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SUMMARY:2025 Epicenter Spring Summit
DESCRIPTION:Please mark your calendars for Epicenter’s next Spring Summit: April 24-27\, 2025. The Summit is primarily invite-only\, but be on the look out for open spots\, volunteer opportunities\, and more via our social media and this blog. \nEpicenter’s Summits \nSince 2013\, the Summit has convened over 130 artists to collaboratively produce site-specific work and engage in dialogue that pushes contextually embedded practice toward experimental and critical interventions. Epicenter’s Summit events invite experts in their field —artists\, writers\, designers\, administrators— to come together in Green River for several days to participate in activities focused on creative professional practice\, community design\, art making\, collaboration\, ethics\, and much more. Activities\, which are often held in non-traditional venues\, include intimate peer-run workshops\, panel discussions\, art projects and installations\, performances\, storytelling\, communal meals\, hikes\, and both formal and informal conversations that allow for a horizontal exchange of ideas. Artists have led pigment workshops using local materials\, performed campfire stories\, broken the ice by “speed dating\,” given Pecha Kucha talks\, visited Epicenter projects\, worked on community service projects\, and lead storytelling hikes. Participants exchange ideas\, lessons learned\, and current research. \nThe Summit provides a platform for artists to expand their creative practice\, commission additional work\, gain professional documentation of their work\, and develop connections with communities. The convening offers artists opportunities to take creative risks with their practice and join in dialogue and critique with other practitioners\, scholars\, and community members. As a result of the Summits\, new artist collaboratives have formed\, artists have been recruited to execute works at partner organizations\, and Summit artists have been invited back to Epicenter as Frontier Fellows and Board Members. \nSummits are intentionally not held annually in order to prevent community fatigue and to ensure eager anticipation. The last Summit was held in 2022. A video of the 2022 Spring Summit by Chris Merchant can be viewed here. \n\nLocated in Green River\, Utah\, Epicenter provides the opportunity to study and make work about the land\, its history\, and its inhabitants. Since its founding in 2009\, Epicenter has brought hundreds of artists\, designers\, architects\, and creative thinkers to the town of Green River for residencies and curated gatherings that seed new projects in and about its rural context. In doing so\, the organization hopes to upend stereotypes about small towns and offer new perspectives on instigating change in the Mountain West.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/ss25/
LOCATION:Epicenter\, 180 S Broadway\, Green River\, UT\, 84525\, United States
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SUMMARY:2025 Green River Rocks
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nGreen River Rocks 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 vendor and food market. Visit the event website for up-to-date information!
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/grr25/
LOCATION:John Wesley Powell River History Museum\, Green River\, Utah\, 84525
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SUMMARY:SL Design Week Discussion Panel
DESCRIPTION:Join Epicenter\, ASSIST Inc\, and friends for a discussion on why Utah’s housing crisis needs designers\, and how designers can work with policymakers\, planners\, and housing data specialists to address Utah’s housing crisis. \nPanelists include Jason Wheeler (ASSIST\, Inc.)\, Justin Heppler (AJC Architects)\, and Amro Al-Nimri (Ivory Innovations). The conversation will be moderated by Epicenter’s Kenny Fallon Jr. \nAll (ages 21+) are invited to attend and ask questions. There is a $15 per person suggested donation. Sponsorships start at $150. \n>>>REGISTER/RSVP HERE<<< \nThis event is a companion to the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute’s October Newsmaker Breakfast. More info here.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/sldw2024/
LOCATION:Fisher Brewing\, 320 W 800 S\, Salt Lake City\, UT\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241010T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241010T093000
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SUMMARY:SL Design Week Newsmaker Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:October 2024 Newsmaker Breakfast: An Update on Housing Affordability in Utah \nPanelists:\nSteve Waldrip\, Senior Advisor for Housing Strategy and Innovation\, Utah Governor’s Office\nJason Wheeler\, Executive Director\, ASSIST Inc. Community Design Center\nMaria Sykes\, Executive Director\, Epicenter \nThe Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute announces its next Newsmaker Breakfast\, a monthly event highlighting important issues impacting Utahns. \nStarting October 7\, designers\, business professionals\, and students will gather for Salt Lake Design Week to celebrate the impact of all design in Utah and collaborate on the latest innovations that are aimed at addressing the state’s housing needs. As housing affordability remains a critical issue for Utahns\, the October 2024 Newsmaker Breakfast will highlight the importance of new and creative design work in creating affordable housing units in both urban and rural areas of the state. \nJoin state policy leaders and housing experts for a discussion on the latest efforts to address Utah’s housing affordability crisis and how innovative design work is helping create new and cutting-edge ways to promote affordable development across the state. \nThe conversation will be moderated by Gardner Institute director Natalie Gochnour. Media are invited to attend and ask questions. \nREGISTER HERE\nThis event is a companion to Epicenter’s Salt Lake Design Week event\, Why Utah’s Housing Crisis Needs Designers: A discussion panel about how designers can work with policymakers\, planners\, and housing data specialists to address Utah’s housing crisis. More info here.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/newsmaker2024/
