Reclaiming Heritage, Reimagining History: SLC Artists Manifest Their Own Destiny

Reclaiming Heritage, Reimagining History: SLC Artists Manifest Their Own Destiny
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SLC’s artistic pioneers are reclaiming their narratives and identities while fostering a sense of belonging in a landscape often overshadowed by the echoes of the past.  … read more

Muralists Roots Art Kollective on Art & Community Impact

Muralists Roots Art Kollective on Art & Community Impact
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Roots Art Kollective shares a Mexican-American heritage and a West Side upbringing, and each member has a distinct style they bring to their collaborations. … read more

Bryton Elias: The Artist and the Line 

Bryton Elias: The Artist and the Line 
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For Bryton Elias, the shapes in his art emanate from childhood memories and personal freedom granted from within one’s own head.  … read more

Enter The King’s Mouth, An Immersive Art Experience

Enter The King’s Mouth, An Immersive Art Experience
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The King’s Mouth naturally grew out of Wayne Coyne’s career-long exploration of the intersection between visual art and music. … read more

Bold & Beautiful – SLUG LGBTQ+: Jazzmine Pike

Bold & Beautiful – SLUG LGBTQ+: Jazzmine Pike
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Dance is a main part of Jazzmine Pike’s life—it’s been a way to tell her own personal story—but what Pike does isn’t just dance. … read more

The Wolf Girl: A Look Inside Halley Bruno’s Art

The Wolf Girl: A Look Inside Halley Bruno’s Art
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For SLUG’s T-shirt design contest, Halley Bruno’s interpretation of SLUG as a skateboarding dog won, but her artistic love began earlier. … read more

Tragic With A Twist: Katie Mansfield of Tragic Girls

Tragic With A Twist: Katie Mansfield of Tragic Girls
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Each piece in Tragic Girls’ collection blends dark humor with nostalgic style and just enough satire to comment on social issues. … read more

Clever Octopus: Creativity and Sustainability

Clever Octopus: Creativity and Sustainability
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“Craft thrift store” Clever Octopus provides affordable art supplies, classes and community for beginners and tenured artists alike. … read more

Queer and Now: How the Queer Spectra Arts Festival Captures the Tones of Intersectionality

Queer and Now: How the Queer Spectra Arts Festival Captures...
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Three years into its youthful tenure, Salt Lake City’s Queer Spectra Arts Festival has danced, swayed and spoken to the strange shifts of our world in more ways than the originators had imagined. Begun by modern dance graduates Dat Nguyen and Emma Sargent alongside Max Barnewitz and Aileen Norris, the collective decided that an interdisciplinary

Sarah May Uncovers Her Heritage in Photographic Layers

Sarah May Uncovers Her Heritage in Photographic Layers
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Sarah May brings together symbols and actions that contribute to the continual push to help BIPOC communities flourish. … read more