{"id":496,"date":"2010-04-19T13:09:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T13:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15bytes12\/2010\/04\/19\/micol-hebron-%e2%80%93-redefining-the-artist-art-center-relationship\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T19:53:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:53:24","slug":"micol-hebron-redefining-the-artist-art-center-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/micol-hebron-redefining-the-artist-art-center-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Micol Hebron: Redefining the Artist-Art Center Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have you noticed anything different about Salt Lake Art Center lately? More lectures by guest artists (one almost every week)? Greater presence in the social media? And, what\u2019s this? They want feedback from the art community?<\/p>\n

Saturday afternoon SLAC\u2019s executive director Adam Price formally introduced his latest organizational change in the form of new senior curator Micol Hebron who will officially assume her duties in August but who is already very involved in SLAC planning via telephone and email. To an audience of some 75 artists, art historians, and art collectors, Hebron zipped through a slideshow that barely skimmed her background (daughter of hippies\u2026spent her first three years living in a tent in the woods), art influences (fourth grade teacher introduced her to the work of Jackson Pollock), career (in collaborative performance art, professor of art at the Art Center College of Design; founder of Gallery B-12 in Hollywood, writer for Art Forum and others), and the place of contemporary art in society (a \u201cleaky body\u201d\u2026suspect\u2026dangerous) to get to what she really wanted to do: hear from the audience ideas for the future of SLAC.<\/p>\n

But, before handing out Mini\u2019s cupcakes to empower (and encourage) speakers from the audience, she took a few minutes to share her own early hopes and dreams for SLAC:
\n\u2022 National recognition that brings art tourism to Utah
\n\u2022 Recognition for Utah\/regional artists
\n\u2022 Inspiration for local artists to do more, get better
\n\u2022 Bring to Utah art \u201cyou\u2019ve never seen before\u201d
\n\u2022 Get Utah artists talking to each other about, and because of, art
\n\u2022 Collaborations with existing institutions (i.e., Museum of Fine Arts, schools)<\/p>\n

Whether it was the cupcakes or pure inspiration, audience members did share hopes and dreams of their own:
\n\u2022 \u201cNo art mafia\u201d \u2013 make SLAC more accessible for local artists
\n\u2022 Promote community among artists; counter the natural tendency toward competitiveness and elitism
\n\u2022 Develop stamina \u2013 don\u2019t give up if something doesn\u2019t work
\n\u2022 Curate shows that could travel to other museums or art centers around the country
\n\u2022 Open the art center to the community and make it less scary<\/p>\n

In the give and take, there were clearly differing views on how SLAC might best help Utah artists. Some seemed to want greater opportunities to submit work and have it exhibited at SLAC, while others cautioned that SLAC should maintain the highest standards, so that once an artist achieves a showing at SLAC, he\/she is ready and able to move on from here.<\/p>\n

Hebron has ideas of her own about how to help local artists. Among other ideas already mentioned, she wants to conduct workshops on portfolio building, resumes, and artist statements.<\/p>\n

All of these changes will not happen in Hebron\u2019s first month on the job, but change, change, and more change \u2013 all designed to, as Price said, \u201cbuild connections with the community\u201d \u2013 is definitely coming to the Salt Lake Art Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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