Erin Elder, Artist (Albuquerque, NM) Erin Elder is an independent artist and curator guided by interests in land use, experimental collaboration, and non-traditional modes of expression. Her research-driven projects take highly participatory forms, working with a broad definition of art to bring audiences into a direct experience of particular places. Underscoring Erin’s work is a …
Rio Gallery (300 S Rio Grande St, Salt Lake City, UT 84101) May 15 - July 3, 2020 Artists Katie Hargrave and Meredith Lynn are interested in ways people connect themselves to the natural world. Using installation and new media, we explore how relationships to the landscape are mediated by tools like cameras and vehicles …
Erin Mallea, Artist (Pittsburgh, PA) Erin Mallea is a multidisciplinary artist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her art practice is rooted in a generative research process in which she maps social dynamics and politics embedded within relationships to land and the environment. Working in video, sculpture, and photography, Erin often collapses natural and national history to …
Sophie Maguire (Vancouver, BC) Originally from New York and having spent much of her life in the American northeast Sophie Maguire now resides in Vancouver, BC. A choreographer and landscape designer working at the intersection of drawing, history, and performance Sophie is currently a project designer at PFS Studio, an adjunct professor at UBC School …
Supper Club is back! 6:00 - Artist talk by Blanca Villalobos (Epicenter Frontier Fellow) -blancasvillalobos.com Join Epicenter for a hang with friends from Green River, Moab, Helper, and beyond. All ages are welcome! BYOB & snacks (in non-COVID times, we would provide!) BYO Melon & carving tools if you want to enter the Melon Days …
Blanca S. Villalobos, Cultural Worker + Artist (Beaumont, CA) A proud, queer daughter of immigrants, Blanca S. Villalobos (they/she) holds ancestral connections in Jalisco, MX, home to the Wixarika people, and was raised on the ancestral lands of the Cahuilla & Yuhaviatam/Maarenga'yam people in the San Gorgonio Pass of Southern California. A lover of deserts …
Zoom link to be added soon. Designer and Epicenter executive director, Maria Sykes, designer Frances Erlandson, designer Jason Dilworth, illustrator Summer Orr, and rural advocate Jamie Horter, will host a virtual panel discussion exploring the unique process of the forthcoming publication: a collection of reflections, criticisms, and examinations of the last decade of interdisciplinary creative …
Epicenter’s Summits bring creative practitioners together for a few days of fellowship and conversation over shared meals, performances, installations, and community service projects. Epicenter's third Summit will be held on March 30 - April 1, 2022, and is invite-only. Speakers, featured artists, and participants include but are not limited to Joseph Kunkel & Matt Smith …
Green River Rocks (formerly the "Rock & Mineral Festival") is a free, educational event that is open to the public. Hosted annually in early Spring in Green River, Utah, this three day long festival features guests speakers, field trips led by regional experts, and a pop-up market. Visit the event website for up-to-date information! https://vimeo.com/218842984 …
"Haimaz, Heimr, Hjem, Heem, Hām, Home is a broad examination of what it means to be home, in some cases, to lack a home, and the potential to create a home outside widely accepted and prescribed expectations. In a time of cultural, political, economic, environmental, and psychological ‘home’ instability for many, and as people emerge …