Max Crafts: Craft Lake City Kid Row Artisans

Max Crafts: Craft Lake City Kid Row Artisans
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10-year-old Max Moore of Max Crafts uses a 3D pen to create an assortment of objects with the hopes of someday making his own video game. … 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

Sophie Schwabacher: Tapping Beer Nostalgia with Watercolor

Sophie Schwabacher: Tapping Beer Nostalgia with Watercolor
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Sophie Schwabacher is the gallery manager at Salt Lake City’s Modern West, where you can see her first-ever publicly displayed art series. … read more

A Local Brewery Supporting Local Art: Shades Brewing Hosts Weekend Art Shows Featuring Local Artists

A Local Brewery Supporting Local Art: Shades Brewing Hosts Weekend...
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In an innovative move to promote both local art and local beers, Shades Brewing is hosting a variety of Utah-based artists . … read more

Plan-B Theatre: Local Color Onstage

Plan-B Theatre: Local Color Onstage
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Local Color is the first result from Plan-B’s efforts to workshop plays by using video-conferencing tools during the pandemic. … read more

Bold & Beautiful – SLUG LGBTQ+: Marrlo Suzzanne

Bold & Beautiful – SLUG LGBTQ+: Marrlo Suzzanne
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This month’s “Bold & Beautiful” features Marrlo Suzzanne, a wonderfully creative artist, bearded queen and an incredible musician. … read more

Material Conditions: The Sculpture of Bea Hurd

Material Conditions: The Sculpture of Bea Hurd
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Through reappropriation of an assortment of materials, Bea Hurd creates fascinating sculptures that are loaded with instinctual meaning. … read more

“Colorful, Angry, Happy”: Activist Mariella Mendoza Uses Art As a Call-to-Action

“Colorful, Angry, Happy”: Activist Mariella Mendoza Uses Art As a...
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Working alongside numerous organizations, Mariella Mendoza has created murals, installations and more for various causes around the state. … read more

Bold & Beautiful – SLUG LGBTQ+:  Poppycock Visqueen

Bold & Beautiful – SLUG LGBTQ+: Poppycock Visqueen
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Orange wigs, campy performances and cheekbones cut so sharp they could slice you open if you get too close: Drag performer and artist Taylor Anne is all of these things and more. Known onstage as Poppycock Visqueen, a performance from Anne promises professional-grade vocals and a playful commentary on femininity. If you’re lucky enough, you

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