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Wednesday, October 6, 2021 • Vol. 130, No. 38 • Free
Husband and wife team up for exhibit BY DONNA SEAGER
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Daniel George, Industry, 2021
Granary Arts presents new exhibitions the 21st century.
BY BRYAN BURNINGHAM
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The New Beehive
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The New Beehive is a contemporary approach to The Grand Beehive, a 1980 exhibition that explored representations of the beehive symbol in various aspects of Utah culture. The New Beehive exhibition, presented by the Utah Division of Arts & Museums, is a collaboration between the Folk Arts and Visual Arts programs—it brings together the work of 30 Utah-based artists who exemplify the diversity of artistic expression in visual media and craft found statewide. The artists were invited to create a unique artwork employing the beehive and associated imagery as a concept, motif, or metaphor. The resulting pieces are a collection of deeply personal interpretations of what it means to be a resident of the Beehive State in
Linda Bergstrom, Virginia Catherall, Michelle Franzoni Thorley, Daniel George, Lily & Michael Havey, Jann Haworth, Kate Ithurralde, Tzvi Izaksonas, Abraham Kimball, Lenka Konopasek, Jamie Kyle, Adam Larsen, Sarah May, Sarah Morton, Alison Neville, Mercedes Ng, Lola Reyes, Humberto Sanchez Conejo, Heidi Somsen, Julie Strong, Danielle Susi, John Tavoian, Douglas Tolman, Kalani Tonga, Jeremiah Tuchyner, Justin Wheatley, Laura Sharp Wilson, Rebecca Woolston, Ashton Young, and MönSr Yusef. In the spring of 2020, Katie Hargrave and Meredith Laura Lynn visited every national park in Utah and created a body of work exploring how these sites have been mediated by infrastructure. Roads,
parking lots, scenic overlooks, and bathrooms make the parks accessible to hundreds of thousands of visitors each year, but they also direct and manage the relationships those park goers have with the landscape. As nature writer Edward Abbey put it in Desert Solitaire, “You can’t see anything from a car.” There is a value judgement implicit in this statement. Abbey and others equate a certain connection to nature with spirituality, purity, and a unique kind of enlightenment, but that sort of experience in the outdoors deliberately excludes most park visitors. Using a state with a wide variety of public lands as a springboard, Hargrave and Lynn explore all five Utah National Parks and consider the complexities of a relationship to landscape that is heavily mediated by vehicles, cameras, and our own nostalgia. The artists acknowledge the land
where this work was made, as the care of these places has happened from time immemorial by the Ute, Southern Paiute, and Puebloan peoples. While these sites are under the control of the National Parks system, it is indigenous peoples who continue to put necessary pressure on the US government to preserve these spaces.
On Friday, Oct. 15, the Fairview Museum will be honored to display in the Rotating Artist Gallery, the artwork of Cassandria and John Parsons of Spring City. A reception will be held for them on Friday, Oct. 15 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the museum. Cassandria was born in China and grew up in Hong Kong, at that time Hong Kong was a British colony on a 100 year loan from China. Her family had a house in the city and we lived next to a print shop. As a little girl, she spent numerous hours at the shop after school and was quite fascinated by the arts and printing techniques they used. She also received colorful scrap paper from them as gifts. She spent many pleasurable hours creating and drawing, unleashing my youthful imagination onto my endless supplies of paper. Cassandria said “In 1964, my family immigrated to USA, and Utah became our permanent home. I took interest in Art and received my BFA from the University of Utah. I worked in advertising in my early career, but I was not satisfied with the emphasis on materialism. It is the personal expressions of fine art, it’s color, line, and form which satisfies my own creativity. Please see PARSONS, Page A5
About the Artists
Katie Hargrave and Meredith Laura Lynn are artists and educators who work collaboratively to explore the historic, cultural, and environmental impacts of public land. Their work has been shown at Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA), the Wiregrass Museum of Art (Dothan, AL), Austin Peay State University (Clarksville, TN), House Guest Gallery (Louisville, KY), and Please see EXHIBITION, Page A6
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October is Domestic Awareness Month BY HEID AAGARD
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The New Horizons Crisis Center is a nonprofit organization based in Richfield with outreach support services in Sevier, Sanpete, Wayne, Piute, and Millard Counties. We dedicate our time and efforts to encircling victims, educating and empowering them with support and resources. We are taking the opportunity in October to spread our message of hope for anyone who has encountered domestic violence to reach out and get support from us. It is the goal of New Horizons to bring about more awareness and understanding across Central Utah. Since the year 2000, at least 42% of Utah homicides were domestic violence related. According to the Utah Coalition
for Domestic Violence (UCDV), one in three women is victims of domestic violence. 36.9% of Utah women will experience rape, stalking and/or physical violence from an intimate partner in their lifetime. We are often misinformed into thinking that domestic violence is something that doesn’t affect our area, or people “like us.” It can be difficult to separate oneself from things seen on social media, and across the internet and yet we are willing to look the other way at the realities of domestic violence that surround us in our day to day lives. It is important to understand what domestic violence means and what it can look like. We use the term violence as an all-encompassing term to include emo-
tional, verbal, mental, psychological and physical violence. Did it ever get physical? This is often the first question people ask when they suspect an abusive relationship. Keep in mind that starting a conversation about physical abuse is essential but remember it’s not the only form of domestic abuse. Stopping short of asking about other forms of abuse implies that physical violence is the defining factor of a harmful relationship. Worse, this implication conveys that whatever else is going on is just “not that bad.” It can be heartbreakingly for anyone, whether it is the person inflicting the abuse, a third-party observer, or even the Please see AWARENESS, Page A3
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Wag More – Bark Less
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ome people have quotes or sayings as “signatures” for their emails. I noticed one on an email I received some time back that has stuck with me. It read, “Wag More – Bark Less.” It was attributed to that MERRILL very prolific OGDEN writer, “Anonymous.” This reminded me of an old Swedish proverb. Legendary
Utah State University and pro football great, Merlin Olsen, quoted the proverb at my oldest son’s graduation from USU years ago. I looked it up to get it right. “Fear less, Hope more. Eat less, Chew more. Whine less, Dream more. Talk less, Say more. Love more, and all good things will be yours.” When President H.W. Bush accepted the nomination to be the presidential candidate of the Republican Party in
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