LOCATION:Wall Mansion\, 411 E S Temple Street\, Salt Lake City\, Utah\, 84111\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240920T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240920T210000
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SUMMARY:2024 Melon Carve
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual melon carve! \nAll experience levels encouraged — even if you’ve never carved a melon before! \nOpen to all ages\, but minors must be accompanied by a parent/guardian. \nBring your own melon and tools. We can help with ideas and carving if you need it. \nSpectators\, loiters\, and looky-loos are welcome. \nAll melons must be entered into the Melon Days melon carving contest by Saturday morning at OK Anderson Park.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/2024-melon-carve/
LOCATION:Epicenter\, 180 S Broadway\, Green River\, UT\, 84525\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231129
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SUMMARY:Giving Tuesday 2023
DESCRIPTION:Save the date for exclusive new merch drops and a film screening! Details to come…
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/giving-tuesday-23/
LOCATION:Utah
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231024T180000
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SUMMARY:Epicenter at SL Design Week
DESCRIPTION:Join Epicenter for a night of rural design in the big city including: \n-Epicenter’s book Why This Place?: A Future-Forward Retrospective is a non-exhaustive (yet 200 page) exploration of the uncharted territory we have mapped in our first decade of work with the twofold goal of elevating the underrecognized design work being done in rural places and self-reflection and analysis. \n–Come Home to Green River\, a film by Chris Merchant\, captures the collaborative culture of Epicenter through the magic of our 2022 Spring Summit (7PM – 12 minutes long). \n-Students in the Division of Multi-disciplinary Design Field Studio\, working with Epicenter this semester\, will be exhibiting recent work exploring design interventions for Green River’s unique opportunities–and universal rural challenges–such as tourism\, housing\, public spaces\, and more. \n  \n—> CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS <—\n  \nUnable to attend?\nConsider purchasing a ticket anyway—\nall revenue from the event goes directly to support Epicenter’s charitable mission.\n***Ticket does not include the cost of food and drink which can be purchased from the venue*** \n  \nEPICENTER\nHeadquartered in the small town of Green River\, Utah\, Epicenter stewards creative initiatives that combine art\, architecture\, and rural investment in order to build a more resilient\, equitable\, and vibrant local community. Epicenter is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded and led by architectural designers and artists. Learn more at ruralandproud.org and follow Epicenter @ruralandproud on Instagram. \nFIELD STUDIO (Division of Multi-disciplinary Design\, College of Architecture & Planning\, University of Utah)\nField Studio\, developed by Assistant Professor Elpitha Tsoutsounakis\, brings together diverse community partners to inform management\, stewardship\, and experience in public lands and rural places through education\, design research\, and product design. Learn more at designfield.studio and follow @uofu_design on Instagram. \nSALT LAKE DESIGN WEEK\nSalt Lake Design Week (SLDW) celebrates and promotes the impact of all design in Utah. By providing a forum for designers\, business professionals\, students\, and the general public to interact\, collaborate\, and learn from each other\, SLDW builds a stronger creative community. SLDW is inclusive of all people and disciplines\, including graphic\, digital\, product\, fashion\, photography\, architecture\, interior\, and more. From October 23-27\, 2023\, we will celebrate Utah creatives and promote the impact of design throughout the state and beyond. Learn more at sldesignweek.org and follow SLDW @sldesignweek on Instagram.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/sldw23/
LOCATION:Woodbine Food Hall\, 545 West 700 S\, Salt Lake City\, 84101\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20230927T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20230927T210000
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SUMMARY:Rural Utah Project's Six Year Soireé
DESCRIPTION:Epicenter will be tabling at the Rural Utah Project’s Six Year Soireé! Stop by to say “Hi!” to our Executive Director (Maria Sykes) and Elpitha Tsoutsounakis (artist/designer and Epicenter Board Member)\, check out some new swag\, or make a donation. \nFeaturing Heal Utah\, ACLU\, Save Our Canyons\, Diné Bikeyah\, Rumpus Room\, Torrey House Press\, and many more great folks as well as music from Little Lonesome! \nGuests that bike\, walk\, or take public transit will get a free RUP koozie. \n 
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/rup6/
LOCATION:Fisher Brewing\, 320 W 800 S\, Salt Lake City\, UT\, United States
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SUMMARY:Melon Carving Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Melon Carving Party\, held annually on the Friday night of Green River Melon Days! \nThis event is free to the public and open to all ages. Bring your own melon to carve and carving\, peeling\, and melon-gutting tools. \nWater and sodas will be provided. \nAll minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. \nRSVP on Facebook to reserve your space and invite your friends!
