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August 17 through September 14, 2007
Artists' Reception: Friday, August 17, 2007 from 6 to 9 PM
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Art Access Gallery
13th Annual Partners Exhibit
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 Art Access Gallery is pleased to present the 13th Annual Partners Exhibit featuring seven emerging adult artists with their professional artist mentors. The exhibit showing the work of the fourteen artists will open on Friday, August 17 with a reception from 6 to 9 PM, during the Salt Lake Gallery Association's monthly Gallery Stroll. The show will hang from August 17 through September 13.
Participating this year are emerging artists: Cori Redstone, Roger Reeves, Blake Palmer, Joe Fairbanks, Josee Pribbanaw, George Salerno and Deena Lee.
Their mentors, respectively, are: Susan Gallacher, Sam Wilson, Trent Call, Paul Heath, Downy Doxey, David Ruhlman and Travis Tanner. Each partnership develops individual goals which are then worked on, along with art, usually in the professional artists¹ studios.
The Partners Program was established in 1994, when Art Access realized that many talented adult artists with disabilities were falling between the cracks of its offerings. A wide variety of programs had been developed, but none addressed the specific needs of adult artists who needed assistance in developing technique, learning the intricacies of professionalism or in making connections to the arts community.
Since then, Partners has served over 187 emerging artists. Lives have been changed since the genesis of this program. Emerging artists have been juried into shows, sold their art, conducted art workshops and become mentors themselves.
Over the years, mentors have included talented and community minded professional artists such as Joe Ostraff, Lenka Konopasek, Darryl Erdmann, Kim Martinez, Bonnie Sucec, Trent Alvey, Ed Napia, Kindra Fehr, Lee Deffebach, Willy Littig, Jennifer Barton, Holly Mae Pendergast, Sandra Brunvand, Stefanie Dykes, Kinde Nebeker, Lester Lee, Ben Behunin, Roberta Glidden, Bob Wynne, Bonnie Posselli and John Erickson as well as many others.
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Access II Gallery
10th Annual Art Access Teen Workshop Exhibition |
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 Talented Teens Star in Art Access Workshop Program Exhibit,
Art Access II Gallery is pleased to host the 10th annual Art Access Teen Workshop Exhibition, featuring the juried work of 50 teens with and without disabilities, who participated in this year’s program.
The exhibit will hang from August 17 through September 14, with the Artists’ Reception on Friday, August 17 from 6 to 9 PM during the Salt Lake Gallery Association’s monthly Gallery Stroll.
The free Art Access Teen Workshops are open to teens from 13 to 19, who have a strong interest in the visual arts. Limited to 13 teens each, the 12-hour workshops are held at Art Access and taught by artists whose work is exhibited in the gallery. Small workshops allow for more individual attention from the artists, as well as for teens from diverse backgrounds, to get to know each other and come to appreciate and understand each other’s differences.
Professional artists, who taught this year, were: Jimmy Lucero (Personal Folklore Painting), Matthew Jones (Sculptural Origami), John Berry & Sadie Hoagland (Writing & Illustration), Linnie Brown (Mixed Media Abstract Painting), Kent Miles & Maureen Morris (Documentary Photography) and Alice Perreault Steubing (Altered Books), All these mediums will be represented in the exhibition.
Art Access Teen Workshops are sponsored by the Arts Education Program of the Utah Arts Council, US Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, Eskuche Foundation, the Utah Office of Museum Services and VSA arts.
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