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Have you heard of Peaceful Uprising? Also known as PeaceUp, they are "defending a livable future through empowering non-violent action." At the helm is Tim DeChristopher . . . recently sentenced to 2 years in prison and a $10,000 fine "for protecting our future, while corporate CEOs walk free with millions of dollars for destroying it," as their site eloquently protests.
On Tuesday, July 26 I watched Tim DeChristopher walk from the Peaceful Uprising rally of support to the courthouse to be sentenced . . . camera crews, attorneys and many others surrounding him. I began to cry. We are all Bidder 70. He was absolutely composed; ready to deliver this speech before the judge . . . the judge who spoke of "so-called environmentalism" and showed no understanding of the actual impact of what Tim has done.
I just finished writing my first letter to Tim, c/o the Davis County Correctional Facility. I do not know if he will have the time or ability to return my letter, but I hope in the future to send him some pictures as well, drawings from myself and my siblings showing the beautiful earth we are grateful he is determined to protect.
He strikes me as a poet-prophet, in the vein of Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau. I hope that he will be freed from this 2-year sentence.
30 Eylül 2012 Pazar
Community Vigil & Into the Light Walk
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Tonight, Friday, September 9, 2011 an Into the Light Walk and fireside vigil will be held at Liberty Park, beginning in the northeast corner of the park at 8:00 p.m.
There have been four attacks (that I have read of) on young gay men in Utah within the past few months, and after one particularly brutal one on August 31, community and religious leaders have been galvanized to come together for this supportive event.
Please read more here about the Into the Light walks that have been taking place around the country since May 2011. I have heard people say that they are tired of feel-good events that don't address the horror and discrimination people of "different" sexual orientations and gender identities experience in our society on a day-to-day basis. I just want to respond with these remarks, which I've been asked to share at tonight's vigil and walk :
My name is Elaine Ball. I was recently certified by the American Humanist Association to be a Humanist Minister here in Utah. I want to thank the organizers of this event for bringing everyone together this evening, as well as for inviting me to speak briefly as a representative of those whose “faith” is not traditional, who may not believe there is a god, or who may not see the relevance of a god in their lives.
As a Humanist, I believe that morals arise from a common sense of human value. The attack on Dane Hall on August 31, as well as other recent attacks have been, in the words of the Utah Pride Center, “attack[s] on all of us.” This could have happened to you. This could have happened to one of our moms or dads, to one of our sisters, brothers, or children. This could still happen to any of us.
I am here to tell you, though, that as members of this human family, we do have the power to change our world for the better, and, more specifically, to change our selves, our families, and our neighborhoods for the better! Come out to your friends, family members, and neighbors, in rallying support against destructive behaviour such as these attacks. Please, begin the vital conversations with your peers that will turn hearts and minds toward love.
I would like to reach out to those of you who may not identify with a specific religion or faith tradition, and say, let us work together! Let us all work to build the bridges necessary to come together as one human family in support of love, for all of humanity!
I would like to finish by sharing these thoughts from local humanist leaders:
Florien Wineriter, Board Member and former President of the Humanists of Utah, says that:
“ As a Humanist, [he] define[s] Morality as those actions and thoughts that contribute to the growth and dignity of human life; immoral actions and thoughts denigrate and destroy life. The physical and verbal activities that injured Dane and others should not be tolerated by a civil society. ”
Lisa Miller, also a current Board Member of the Humanists of Utah, says:
“ [It is] extremely damaging when we have this idea that everyone has to be forced to be the same or [else] be shunned/beaten/ridiculed out of the group. We [all] have different likes and dreams and goals and abilities . . . [and] great pain comes as soon as we start trying to force everyone into the same box. The beauty of a humanistic philosophy is that we embrace and encourage the differences of individuals, rather than having the far opposite reaction of violence, enforcement, and fear. ”
And finally, Board Members Wayne Wilson & Jason Cooperrider share:
“ [Humanists] strongly oppose hate crime ~ humanism means understanding humanity's role on this earth, and striving to achieve its' potential for ourselves and our posterity – such that all humans are treated with an inherent dignity, equality, and respect! Society is most benefited when others are embraced for their differences, rather than persecuted for them. Life would be very boring if everyone were the same. ”
Thank you again, for coming here tonight in support of love and equality for all!
There have been four attacks (that I have read of) on young gay men in Utah within the past few months, and after one particularly brutal one on August 31, community and religious leaders have been galvanized to come together for this supportive event.
Please read more here about the Into the Light walks that have been taking place around the country since May 2011. I have heard people say that they are tired of feel-good events that don't address the horror and discrimination people of "different" sexual orientations and gender identities experience in our society on a day-to-day basis. I just want to respond with these remarks, which I've been asked to share at tonight's vigil and walk :
My name is Elaine Ball. I was recently certified by the American Humanist Association to be a Humanist Minister here in Utah. I want to thank the organizers of this event for bringing everyone together this evening, as well as for inviting me to speak briefly as a representative of those whose “faith” is not traditional, who may not believe there is a god, or who may not see the relevance of a god in their lives.
As a Humanist, I believe that morals arise from a common sense of human value. The attack on Dane Hall on August 31, as well as other recent attacks have been, in the words of the Utah Pride Center, “attack[s] on all of us.” This could have happened to you. This could have happened to one of our moms or dads, to one of our sisters, brothers, or children. This could still happen to any of us.
I am here to tell you, though, that as members of this human family, we do have the power to change our world for the better, and, more specifically, to change our selves, our families, and our neighborhoods for the better! Come out to your friends, family members, and neighbors, in rallying support against destructive behaviour such as these attacks. Please, begin the vital conversations with your peers that will turn hearts and minds toward love.
I would like to reach out to those of you who may not identify with a specific religion or faith tradition, and say, let us work together! Let us all work to build the bridges necessary to come together as one human family in support of love, for all of humanity!
I would like to finish by sharing these thoughts from local humanist leaders:
Florien Wineriter, Board Member and former President of the Humanists of Utah, says that:
“ As a Humanist, [he] define[s] Morality as those actions and thoughts that contribute to the growth and dignity of human life; immoral actions and thoughts denigrate and destroy life. The physical and verbal activities that injured Dane and others should not be tolerated by a civil society. ”
Lisa Miller, also a current Board Member of the Humanists of Utah, says:
“ [It is] extremely damaging when we have this idea that everyone has to be forced to be the same or [else] be shunned/beaten/ridiculed out of the group. We [all] have different likes and dreams and goals and abilities . . . [and] great pain comes as soon as we start trying to force everyone into the same box. The beauty of a humanistic philosophy is that we embrace and encourage the differences of individuals, rather than having the far opposite reaction of violence, enforcement, and fear. ”
And finally, Board Members Wayne Wilson & Jason Cooperrider share:
“ [Humanists] strongly oppose hate crime ~ humanism means understanding humanity's role on this earth, and striving to achieve its' potential for ourselves and our posterity – such that all humans are treated with an inherent dignity, equality, and respect! Society is most benefited when others are embraced for their differences, rather than persecuted for them. Life would be very boring if everyone were the same. ”
Thank you again, for coming here tonight in support of love and equality for all!
100 Influential Unitarian Universalists
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On a wall in the front lobby of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Salt Lake City hangs a poster with the names and pictures of 100 Influential Unitarian Universalists throughout history. I wrote down the first 25 names today, as I am interested in learning more about these people who have in varied ways influenced the history of this religion I now hold so close to my heart.
Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams, the first Vice-President of the United States and the second President. John Adams was the first President of the United States to only serve one term. Abigail is famous for the letters she wrote in correspondence with her husband, which demonstrated their unusually strong, respectful and emotionally connected relationship of equals. She became known as "Mrs. President" during the short time she was First Lady, because she was so much more politically active than Martha Washington had been. In March, 1776 she wrote a memorable letter to her husband John and the Continental Congress, requesting that they "remember the Ladies" in the forming of this new nation. John and Abigail are both buried in the Adams Family crypt underneath the United First Parish Church (Unitarian) in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams, the first Vice-President of the United States and the second President. John Adams was the first President of the United States to only serve one term. Abigail is famous for the letters she wrote in correspondence with her husband, which demonstrated their unusually strong, respectful and emotionally connected relationship of equals. She became known as "Mrs. President" during the short time she was First Lady, because she was so much more politically active than Martha Washington had been. In March, 1776 she wrote a memorable letter to her husband John and the Continental Congress, requesting that they "remember the Ladies" in the forming of this new nation. John and Abigail are both buried in the Adams Family crypt underneath the United First Parish Church (Unitarian) in Quincy, Massachusetts.
November Peace
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A day of baking brings ~
Pain à la citrouille (pumpkin bread) mini muffins for First Unitarian Church tomorrow
Banana bread mini muffins left over from baking earlier this week
Artisan cheese bread
Ricotta stuffed shells with roasted tomato sauce and seasoned ground beef
A hot mug of tea before bed and an extra hour of sleep thanks to Daylight Savings Time.
A no-going-out-to-eat pact throughout the holidays because, after all, why would we??
Pain à la citrouille (pumpkin bread) mini muffins for First Unitarian Church tomorrow
Banana bread mini muffins left over from baking earlier this week
Artisan cheese bread
Ricotta stuffed shells with roasted tomato sauce and seasoned ground beef
A hot mug of tea before bed and an extra hour of sleep thanks to Daylight Savings Time.
A no-going-out-to-eat pact throughout the holidays because, after all, why would we??
Listen To The Mustn'ts
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Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child,
Listen to the DON'TS
Listen to the SHOULDN'TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me --
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.
- Shel Silverstein
I bought a book a few weeks ago from the First Unitarian Church book sale, called "Earth Bound," which contains "Daily Meditations For All Seasons." The first meditation I read yesterday, January 1, 2012. It was about the atypical human tradition of crafting "resolutions" for the New Year. I adore this tradition, personally. For probably all of the month of December, I find myself thinking about what I would like to see change the most in my own life the coming year. I don't often write my resolutions, but I voice them, to myself and my partner. We encourage each other in pursuing some that are meaningful to us both.
But this meditation/thought I read yesterday pointed out that we are the only species in nature who seek for perfection in this way. I am trying to craft my resolutions now in terms of what will bind me more to the earth and the natural world I am a part of. Eating & moving healthily. Practicing consideration and compassion for others (people, plants, animals, all life). The reading suggested that, rather than seek for 'perfection,' or resolve to be 'perfect,' we embrace the changes and inherent imperfections as parts of who we are as human beings.
Listen to the DON'TS
Listen to the SHOULDN'TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me --
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.
- Shel Silverstein
I bought a book a few weeks ago from the First Unitarian Church book sale, called "Earth Bound," which contains "Daily Meditations For All Seasons." The first meditation I read yesterday, January 1, 2012. It was about the atypical human tradition of crafting "resolutions" for the New Year. I adore this tradition, personally. For probably all of the month of December, I find myself thinking about what I would like to see change the most in my own life the coming year. I don't often write my resolutions, but I voice them, to myself and my partner. We encourage each other in pursuing some that are meaningful to us both.
But this meditation/thought I read yesterday pointed out that we are the only species in nature who seek for perfection in this way. I am trying to craft my resolutions now in terms of what will bind me more to the earth and the natural world I am a part of. Eating & moving healthily. Practicing consideration and compassion for others (people, plants, animals, all life). The reading suggested that, rather than seek for 'perfection,' or resolve to be 'perfect,' we embrace the changes and inherent imperfections as parts of who we are as human beings.
29 Eylül 2012 Cumartesi
Opera on the Scene @ Weber State University (Garrison Choral Room, October 16th)
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Opera on the Scene
Who: Weber State University Department of Performing Arts
What: An Evening of Opera Scenes, directed by Karen Brookens
When: Tuesday, October 16 o 7:30 pm
Where: Garrison Choral Room (BC136), Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts
Weber State University Department of Performing Arts presents an evening of opera scenes directed by Dr. Karen Brookens, Tuesday, October 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Garrison Choral Room (BC136), Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts. Children eight years and older are welcome. Tickets are $6 for students, seniors and those with military I.D. and $7 for all others.
A new season of opera scenes will be presented by the voice and choral education students in the music department. An evening of duets, trios and ensembles will feature the operas "Carmen," "Cosi fan tutte," "Don Giovanni," "The Mikado," "The Ballade of Baby Doe," and "The Old Maid and the Thief." All scenes are under the direction of Dr. Karen Brookens and accompanied by Nylene Douglas.