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/melon-carving-party-2023/
LOCATION:Epicenter\, 180 S Broadway\, Green River\, UT\, 84525\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230331T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230402T170000
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SUMMARY:Green River Rocks! 2023
DESCRIPTION: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! \n  \n\n 
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/green-river-rocks-2023/
LOCATION:John Wesley Powell River History Museum\, Green River\, Utah\, 84525
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20230310T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20230310T210000
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SUMMARY:"Haimaz\, Heimr\, Hjem\, Heem\, Hām\, Home"
DESCRIPTION:“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 from homes from which they were isolated post-pandemic (where home could be both a prison and a site of refuge)\, the exhibition seeks to explore the notion of home (real\, constructed\, remembered\, displaced\, damaged\, and imagined)\, under the lens of the Old English word hām\, which refers to a place where many souls are gathered.” \nParticipating Artists\nChristian Casas; Epicenter; Erin Fostel; Tonika Johnson; Courtney Kessel; Niko Krivanek; Calista Lyon; Frank Poor; Hrair Sarkissian; Roscoe B. Thicke; Simparch; Tracey Snelling \nThe exhibit\, curated by Jared Steffensen\, will run at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) from Mar 3\, 2023 – Jul 15\, 2023. Join us at the exhibition opening on March 10th 6-9pm at UMOCA.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/haimaz-heimr-hjem-heem-ham-home/
LOCATION:Utah
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20220401T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20220403T150000
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SUMMARY:Green River Rocks! 2022
DESCRIPTION: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! \n  \n\n 
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/green-river-rocks-2022/
LOCATION:John Wesley Powell River History Museum\, Green River\, Utah\, 84525
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220330
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220402
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SUMMARY:2022 Spring Summit
DESCRIPTION: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 (MASS Design)\, Ashley Hanson\, Amy Jorgenson\, Katie Boué\, Chip Thomas (“Jetsonorama”)\, and Ken Layne. \nStay tuned for more! Follow along with #ComeHomeToGreenRiver. \nEmail maria[at]ruralandproud.org for information on how to support and sponsor the event. \n  \n\nVideo by Nick Zdon of the 2013 Summit \n 
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/2022-spring-summit/
LOCATION:Epicenter\, 180 S Broadway\, Green River\, UT\, 84525\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211006T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211006T193000
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SUMMARY:"Why This Place?" Publication Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Zoom link to be added soon. \nDesigner 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 work in rural Utah. The team will share a behind-the-scenes look at their experience collaborating during a pandemic\, using platforms such as Zoom and collaborative Google Docs to weave together design\, illustration\, writing\, and past work to shape the future of Epicenter’s practice. Why This Place? : A Future Forward Retrospective is scheduled to be released in 2022. \nThis program is made possible with support from Utah Humanities and Epicenter.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/whythisplace/
LOCATION:Utah
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210918
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211019
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SUMMARY:Frontier Fellowship: Blanca Villalobos
DESCRIPTION:Blanca S. Villalobos\, Cultural Worker + Artist (Beaumont\, CA) \nA 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 and mountains\, they spent the majority of their twenties in the Pacific Northwest organizing cultural happenings with and for communities of color while simultaneously developing their performance practice. They now live in the same region that raised them and are currently co-facilitating a racial justice program for desert conservation advocates in California. \nVillalobos’ art practice is often informed by dreams\, memories & relationships; of course these topics are also the center of their community offerings related to Mexican traditional medicine for communities of color. Currently\, they are running a DIY artist residency from their home in the Mojave desert where their research has taken a non traditional methodology: rest\, pleasure & play. After three years of hustling with a full time job and artist collective Villalobos has made it their goal to slow down and return home to themselves. \nWhat about Green River & the Frontier Fellowship excites you most? \nWhat I am looking forward to the most at Green River and as a Frontier Fellow is the opportunity to take part in any community building efforts to uplift voices from the global majority while in the middle of a global pandemic. I love meeting new people\, learning about their passions and being able to witness their resiliency. My hope is to center joy and knowledge sharing while in communion in such a beautiful landscape. As for my art\, I am excited to shift my practice so that I may create from a place of joy rather than from trauma. This is not to negate or dismiss my own journey in healing\, on the contrary I look forward to cultivating moments of bliss.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/frontier-fellowship-blanca-villalobos/
