{"id":89843,"date":"2025-01-23T09:17:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=89843"},"modified":"2025-03-12T09:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:01:45","slug":"haworths-a-celebration-of-women-goes-indoors-while-her-work-in-progress-goes-to-davos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/haworths-a-celebration-of-women-goes-indoors-while-her-work-in-progress-goes-to-davos\/","title":{"rendered":"Community is a Family Affair: “A Celebration of Women” Goes Indoors While “Work in Progress” Goes to Davos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“A Celebration of Women” at Salt Lake Community College’s South City Campus, 1575 S. State Street, Salt Lake City. Image by Shawn Rossiter.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Jann Haworth has not run out of women to celebrate, whether in Salt Lake City, Utah, or in Davos, Switzerland. Her \u201cCelebration of Women\u201d mural, initially put together digitally during the pandemic and printed on vinyl for outdoor display, has now been collaged into a massive mural at Salt Lake Community College\u2019s South City Campus. And a portion of her ongoing \u201cWork in Progress\u201d mural is on exhibit this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos.<\/h4>\n

\u201cA Celebration of Women\u201d was originally conceived in 2018, when then-Zion Bank president and CEO Scott Anderson commissioned Haworth and her son, Alex Johnstone, to create the mural for Salt Lake City’s Dinwoody Building. Inspired by Haworth’s “Work in Progress” project, a series of ongoing murals celebrating the achievements of women and begun in 2016, “A Celebration of Women” was commissioned to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States by highlighting the achievement of Utah women in various arenas: culture, politics, sports and more. For both projects, Haworth invited professional artists and amateurs from her community workshops to create stenciled portraits of the women being celebrated, assembling them into a group portrait reminiscent of the Sgt. Pepper’s album cover she created with Peter Blake in 1967.<\/h4>\n

Plans for \u201cA Celebration of Women\u201d took on new dimensions as the pandemic halted in-person gatherings.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cRather than keeping the creative base solely in Utah, I took the view that the world was locked in and everyone bound by the fears of the pandemic,\u201d says Haworth. \u201cIt was a dire unity, but I decided to do a wide outreach. I contacted people that I knew in Australia, Italy, Belgium, Wales, Scotland, England, Austria, as well as California, Texas, South Carolina, Colorado, Oregon and Washington. All said yes to doing a stencil for the mural.\u201d The artists created their stencil wherever they were located and emailed an image to Haworth. The result was a monumental mural, painstakingly collaged together digitally by Johnstone. Printed on vinyl, the mural has been hanging on the east side of the Dinwoody Building in downtown Salt Lake City since 2020 (see here<\/a>).<\/h4>\n
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“A Celebration of Women,” on the east side of the Dinwoody Building, 37 W. 100 South, Salt Lake City, January, 2025. Image by Steve Coray.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

This time around, there was a lot more gluing.\u00a0 <\/span>In the summer of 2024, the project was reimagined for a spacious atrium at Salt Lake Community College\u2019s (SLCC) South City campus. The actual stencil images were physically collaged together over several months by Liberty Blake, Haworth\u2019s daughter and a noted collage artist. With the co-ordination of SLCC’s James Walton and help from UDAM’s Hannah Barrett, the new mural, made from paper on panels, has been transformed into a massive wall of art inside SLCC, creating an awe-inspiring display of creativity and community.<\/h4>\n

This second iteration of the mural, titled “Utah Women 2020,” comprises 35 collaged panels, including 28 panels that are 4 feet by 8 feet and 8 panels that measure 28 inches by 8 feet. In total, 365 portraits of Utah women were contributed by approximately 200 artists and non-artists. The mural serves as a striking tribute not only to the history of women in Utah but also to the collaborative spirit of art in challenging times.<\/h4>\n

“The\u00a0 mural is a snapshot of an extraordinary time,” Haworth says. “Pandemic, Marches for Black Lives Matter. It did not pass our attention that 2020 was also the 100-year anniversary of the end of the Spanish Flu epidemic and likewise near the Tulsa Massacre 100-year mark.\u201d<\/h4>\n