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Plastique, Dance, Art, Poetry Tonight
by CityArt＠thelibrary 18 Apr '14

18 Apr '14

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Amy MacDonald at 801-231-8274 or brolly(a)brollyarts.org THE BEAUTY AND THE DESTRUCTIVE NATURE OF PLASTIC BRINGS A COMMUNITY TOGETHER Plastique, a multi-disciplinary project that utilizes art to engage our community and increase awareness around this vital environmental issue of plastic, its use, misuse and lasting impact. Brolly Arts’ project Plastique brings to light the wonderful horrible nature of plastic. It is resilient and it lasts. That’s the beauty and the destructive nature of plastic particularly single use plastic such as plastic bags. Plastique is a multi-disciplinary show full of visual art, dance, poetry, film, and research. Artists, community members, and community organizations will work to fully realize the performance and visual aspects of Plastique . The installation art will be made out of plastic during outreach projects and by individual efforts. Many are amazed to learn that this colorful stuff is the thermoplastic junk of our throwaway culture. Plastique engages artists and audiences alike to examine, like archaeologists, how each piece of plastic opens a window to the whole of human culture, piece by piece. With our interactive event, we increase awareness of an important environmental issue and engage our community which is the first step in social change. Although Plastique addresses a real environmental problem, art is the central theme. Plastique by design will be a replicable model. Once this project premieres, it can be repeated in other areas so that many communities can benefit from a project such as this. By involving a number of artists and organizations in the creation of Plastique we are able to reach a larger audience, have a greater impact and increase the potential of our cultural and civic communities. To date, participating organizations include Brolly Arts, Bad Dog Arts, Utah Arts Alliance and Rowland Hall. Brolly Arts has extensive experience and positive outcomes for work such as this. Our 2009 and 2010 H2O projects were awarded a 2010 NEA Access to Artistic Excellence award for our work in art, environmental issues and community outreach and engagement. Participating Artists: Amy MacDonald - Director, Brolly Arts, Victoria Lyons/Michael Moonbird - Co-Directors, Bad Dog Arts, Sofia Gorder - Choreographer, Cat Palmer - Urban Arts Gallery Director/Curator, Joel Long - Poet, Colby Bryson - Filmmaker, Nathan Adair - Costume Design, Ashley Burnett - PR/Marketing Visual Artists: Kandyce Galanis and Jessie Sharp, Margaret Willis, Carol Ann Sogard, Bad Dog Arts Students, Megan WIngeleth, Veronica Spalaikovitch, Jen Lopez, Dawn Taylor, Jackie Burns, Clair Jones, Renee Keith, Christopher Wallace, Jude Higgins-Lewis, Timm Paxton, Carmen Davis, Chad Farnes Brolly Arts is dedicated to creating meaningful art and vibrant communities through artistic and civic collaboration and experimentation. As a non-profit umbrella arts organization, Brolly Arts is committed to increasing the opportunities and impacts of artists and arts organizations in Salt Lake City and Utah. “Brolly Arts has, from its inception, been an agent of change and community development through the arts for Salt Lake City. Every project undertaken has moved the arts community to work together and has creatively addressed a number of issues, both local and global.” ! ! Nancy Boskoff, former Executive Director of the Salt Lake City Arts Council !!!!!! ! ! ! ! ! ! Plastique * ! ! * ! ! * ! ! ! ! ! Urban Arts Gallery Friday, April 18, 2014, From 6 - 9 pm in conjunction with Gallery Stroll ! ! Plastique exhibit runs from April 7 - May 3 Joel Long

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Reminder: Anne Caston and Joel Long at City Art tonight
by CityArt＠thelibrary 16 Apr '14

16 Apr '14

Anne Caston and Joel Long to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 16th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Anne Caston and Joel Long will read from their works on Wednesday, April 16th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as par of the City Art Reading Series. This event is free and open to the public. Anne Caston'sfirst collection of poems, Flying Out With The Wounded, was awarded the 1996 New York University Press Prize for Poetry. In its review of the book, Publisher's Weekly (4/28) wrote that "...when she compresses an anecdote into verse, her poetry is as sharp – and sometimes as revealing – as a scalpel." Her poems have been published in literary journals and medical periodicals here and abroad and her work has been anthologized in such collections as Where Books Fall Open, Sustenance & Desire, The Long Journey: Poets of the Northwest, and The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology. She has twice been a featured writer on WPFW's "The Poet and the Poem" and was interviewed by Michael Collier in The Writing Life videotape series. Caston’s second collection of poems, Judah's Lion, was published in 2009 by Toad Hall Press. A selection of poems from Judah's Lion was awarded Prairie Schooner's 2002 Readers' Choice Award. Another poem in the collection received a 2003 International Merit Award in Poetry from Atlanta Review. Prodigal, her third full-length collection, was published in April 2014 by Aldrich Press. Caston previously served as the 1996-97 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and as the 1999-2000 Jenny McKean Moore Fellow in Poetry at the George Washington University in Washington D.C. She also received a 1999 Individual Artist Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, Anne Caston teaches in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage where she serves as core faculty in poetry. She is currently at work on a memoir, Deep Dixie: Friendship, Love, Longing, Faith, Manners, and Coming-of-Age Among Southern Baptists. Anne Caston lives in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, with her husband, Ian Gallimore. Joel Long’sbook Lessons in Disappearance was published in 2012. Knowing Time by Light was published by Blaine Creek Press in 2010. His book Winged Insects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize and was published in 1999. His chapbooks, Chopin’s Preludes and Saffron Beneath Every Frost were published from Elik Press. His poems have appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, Ocean State Review, Quarterly West, Gulf Coast, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Bellingham Review, Sou'wester, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, Poems and Plays, and Seattle Review and anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation, Essential Love, Fresh Water, and I Go to the Ruined Place. He received the Mayor’s Artist Award for Literary Arts at the Utah Arts Festival and the Writers Advocate Award from Writers at Work. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Schedule: April 2 Dave Hawkins Nance Van Winkle 9 Andrea Hollander Lisa Zimmerman 16 Anne Caston Joel Long May 7 Gerda Saunders 14 High School Night 21 June 4 Final Open Reading Joel Long