LOCATION:Utah
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20210917T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20210917T200000
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SUMMARY:Supper Club: Melon Days Edition
DESCRIPTION:Supper Club is back! \n\n6:00 – Artist talk by Blanca Villalobos (Epicenter Frontier Fellow) –blancasvillalobos.com\nJoin Epicenter for a hang with friends from Green River\, Moab\, Helper\, and beyond. All ages are welcome!\nBYOB & snacks (in non-COVID times\, we would provide!)\nBYO Melon & carving tools if you want to enter the Melon Days melon carving contest on Saturday.\nContact us if you need suggestions on where to camp or stay: frances@ruralandproud.org\nSee melon-days.com for full weekend’s schedule.\nCOVID-precautions: Hand sanitizer will be provided. Masks when indoors and within 6-feet of others. Epicenter will have all our doors and windows open for the event. There will be outside seating options.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/supper-club-melon-days/
LOCATION:Epicenter\, 180 S Broadway\, Green River\, UT\, 84525\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200724
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200824
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SUMMARY:Frontier Fellowship: Sophie Macguire
DESCRIPTION:Sophie Maguire (Vancouver\, BC) \nOriginally 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 of Architecture + Landscape Architecture and a choreographer/ maker. \nHer research spans an array of topics including the informal design of adventure playground in the UK\, India’s stepwells\, landscape architecture’s role in non-urban geographies\, differences in interpretation of ‘giving back’ between indigenous and non-indigenous societies\, and the marginalization of teenagers in public space. Sophie’s writing has been published in Landscapes|Paysages\, Testing Ground Journal\, SAD Magazine and Harvard’s publication Kuala Lumpur: Designing the Public Realm. In addition\, her performance\nwork has been shown throughout the northeast of the United States and in British Columbia at venues including The Dance Centre\, The Shooting Gallery\, The Asheville Fringe Festival\, Westbeth Artists House\, Triskelion Arts\, Gowanus Art + Production\, the Current Sessions/ Wild Project and inSitu Dance Festival. \nSophie holds a masters degree in landscape architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2017) and a Bachelors of Art in dance and political science from Connecticut College (2010). \nWhat about Green River & the Frontier Fellowship excites you most? \nI was beyond excited to learn of Epicenter and the incredible work being done in Green River. The opportunity to learn from designers who live and practice rurally is especially intriguing to me; as well as the chance to get to know the community within which I will be working (a practice fading from landscape practice). The local knowledge amassed by rural communities concerning their surrounding environment is especially unique and one I am particularly excited to engage with. I can’t wait to learn more about the desert and what it means to be a human living in such a landscape.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/frontier-fellowship-sophie-macguire/
LOCATION:Utah
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200612
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200713
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SUMMARY:Frontier Fellowship: Erin Mallea
DESCRIPTION:Erin Mallea\, Artist (Pittsburgh\, PA) \nErin 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 examine taxonomies and systems of producing knowledge\, national memory\, and ideology within natural and cultural landscapes. She enacts a methodology of site-specific fieldwork that is analytical and playful to amplify and scrutinize embedded cultural and institutional assumptions and histories. Contextual\, processual\, and sometimes public in nature\, Erin’s work often implicates herself as an individual navigating local organizations\, bureaucratic systems\, archives\, and institutions of memory. \nShe has exhibited and produced educational programming nationally. Erin has used a picnic table beside a lake in the Mt. Hood National Forest as a collaborative art-making space\, presented a proposal to the Allegheny County chapter of the “Colonial Dames of America” advocating for the ethical memorialization and representation of an historic oak tree\, and recently spent the summer with biologists to learn more about conservation and land- use in the rural Mountain West. Erin is currently a MFA Candidate (‘19) at Carnegie Mellon University. \nWhat about Green River & the Frontier Fellowship excites you most? \nI am eager to spend time under the Utah summer sky\, and learn more about Green River’s past and present.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/frontier-fellowship-erin-mallea/