The Opera Program at Weber State University is flourishing with talent and opportunities. More and more students are starting to see and hear what Weber State University has to offer them in the area of opera study.
The successful production of Gilbert and Sullivan´s "The Gondoliers" in 2009 and "Die Fledermaus" by Strauss in 2011 marked the continuance of a fully-produced opera every other year. Mozart´s "Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)" will be presented March 28-30, 2013. Dr. Brookens has been directing this program for the last ten years.
For more information about this concert or opera opportunities at WSU, contact Dr. Karen Brookens, 626-6439 or kbrookens@weber.edu.
Who: Weber State University Department of Performing Arts
What: An Evening of Opera Scenes, directed by Karen Brookens
When: Tuesday, October 16 o 7:30 pm
Where: Garrison Choral Room (BC136), Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts
Weber State University Department of Performing Arts presents an evening of opera scenes directed by Dr. Karen Brookens, Tuesday, October 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Garrison Choral Room (BC136), Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts. Children eight years and older are welcome. Tickets are $6 for students, seniors and those with military I.D. and $7 for all others.
A new season of opera scenes will be presented by the voice and choral education students in the music department. An evening of duets, trios and ensembles will feature the operas "Carmen," "Cosi fan tutte," "Don Giovanni," "The Mikado," "The Ballade of Baby Doe," and "The Old Maid and the Thief." All scenes are under the direction of Dr. Karen Brookens and accompanied by Nylene Douglas.
The Opera Program at Weber State University is flourishing with talent and opportunities. More and more students are starting to see and hear what Weber State University has to offer them in the area of opera study.
The successful production of Gilbert and Sullivan´s "The Gondoliers" in 2009 and "Die Fledermaus" by Strauss in 2011 marked the continuance of a fully-produced opera every other year. Mozart´s "Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)" will be presented March 28-30, 2013. Dr. Brookens has been directing this program for the last ten years.
For more information about this concert or opera opportunities at WSU, contact Dr. Karen Brookens, 626-6439 or kbrookens@weber.edu.
Celebrate Chinese Heritage @ Utah Cultural Celebration Center (1355 West 3100 South, September 29th)
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West Valley City to Unveil Chinese Gate, Celebrate ChineseHeritage at Utah Cultural Celebration Center
WHAT: ChineseHeritage Gate unveiling and community celebration WHEN: September 29, 2012 6:00 - 10:00 p.m.
WHERE: 1355 West3100 South WHO: Everyoneis invited to the Chinese Heritage celebration free of charge.
WHY: Ten years in the making, the Chinese Heritage Gatehas finally been installed at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center. The gatewill be a prominent structure on the Cultural Center grounds, inviting visitorsto admire its architectural beauty and reflect on Chinese culture. A publicunveiling ceremony will celebrate the installation of this culturallysignificant gift.
In addition to the public celebration on September 29, two specialcomplementary exhibits have been installed at the Utah Cultural CelebrationCenter showcasing artwork from Taiwan. The Beauty of Nantou 2012 featurescontemporary fine art by over 25 of Taiwan´s most famous and celebratedartists. Why Taiwan Matters is an informational photography exhibit thattraces the history of Taiwan from its beginnings as a full democracy topreserving traditional culture to contributions to the global economy, arts,medical field and technology. In addition to these two exhibits, gifted art andartifacts from West Valley City´s Sister City will also be on display. Theexhibits open on September 29 as part of the celebration, and will feature artdemonstrations by visiting Taiwanese artists.
Special thanks goes to Nantou and West Valley Cities; England Logistics;Chinese Heritage Foundation of Utah; Evergreen Ocean Division, and the WestValley City Sister City Committee for making the entire project, fromconception to construction to delivery, a reality for the Cultural Center andthe Chinese community.
For more information on this festive celebration or upcomingevents at the Cultural Center, please call 801-965-5100 or visit www.culturalcelebration.org. For more information about theChinese Heritage, visit www.wvc-ut.gov/friendshipgate. # # #
MichaelChristensen,Folklorist/Cultural Specialist West ValleyCity | Utah Cultural Celebration Center1355 West 3100SouthWest ValleyCity, Utah 84119(801) 965-5108michael.christensen@wvc-ut.govwww.culturalcelebration.org
WHAT: ChineseHeritage Gate unveiling and community celebration WHEN: September 29, 2012 6:00 - 10:00 p.m.
WHERE: 1355 West3100 South WHO: Everyoneis invited to the Chinese Heritage celebration free of charge.
WHY: Ten years in the making, the Chinese Heritage Gatehas finally been installed at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center. The gatewill be a prominent structure on the Cultural Center grounds, inviting visitorsto admire its architectural beauty and reflect on Chinese culture. A publicunveiling ceremony will celebrate the installation of this culturallysignificant gift.
In addition to the public celebration on September 29, two specialcomplementary exhibits have been installed at the Utah Cultural CelebrationCenter showcasing artwork from Taiwan. The Beauty of Nantou 2012 featurescontemporary fine art by over 25 of Taiwan´s most famous and celebratedartists. Why Taiwan Matters is an informational photography exhibit thattraces the history of Taiwan from its beginnings as a full democracy topreserving traditional culture to contributions to the global economy, arts,medical field and technology. In addition to these two exhibits, gifted art andartifacts from West Valley City´s Sister City will also be on display. Theexhibits open on September 29 as part of the celebration, and will feature artdemonstrations by visiting Taiwanese artists.
Special thanks goes to Nantou and West Valley Cities; England Logistics;Chinese Heritage Foundation of Utah; Evergreen Ocean Division, and the WestValley City Sister City Committee for making the entire project, fromconception to construction to delivery, a reality for the Cultural Center andthe Chinese community.
For more information on this festive celebration or upcomingevents at the Cultural Center, please call 801-965-5100 or visit www.culturalcelebration.org. For more information about theChinese Heritage, visit www.wvc-ut.gov/friendshipgate. # # #
MichaelChristensen,Folklorist/Cultural Specialist West ValleyCity | Utah Cultural Celebration Center1355 West 3100SouthWest ValleyCity, Utah 84119(801) 965-5108michael.christensen@wvc-ut.govwww.culturalcelebration.org
NEWS: CUAC to exhibit the work of seven Utah artists in Los Angele's international art fair
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CUAC to exhibit the work of seven Utah artists in Los Angele's international art fair, Art Platform
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In recognition of the excellent programming over the years, CUAC is one of 20 international non-profit art venues asked to curate exhibitions during Art Platform, a three day event September 28, 29, and 30, in Santa Monica, CA. While the event is in California, it is consistent with CUAC's purpose of helping Utah artists gain international exposure and context.
CUAC has elected to feature the work of seven Utah artists: Allan Ludwig, Cara Despain, Daniel Everett, Jared Lindsay Clark, Jared Steffensen, Jason Metcalf, and Venessa Gromek.
CUAC expects 30,000 members of the international art community to view the works by those artists. Works range from painting by Allan Ludwig, sculpture by Jason Metcalf, Jared Lindsay Clark, Jared Steffensen, and Venessay Gromek, photography by Daniel Everett, and video by Cara Despain.
This program is typical of the things CUAC strives to offer the Utah art community. As we try to survive our censorship and seek a new home, please make a donation.
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In recognition of the excellent programming over the years, CUAC is one of 20 international non-profit art venues asked to curate exhibitions during Art Platform, a three day event September 28, 29, and 30, in Santa Monica, CA. While the event is in California, it is consistent with CUAC's purpose of helping Utah artists gain international exposure and context.
CUAC has elected to feature the work of seven Utah artists: Allan Ludwig, Cara Despain, Daniel Everett, Jared Lindsay Clark, Jared Steffensen, Jason Metcalf, and Venessa Gromek.
CUAC expects 30,000 members of the international art community to view the works by those artists. Works range from painting by Allan Ludwig, sculpture by Jason Metcalf, Jared Lindsay Clark, Jared Steffensen, and Venessay Gromek, photography by Daniel Everett, and video by Cara Despain.
This program is typical of the things CUAC strives to offer the Utah art community. As we try to survive our censorship and seek a new home, please make a donation.
5th Annual College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Awards Assembly @ University of Utah (Officer's Club on September 26th)
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Please join us for the 5th Annual College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Awards AssemblyThursday September 27th, 10:45am-12:15pmNancy Peery Marriott Auditorium, Kingsbury Hall
Featuring stunning performances and riveting screenings from the talented students in the College of Fine Arts and honoring our remarkable 2012-13 Distinguished Alumni
The honorees are: Art & Art History- Bruce Lindsey, Dean of the College of Architecture and of the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Ballet --Sandra Birch Allen, Associate Professor of Dance at Brigham Young University and was Associate Chair of the Dance Department from 2009-2011. Film & Media Arts -- Trent Harris, writer and director of six feature films, many experimental movies, and more than one hundred documentaries for PBS, National Geographic, NBC and others. Modern Dance -- Keith Johnson, from Keith Johnson /Dancers and Professor at California State University Long Beach. Music -- Raymond Chobaz, Professor of Music and Conductor Laureate of the Gainesville Symphony Orchestra and Music Director/Conductor of the University of Florida Symphony Orchestra. Theatre -- Timothy McCuen Piggee, Associate Professor and Area Head for Musical Theatre at Cornish College of the Arts. The honorees will be presented a bronze medal and certificate at the CFA Awards Banquet Wednesday September 26th at the Officer´s Club at Fort Douglas on the U of U campus. The Awards Assembly the following morning brings the entire college to the stage featuring performances from the School of Music and the Departments of Ballet, Theatre and Modern Dance. There will be a video presentation from the Department of Art & Art History and a animated short film screening from the Department of Film & Media Arts. The Assembly is free and open to the public. We welcome all for an entertaining morning as we champion the arts. Please join us in Kingsbury Hall, September 27th at 10:45AM. For more information on this event please visit www.finearts.utah.edu, or call 801.581.6764.
Featuring stunning performances and riveting screenings from the talented students in the College of Fine Arts and honoring our remarkable 2012-13 Distinguished Alumni
The honorees are: Art & Art History- Bruce Lindsey, Dean of the College of Architecture and of the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Ballet --Sandra Birch Allen, Associate Professor of Dance at Brigham Young University and was Associate Chair of the Dance Department from 2009-2011. Film & Media Arts -- Trent Harris, writer and director of six feature films, many experimental movies, and more than one hundred documentaries for PBS, National Geographic, NBC and others. Modern Dance -- Keith Johnson, from Keith Johnson /Dancers and Professor at California State University Long Beach. Music -- Raymond Chobaz, Professor of Music and Conductor Laureate of the Gainesville Symphony Orchestra and Music Director/Conductor of the University of Florida Symphony Orchestra. Theatre -- Timothy McCuen Piggee, Associate Professor and Area Head for Musical Theatre at Cornish College of the Arts. The honorees will be presented a bronze medal and certificate at the CFA Awards Banquet Wednesday September 26th at the Officer´s Club at Fort Douglas on the U of U campus. The Awards Assembly the following morning brings the entire college to the stage featuring performances from the School of Music and the Departments of Ballet, Theatre and Modern Dance. There will be a video presentation from the Department of Art & Art History and a animated short film screening from the Department of Film & Media Arts. The Assembly is free and open to the public. We welcome all for an entertaining morning as we champion the arts. Please join us in Kingsbury Hall, September 27th at 10:45AM. For more information on this event please visit www.finearts.utah.edu, or call 801.581.6764.
'Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism" @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts
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Dale Nichols: Transcending RegionalismNew Exhibition Opening at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Dale Nichols,January, 1935, oil on canvas, courtesy the Williams College Museum of Art
Salt Lake City, UT – The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is pleased to present Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism,a retrospective exhibition of paintings by American illustrator and painter Dale Nichols (1904-1995). The exhibition will be on view from September 28, 2012 to March 18, 2013 in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building at the University of Utah.
Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism comes to the UMFA from The Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art in David City, Nebraska, where it was originally organized by Amanda Mobley Guenther. The exhibition was re-imagined for the UMFA by Donna Poulton, curator of the art of Utah and the West, and will showcase more than twenty works spanning much of the artist’s long career.
