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Eye on what shapes experience part of 'salt' exhibition
Utah artist Daniel Everett will mark the fifth project in the Museum's salt exhibition series that showcases contemporary art from around the world. Everett works in a range of media to explore the way the man-made environment — architecture, surveillance — shapes individual experience. The exhibit includes several photographic prints, two video pieces and mixed-media installations. Jill Dawsey, now associate curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, organized salt 5 while she was chief curator at the UMFA.
When • March 30-July 29
Where • Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah campus, Salt Lake City
Info • http://www.umfa.utah.edu
See the signs
Peter S. Cook, an internationally known deaf performer whose works incorporate American Sign Language, pantomime, storytelling and acting, has appeared at the White House and has worked internationally with deaf storytellers and poets in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria and Japan. He turns what some would see as a sign of disability into high art.
When • Wednesday, March 28, 6:30 p.m.
Where • Sanderson Community Center, 5709 S. 1500 West, Taylorsville
Info • http://www.accessart.org, 801-328-0703
Art activism
The University of Utah art and art history department, together with the John and Marva Warnock Artist in Residence Program, has invited four contemporary artists and scholars from the field of "socially engaged artistic practices" for a symposium on the intersections of art and public. The panel will include Mark Allen, Edgar Arceneaux, Lucía Sanromán and Sylvia Torti. After presentations about their work, the panelists will discuss themes in socially engaged art.
When • April 18, 2-4 p.m.
Where • Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah campus, Salt Lake City
Info • http://www.umfa.utah.edu
Student-faculty show
Twenty-five Utah State University master's degree students and their instructors will exhibit a selection of their work is Salt Lake City.
When • April 20-May 12
Where • Alpine Art Gallery, 430 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City
Info • http://www.alpineartinc.com
Another look at 'Eyre'
Art Access is sponsoring a Disability and Literature Book Group to investigate how people with disabilities have been depicted in literature. The book group will explore and discuss the historical and cultural contexts of the depictions. The club will begin with a discussion of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Published in 1847, the novel is a classic, but the Art Access group will study it through "a disability lens," including Mr. Rochester's "maniac" first wife and his ultimate redemption by becoming "blind and a cripple." This event is free but is limited to 20 participants.
When • April 25, 6-7:30 p.m.
Where • Art Access, 230 S. 500 West, Salt Lake City
To register • sheryl@accessart.org, 801-328-0703
Design and research
Kelly Leslie is a designer, artist and educator who tackles the challenge of design and research to ensure success. She also produces digital and letterpress prints and artist books. Her work has exhibited in China, Japan and Australia. Leslie will discuss her career and creative process as part of Southern Utah University's Art Insights series.
When • April 5, 7 p.m.
Where • Centrum Arena, Southern Utah University, Cedar City
Info • 435-865-8800 or visit: http://www.suu.edu/arts
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