LOCATION:Utah
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200515
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200704
DTSTAMP:20260419T041038
CREATED:20191120T222422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191120T222601Z
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SUMMARY:Untitled Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:Rio Gallery (300 S Rio Grande St\, Salt Lake City\, UT 84101) \nMay 15 – July 3\, 2020 \nArtists 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 as well as entities like the National Park Service. Through their work they consider how these enable a connection to the outdoors while defining the terms of that engagement. They are interested in the intersections of accessibility\, advocacy\, and ownership in understanding human presence in the environment. \nTwo years ago Hargrave and Lynn drove across the country to visit Epicenter and Arches National Park. We were struck by the prevalence of RVs. As tent campers and National Parks enthusiasts\, we spent a lot of time in the company of Airstreams\, Winnebagos\, and Jaycos\, and came to appreciate that for many\, the RV makes a kind of relationship to nature possible. It also recreates the comfort and access of home\, in the middle of the woods. We saw our fellow campers set up potted plants\, satellite dishes\, and full multi-course meals. This experience is in contrast to the idyllic vision of Arches that Edward Abbey writes about in Desert Solitaire when he proclaims\, “You can’t see anything from a car.” There is a value judgement implicit in this statement. Abbey and other nature writers equate a connection to nature with spirituality\, purity\, and a unique kind of enlightenment. Is this relationship to the outdoors available to those who experience it through a car or RV? \nThis work emerged out of time spent in Utah\, as campers and as artists in residence at Epicenter. Katie and Meredith visited Epicenter in 2017\, and Katie returned for a month in 2018 as a Frontier Fellow. While Katie was there\, they collaborated remotely to create artwork exploring RVs\, public lands\, and tourists’ experiences. Katie began the studio experiments because of the gift of time and space made by Epicenter\, and by the unique experience of spending time amongst so many travelers stopping by Green River on their way to Arches and Canyonlands. Watching these tourists park their RVs in the grocery store parking lot\, or trying to take camp showers outside of the Epicenter resident housing\, piqued our interest and led to prolonged experimentation. It would be fitting to return this research to the Utah landscape through this exhibition.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/untitled-exhibit/
LOCATION:Rio Gallery\, 300 S Rio Grande St\, Salt Lake City\, UT\, 84101\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200313
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200413
DTSTAMP:20260419T041038
CREATED:20190612T210930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190612T211253Z
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SUMMARY:Frontier Fellowship: Erin Elder
DESCRIPTION:Erin Elder\, Artist (Albuquerque\, NM) \nErin 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. \nUnderscoring Erin’s work is a commitment to the creative process and to artists. From 2009 – 2013\, she cooperatively founded and directed PLAND\, an off-the-grid residency program near Tres Piedras\, NM. From 2012 – 2015\, she was the Visual Arts Director at Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts\, where she curated 50+ exhibitions and many public programs. She has also produced projects with a variety of institutions throughout the US and Germany. \nHer writing has been published by University of Minnesota Press\, University of Houston Press\, various regional magazines; she recently self-published a book. Erin is contributing faculty at a number of universities and colleges. She is a 2017-2019 research fellow with Nevada Museum of Art’s Center for Art + Environment. With an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts and\nyears of experience in the art world\, Erin operates Gibbous\, a consulting service that supports committed artists at pivotal moments in their careers. \nWhat about Green River & the Frontier Fellowship excites you most? \nI am appreciative of the time and support to produce a new chapter of my ongoing research project\, The Rites of Land. The project looks at the land use history of a specific place through drawings\, writing\, physical exploration and other forms of creative\, place-based research. Green River and its environs will be the subject of a new book as part of this growing series.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/frontier-fellowship-erin-elder/
LOCATION:Utah
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200302
DTSTAMP:20260419T041038
CREATED:20190612T205812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190612T211440Z
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SUMMARY:Frontier Fellowship: Sam Cox