Dale Nicholsis regarded as one of the four major American Regionalist artists alongside Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry. The work of these four men, created in the Midwest during the Great Depression, defined a period when artists turned to nature and everyday scenes to create a uniquely American style of art.
Raised on a rural farm in Nebraska, Nichols spent most of his career creating stylized paintings of familiar landscapes and scenes from his youth: red barns, deep snow, and farmers hard at work. Many of Nichols’ works on view in Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism honor the agrarian ideal, and provided an image of hope for a struggling nation.
Nichols received art instruction at the Arts Institute of Chicago and gained early recognition for his magazine cover illustrations inHouse and Garden and The Saturday Evening Post. During the 1920s and 1930s, Nichols worked as a professor and became the Carnegie Professor in Art at the University of Illinois. In the 1940s he indulged his wanderlust by traveling repeatedly to Alaska and spending extended periods of time in Guatemala and Mexico. Visitors toDale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism will have the opportunity to experience paintings from each of these periods.
“Nichols' stylized paintings of agrarian themes capture a mood and time that is neither sentimental nor nostalgic,” says Donna Poulton, UMFA curator of the art of Utah and the West. “He portrays the real work of farmers and their environment in twentieth century America.”
Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism is generously sponsored by the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation; the Ray, Quinney & Nebeker Foundation; and the UMFA Special Exhibitions Council.For more information about this exhibition and others coming to the UMFA this fall, visitwww.umfa.utah.edu.
Dale Nichols,January, 1935, oil on canvas, courtesy the Williams College Museum of Art
Salt Lake City, UT – The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is pleased to present Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism,a retrospective exhibition of paintings by American illustrator and painter Dale Nichols (1904-1995). The exhibition will be on view from September 28, 2012 to March 18, 2013 in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building at the University of Utah.
Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism comes to the UMFA from The Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art in David City, Nebraska, where it was originally organized by Amanda Mobley Guenther. The exhibition was re-imagined for the UMFA by Donna Poulton, curator of the art of Utah and the West, and will showcase more than twenty works spanning much of the artist’s long career.
Dale Nicholsis regarded as one of the four major American Regionalist artists alongside Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry. The work of these four men, created in the Midwest during the Great Depression, defined a period when artists turned to nature and everyday scenes to create a uniquely American style of art.
Raised on a rural farm in Nebraska, Nichols spent most of his career creating stylized paintings of familiar landscapes and scenes from his youth: red barns, deep snow, and farmers hard at work. Many of Nichols’ works on view in Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism honor the agrarian ideal, and provided an image of hope for a struggling nation.
Nichols received art instruction at the Arts Institute of Chicago and gained early recognition for his magazine cover illustrations inHouse and Garden and The Saturday Evening Post. During the 1920s and 1930s, Nichols worked as a professor and became the Carnegie Professor in Art at the University of Illinois. In the 1940s he indulged his wanderlust by traveling repeatedly to Alaska and spending extended periods of time in Guatemala and Mexico. Visitors toDale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism will have the opportunity to experience paintings from each of these periods.
“Nichols' stylized paintings of agrarian themes capture a mood and time that is neither sentimental nor nostalgic,” says Donna Poulton, UMFA curator of the art of Utah and the West. “He portrays the real work of farmers and their environment in twentieth century America.”
Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism is generously sponsored by the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation; the Ray, Quinney & Nebeker Foundation; and the UMFA Special Exhibitions Council.For more information about this exhibition and others coming to the UMFA this fall, visitwww.umfa.utah.edu.
28 Eylül 2012 Cuma
NEWS: Registration for the 2013 Local Arts Classroom
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Americans for the Arts officially launches and opens registration for the 2013 Local Arts Classroom, back by popular demand! This five-month virtual leadership development series, running January through May 2013, provides an opportunity for emerging local arts leaders to master foundational concepts and build skills through exposure to current practice in the core areas of local arts development. The program is designed to serve arts professionals with less than 10 years of experience in the arts field, including current undergraduate or graduate students and those who are transitioning into the field from another sector.
Selected participants will attend seven 90-minute webinars and seven 60-minute post-webinar discussion calls, each offering opportunities to connect with field leaders. Participants will also have opportunities to regularly connect with peers around the country, and have access to a Classroom participant only web portal that will include resources to further study in each subject.
Topics we will cover include:
· Cultural and Community Planning: Building a Common Agenda for Development· Space for Art: Creating Spaces for Arts Production, Presentation, and Community Engagement· Advocacy: Making the Case for Arts and Culture· Stewardship and Resource Development: Raising Funds, Friends, and Allies· Activating Community Leadership: Board and Staff Development· New in 2013 – Career Development: Navigating Opportunities in the Local Arts FieldFull schedule and Topic Descriptions
Participants in the 2013 Local Arts Classroom will be selected via a competitive application and panel process. A maximum of 40 individuals will be accepted into the program.
CLICK HERE for Registration Details and to download the Application Form
For more information, contact Leadership Development Program Manager Stephanie Hanson at shanson@artsusa.org.
Selected participants will attend seven 90-minute webinars and seven 60-minute post-webinar discussion calls, each offering opportunities to connect with field leaders. Participants will also have opportunities to regularly connect with peers around the country, and have access to a Classroom participant only web portal that will include resources to further study in each subject.
Topics we will cover include:
· Cultural and Community Planning: Building a Common Agenda for Development· Space for Art: Creating Spaces for Arts Production, Presentation, and Community Engagement· Advocacy: Making the Case for Arts and Culture· Stewardship and Resource Development: Raising Funds, Friends, and Allies· Activating Community Leadership: Board and Staff Development· New in 2013 – Career Development: Navigating Opportunities in the Local Arts FieldFull schedule and Topic Descriptions
Participants in the 2013 Local Arts Classroom will be selected via a competitive application and panel process. A maximum of 40 individuals will be accepted into the program.
CLICK HERE for Registration Details and to download the Application Form
For more information, contact Leadership Development Program Manager Stephanie Hanson at shanson@artsusa.org.
Costume sale @ Weber State University Department of Performing Arts (Shephard Union Building on October 11th/12th)
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Time to Dress Up?
Who: Weber State University Department of Performing Arts
What: Costume Sale
When: October 11 o 12:00-7:00 PM
October 12 o 10:00am-4:00 pm
Where: The Lair o Shepherd Union Building
Weber State University Department of the Performing Arts will be holding a costume sale Thursday, October 11 from noon-7:00 pm and Friday, October 12, from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, in the Lair of the Shepherd Union Building. The sale will include clothing, vintage clothing, costumes, fabric, wigs, hats, some accessories, and other items that are periodically cleaned out of costume storage due to space. Proceeds go to support and maintain the costume studio. Those wanting a head-start on this year´s Halloween costume will want to shop this sale. Nothing over $20!
For more information about the sale, contact Jean Louise England, Costume Studio Manager, 801 626 7768 or jeanengland@weber.edu.
Who: Weber State University Department of Performing Arts
What: Costume Sale
When: October 11 o 12:00-7:00 PM
October 12 o 10:00am-4:00 pm
Where: The Lair o Shepherd Union Building
Weber State University Department of the Performing Arts will be holding a costume sale Thursday, October 11 from noon-7:00 pm and Friday, October 12, from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, in the Lair of the Shepherd Union Building. The sale will include clothing, vintage clothing, costumes, fabric, wigs, hats, some accessories, and other items that are periodically cleaned out of costume storage due to space. Proceeds go to support and maintain the costume studio. Those wanting a head-start on this year´s Halloween costume will want to shop this sale. Nothing over $20!
For more information about the sale, contact Jean Louise England, Costume Studio Manager, 801 626 7768 or jeanengland@weber.edu.
NEWS: CUAC to exhibit the work of seven Utah artists in Los Angele's international art fair
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CUAC to exhibit the work of seven Utah artists in Los Angele's international art fair, Art Platform
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In recognition of the excellent programming over the years, CUAC is one of 20 international non-profit art venues asked to curate exhibitions during Art Platform, a three day event September 28, 29, and 30, in Santa Monica, CA. While the event is in California, it is consistent with CUAC's purpose of helping Utah artists gain international exposure and context.
CUAC has elected to feature the work of seven Utah artists: Allan Ludwig, Cara Despain, Daniel Everett, Jared Lindsay Clark, Jared Steffensen, Jason Metcalf, and Venessa Gromek.
CUAC expects 30,000 members of the international art community to view the works by those artists. Works range from painting by Allan Ludwig, sculpture by Jason Metcalf, Jared Lindsay Clark, Jared Steffensen, and Venessay Gromek, photography by Daniel Everett, and video by Cara Despain.
This program is typical of the things CUAC strives to offer the Utah art community. As we try to survive our censorship and seek a new home, please make a donation.
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In recognition of the excellent programming over the years, CUAC is one of 20 international non-profit art venues asked to curate exhibitions during Art Platform, a three day event September 28, 29, and 30, in Santa Monica, CA. While the event is in California, it is consistent with CUAC's purpose of helping Utah artists gain international exposure and context.
CUAC has elected to feature the work of seven Utah artists: Allan Ludwig, Cara Despain, Daniel Everett, Jared Lindsay Clark, Jared Steffensen, Jason Metcalf, and Venessa Gromek.
CUAC expects 30,000 members of the international art community to view the works by those artists. Works range from painting by Allan Ludwig, sculpture by Jason Metcalf, Jared Lindsay Clark, Jared Steffensen, and Venessay Gromek, photography by Daniel Everett, and video by Cara Despain.
This program is typical of the things CUAC strives to offer the Utah art community. As we try to survive our censorship and seek a new home, please make a donation.
5th Annual College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Awards Assembly @ University of Utah (Officer's Club on September 26th)
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Please join us for the 5th Annual College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Awards AssemblyThursday September 27th, 10:45am-12:15pmNancy Peery Marriott Auditorium, Kingsbury Hall
Featuring stunning performances and riveting screenings from the talented students in the College of Fine Arts and honoring our remarkable 2012-13 Distinguished Alumni
The honorees are: Art & Art History- Bruce Lindsey, Dean of the College of Architecture and of the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Ballet --Sandra Birch Allen, Associate Professor of Dance at Brigham Young University and was Associate Chair of the Dance Department from 2009-2011. Film & Media Arts -- Trent Harris, writer and director of six feature films, many experimental movies, and more than one hundred documentaries for PBS, National Geographic, NBC and others. Modern Dance -- Keith Johnson, from Keith Johnson /Dancers and Professor at California State University Long Beach. Music -- Raymond Chobaz, Professor of Music and Conductor Laureate of the Gainesville Symphony Orchestra and Music Director/Conductor of the University of Florida Symphony Orchestra. Theatre -- Timothy McCuen Piggee, Associate Professor and Area Head for Musical Theatre at Cornish College of the Arts. The honorees will be presented a bronze medal and certificate at the CFA Awards Banquet Wednesday September 26th at the Officer´s Club at Fort Douglas on the U of U campus. The Awards Assembly the following morning brings the entire college to the stage featuring performances from the School of Music and the Departments of Ballet, Theatre and Modern Dance. There will be a video presentation from the Department of Art & Art History and a animated short film screening from the Department of Film & Media Arts. The Assembly is free and open to the public. We welcome all for an entertaining morning as we champion the arts. Please join us in Kingsbury Hall, September 27th at 10:45AM. For more information on this event please visit www.finearts.utah.edu, or call 801.581.6764.
Featuring stunning performances and riveting screenings from the talented students in the College of Fine Arts and honoring our remarkable 2012-13 Distinguished Alumni
The honorees are: Art & Art History- Bruce Lindsey, Dean of the College of Architecture and of the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Ballet --Sandra Birch Allen, Associate Professor of Dance at Brigham Young University and was Associate Chair of the Dance Department from 2009-2011. Film & Media Arts -- Trent Harris, writer and director of six feature films, many experimental movies, and more than one hundred documentaries for PBS, National Geographic, NBC and others. Modern Dance -- Keith Johnson, from Keith Johnson /Dancers and Professor at California State University Long Beach. Music -- Raymond Chobaz, Professor of Music and Conductor Laureate of the Gainesville Symphony Orchestra and Music Director/Conductor of the University of Florida Symphony Orchestra. Theatre -- Timothy McCuen Piggee, Associate Professor and Area Head for Musical Theatre at Cornish College of the Arts. The honorees will be presented a bronze medal and certificate at the CFA Awards Banquet Wednesday September 26th at the Officer´s Club at Fort Douglas on the U of U campus. The Awards Assembly the following morning brings the entire college to the stage featuring performances from the School of Music and the Departments of Ballet, Theatre and Modern Dance. There will be a video presentation from the Department of Art & Art History and a animated short film screening from the Department of Film & Media Arts. The Assembly is free and open to the public. We welcome all for an entertaining morning as we champion the arts. Please join us in Kingsbury Hall, September 27th at 10:45AM. For more information on this event please visit www.finearts.utah.edu, or call 801.581.6764.
'Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism" @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts
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Dale Nichols: Transcending RegionalismNew Exhibition Opening at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Dale Nichols,January, 1935, oil on canvas, courtesy the Williams College Museum of Art
Salt Lake City, UT – The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is pleased to present Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism,a retrospective exhibition of paintings by American illustrator and painter Dale Nichols (1904-1995). The exhibition will be on view from September 28, 2012 to March 18, 2013 in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building at the University of Utah.
Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism comes to the UMFA from The Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art in David City, Nebraska, where it was originally organized by Amanda Mobley Guenther. The exhibition was re-imagined for the UMFA by Donna Poulton, curator of the art of Utah and the West, and will showcase more than twenty works spanning much of the artist’s long career.
Dale Nicholsis regarded as one of the four major American Regionalist artists alongside Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry. The work of these four men, created in the Midwest during the Great Depression, defined a period when artists turned to nature and everyday scenes to create a uniquely American style of art.
Raised on a rural farm in Nebraska, Nichols spent most of his career creating stylized paintings of familiar landscapes and scenes from his youth: red barns, deep snow, and farmers hard at work. Many of Nichols’ works on view in Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism honor the agrarian ideal, and provided an image of hope for a struggling nation.
Nichols received art instruction at the Arts Institute of Chicago and gained early recognition for his magazine cover illustrations inHouse and Garden and The Saturday Evening Post. During the 1920s and 1930s, Nichols worked as a professor and became the Carnegie Professor in Art at the University of Illinois. In the 1940s he indulged his wanderlust by traveling repeatedly to Alaska and spending extended periods of time in Guatemala and Mexico. Visitors toDale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism will have the opportunity to experience paintings from each of these periods.
“Nichols' stylized paintings of agrarian themes capture a mood and time that is neither sentimental nor nostalgic,” says Donna Poulton, UMFA curator of the art of Utah and the West. “He portrays the real work of farmers and their environment in twentieth century America.”
Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism is generously sponsored by the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation; the Ray, Quinney & Nebeker Foundation; and the UMFA Special Exhibitions Council.For more information about this exhibition and others coming to the UMFA this fall, visitwww.umfa.utah.edu.
Dale Nichols,January, 1935, oil on canvas, courtesy the Williams College Museum of Art
Salt Lake City, UT – The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is pleased to present Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism,a retrospective exhibition of paintings by American illustrator and painter Dale Nichols (1904-1995). The exhibition will be on view from September 28, 2012 to March 18, 2013 in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building at the University of Utah.
Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism comes to the UMFA from The Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art in David City, Nebraska, where it was originally organized by Amanda Mobley Guenther. The exhibition was re-imagined for the UMFA by Donna Poulton, curator of the art of Utah and the West, and will showcase more than twenty works spanning much of the artist’s long career.
Dale Nicholsis regarded as one of the four major American Regionalist artists alongside Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry. The work of these four men, created in the Midwest during the Great Depression, defined a period when artists turned to nature and everyday scenes to create a uniquely American style of art.
Raised on a rural farm in Nebraska, Nichols spent most of his career creating stylized paintings of familiar landscapes and scenes from his youth: red barns, deep snow, and farmers hard at work. Many of Nichols’ works on view in Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism honor the agrarian ideal, and provided an image of hope for a struggling nation.
Nichols received art instruction at the Arts Institute of Chicago and gained early recognition for his magazine cover illustrations inHouse and Garden and The Saturday Evening Post. During the 1920s and 1930s, Nichols worked as a professor and became the Carnegie Professor in Art at the University of Illinois. In the 1940s he indulged his wanderlust by traveling repeatedly to Alaska and spending extended periods of time in Guatemala and Mexico. Visitors toDale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism will have the opportunity to experience paintings from each of these periods.
“Nichols' stylized paintings of agrarian themes capture a mood and time that is neither sentimental nor nostalgic,” says Donna Poulton, UMFA curator of the art of Utah and the West. “He portrays the real work of farmers and their environment in twentieth century America.”
Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism is generously sponsored by the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation; the Ray, Quinney & Nebeker Foundation; and the UMFA Special Exhibitions Council.For more information about this exhibition and others coming to the UMFA this fall, visitwww.umfa.utah.edu.
27 Eylül 2012 Perşembe
Unemployment benefits double in Utah as three‐month jobless average rises
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The U.S. Department of Labor doubled the maximum potential entitlement for Utah’s
unemployed after the jobless rate in the state rose to 6.0 percent, according to the Department of Workforce Services.
Utah’s three-month average unemployment rate hit 6 percent, triggering the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program.
The system increases the amount of time a person can receive unemployment benefits from 14 weeks to 28.
“The department will send out notices September 24, 2012 to about 2,400 claimants who had exhausted their Tier I benefits informing them they may be eligible for up to an additional 14 weeks of Tier II EUC benefits,” Utah Department of Workforce Services said in a statement.
Federal EUC benefits were “triggered off” in Utah for 13 weeks because the state’s threemonth average unemployment rate fell below 6 percent, according to the statement. Workforce Services administers unemployment insurance to Utah’s jobless.
The unemployment rate in Utah fell to 5.8 percent in August, falling nearly one percentage point from August, according to the DWS data. Deseret News
The U.S. Department of Labor doubled the maximum potential entitlement for Utah’s
unemployed after the jobless rate in the state rose to 6.0 percent, according to the Department of Workforce Services.
Utah’s three-month average unemployment rate hit 6 percent, triggering the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program.
The system increases the amount of time a person can receive unemployment benefits from 14 weeks to 28.
“The department will send out notices September 24, 2012 to about 2,400 claimants who had exhausted their Tier I benefits informing them they may be eligible for up to an additional 14 weeks of Tier II EUC benefits,” Utah Department of Workforce Services said in a statement.
Federal EUC benefits were “triggered off” in Utah for 13 weeks because the state’s threemonth average unemployment rate fell below 6 percent, according to the statement. Workforce Services administers unemployment insurance to Utah’s jobless.
The unemployment rate in Utah fell to 5.8 percent in August, falling nearly one percentage point from August, according to the DWS data. Deseret News
Health care, defense may be casualties of fiscal cliff
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Passed by Congress in August 2011, the commitment to cut approximately $1.2 trillion in government expenses is looking more and more likely to take effect on Jan. 2, 2013.
As designed, the expense savings would be split between defense and non-defense at roughly half the savings from each area.
These spending cuts are planned to be implemented over a nine-year period.
As this $1.2 trillion of spending cuts looms nearer and nearer, both sides of the political aisle are positioning themselves to deflect the inevitable criticism that will follow implementation.
To further confuse the average taxpayer, the proposed spending cuts are now collectively referred to as "sequestration."
Assuming sequestration takes effect as currently constituted, certain sectors of the U.S. economy are more likely to be affected in the near term. Some examples of sectors most likely to see their revenues decrease somewhat are the following.
Aerospace and defense sectors are the most likely to see their revenues decrease, if the U.S. government is forced to reduce spending in early 2013 as directed by the sequestration guidelines. Deseret News
Passed by Congress in August 2011, the commitment to cut approximately $1.2 trillion in government expenses is looking more and more likely to take effect on Jan. 2, 2013.
As designed, the expense savings would be split between defense and non-defense at roughly half the savings from each area.
These spending cuts are planned to be implemented over a nine-year period.
As this $1.2 trillion of spending cuts looms nearer and nearer, both sides of the political aisle are positioning themselves to deflect the inevitable criticism that will follow implementation.
To further confuse the average taxpayer, the proposed spending cuts are now collectively referred to as "sequestration."
Assuming sequestration takes effect as currently constituted, certain sectors of the U.S. economy are more likely to be affected in the near term. Some examples of sectors most likely to see their revenues decrease somewhat are the following.
Aerospace and defense sectors are the most likely to see their revenues decrease, if the U.S. government is forced to reduce spending in early 2013 as directed by the sequestration guidelines. Deseret News
Growth in colleges' endowments is not bringing lower tuitions
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College and university endowments were hit hard by the recession, but many have recovered well and are posting large gains, according to a report by USA Today. Tuition rates continue to climb, however.
"In 2011, 74 U.S. schools had endowments of more than $1 billion, compared with 54 schools in 2009 after the recession hit," according to data collected annually by the National Association of College and University Business Officials and analyzed by USA Today. "By 2011, nearly 70 percent of schools had either recovered from losses or were within 5 percent of their previous maximum amount. Gains include both investment returns and fundraising."
Endowments comprise money donated to an institution, often by alumni or friends of the school. Interest from unrestricted endowment funds can be used for operating expenses and capital expenses. Frequently, though, endowments come with restrictions made by their donors, often to created scholarships or endowed professorships.
Private vs. Public helps explain why students who can get in, top private schools such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton can be a better bargain than some state universities for students who can meet their academic requirements. These schools have begun using their endowments to offset tuition costs for middle-class students, prompting talk of a role reversal.
Although some public schools have large endowments, many have little or no money in endowment funds. There are 2,719 four-year colleges in the U.S. and another 1,690 two year colleges, and most have no endowment, said Time magazine, citing NACUBO statistics. Elite schools with multiple billions drive the conversation about lowering tuition through endowments, but the idea isn't feasible for most schools, the report said. Deseret News
College and university endowments were hit hard by the recession, but many have recovered well and are posting large gains, according to a report by USA Today. Tuition rates continue to climb, however.
"In 2011, 74 U.S. schools had endowments of more than $1 billion, compared with 54 schools in 2009 after the recession hit," according to data collected annually by the National Association of College and University Business Officials and analyzed by USA Today. "By 2011, nearly 70 percent of schools had either recovered from losses or were within 5 percent of their previous maximum amount. Gains include both investment returns and fundraising."
Endowments comprise money donated to an institution, often by alumni or friends of the school. Interest from unrestricted endowment funds can be used for operating expenses and capital expenses. Frequently, though, endowments come with restrictions made by their donors, often to created scholarships or endowed professorships.
Private vs. Public helps explain why students who can get in, top private schools such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton can be a better bargain than some state universities for students who can meet their academic requirements. These schools have begun using their endowments to offset tuition costs for middle-class students, prompting talk of a role reversal.
Although some public schools have large endowments, many have little or no money in endowment funds. There are 2,719 four-year colleges in the U.S. and another 1,690 two year colleges, and most have no endowment, said Time magazine, citing NACUBO statistics. Elite schools with multiple billions drive the conversation about lowering tuition through endowments, but the idea isn't feasible for most schools, the report said. Deseret News
Growth in colleges' endowments is not bringing lower tuitions
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College and university endowments were hit hard by the recession, but many have recovered well and are posting large gains, according to a report by USA Today. Tuition rates continue to climb, however.
"In 2011, 74 U.S. schools had endowments of more than $1 billion, compared with 54 schools in 2009 after the recession hit," according to data collected annually by the National Association of College and University Business Officials and analyzed by USA Today. "By 2011, nearly 70 percent of schools had either recovered from losses or were within 5 percent of their previous maximum amount. Gains include both investment returns and fundraising."
Endowments comprise money donated to an institution, often by alumni or friends of the school. Interest from unrestricted endowment funds can be used for operating expenses and capital expenses. Frequently, though, endowments come with restrictions made by their donors, often to created scholarships or endowed professorships.
Private vs. Public helps explain why students who can get in, top private schools such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton can be a better bargain than some state universities for students who can meet their academic requirements. These schools have begun using their endowments to offset tuition costs for middle-class students, prompting talk of a role reversal.
