{"id":7855,"date":"2011-10-13T22:26:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T22:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=7855"},"modified":"2025-11-15T11:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T18:42:21","slug":"morphing-leonardo-artists-residencies-at-the-new-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/morphing-leonardo-artists-residencies-at-the-new-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Morphing Leonardo: Artists’ Residencies at the New Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Ann Poore<\/address>\n

\u201cGreat things take a long time,\u201d muses Jann Haworth, director of artist residencies at Salt Lake City\u2019s new art and science museum, \u201cand Leonardo was no stranger to taking a long time over things.\u201d<\/p>\n

She has been involved for six years now and acknowledges that The Leonardo has gone through a number of stages, some, it must be noted, awkward ones. However, \u201cAs it grew and developed, it became something very much reflective of contemporary art and education,\u201d she said Wednesday in the brightly lighted, quite cheery space devoted to the artists\u2019 lab.<\/p>\n

Haworth is quick to point out that \u201clab\u201d is a verb. \u201cWe have given ourselves permission to make mistakes, as one does in a painting.\u201d If things don\u2019t work, they can morph and change until they do.<\/p>\n

At the moment, the residencies offer artists an opportunity to network and sell their work on site and later in the gift shop. Eventually, Haworth hopes to be able to pay a generous stipend.\u00a0 The art community has expanded, she points out, and the Salt Lake Art Center and the Gallery Stroll can\u2019t serve all of it. \u201cIt\u2019s not going to have a bias toward fine art,\u201d she says. \u201cWe\u2019ll make the pool here a little different about what we call art.\u201d<\/p>\n