{"id":462,"date":"2010-03-03T19:52:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T01:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15bytes12\/2010\/03\/03\/artists-for-corroon\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T21:11:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:11:59","slug":"artists-for-corroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/artists-for-corroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists for Corroon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John Sproul hangs one of his pieces at a campaign event for Peter Corroon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon has yet to officially launch his campaign for governor (that happens on March 17), but already grassroots \u201caffinity\u201d groups are coming together to help him in his Gubernatorial run. A group of local artists, art professionals, and art enthusiasts has formed\u00a0Artists for Corroon<\/em>, in order to \u201cgenerate interest in and motivate Utah\u2019s artistic community to get involved, get the vote out, and help Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon win the Governor\u2019s office in November 2010.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Sproul\u00a0and\u00a0Davina Pallone\u00a0co-chair the group\u2019s board, which is focused on educating the public and the artistic community about the advantage of having a governor who openly supports the arts. Pallone, who is a visual artist herself and co-owner of\u00a0Kayo Gallery, believes that Corroon would benefit individual artists, as well as artist cooperatives, galleries and arts organizations throughout the state. Sproul, a professional artist and founder of\u00a0The Foster Art Program, indicated that his support of Corroon was partly inspired by his campaign for Salt Lake County Mayor, in which he felt that Corroon \u201cexhibited an ethics that I found refreshing. That did not change when he became mayor and I was impressed with, among other things, how he handled the budget problems that existed when he took office. His support for the arts was an added bonus and when I was asked to be a part of Artists for Corroon Group I jumped at the chance to help bring about a long needed change in attitude towards the arts and politics that I believe Corroon represents.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a longtime supporter of the arts through his service as Salt Lake County Mayor, Corroon is seen by many in the artistic community as the ideal candidate for Governor. He has advocated for funding of the Salt Lake County\u2019s public art program and the county\u2019s Zoo, Arts and Parks tax. He has also actively supported the Salt Lake County Center for the Arts facilities, including the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Abravanel Hall and the Salt Lake Arts Center.<\/p>\n

Those involved in\u00a0Artists for Corroon<\/em>\u00a0include a wide variety of backgrounds and artistic disciplines \u2013 visual artists, musicians, performers, dancers, videographers, poets, writers, and many more. The group welcomes input from anyone who is an artist or interested in the arts and public policy. Chairs in counties across the state will be working to organize events in their communities.<\/p>\n

Local collector and Salt Lake Art Center board member Josh Kanter sums up\u00a0Artists for Corroon<\/em>\u00a0as providing \u201can avenue for those with common interests in the arts and in support of Peter Corroon\u2019s campaign\u2026 to learn more about Corroon, his campaign and his ideas for the state.\u201d Members will be given opportunities to gather and discuss concerns and interests related to the campaign.<\/p>\n

Upcoming activities hosted by\u00a0Artists for Corroon<\/em>include a meet and greet with Mayor Corroon in April. Corroon\u2019s campaign headquarters will be featuring artwork from the Foster Art Program, and open during select gallery strolls.\u00a0Artists for Corroon<\/em>\u00a0will be looking for artists to design campaign t-shirts, posters and stickers \u2014 a call for entries was recently posted on their\u00a0Facebook page. Other events are in the works, including performances by local musicians, and the group is eager for artists to bring their creative ideas to the table.<\/p>\n

Artists for Corroon<\/em>\u00a0believes that, as Governor, Mayor Corroon will be an advocate for the arts in Utah, positively influencing the quality of life for all Utahns. Composer and arts administrator Crystal Young-Otterstrom has been an energetic supporter of Utah\u2019s art community and active in local and state politics. She says, \u201cMayor Corroon is one of those rare politicians who is genuine, cares about the issues, and cares about people. He is a progressive politician who is always looking for the best practices in good governance, who listens to all sides and, most importantly to me, he cares about art.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those interested can join Artists for Corroon by going to the\u00a0Corroon Country website\u00a0for affiliate groups and signing up.<\/span><\/p>\n

15 Bytes does not advocate for political candidates. We do cover political stories that affect the visual arts community. Upcoming editions of 15 Bytes will continue to explore the 2010 Gubernatorial race and its relationship with the arts community, including interviews with Gary Herbert and Peter Corroon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Sproul hangs one of his pieces at a campaign event for Peter Corroon. Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon has yet to officially launch his campaign for governor (that happens on March 17), but already grassroots \u201caffinity\u201d groups are coming together to help him in his Gubernatorial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public_issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-26 02:03:07","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\/462","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=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97948,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/97948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}