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August 15 through September 12, 2008
Artists' Reception: August 15, 2008 from 6 to 9 PM
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Art Access Gallery
14th Annual Partners Exhibit
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 Art Access Celebrates 14th Year of Partners Mentoring Program With Exhibit.
Art Access Gallery is pleased to present its 14th Annual Partners Exhibit featuring nine emerging adult artists with their professional artist mentors. The exhibit showing the work of the eighteen artists will open on Friday, August 15 with a reception from 6 to 9 PM, during the Salt Lake Gallery Association¹s monthly Gallery Stroll. The show will hang from August 15 through September 12.
Participating this year are emerging artists: Traci Carter, Nicholas Johnson, JulieAnn Henneman, Phillip Holahan, Doug Torney, Kim Schneider, Atem Thuch Aleu, Sasha Gorham and Ben Diez. Their mentors, respectively, are: Kim Silcox, Trent Alvey, Darryl Erdmann, Roz Newmark, Joe Carter, Craig Hone, Judy Wolbach, Melissa Peck & Kelly Loosli. Each partnership developed individual goals which were then worked on, usually in the professional artists' 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 196 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 Utah artists such as Joe Ostraff, Lenka Konopasek, Kim Martinez, Bonnie Sucec, Ed Napia, Kindra Fehr, Lee Deffebach, Willy Littig, Jennifer Barton, Holly Mae Pendergast, Sandra Brunvand, Stefanie Dykes, Kinde Nebeker, Sam Wilson, Lester Lee, Ben Behunin, Roberta Glidden, Bob Wynne, Bonnie Posselli and John Erickson as well as many others.
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Art Access II Gallery
11th 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 11th 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 15 through September 12, with the Artists' Reception on Friday, August 15 from 6 to 9 PM during the Salt Lake Gallery Association¹s 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: Erin Berrett (Cut & Paste Painting), Ed Napia (Pots au Naturale), Chadwick Tolley (Collograph Printmaking), Chauncey Secrist (Write with Passion, Read with Fire), Steven Stradley (A Sense of Place Mixed Media Painting) and Roz Newmark (Compositional Photography). All these mediums will be represented in the
exhibition.
Jean LaSarre Gardner is Workshop Coordinator.
Art Access Teen Workshops are sponsored by the George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, 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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