DESCRIPTION:Sam Cox\, Graphic Designer & Filmmaker (Raleigh\, NC) \nSam Cox’s work investigates the ways our beliefs and identities are shaped by the places we inhabit. His work is a theoretical and personal response to hyper-individualistic and transient American culture. He is fascinated by geography\, Eastern Christian mysticism\, indigenous cultures\, maps\, and the desert. He hopes to live\, die\, and be buried on the same piece of land. \nHis current film\, New Men\, chronicles the life of a Russian Orthodox Monastery in West Virginia where 28 men\, mostly young American converts\, have renounced the world to follow a 1\,700-year-old ascetic tradition. \nWhat about Green River & the Frontier Fellowship excites you most? \nSpending time in the desert. Breaking out of the normal rhythm of life in order to think and listen. Having opportunities to interact with people outside of my bubble.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/frontier-fellowship-sam-cox/
LOCATION:Utah
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191116
DTSTAMP:20260419T041038
CREATED:20191016T193326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T195230Z
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SUMMARY:Rose Fellow Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Epicenter is honored to host Enterprise Community Partner‘s fall Rose Fellow retreat in Green River\, Utah. 50+ participants from across the country will be in attendance! \nStay tuned for public events to be announced.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/rose-fellow-retreat/
LOCATION:John Wesley Powell River History Museum\, Green River\, Utah\, 84525
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191102T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191102T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T041038
CREATED:20191016T193740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T194120Z
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SUMMARY:Cowboy Day & Concert
DESCRIPTION:The City of Green River and Epicenter are proud to present the first annual Green River Cowboy Day! \nCowboy Action Shooting!\nHorseshoe tournament!\nDinner!\nCostumes!\nHonky Tonk Concert! \n\nSCHEDULE (Saturday\, November 2nd\, 2019)\nSHOOT — 9:30am\n*Green River Gun Range*\nSix stage Cowboy-Action no frills match SASS rules. Bring your cowboy guns and shoot ($15). Spectators welcome!\n16 years old and younger shoot for free. \nHORSESHOE TOURNAMENT  — High Noon\n*Green River Gun Range*\nRegister anytime before noon to enter. $3 to enter. There will only be one winner and prize! \nDINNER & COSTUME — 5:00pm\n*John Wesley Powell River History Museum*\nDinner by Ray’s Tavern on site! Win prizes by dressing up in “Period Correct\,” “Cinema Cowboy\,” or “Modern Cowboy.”\nHamburger & Side ($15) or Steak & 2 sides ($35) \nCONCERT — 6:00\n*John Wesley Powell River History Museum*\nThe Fabulous Honky Tonk Heroes specialize in 1980’s-90’s country including George Strait\, Alan Jackson\, Brooks & Dunn\, and much more! Tickets are $8.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/cowboy-day-concert/
LOCATION:Utah
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ORGANIZER;CN="City of Green River":MAILTO:greenriverutahevents@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191025T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191025T190000
DTSTAMP:20260419T041038
CREATED:20191016T192714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T192935Z
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SUMMARY:Fall Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join the Green River Bible Church and Epicenter for an evening of family fun!  \nAll are welcome to this free family event. There will be games and crafts\, live music\, a hayride\, a photobooth\, dinner\, and a play! Festive fall attire is encouraged. \nLive music will be performed by Ashley Hanson & Brian Laidlaw (of The Family Trade) courtesy of Epicenter and Utah Humanities. Dinner will be provided by the Bible Church.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/fall-festival/
LOCATION:Green River Bible Church\, Howard & Main\, Green River\, UT\, 84525\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191028
DTSTAMP:20260419T041038
CREATED:20190612T215957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190612T215957Z
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SUMMARY:Frontier Fellowship: Ashley Hanson & Brian Laidlaw
DESCRIPTION:Ashley Hanson & Brian Laidlaw\, Teaching Artists / Musicians (Granite Falls\, MN) \nASHLEY HANSON is a theater artist\, community organizer and advocate for the arts in rural areas. She is the founder of PlaceBase Productions and the Department of Public Transformation\, and was recently named a 2018 Obama Foundation Fellow for her work with rural communities. BRIAN LAIDLAW is a poet-songwriter nearing completion of a Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the University of Denver. His books include THE STUNTMAN and THE MIRRORMAKER (both from Milkweed Editions); he has also had lyrics in American Songwriter Magazine and Songwriting Consultant credits on multiple Grammy-Award- winning and -nominated albums. \nAshley’s life as a site-specific artist and Brian’s life as a Creative Writing educator and craftsperson intersect here: at a commitment to helping communities and individuals create powerful\, issue-based poems\, songs and stories about their towns and landscapes. They work with local artists\, musicians and theater-makers to offer workshops in a variety of genres and formats\, all with the goal of helping residents reflect – both compellingly and accurately – the joys and challenges of living in rural places. \nWhat are you most looking forward to in regards to Green River and the Frontier Fellowship? \nBrian and Ashley have previously visited Epicenter and spent a little time in Green River\, but they are overjoyed to have the opportunity to get to know the community and its surroundings in a deeper and more concentrated way. The duo will be on a month-long tour in partnership with the Utah Humanities Festival\, and will get to have Epicenter as a home base for their travels and programming throughout that time! \nLaidlaw & Hanson’s residency is supported by Utah Humanities.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/frontier-fellowship-ashley-hanson-brian-laidlaw/