Although some public schools have large endowments, many have little or no money in endowment funds. There are 2,719 four-year colleges in the U.S. and another 1,690 two year colleges, and most have no endowment, said Time magazine, citing NACUBO statistics. Elite schools with multiple billions drive the conversation about lowering tuition through endowments, but the idea isn't feasible for most schools, the report said. Deseret News
College and university endowments were hit hard by the recession, but many have recovered well and are posting large gains, according to a report by USA Today. Tuition rates continue to climb, however.
"In 2011, 74 U.S. schools had endowments of more than $1 billion, compared with 54 schools in 2009 after the recession hit," according to data collected annually by the National Association of College and University Business Officials and analyzed by USA Today. "By 2011, nearly 70 percent of schools had either recovered from losses or were within 5 percent of their previous maximum amount. Gains include both investment returns and fundraising."
Endowments comprise money donated to an institution, often by alumni or friends of the school. Interest from unrestricted endowment funds can be used for operating expenses and capital expenses. Frequently, though, endowments come with restrictions made by their donors, often to created scholarships or endowed professorships.
Private vs. Public helps explain why students who can get in, top private schools such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton can be a better bargain than some state universities for students who can meet their academic requirements. These schools have begun using their endowments to offset tuition costs for middle-class students, prompting talk of a role reversal.
Although some public schools have large endowments, many have little or no money in endowment funds. There are 2,719 four-year colleges in the U.S. and another 1,690 two year colleges, and most have no endowment, said Time magazine, citing NACUBO statistics. Elite schools with multiple billions drive the conversation about lowering tuition through endowments, but the idea isn't feasible for most schools, the report said. Deseret News
Consumer confidence rising with the economy
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The signs pointing toward an economic recovery are getting brighter across Utah and especially in Washington County, according to a report released Tuesday on the Zions Bank Consumer Attitude Index.
After remaining stagnant for three months, Utah’s Consumer Attitude Index jumped 8.1 points in September to 85.0, its highest mark in April. Consumer confidence nationwide was at its highest in seven months, boosted by an improving housing market, a recovering stock market and consistent job growth.
Five key factors are playing into the recovery, Randy Shumway, CEO of the Cicero Group said — the housing rebound, employment growth, increased consumer spending, an upward trending stock market and the positive impacts of the Federal Reserve’s recent “quantitative easing,” which pumped cash into the economy by buying $85 billion worth of assets. The Spectrum
The signs pointing toward an economic recovery are getting brighter across Utah and especially in Washington County, according to a report released Tuesday on the Zions Bank Consumer Attitude Index.
After remaining stagnant for three months, Utah’s Consumer Attitude Index jumped 8.1 points in September to 85.0, its highest mark in April. Consumer confidence nationwide was at its highest in seven months, boosted by an improving housing market, a recovering stock market and consistent job growth.
Five key factors are playing into the recovery, Randy Shumway, CEO of the Cicero Group said — the housing rebound, employment growth, increased consumer spending, an upward trending stock market and the positive impacts of the Federal Reserve’s recent “quantitative easing,” which pumped cash into the economy by buying $85 billion worth of assets. The Spectrum
26 Eylül 2012 Çarşamba
Peek Disability in Media Award Event for Carrie Fisher @ Utah Film Center (September 26th)
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CARRIE FISHER IN UTAH TOHONOR THE LEGACY OF THE REAL RAIN MANFISHER NAMED SECONDRECIPIENT OF PEEK DISABILITY IN MEDIA AWARD
Salt Lake City, Utah - Following the first sold-out Evening withTemple Grandin, the Utah Film Center will honor renowned actressand author Carrie Fisher with this year's Peek Award for Disabilityin Media.According to the 2011 Annual Reportfrom the Utah Department of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, close to 200,000people in Utah suffer from mental illness (approximately 7% of Utah´spopulation) and only about 24% ofthose afflicted have received treatment. Carrie Fisher´s visit to thestate in celebration of the life and impact of the real Rain Man, Salt LakeCity native Kim Peek, promises to be a deeply impactful and personalexperience.The Utah Film Center together withgenerous support from the Utah Autism Foundation and other community partnershave joined forces to present an Evening with Carrie Fisher to increasingcommunity awareness about disability, particularly mental illness, and thecritical role that media can play in promoting understanding and acceptance.While upwards of 54 million Americans are estimated to have some kind of mentaldisorder each year, only about eight million of those seek help, and the fearand shame they experience can often lead to tragic ends.The event will take place on Friday,November 9, at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center with Barry Morrow, theAcademy Award®-winning screenwriter of Rain Man, presenting the Peek Awardto Ms. Fisher as he permanently loaning his Oscar® statuette for thepeople of Salt Lake City to enjoy through the Utah Film Center, in celebrationof the legacy of Kim Peek, who served as the inspiration for the film Rain Man.Ms. Fisher will give an exciting keynote address followed by an on-stageinterview with KUER RadioWest's host Doug Fabrizio. The evening willbe emceed by journalist Carole Mikita.Prior to the keynote event, we willhold an elegant reception with Ms. Fisher for VIP ticket holders and sponsorsat Valter´s Osteria. Ms. Fisher will also be in the lobby after the keynote toparticipate in a book signing for all ticket holders.The Peek Award will annually honor anactor, filmmaker, or subject of a film who is positively impacting oursociety's perception of persons with disabilities. As well as inspiring thosesuffering from mental illness to seek treatment, Ms. Fisher serves as anexample that each person is more than their disability and it is possible tolead a "normal" life and even achieve great personal and professional success.Diagnosed with Bipolar II disorder,actress and author Carrie Fisher has struggled with manic depression all of herlife, braving national scrutiny to share her story and provide inspiration toothers who also suffer from mental illness. Ms. Fisher has advocated fordecades to increase education, awareness, and research about mental illness, aswell as to dispel the stigma surrounding this type of affliction. Through herincredible creativity, candor, and wit, Ms. Fisher is able to use humor tobring awareness to this serious issue and help others decide to seek treatmentand speak out.Tickets are $50 per person, $45 forUtah Film Center Members, and VIP.Tickets including the pre-receptionwith Ms. Fisher are $150. Tickets will go on saleSeptember 26 through ArtTix at www.arttix.org.More details about all of ourupcoming events and membership can be found at UtahFilmCenter.org, Twitter @UtahFilmCenter and Facebook www.facebook.com/Utah-Film-Center
Salt Lake City, Utah - Following the first sold-out Evening withTemple Grandin, the Utah Film Center will honor renowned actressand author Carrie Fisher with this year's Peek Award for Disabilityin Media.According to the 2011 Annual Reportfrom the Utah Department of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, close to 200,000people in Utah suffer from mental illness (approximately 7% of Utah´spopulation) and only about 24% ofthose afflicted have received treatment. Carrie Fisher´s visit to thestate in celebration of the life and impact of the real Rain Man, Salt LakeCity native Kim Peek, promises to be a deeply impactful and personalexperience.The Utah Film Center together withgenerous support from the Utah Autism Foundation and other community partnershave joined forces to present an Evening with Carrie Fisher to increasingcommunity awareness about disability, particularly mental illness, and thecritical role that media can play in promoting understanding and acceptance.While upwards of 54 million Americans are estimated to have some kind of mentaldisorder each year, only about eight million of those seek help, and the fearand shame they experience can often lead to tragic ends.The event will take place on Friday,November 9, at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center with Barry Morrow, theAcademy Award®-winning screenwriter of Rain Man, presenting the Peek Awardto Ms. Fisher as he permanently loaning his Oscar® statuette for thepeople of Salt Lake City to enjoy through the Utah Film Center, in celebrationof the legacy of Kim Peek, who served as the inspiration for the film Rain Man.Ms. Fisher will give an exciting keynote address followed by an on-stageinterview with KUER RadioWest's host Doug Fabrizio. The evening willbe emceed by journalist Carole Mikita.Prior to the keynote event, we willhold an elegant reception with Ms. Fisher for VIP ticket holders and sponsorsat Valter´s Osteria. Ms. Fisher will also be in the lobby after the keynote toparticipate in a book signing for all ticket holders.The Peek Award will annually honor anactor, filmmaker, or subject of a film who is positively impacting oursociety's perception of persons with disabilities. As well as inspiring thosesuffering from mental illness to seek treatment, Ms. Fisher serves as anexample that each person is more than their disability and it is possible tolead a "normal" life and even achieve great personal and professional success.Diagnosed with Bipolar II disorder,actress and author Carrie Fisher has struggled with manic depression all of herlife, braving national scrutiny to share her story and provide inspiration toothers who also suffer from mental illness. Ms. Fisher has advocated fordecades to increase education, awareness, and research about mental illness, aswell as to dispel the stigma surrounding this type of affliction. Through herincredible creativity, candor, and wit, Ms. Fisher is able to use humor tobring awareness to this serious issue and help others decide to seek treatmentand speak out.Tickets are $50 per person, $45 forUtah Film Center Members, and VIP.Tickets including the pre-receptionwith Ms. Fisher are $150. Tickets will go on saleSeptember 26 through ArtTix at www.arttix.org.More details about all of ourupcoming events and membership can be found at UtahFilmCenter.org, Twitter @UtahFilmCenter and Facebook www.facebook.com/Utah-Film-Center
Jonathan Horowitz’s Your Land/My Land: Election ’12 @ UMOCA (Various locations, October 5-November 24)
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UMOCA Presents Jonathan Horowitz’s Your Land/My Land: Election ’12
Oct. 5-Nov. 24, 2012
Salt Lake City – The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art joins the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the New Museum in New York, and other museums across the United States to present Jonathan Horowitz’s Your Land/My Land: Election ’12—a special exhibition coinciding with the 2012 American Presidential election.
Your Land/My Land: Election ’12 is a reimagined installation originally presented by Horowitz during the 2008 presidential election. At each location (as in ’08), red and blue area rugs will divide the exhibition space into opposing zones, reflecting America’s color-coded, political, and cultural divide. Back-to-back monitors will be suspended between the carpets, with one broadcasting a live feed of Fox News, the other of MSNBC. The lyrics of This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie, which originally addressed the issue of land ownership, will be applied to the wall.
The space created by Horowitz will provide a location for people to gather and watch coverage of as well as talk about the presidential election. The installation’s central trope is a divided United States swathed in only red and blue.
“It’s an unprecedented opportunity to align contemporary art institutions in such a synchronized manner,” said Aaron Moulton, senior curator at UMOCA. “This exhibition manages to represent our political system and our country in a way that is both ironically balanced and unnervingly accurate. It gives new agency to art museums as an active space to create dialogue with our visitorship through an event that so profoundly affects us all.”
According to Horowitz, “If race and gender were the defining themes of the ’08 election, economic policy and economic disparity will likely be the defining themes of the 2012 election. The placement of the lyrics will extend this metaphor to the land of the museum and the land outside. To some, museums are decidedly blue—elitist bastions of liberalism—to others, they are lynchpins of a capitalist art market analogous to other capitalist markets that have been collapsing around us.”
When Your Land/My Land opens, a portrait of President Obama, as the current representative of all Americans, will hang from the ceiling between the two sides and a portrait of Mitt Romney will sit on the floor. On election night, each venue will host an election returns event, with the installation becoming a minimalist backdrop. If Obama wins, the position of the two portraits will remain the same. Should Obama be unseated, their positions will be switched.
Special events: UMOCA will extend its hours for viewers to experience the vice presidential debate and election night in the museum (Oct. 11, 7-9 p.m. and Nov. 6, 7 p.m.-TBD).
Participating venues include:Contemporary Art Museum: St Louis, MO – Sept.7–Nov. 11Contemporary Art Museum: Raleigh, NC – Sept. 22–Nov. 13Contemporary Arts Museum: Houston, TX - late Sept.–Nov. 11Hammer Museum: Los Angeles, CA – late Sept. – late Nov.Utah Museum of Contemporary Art: Salt Lake City, UT – Oct. 5–Nov. 24 New Museum: New York City, NY – Oct. 10- Nov. 18Telfair Museums: Savannah, GA – Oct. 5–Nov. 18Jonathon Horowitz is participating in the group exhibition, Battleground States, also opening at UMOCA on Oct. 5, 2012. The two exhibition openings will occur during UMOCA’s monthly First Friday series on Oct. 5, 8-10 p.m. with DJ Street Jesus, food, and a cash bar.
