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Micol Hebron, curator at the Salt Lake Art Center, in a gallery being prepped for an exhibition, photo by Simon Blundell<\/p><\/div>\n

Micol Hebron, Senior Curator at the Salt Lake Art Center since August 2010, is surrounded by an audible buzz that is discernable from the moment she walks into a room. It could be the effortless way she conveys her fierce passion for art. Her intensity isn\u2019t that of someone who is on their second pot of coffee, it\u2019s an organic energy that is intrinsic to who she is as a person. You can see it in her eyes. Hebron has a thirsty sense of curiosity and a sharp intellect; as evidence of this a person needs to look no further than her vision for the Salt Lake Art Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see the art center as having maybe three primary objectives from a curatorial point of view. One is to bring in artists from around the country to inspire local artists and also to bring Salt Lake into the conversation about what\u2019s happening nationally and internationally in contemporary art. Secondly I see the role of the Art Center as being a conduit for artists to gain exposure outside of Salt Lake City. If the Art Center can provide access to other gallery exhibitions or sister institutions that are similar to the Art Center in other cities, it can really function as an advocate for local artists to get shown elsewhere.\u201d Third, she is also looking to \u201craise the bar by providing not only opportunities for local artists to show, but opportunities that are in fact competitive and in dialogue with the national art scene, so that artists recognize that when they show at Salt Lake Art center it is akin to showing at a major museum anywhere else in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

A component of this larger goal is for Hebron to help the Salt Lake community to explore and embrace a wider range of art forms. She says the amount of talent and enthusiasm for art in Salt Lake is inspiring but observes that some of the work she has seen, while very well done, is often very \u201csafe.\u201d As an example she points to public sculptures in the area and observes how they adhere to standard conventions: they\u2019re mostly bronze, monumental, and can be taken at face value. \u201cSalt Lake City has an amazing community of artists. There are a large number of people engaged in the arts. They do seem to me to be favoring painting and traditional art forms so I would love to find a way to continue to support and grow the existing artistic energy that\u2019s here into more and more diverse forms of art,\u201d Hebron says.<\/p>\n