{"id":75138,"date":"2024-05-27T14:45:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T21:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=75138"},"modified":"2024-05-30T15:05:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T22:05:46","slug":"udams-artist-fellows-jon-mcnaughton-public-art-old-and-new-critical-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/udams-artist-fellows-jon-mcnaughton-public-art-old-and-new-critical-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"UDAM’s Artist Fellows, Jon McNaughton, Public Art Old and New, Critical Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

2024 Utah Artist Fellowship Recipients<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Utah Division of Arts & Museums has announced the 15 Utah artists in design, performing, and visual arts who have been awarded $5,000 fellowships to recognize their individual artistic excellence and support their professional careers. The fellowship provides unrestricted cash awards based on review by prominent arts professionals outside of Utah. This year, Carla Diana served as the design arts juror; Alexandra James was the performing arts juror; and Rachelle Pablo served as the visual arts juror.<\/p>\n

DESIGN ARTS
\nJUROR: CARLA DIANA
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PERFORMING ARTS (DANCE)
\nJUROR: ALEXANDRA JAMES<\/p>\n

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VISUAL ARTS
\nJUROR: RACHELLE B. PABLO<\/p>\n

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You can read the jurors’ comments here: https:\/\/artsandmuseums.utah.gov\/2024-utah-artist-fellowship-recipients\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>5\/27 DESERET NEWS: Painting Trump out of a corner<\/strong><\/p>\n

2,000 miles from the Manhattan courthouse, artist Jon McNaughton is preparing for the worst<\/p>\n

Jon McNaughton keeps a dizzying pace. During one particularly prolific burst in early 2020, he released paintings every few weeks, each one more astonishing than the next. The first one, of Donald Trump\u00a0wearing fringed cowboy chaps\u00a0atop a bucking bronco, was simply titled \u201c2020 Ride.\u201d Then it was Trump\u00a0addressing a gaggle\u00a0of clown-faced reporters. Then, when Trump\u2019s impeachment trial launched, a group of congressional Democrats (and Mitt Romney)\u00a0with pitchforks and torches. Then, when the pandemic hit, Trump dramatically\u00a0ripping off his mask. Then, when Black Lives Matter protests rocked the country, a remake of\u00a0Goya\u2019s \u201cThe Third of May 1808,\u201d except\u00a0the French troops were replaced by flag-burning leftists, and the Spanish insurgents donned MAGA hats.<\/p>\n

But now, six months before Election Day, it\u2019s been months since McNaughton\u2019s last release.<\/p>\n

READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>5\/27 SLTRIB: Iconic Salt Lake City art installation to take flight again downtown<\/strong><\/p>\n

The popular downtown sculpture known as \u201cThe Gulls of Salt Lake City\u201d is finally slated to\u00a0rise from its boxes\u00a0and take wing again.<\/p>\n

The towering bronze-on-nickel depiction of wheeling sea gulls in flight, created by\u00a0the late California artist Tom Van Sant, was long a fixture on Salt Lake City\u2019s Main Street, attached to what was the Prudential Federal Savings building at 115 S. Main Street.<\/p>\n

Its immense metal birds and connecting rods remain dismantled and in storage since the artwork\u2019s 2014 removal to make way for demolitions and subsequent construction of the George S. and Dolores Dor\u00e9 Eccles Theater,\u00a0which opened in 2016.<\/p>\n

READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>5\/19 SLTRIB: SLC’s west side to get its own 9th and 9th whale-size art<\/strong><\/p>\n

A pair of 9th and 9th whale-size public art pieces is slated to surface on the city\u2019s west side.<\/p>\n

The towering whale, titled Out of the Blue, has drawn criticism and a legion of loyal fans since\u00a0its 2022 installation, inspiring T-shirts,\u00a0an ultramarathon, even\u00a0an entire spoof religion.<\/p>\n

Now, west-side neighborhoods are teed up for their own major art pieces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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5\/14 SOUTHWEST CONTEMPORARY: From Utah\u2019s Geographical Center, an Argument for Decentralizing Arts Discourse<\/strong><\/p>\n

Utah\u2019s mainstream art history is easy to trace, with the Utah Museum of Fine Arts striking the match in 1914, Art Barn and what is now known as the\u00a0Utah Museum of Contemporary Art\u00a0introducing contemporary art in 1931, and the\u00a0Springville Museum of Art\u00a0(an offshoot of the 100-year-old\u00a0Spring Salon<\/i>\u00a0exhibition series) following in 1937. Each institution served as a cornerstone establishing the presence of the art world\u2019s many facets within Utah culture and setting the scene for more diverse museums and galleries such as Mestizo Arts (where I serve as curator and event organizer) and Medium Gallery to build on that initial work. But the question about what constitutes a \u201ccenter for art\u201d in Utah is a much more complicated question with a nuanced answer.<\/p>\n

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2024 Utah Artist Fellowship Recipients The Utah Division of Arts & Museums has announced the 15 Utah artists in design, performing, and visual arts who have been awarded $5,000 fellowships to recognize their individual artistic excellence and support their professional careers. The fellowship provides unrestricted cash awards based […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[31,11,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-art-news","category-mixed_media","category-recognized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-30-at-4.04.59-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 15:51:26","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\/75138","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=75138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75148,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75138\/revisions\/75148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}