About the ArtistSince the early 1990’s, Horowitz has made art that combines the imagery and ambivalence of Pop Art with the engaged criticality of conceptualism. Often based on popular commercial sources, his work examines the deep-seated links between consumerism and political consciousness, as well as the political silences of postwar art. Recent solo exhibitions include “Minimalist Works from the Holocaust Museum,” Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland (2010), “Apocalypto Now,” Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2009), and the retrospective exhibition, “And/Or,” P.S.1, New York (2009).
About UMOCA
The award-winning Utah Museum of Contemporary Art exhibits groundbreaking artwork by local, national, and international artists. Five gallery spaces provide an opportunity for the community to explore the contemporary cultural landscape through UMOCA’s exhibitions, films, events, classes, and presentations.
Founded in 1931, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art has been recognized as Best Museum in the State of Utah for 2011 and 2012 and is a four-time recipient of funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation.
Located at 20 S. West Temple; open Tuesday-Thursday: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Friday: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.; Saturday: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.; closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is free. For more information call (801) 328-4201 or visit www.utahmoca.org.
Oct. 5-Nov. 24, 2012
Salt Lake City – The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art joins the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the New Museum in New York, and other museums across the United States to present Jonathan Horowitz’s Your Land/My Land: Election ’12—a special exhibition coinciding with the 2012 American Presidential election.
Your Land/My Land: Election ’12 is a reimagined installation originally presented by Horowitz during the 2008 presidential election. At each location (as in ’08), red and blue area rugs will divide the exhibition space into opposing zones, reflecting America’s color-coded, political, and cultural divide. Back-to-back monitors will be suspended between the carpets, with one broadcasting a live feed of Fox News, the other of MSNBC. The lyrics of This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie, which originally addressed the issue of land ownership, will be applied to the wall.
The space created by Horowitz will provide a location for people to gather and watch coverage of as well as talk about the presidential election. The installation’s central trope is a divided United States swathed in only red and blue.
“It’s an unprecedented opportunity to align contemporary art institutions in such a synchronized manner,” said Aaron Moulton, senior curator at UMOCA. “This exhibition manages to represent our political system and our country in a way that is both ironically balanced and unnervingly accurate. It gives new agency to art museums as an active space to create dialogue with our visitorship through an event that so profoundly affects us all.”
According to Horowitz, “If race and gender were the defining themes of the ’08 election, economic policy and economic disparity will likely be the defining themes of the 2012 election. The placement of the lyrics will extend this metaphor to the land of the museum and the land outside. To some, museums are decidedly blue—elitist bastions of liberalism—to others, they are lynchpins of a capitalist art market analogous to other capitalist markets that have been collapsing around us.”
When Your Land/My Land opens, a portrait of President Obama, as the current representative of all Americans, will hang from the ceiling between the two sides and a portrait of Mitt Romney will sit on the floor. On election night, each venue will host an election returns event, with the installation becoming a minimalist backdrop. If Obama wins, the position of the two portraits will remain the same. Should Obama be unseated, their positions will be switched.
Special events: UMOCA will extend its hours for viewers to experience the vice presidential debate and election night in the museum (Oct. 11, 7-9 p.m. and Nov. 6, 7 p.m.-TBD).
Participating venues include:Contemporary Art Museum: St Louis, MO – Sept.7–Nov. 11Contemporary Art Museum: Raleigh, NC – Sept. 22–Nov. 13Contemporary Arts Museum: Houston, TX - late Sept.–Nov. 11Hammer Museum: Los Angeles, CA – late Sept. – late Nov.Utah Museum of Contemporary Art: Salt Lake City, UT – Oct. 5–Nov. 24 New Museum: New York City, NY – Oct. 10- Nov. 18Telfair Museums: Savannah, GA – Oct. 5–Nov. 18Jonathon Horowitz is participating in the group exhibition, Battleground States, also opening at UMOCA on Oct. 5, 2012. The two exhibition openings will occur during UMOCA’s monthly First Friday series on Oct. 5, 8-10 p.m. with DJ Street Jesus, food, and a cash bar.
About the ArtistSince the early 1990’s, Horowitz has made art that combines the imagery and ambivalence of Pop Art with the engaged criticality of conceptualism. Often based on popular commercial sources, his work examines the deep-seated links between consumerism and political consciousness, as well as the political silences of postwar art. Recent solo exhibitions include “Minimalist Works from the Holocaust Museum,” Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland (2010), “Apocalypto Now,” Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2009), and the retrospective exhibition, “And/Or,” P.S.1, New York (2009).
About UMOCA
The award-winning Utah Museum of Contemporary Art exhibits groundbreaking artwork by local, national, and international artists. Five gallery spaces provide an opportunity for the community to explore the contemporary cultural landscape through UMOCA’s exhibitions, films, events, classes, and presentations.
Founded in 1931, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art has been recognized as Best Museum in the State of Utah for 2011 and 2012 and is a four-time recipient of funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation.
Located at 20 S. West Temple; open Tuesday-Thursday: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Friday: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.; Saturday: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.; closed Sunday and Monday. Admission is free. For more information call (801) 328-4201 or visit www.utahmoca.org.
'Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism" @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts
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Dale Nichols: Transcending RegionalismNew Exhibition Opening at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Dale Nichols,January, 1935, oil on canvas, courtesy the Williams College Museum of Art
Salt Lake City, UT – The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is pleased to present Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism,a retrospective exhibition of paintings by American illustrator and painter Dale Nichols (1904-1995). The exhibition will be on view from September 28, 2012 to March 18, 2013 in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building at the University of Utah.
Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism comes to the UMFA from The Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art in David City, Nebraska, where it was originally organized by Amanda Mobley Guenther. The exhibition was re-imagined for the UMFA by Donna Poulton, curator of the art of Utah and the West, and will showcase more than twenty works spanning much of the artist’s long career.
Dale Nicholsis regarded as one of the four major American Regionalist artists alongside Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry. The work of these four men, created in the Midwest during the Great Depression, defined a period when artists turned to nature and everyday scenes to create a uniquely American style of art.
Raised on a rural farm in Nebraska, Nichols spent most of his career creating stylized paintings of familiar landscapes and scenes from his youth: red barns, deep snow, and farmers hard at work. Many of Nichols’ works on view in Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism honor the agrarian ideal, and provided an image of hope for a struggling nation.
Nichols received art instruction at the Arts Institute of Chicago and gained early recognition for his magazine cover illustrations inHouse and Garden and The Saturday Evening Post. During the 1920s and 1930s, Nichols worked as a professor and became the Carnegie Professor in Art at the University of Illinois. In the 1940s he indulged his wanderlust by traveling repeatedly to Alaska and spending extended periods of time in Guatemala and Mexico. Visitors toDale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism will have the opportunity to experience paintings from each of these periods.
“Nichols' stylized paintings of agrarian themes capture a mood and time that is neither sentimental nor nostalgic,” says Donna Poulton, UMFA curator of the art of Utah and the West. “He portrays the real work of farmers and their environment in twentieth century America.”
Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism is generously sponsored by the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation; the Ray, Quinney & Nebeker Foundation; and the UMFA Special Exhibitions Council.For more information about this exhibition and others coming to the UMFA this fall, visitwww.umfa.utah.edu.
Dale Nichols,January, 1935, oil on canvas, courtesy the Williams College Museum of Art
Salt Lake City, UT – The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is pleased to present Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism,a retrospective exhibition of paintings by American illustrator and painter Dale Nichols (1904-1995). The exhibition will be on view from September 28, 2012 to March 18, 2013 in the Marcia and John Price Museum Building at the University of Utah.
Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism comes to the UMFA from The Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art in David City, Nebraska, where it was originally organized by Amanda Mobley Guenther. The exhibition was re-imagined for the UMFA by Donna Poulton, curator of the art of Utah and the West, and will showcase more than twenty works spanning much of the artist’s long career.
Dale Nicholsis regarded as one of the four major American Regionalist artists alongside Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry. The work of these four men, created in the Midwest during the Great Depression, defined a period when artists turned to nature and everyday scenes to create a uniquely American style of art.
Raised on a rural farm in Nebraska, Nichols spent most of his career creating stylized paintings of familiar landscapes and scenes from his youth: red barns, deep snow, and farmers hard at work. Many of Nichols’ works on view in Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism honor the agrarian ideal, and provided an image of hope for a struggling nation.
Nichols received art instruction at the Arts Institute of Chicago and gained early recognition for his magazine cover illustrations inHouse and Garden and The Saturday Evening Post. During the 1920s and 1930s, Nichols worked as a professor and became the Carnegie Professor in Art at the University of Illinois. In the 1940s he indulged his wanderlust by traveling repeatedly to Alaska and spending extended periods of time in Guatemala and Mexico. Visitors toDale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism will have the opportunity to experience paintings from each of these periods.
“Nichols' stylized paintings of agrarian themes capture a mood and time that is neither sentimental nor nostalgic,” says Donna Poulton, UMFA curator of the art of Utah and the West. “He portrays the real work of farmers and their environment in twentieth century America.”
Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism is generously sponsored by the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation; the Ray, Quinney & Nebeker Foundation; and the UMFA Special Exhibitions Council.For more information about this exhibition and others coming to the UMFA this fall, visitwww.umfa.utah.edu.
"Embark" Repertory Dance Theatre (Jeanne Wagner Theatre, October 4-6th)
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Kathleen Cahill, "Charm" playwright, in a post play discussion @ Weber State University Department of Performing Arts (Eccles Theater, October 11)
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Meet the Playwright
Who: Weber State University Department of Performing Arts
What: Kathleen Cahill, "Charm" playwright, in a post play discussion
When: October 11 o immediately following the production of "Charm" (begins at 7:30)
Where: Eccles Theater, Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts
Weber State University Department of the Performing Arts will be holding a post-play discussion with the playwright, Kathleen Cahill, immediately following the production of her play, "Charm," Thursday, October 11, in the Eccles Theater. Audience members will have an opportunity to ask questions of Cahill; the director, Tracy Callahan; as well as members of the cast.
Kathleen Cahill has been a playwright in residence at Salt Lake Acting Company for the last two years and the team has produced very exciting new works. Her play, "Charm," premiered at SLAC in 2010 and also won the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award. A New England transplant, Cahill now lives in Salt Lake City.
A study guide for this production is available. Email crjennings@weber.edu for a .pdf
Who: Weber State University Department of Performing Arts
What: Kathleen Cahill, "Charm" playwright, in a post play discussion
When: October 11 o immediately following the production of "Charm" (begins at 7:30)
Where: Eccles Theater, Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts
Weber State University Department of the Performing Arts will be holding a post-play discussion with the playwright, Kathleen Cahill, immediately following the production of her play, "Charm," Thursday, October 11, in the Eccles Theater. Audience members will have an opportunity to ask questions of Cahill; the director, Tracy Callahan; as well as members of the cast.
Kathleen Cahill has been a playwright in residence at Salt Lake Acting Company for the last two years and the team has produced very exciting new works. Her play, "Charm," premiered at SLAC in 2010 and also won the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award. A New England transplant, Cahill now lives in Salt Lake City.
A study guide for this production is available. Email crjennings@weber.edu for a .pdf
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“Charm" by Kathleen Cahill @ WSU (Ogden: Oct 5 - 13)
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A Little Stream Growing Wider as it Heads Toward the SeaWHO: Kathleen Cahill, playwrightWHAT: “Charm,” a play about Margaret Fuller and Her FriendsWHERE: Weber State University Department of Performing ArtsWHEN: October 5-13
Kathleen Cahill has been a playwright in residence at Salt Lake Acting Company for the last two years and the team has produced very exciting new works. Her play, “Charm,” premiered at SLAC in 2010 and also won the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award. A New England transplant, Cahill appears to be thriving in a city on the lip of the Great Basin.
from her SLAC blog http://www.saltlakeactingcompany.org/playwrights/resident-playwright/playwright-kathleen-cahill: As I recall, I was first noticed as writer when I penned the immortal phrase, “tender pillows of ravioli” for a restaurant in Massachusetts. . . .I wrote a children’s play. . . . I wrote a couple of radio plays and. . . sold them both to the CBC. I wrote for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, little monologues about famous composers, and I wrote some short stories. I wrote a couple of screenplays, and sold one of them to Public Television. My first play . . .workshopped at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York, and was produced by the University of Oklahoma where I was Artist in Residence. My second play. . . was produced off Broadway, and then in Chicago, and was made into a radio play for NPR. The Massachusetts Artists Foundation gave me an award for a play called DITCHED. Someone hired me to turn it into a screenplay, and the money allowed my husband and me to make the down payment on our first house. A play called THE STILL TIME was produced in Chicago and received the Connecticut Commission on the Arts Playwrighting award.
