{"id":26843,"date":"2014-10-14T21:06:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T03:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=26843"},"modified":"2018-11-27T09:57:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T15:57:33","slug":"art-in-your-home-brings-fine-art-to-people-in-transitional-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/art-in-your-home-brings-fine-art-to-people-in-transitional-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Art In Your Home Brings Fine Art to People in Transitional Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-26843 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/art-in-your-home-brings-fine-art-to-people-in-transitional-housing\/img_2755\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_2755-1-290x290.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_2755-1-290x290.jpg 290w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_2755-1-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_2755-1-360x360.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/art-in-your-home-brings-fine-art-to-people-in-transitional-housing\/img_2759\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_2759-1-290x290.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_2759-1-290x290.jpg 290w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_2759-1-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_2759-1-360x360.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/art-in-your-home-brings-fine-art-to-people-in-transitional-housing\/img_2766-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_2766-2-290x290.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_2766-2-290x290.jpg 290w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_2766-2-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_2766-2-360x360.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>A recent art project points to the nature of art as the \u201cintersection of many human needs,\u201d to paraphrase a quote by contemporary artist Carl Andr\u00e9. \u201cArt in Your Home\u201d provides a rare opportunity for people living in transitional housing to own an original work of art, bring art to populations often excluded from the art world \u2013 those living in poverty.<\/p>\n<p>On September 12, the Utah Division of Arts &amp; Museums (UDAM), partnering with The Road Home, gave away 112 unclaimed paintings, drawings, and prints to the residents of Palmer Court, a permanent supportive housing complex for individuals and families that have experienced chronic homelessness. The facility is managed by The Road Home.<\/p>\n<p>For Felicia Baca, manager of visual arts for UDAM, the project was the culmination of a vision she had after joining the division a few years ago. As she and other staff members searched without much success for artists who had never claimed their artwork submitted for exhibits going back as long ago as 30 years, she began to think of the abandoned art as an enrichment opportunity rather than a storage problem. At the time, however, there were other priorities and the project stayed on the back burner until early this year.<\/p>\n<p>Baca and staff at The Road Home and Palmer Court came up with an orderly way for residents of the 210-apartment complex to view and select art for their homes. First, residents registered for half-hour time slots, then showed up at the selected time to look and \u201cshop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know what to expect, whether it would be hard to get people there,\u201d said Baca. \u201cBut people were lined up in the hallway to sign up for a time slot, and then everyone showed up on time to make their selection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just about every genre of two-dimensional art was represented in the works distributed. Baca and her team had bets on what would go quickly. \u201cBut we were wrong,\u201d she said. \u201cThe choices were very personal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One woman, said Baca, spent almost the whole time slot deciding between two pieces. One was a painting of a church and the other a portrait of a woman who looked a bit like her. In the end, she selected the church painting because of the memories it evoked.<\/p>\n<p>Another resident who is legally blind arrived with a written list of things she likes \u2014 barns, horses, and western scenes. Baca helped her pick out a painting of a barn. She held it very close to her face to study it and finally decided to take it.<\/p>\n<p>Residents responded with gratitude to this unusual opportunity to own an original work of art. One resident, named Jennifer, said, \u201cI totally appreciate the time and effort people took to make this happen.\u201d She added that she has never been to an art museum. In addition to being able to pick a piece of art, she appreciated seeing so many different kinds of artwork.<\/p>\n<p>In the end she selected a painting of two penguins on an iceberg. \u201cI\u2019m all about animals, and penguins are my daughter\u2019s favorite,\u201d says Jennifer. The new painting hung for a while in the living room of their apartment, but now it\u2019s in her seven-year-old daughter\u2019s bedroom. The daughter proudly claims, \u201cThat\u2019s my penguin picture, Mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent art project points to the nature of art as the \u201cintersection of many human needs,\u201d to paraphrase a quote by contemporary artist Carl Andr\u00e9. \u201cArt in Your Home\u201d provides a rare opportunity for people living in transitional housing to own an original work of art, bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":940,"featured_media":26888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2108,1840,2107],"class_list":["post-26843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visual_arts","tag-art-in-your-home","tag-felicia-baca","tag-the-road-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG_2766.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 23:35:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26843","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\/940"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26843"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40474,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26843\/revisions\/40474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}