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Andrea Hollander and Lisa Zimmerman at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 06 Apr '14

06 Apr '14

Andrea Hollander and Lisa Zimmerman to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 9th, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Andrea Hollander and Lisa Zimmerman will read from their works on Wednesday, April 9th at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as par of the City Art Reading Series. This event is free and open to the public. Born in Berlin, Germany, of American parents, raised in Colorado, Texas, New York, and New Jersey, and educated at Boston University and the University of Colorado, Andrea Hollander is the author of four full-length poetry collections: Landscape with Female Figure: New & Selected Poems, Woman in the Painting, The Other Life, and House Without a Dreamer, which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Other honors include a 2013 Oregon Literary Fellowship, the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize for prose memoir, the Runes Poetry Prize, two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two from the Arkansas Arts Council. in 2008 she received the Subiaco Award for Literary Excellence in the Writing and Teaching of Poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and college textbooks, including Writing Poems, The Poets' Grimm, and The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. Her work appears regularly in such literary journals as Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, New Letters, FIELD, Five Points, Shenandoah, and Creative Nonfiction. For more than 22 years, Hollander served as the Writer-in-Residence at Lyon College, which awarded her the Lamar Williamson Prize for Excellence in Teaching. In 2011 she moved to Portland, Oregon, where she teaches writing workshops in poetry and the personal essay. Lisa Zimmerman received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in the Colorado Review, Redbook, Paper Street, Poet Lore, Eclipse, Atlanta Review and manyother journals. Her poetry has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize. She has published two poetry chapbooks as well as the full-length collections How the Garden Looks From Here, winner of the 2004 Violet Reed Haas Poetry Award and The Light at the Edge of Everything (Anhinga Press, 2008). Lisa is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado and has been the poet-in-residence in schools in Aurora, Brighton, Longmont, Fort Collins and Idalia, Colorado.City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Schedule: April 2 Dave Hawkins Nance Van Winkle 9 Andrea Hollander Lisa Zimmerman 16 Anne Caston Joel Long May 7 Gerda Saunders 14 High School Night 21 June 4 Final Open Reading Joel Long

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Reminder: Nance Van Winckel and David Hawkins Tomorrow!
by CityArt＠thelibrary 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

For Immediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com Nance Van Winckel and David Hawkins to read at City Art Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 2nd, 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Nance Van Winckel and David Hawkins will read from their works on Wednesday, April 2nd at 7:00 p.m. at the Salt Lake City Public Library as par of the City Art Reading Series. This event is free and open to the public. Nance Van Winckel’s Pacific Walkers, her sixth book of poems, was recently released from U. of Washington Press. A fourth collection of linked short stories, Boneland, came out with U. of Oklahoma Press in October 2013. Nance’s other books of poetry include: No Starling (University of Washington Press, 2007), Bad Girl, with Hawk (U. of Illinois Press, 1987), The Dirt (Miami U. Press, 1994), Beside Ourselves (Miami University Press, 2003), and After A Spell (Miami U. Press, 1998), which received the Washington State Governor’s Award for Poetry. She's received two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, Poetry Magazine’s Friends of Literature Award, two Washington State Artist Trust Awards, The Midland Authors Award, and awards from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Gettysburg Review, Field, Volt, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Ploughshares. Nance's three books of short stories include Curtain Creek Farm (Persea Books, 2000), Quake (U. of Missouri Press, 1998) which received the 1998 Paterson Fiction Prize, and Limited Lifetime Warranty (U. of Missouri Press, 1994). New stories appear in The Georgia Review, Colorado Review, and AGNI. Nance received a Christopher Isherwood Fiction Fellowship for the forthcoming book Boneland. Van Winckel teaches in the low-residency MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has also taught at Lake Forest College in Illinois (1979-90) and is Professor Emerita in the MFA in Writing program at Eastern Washington University, where she served as editor of the literary journal Willow Springs from 1990-96. David Hawkins’ poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, Chelsea, Poems & Plays, and The Southeast Review. His first book, Dark Adaptations, was selected by Allen Grossman as the first runner-up in the 2008 Bellday Books poetry prize and is the recipient of the ’08 Utah Arts Council prize for a collection of poems. He currently teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in the University of Utah’s Writing Program. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. Schedule: April 2 Dave Hawkins Nance Van Winkle 9 Andrea Hollander Lisa Zimmerman 16 Anne Caston Joel Long May 7 Gerda Saunders 14 High School Night 21 June 4 Final Open Reading Joel Long

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