I was given a scholarship to NYU Tisch School for the Arts in Musical Theatre. I wrote the libretto for CLARA, an opera about Clara Schumann, and received a Rockefeller Grant to Bellagio Italy to work on it with the composer. . . .I wrote DAKOTA SKY that received the Jane Chambers Playwrighting Award. . . .North Shore Music Theatre commissioned me to write a musical . . .which was performed at the Berkley College of Music in Boston.
Then I came to Utah and had brain surgery. My life changed. There were mountains and sky and something in the air (besides pollution I mean.) I wrote a play in Utah that I had wanted to write for years, about Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalists: CHARM received it’s world premiere at the Salt Lake Acting Company. It received an Edgerton Award; it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. THE PERSIAN QUARTER premiered at the Salt Lake Acting Company and received another Edgerton Award. It opens the season at Merrimack Rep in Massachusetts in September 2011. I’m a member of a great playwrighting group here in Salt Lake. I see my career as a playwright like this: a little stream growing bigger and wider as it heads towards the “far and boundless sea” to steal a quote from one of my own plays.
Awards: Jane Chambers Playwrighting Award; Connecticut Commission on the Arts Playwrighting Award (twice) Massachusetts Artists Foundation Award; Rockefeller Grant; National Endowment for the Arts New American Works Grant;, Edgerton Foundation Award (twice) Drama League Award.
Musicals: The Navigator, Friendship of the Sea; Dakota Sky, an opera, Clara, two opera/cabarets, Fatal Song, and A Tale of Two Cities: Paris and Berlin in the Twenties. Listed in the top 25 songwriters in the Directory of Musical Theatre Writers.
Plays: Course 86B in the Catalogue (Salt Lake Acting Company) The Still Time (Georgia Rep/ Porchlight Theatre, Chicago) Women Who Love Science Too Much (Porchlight Theatre and NPR Radio) Henri Louise and Henry (Cleveland Public, Firehouse Theatre, Massachusetts) Charm ( National New Play Network Festival, Salt Lake Acting Company premiere, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Dallas; Orlando Shakespeare) The Persian Quarter ( Salt Lake Acting Company, Merrimack Rep, Massachusetts.) Downtown Express (Screenplay, produced by David Grubin Productions. )
Works as Senior Editor, Masterpiece, WGBH-TV. • contact: kathleencahill10@comcast.net
A Little Stream Growing Wider as it Heads Toward the SeaWHO: Kathleen Cahill, playwrightWHAT: “Charm,” a play about Margaret Fuller and Her FriendsWHERE: Weber State University Department of Performing ArtsWHEN: October 5-13
Kathleen Cahill has been a playwright in residence at Salt Lake Acting Company for the last two years and the team has produced very exciting new works. Her play, “Charm,” premiered at SLAC in 2010 and also won the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award. A New England transplant, Cahill appears to be thriving in a city on the lip of the Great Basin.
from her SLAC blog http://www.saltlakeactingcompany.org/playwrights/resident-playwright/playwright-kathleen-cahill: As I recall, I was first noticed as writer when I penned the immortal phrase, “tender pillows of ravioli” for a restaurant in Massachusetts. . . .I wrote a children’s play. . . . I wrote a couple of radio plays and. . . sold them both to the CBC. I wrote for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, little monologues about famous composers, and I wrote some short stories. I wrote a couple of screenplays, and sold one of them to Public Television. My first play . . .workshopped at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York, and was produced by the University of Oklahoma where I was Artist in Residence. My second play. . . was produced off Broadway, and then in Chicago, and was made into a radio play for NPR. The Massachusetts Artists Foundation gave me an award for a play called DITCHED. Someone hired me to turn it into a screenplay, and the money allowed my husband and me to make the down payment on our first house. A play called THE STILL TIME was produced in Chicago and received the Connecticut Commission on the Arts Playwrighting award.
I was given a scholarship to NYU Tisch School for the Arts in Musical Theatre. I wrote the libretto for CLARA, an opera about Clara Schumann, and received a Rockefeller Grant to Bellagio Italy to work on it with the composer. . . .I wrote DAKOTA SKY that received the Jane Chambers Playwrighting Award. . . .North Shore Music Theatre commissioned me to write a musical . . .which was performed at the Berkley College of Music in Boston.
Then I came to Utah and had brain surgery. My life changed. There were mountains and sky and something in the air (besides pollution I mean.) I wrote a play in Utah that I had wanted to write for years, about Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalists: CHARM received it’s world premiere at the Salt Lake Acting Company. It received an Edgerton Award; it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. THE PERSIAN QUARTER premiered at the Salt Lake Acting Company and received another Edgerton Award. It opens the season at Merrimack Rep in Massachusetts in September 2011. I’m a member of a great playwrighting group here in Salt Lake. I see my career as a playwright like this: a little stream growing bigger and wider as it heads towards the “far and boundless sea” to steal a quote from one of my own plays.
Awards: Jane Chambers Playwrighting Award; Connecticut Commission on the Arts Playwrighting Award (twice) Massachusetts Artists Foundation Award; Rockefeller Grant; National Endowment for the Arts New American Works Grant;, Edgerton Foundation Award (twice) Drama League Award.
Musicals: The Navigator, Friendship of the Sea; Dakota Sky, an opera, Clara, two opera/cabarets, Fatal Song, and A Tale of Two Cities: Paris and Berlin in the Twenties. Listed in the top 25 songwriters in the Directory of Musical Theatre Writers.
Plays: Course 86B in the Catalogue (Salt Lake Acting Company) The Still Time (Georgia Rep/ Porchlight Theatre, Chicago) Women Who Love Science Too Much (Porchlight Theatre and NPR Radio) Henri Louise and Henry (Cleveland Public, Firehouse Theatre, Massachusetts) Charm ( National New Play Network Festival, Salt Lake Acting Company premiere, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Dallas; Orlando Shakespeare) The Persian Quarter ( Salt Lake Acting Company, Merrimack Rep, Massachusetts.) Downtown Express (Screenplay, produced by David Grubin Productions. )
Works as Senior Editor, Masterpiece, WGBH-TV. • contact: kathleencahill10@comcast.net
JOB: Director of Major Gifts @ Utah Symphony | Utah Opera
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Job Description: Director of Major Gifts
Utah Symphony | Utah Opera
Utah Symphony | Utah Opera (USUO) is seeking an experienced Director of Major Gifts (DMG) to manage a portfolio of approximately 100 – 150 high value individual donors at all giving phases including identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship. Working in partnership with members of the Board of Trustees, the President and CEO, and Vice President of Development, the DMG will establish objectives and develop strategies to increase financial support from individuals. A key focus of this position will be to participate in comprehensive campaign planning and execution. The DMG will join members of the Development Department team, especially the Annual Giving Manager, in planning efforts and solicitation strategies. The DMG will work closely with and manage the Planned Giving Committee to grow Legacy gifts to the Tanner and Crescendo Societies. The DMG will remain current on programs and initiatives of USUO to support the mission of USUO. The DMG will represent USUO at various external functions as requested, and will perform other duties as assigned.
Specific responsibilities include:
•Serving as the primary liaison with campaign consultants to manage the continuation of the quiet phase of the Comprehensive Campaign;
•Managing day-to-day oversight of the Comprehensive Campaign including tracking and reporting progress, preparing materials for solicitations, and providing strategic support;
•Staffing members of the Campaign Core Leadership Team, the Development Committee and the Board of Trustees;
•Working closely with volunteers to identify and cultivate prospects, both for Comprehensive Campaign and Annual Fund purposes;
•Managing the Planned Giving Committee to maximize legacy gifts;
•Implementing a sophisticated major giving program;
•Implementing best practices in prospect management, stewardship and donor relations;
•Utilizing the Tessitura database program to manage prospect research, cultivation, solicitations and stewardship;
•Working closely with the eight-member development staff to meet contributed revenue goals.
Requirements include a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; a proven track record of successful major gifts solicitations including planned gifts; excellent interpersonal, customer service, written and verbal communication skills; ability to work well under deadline and to manage multiple projects simultaneously; ability to work independently and as part of a team; high level of initiative, attention to detail and excellent organizational skills; and experience with current and evolving trends in major gifts giving and solicitation. Position reports to Vice President of Development.
An affinity for the mission of USUO and a passion the arts are an integral component of the MGO position along with a willingness and ability to work frequent evenings and some weekends. Campaign experience and knowledge of Tessitura software preferred.
Utah Symphony | Utah Opera serves the people of Utah and beyond as the premier provider of the orchestral and operatic art forms. Our vision is to connect the community through great live music with performances at Abravanel Hall, the Capitol Theatre, the Deer Valley® Music Festival, and through our state-wide education programs. With an annual budget of $18 million, we serve over 350,000 people each year, and are one of only 17 full-time orchestras in the country.
How to Apply: Please send a cover letter and resume to jobs@usuo.org.
Contact Name: Leslie Peterson
Email: jobs@usuo.org
Job Description: Director of Major Gifts
Utah Symphony | Utah Opera
Utah Symphony | Utah Opera (USUO) is seeking an experienced Director of Major Gifts (DMG) to manage a portfolio of approximately 100 – 150 high value individual donors at all giving phases including identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship. Working in partnership with members of the Board of Trustees, the President and CEO, and Vice President of Development, the DMG will establish objectives and develop strategies to increase financial support from individuals. A key focus of this position will be to participate in comprehensive campaign planning and execution. The DMG will join members of the Development Department team, especially the Annual Giving Manager, in planning efforts and solicitation strategies. The DMG will work closely with and manage the Planned Giving Committee to grow Legacy gifts to the Tanner and Crescendo Societies. The DMG will remain current on programs and initiatives of USUO to support the mission of USUO. The DMG will represent USUO at various external functions as requested, and will perform other duties as assigned.
Specific responsibilities include:
•Serving as the primary liaison with campaign consultants to manage the continuation of the quiet phase of the Comprehensive Campaign;
•Managing day-to-day oversight of the Comprehensive Campaign including tracking and reporting progress, preparing materials for solicitations, and providing strategic support;
•Staffing members of the Campaign Core Leadership Team, the Development Committee and the Board of Trustees;
•Working closely with volunteers to identify and cultivate prospects, both for Comprehensive Campaign and Annual Fund purposes;
•Managing the Planned Giving Committee to maximize legacy gifts;
•Implementing a sophisticated major giving program;
•Implementing best practices in prospect management, stewardship and donor relations;
•Utilizing the Tessitura database program to manage prospect research, cultivation, solicitations and stewardship;
•Working closely with the eight-member development staff to meet contributed revenue goals.
Requirements include a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; a proven track record of successful major gifts solicitations including planned gifts; excellent interpersonal, customer service, written and verbal communication skills; ability to work well under deadline and to manage multiple projects simultaneously; ability to work independently and as part of a team; high level of initiative, attention to detail and excellent organizational skills; and experience with current and evolving trends in major gifts giving and solicitation. Position reports to Vice President of Development.
An affinity for the mission of USUO and a passion the arts are an integral component of the MGO position along with a willingness and ability to work frequent evenings and some weekends. Campaign experience and knowledge of Tessitura software preferred.
Utah Symphony | Utah Opera serves the people of Utah and beyond as the premier provider of the orchestral and operatic art forms. Our vision is to connect the community through great live music with performances at Abravanel Hall, the Capitol Theatre, the Deer Valley® Music Festival, and through our state-wide education programs. With an annual budget of $18 million, we serve over 350,000 people each year, and are one of only 17 full-time orchestras in the country.
How to Apply: Please send a cover letter and resume to jobs@usuo.org.
Contact Name: Leslie Peterson
Email: jobs@usuo.org
JOB: Business Marketplace Coordinator @ Utah Nonprofits Association
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Salary: $15/hour
Job Description: About UNA:
The Utah Nonprofits Association (UNA) is the umbrella membership association of nonprofit organizations in Utah. Incorporated in 1990, UNA was created by, and for, people who strive for a stronger, more professional nonprofit community in Utah. Our current membership includes over 650 nonprofit organizations and individual members.
