and still is one of the highlights of the summer for local art lovers.<\/p>\n

At 86 Pobil is still very active creating new works, and has no plans for an imminent departure, but a group of art enthusiasts who have come to love the unique setting of her home and the impact of her art have decided to get busy now to perpetuate her legacy.<\/p>\n

Brent Cameron, a long-time friend, his sister Daryl Barrett, and Patrick Hoagland (of Patrick Moore Gallery) have been brainstorming for years of a way to keep the house as a local art treasure, but couldn\u2019t find the right solution. Pobil was passionate that the house serve the arts and the community.<\/p>\n

When Kate Duffy heard about the project, she suggested they incorporate as a non-profit. \u201cPilar is the reason I started painting again about 15 years ago,\u201d Duffy says. \u201cHer work and her story, along with Pilar herself really inspired me to get back to my artist self.\u201d<\/p>\n

In March the group filed the paperwork to incorporate as the Pilar Pobil Legacy Foundation, with plans to eventually buy Pobil\u2019s house from her estate. The artist has agreed to donate the contents of her home and all the artwork to the foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the objectives of the foundation is to continue the annual Art in Pilar\u2019s Garden, provide educational programs in many arts genres for the public, and offer the home as an artist residence to visiting artists in exchange for workshops, performances and master classes,\u201d Duffy says. \u201cMuch of the programming will begin during her lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, in July the Pilar Pobil Legacy Foundation held its first event. On July 10\u201311, they invited sixty-five students from Guadalupe School to the house for an art workshop. The students took the work they began at the house back to their classrooms to finish.<\/p>\n

They will display the final pieces in Pilar\u2019s garden on Saturday, September 7, 4\u20136 pm, in an exhibit that will be attended by the students\u2019 family members and invited guests.<\/p>\n

Two more events are planned in the coming month. On Thursday, September 12, Pobil\u2019s daughter, Monica Pasqual, will give a concert to benefit the foundation. Best known to Salt Lake audiences as one of the quartet in the acclaimed Bay Area-based band Blame Sally, Pasqual will be performing with Pam Delgado (also of Blame Sally) and Josh McClain.<\/p>\n

Pasqual is the winner of five Independent Music Awards and six Emmy Awards. She will also conduct a songwriter and creative writer workshop on Saturday, September 14.<\/p>\n

Finally, on October 4, from 5\u20139 pm, the foundation will host My Burial Chamber: A Celebration of Life<\/em>. The exhibit tells a visual story of Pobil\u2019s life through her \u201cburial chamber.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Originally presented in 2007 by the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, Pilar has chosen to resurrect the exhibit to close out the summer\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n

In older cultures, when a person who during her or his lifetime had done significant work that was worth preserving, all the objects that she or he had used would be collected in the Burial Chamber to provide the means to continue their work in the ever after.<\/p>\n

Also included would be images of loved ones as well as pets and other memories. Pilar\u2019s exhibition will include photos, angels, a sewing machine, painted objects, cooking utensils and pots, paintings, fashion creations, embroidery and other items that she has considered central to her life.<\/p>\n

The music of Ravel\u2019s Pavane pour une infante d\u00e9funte<\/em> (Pavane for a Dead Princess), with its slow rhythm and repetitive cadences, will provide the perfect background for the Chamber.<\/p>\n

Funds raised during these events will be used to purchase the home and will be held in trust until the sale takes place. Program funding will be utilized now to develop and execute programs that Pobil will have the opportunity to oversee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pilar Pobil’s art, and her marvelous house are both colorful fixtures in Utah’s art scene. Her friends plan to keep it that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[26,21],"tags":[662,1635],"class_list":["post-22637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-15-bytes","category-organization_spotlight","tag-pilar-pobil","tag-pilar-pobil-legacy-foundation"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-02 08:44:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pilarblog.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22637"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103654,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22637\/revisions\/103654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}