UNA’s mission is to strengthen the Utah nonprofit community by:
1. Strengthening the quality of nonprofit leadership and management.
2. Enhancing the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations.
3. Promoting greater understanding of the role and impact of nonprofit organizations.
4. Encouraging networking and cooperative efforts among nonprofit organizations.
Position Background:
Utah Nonprofits Association is launching a new Business Marketplace on our website to provide one-stop access to services nonprofits need. This is also an opportunity for businesses who value nonprofit business to market their services to this audience.
Position Responsibilities:
The Business Marketplace Coordinator will provide excellent customer service; answer incoming calls and emails; prepare, disseminate and promote Marketplace information; follow up on referrals for potential customers and encourage them to become a member of the Marketplace; monitor website utilization, track paperwork, file reports and update Business Marketplace section of the UNA website.
Hours:
This part-time position will work flexible hours that average 10 hours per week between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. The hours will be coordinated with the Membership Services Manager and the other Utah Nonprofits Association staff, interns and volunteers. If successful, this position has the potential of increasing hours and could eventually become a full-time position.
Supervisor: Membership Services Manager
Qualifications and Skills Preferred
• Experience with sales or marketing
• Experience in the business sector
• Experience with the nonprofit sector
• Excellent computer, web and technical skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Some post high school business, marketing, administrative or related course work
• Exceptional customer service orientation and satisfaction in providing assistance
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to work both independently and as a part of a team
Disposition
• Willing to learn
• Energetic and imaginative
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Exceptional customer service orientation and satisfaction in providing assistance
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to work both independently and as a part of a team
• Professional appearance, manner and attitude
• Able to remain calm under pressure
How to Apply: Please email cover letter, resume and 3 references to pshreve@utahnonprofits.org
No calls please.
Closing Date: open until filled
Contact Name: Patty Shreve
Email: pshreve@utahnonprofits.org
Salary: $15/hour
Job Description: About UNA:
The Utah Nonprofits Association (UNA) is the umbrella membership association of nonprofit organizations in Utah. Incorporated in 1990, UNA was created by, and for, people who strive for a stronger, more professional nonprofit community in Utah. Our current membership includes over 650 nonprofit organizations and individual members.
UNA’s mission is to strengthen the Utah nonprofit community by:
1. Strengthening the quality of nonprofit leadership and management.
2. Enhancing the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations.
3. Promoting greater understanding of the role and impact of nonprofit organizations.
4. Encouraging networking and cooperative efforts among nonprofit organizations.
Position Background:
Utah Nonprofits Association is launching a new Business Marketplace on our website to provide one-stop access to services nonprofits need. This is also an opportunity for businesses who value nonprofit business to market their services to this audience.
Position Responsibilities:
The Business Marketplace Coordinator will provide excellent customer service; answer incoming calls and emails; prepare, disseminate and promote Marketplace information; follow up on referrals for potential customers and encourage them to become a member of the Marketplace; monitor website utilization, track paperwork, file reports and update Business Marketplace section of the UNA website.
Hours:
This part-time position will work flexible hours that average 10 hours per week between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. The hours will be coordinated with the Membership Services Manager and the other Utah Nonprofits Association staff, interns and volunteers. If successful, this position has the potential of increasing hours and could eventually become a full-time position.
Supervisor: Membership Services Manager
Qualifications and Skills Preferred
• Experience with sales or marketing
• Experience in the business sector
• Experience with the nonprofit sector
• Excellent computer, web and technical skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Some post high school business, marketing, administrative or related course work
• Exceptional customer service orientation and satisfaction in providing assistance
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to work both independently and as a part of a team
Disposition
• Willing to learn
• Energetic and imaginative
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Exceptional customer service orientation and satisfaction in providing assistance
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to work both independently and as a part of a team
• Professional appearance, manner and attitude
• Able to remain calm under pressure
How to Apply: Please email cover letter, resume and 3 references to pshreve@utahnonprofits.org
No calls please.
Closing Date: open until filled
Contact Name: Patty Shreve
Email: pshreve@utahnonprofits.org
JOB: Costume Director @ Utah Symphony | Utah Opera
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Costume Director
Utah Symphony | Utah Opera
Job Description: UTAH SYMPHONY | UTAH OPERA has an immediate opening for the position of Costume Director. This position reports to Utah Opera’s Artistic Director and oversees a full-time staff of seven and part-time staff as needed. Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to day to day management of the costume shop, development and maintenance of budgets, point of contact with guest costume and wig/make-up designers, scheduling/managing staff and promotion of rentals/construction program. The successful candidate should have a minimum of an
undergraduate in design or technical costuming, significant management experience, and at least two years in theatrical costuming. Good communication and team leadership skills are a must.
How to Apply: Please send resume and cover letter to jobs@usuo.org.
Contact Name: Natalie Cope
Email: jobs@usuo.org
Costume Director
Utah Symphony | Utah Opera
Job Description: UTAH SYMPHONY | UTAH OPERA has an immediate opening for the position of Costume Director. This position reports to Utah Opera’s Artistic Director and oversees a full-time staff of seven and part-time staff as needed. Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to day to day management of the costume shop, development and maintenance of budgets, point of contact with guest costume and wig/make-up designers, scheduling/managing staff and promotion of rentals/construction program. The successful candidate should have a minimum of an
undergraduate in design or technical costuming, significant management experience, and at least two years in theatrical costuming. Good communication and team leadership skills are a must.
How to Apply: Please send resume and cover letter to jobs@usuo.org.
Contact Name: Natalie Cope
Email: jobs@usuo.org
Notes from September 12 Culture Bytes: Leveraging the Most out of Civic and Cultural Parterships
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Melinda Cavarallo (Deputy Director, Center for the Arts)
Center for the Arts, part of Salt Lake County owns Capitol Theatre, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Abranvanel Hall
Sometimes there’s an expectation to give our venues away for free. But we aren’t able to because there’s that earned revenue expectation so it’s not a huge burden on the tax payer.
Successful partnerships: Rose Exposed
Jesse Dean: Assistant Director of Public Policy, Downtown Alliance
Helen Langan, Senior Advisor to Mayor Ralph Becker
explained funding for cultural core
In terms of successes and challenges: one of our greatest successes have been our partnership with salt lake county, we’ve transformed the relationship that existed before. We’re pushing each other as partners in really exciting ways
Challenges: limited resources, never enough time and money to do everything you want to do
Nan Ellin: Chair, Department of City & Metropolitan Planning, University of Utah(also sitting on Cultural Core finance committee)
Cultural core is just getting started, so not too much to report on beyond the meetings we all attended
So now is a great time to get input from cultural community on general principles
Downtown rising (2007): we embrace a vision for our city that is about much more than buildings and places. Visions are about people and their ability to live fulfilling and productive lives
These principles are great founding principles for the cultural core initiative as well.Shared a model that she uses in terms of principles called “Path to Prosperity”
When you want to achieve prosperity
Typically people start partnerships with problems or deficits we’re trying to fill. Instead, take a step back and look at our assets. ask: what are our gifts
Instead of starting with a tabula rasa, start with a tabula plena
She sees cities as works of art. We’re all urban artists creating some beautiful masterpieces together
Showed some things they are doing at the U to help this happen for Salt Lake.
By focusing on assets and co-creating we’re rallying resources to realize the vision
Instead of thinking about needs so much, let’s think about gifts: energy, tools, our knowledge, we can create jewels with those things
When we begin with strengths instead of weaknesses, what seems to be our greatest problems can be our greatest opportunities
Example:
She has a book called “Good Urbanism”
Melinda Cavarallo (Deputy Director, Center for the Arts)
Center for the Arts, part of Salt Lake County owns Capitol Theatre, Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, Abranvanel Hall
Sometimes there’s an expectation to give our venues away for free. But we aren’t able to because there’s that earned revenue expectation so it’s not a huge burden on the tax payer.
Successful partnerships: Rose Exposed
- Sept 1
- it was wonderful to highlight the building, the 6 resident arts organizations came together, it was free during the day
- we were able to level some of our costs to support that
- it was a great partnership between downtown alliance, visit salt lake (nowplayingutah.com), the city, and others
Jesse Dean: Assistant Director of Public Policy, Downtown Alliance
- Discussed how the downtown alliance can help you leverage your potential
- always looking for new opportunities, from orgs, artists, etc.
- mission to create a more vibrant capitol city. Arts are the heart of a vibrant city
- want to make sure we’re focusing on more successful events
- goal to help market those partnerships and organizations
- Rose Exposed was an interesting experience because we got to help with the marketing and having them all work together.
- Eve is another example as it’s a 3 day cultural collaboration over new years (for the 2011 Eve: included Derek Dyer’s art installation, called Glow Forms, giant glow in the dark building blocks); also had 7 other arts groups performing
Helen Langan, Senior Advisor to Mayor Ralph Becker
- when Mayor Becker was reelected last november, he had worked prior to put together a livability agenda for his second term, and one of those 12 points is the arts and culture of SLC. Click here to read it: http://www.slcclassic.com/links/livability.pdf
- livability plan’s goal is to make it one of the most green, inclusive, and diverse
- arts and culture really assist in making the emotional core of the city
- part of having a livable city is the economy
- hence that connection between businesses wanting to come because the cultural scene is vibrant
- the works rests in the relationship we’ve been cultivating with salt lake county and the downtown alliance
- such as the cultural core project that we launched a few years ago
- also partnering with hospitality and business companies
- the city is committed to (through livability program):
- Click here to read: http://www.slcclassic.com/links/livability.pdf
- HIGHLIGHTS:
- establishing a micro loan program for individual artists to explore and share their work
- a storefront studios space at the street level (function as studios, performance space, etc.)
- review and expand current arts and culture funding projects
- move forward with construction of UPAC
- Support Capitol Theatre renovation
- seek best use and renovation of Utah Theater
explained funding for cultural core
- still in development phase
- it’s not going to be like a new ZAP, it’s going to be more about audience development
- from increased tax revenue of city creek
- interested in new ideas, collaborative ideas like the Rose Exposed
In terms of successes and challenges: one of our greatest successes have been our partnership with salt lake county, we’ve transformed the relationship that existed before. We’re pushing each other as partners in really exciting ways
Challenges: limited resources, never enough time and money to do everything you want to do
Nan Ellin: Chair, Department of City & Metropolitan Planning, University of Utah(also sitting on Cultural Core finance committee)
Cultural core is just getting started, so not too much to report on beyond the meetings we all attended
So now is a great time to get input from cultural community on general principles
Downtown rising (2007): we embrace a vision for our city that is about much more than buildings and places. Visions are about people and their ability to live fulfilling and productive lives
These principles are great founding principles for the cultural core initiative as well.Shared a model that she uses in terms of principles called “Path to Prosperity”
When you want to achieve prosperity
- start with your assets
- polish it
- come up with new ideas, propose it
- prototype it
- promote it
- present it as a gift
Typically people start partnerships with problems or deficits we’re trying to fill. Instead, take a step back and look at our assets. ask: what are our gifts
Instead of starting with a tabula rasa, start with a tabula plena
She sees cities as works of art. We’re all urban artists creating some beautiful masterpieces together
Showed some things they are doing at the U to help this happen for Salt Lake.
- salt lake city workshop
- abandoned rail corridor on 900 South (looked at the high line, an urban garden)
- named it the 9 line (student designed the logo)
- did an asset map of what’s along the line
- turned it into a trail, had an opening celebration (walk run, bike, celebrate)
- The 9 line even shows on google maps!
By focusing on assets and co-creating we’re rallying resources to realize the vision
Instead of thinking about needs so much, let’s think about gifts: energy, tools, our knowledge, we can create jewels with those things
When we begin with strengths instead of weaknesses, what seems to be our greatest problems can be our greatest opportunities
Example:
- people were saying the bats in Austin were a problem, but then they said this is a good thing and turned it into a festival
- In phoenix, instead of saying we have a sun problem, let’s make it an opportunity to make shade structures that double as solar energy panels
- taking vacant lots in phoenix, planted sunflower fields
She has a book called “Good Urbanism”
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