LOCATION:Utah
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191014
DTSTAMP:20260419T041038
CREATED:20190612T220627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190612T220645Z
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SUMMARY:Returning Frontier Fellowship: Thomas Grant Richardson
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Grant Richardson\, Ethnographer (Santa Fe\, NM) \nThomas Grant Richardson holds an M.A. in Ethnomusicology and is currently completing his Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University. He has worked for Traditional Arts Indiana\, Utah Folk Arts Program\, New Mexico Arts\, Museum of International Folk Art\, and the Birthplace of County Music Museum. He is currently an independent folklorist and documentarian based in Santa Fe\, NM. \nWhat about Green River & the Frontier Fellowship excites you most? \nEveryone has a story to tell\, but not everyone is given the chance\, or asked the questions they want to answer. I am excited by getting communities to connect in ways they hadn’t previously\, and to provide technical and narrative help to turn these conversations into something that has a greater impact for those in the community\, as well as those visiting. Southern Utah is often exalted for its natural beauty. I’m excited about telling the world about its residents. \nThomas was a Frontier Fellow in November of 2018 and will return to complete agricultural research in the Fall of 2019 with support from Utah Humanities.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/returning-frontier-fellowship-thomas-grant-richardson/
LOCATION:Utah
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190922
DTSTAMP:20260419T041039
CREATED:20190612T215337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190612T215337Z
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SUMMARY:Green River Melon Days
DESCRIPTION:An over 100-year tradition\, Green River’s Melon Days is a every third weekend in September.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/green-river-melon-days/
LOCATION:Utah
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190906
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191007
DTSTAMP:20260419T041039
CREATED:20190612T220237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210120T195631Z
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SUMMARY:Emerging Frontier Fellowship: Leah Danze
DESCRIPTION:Leah Danze\, Artist (New Orleans\, LA) \nLeah Danze is an artist from Texas. Their primary medium is acrylic paint\, watercolor and India ink. Leah’s creative practice informs their work as an art therapist and teaching artist. \nWhat are you most looking forward to in regards to Green River and the Frontier Fellowship? \nI’m looking forward to connecting with the people and land of Green River. I’m excited to collaborate and learn from those around me.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/emerging-frontier-fellowship-leah-danze/
LOCATION:Utah
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190906
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191007
DTSTAMP:20260419T041039
CREATED:20190612T214945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190612T214945Z
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SUMMARY:Emerging Frontier Fellowship: Dustin Hamman
DESCRIPTION:Dustin Hamman (Silver City\, NM) \nDustin Hamman is a musician\, writer\, performer and activist. He primarily creates songs and performs them live either solo (under his own name) or with one of his two bands (“Run On Sentence” & “No! Wait\, Yes!”). He is currently writing a screenplay and working to expand the ways in which his music and other creative talents intermingle with various aspects of the world. \nWhat about Green River & the Frontier Fellowship excites you most? \nSeeing what sort of symbiotic relationship I can enter into with the local environment.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/emerging-frontier-fellowship-dustin-hamman/
LOCATION:Utah
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190728
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190826
DTSTAMP:20260419T041039
CREATED:20190612T212510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190612T212510Z
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SUMMARY:Frontier Fellowship: Jennifer Joy Jameson & Chris Merchant
DESCRIPTION:Originally from Southern California\, Jenn Joy Jameson spent a decade outside the state working as a public folklorist\, collaborating with communities and cultural practitioners in Indiana\, Kentucky\, Tennessee\, and Mississippi. She later moved back west to work for the Alliance for California Traditional Arts\, where she manages cultural arts programs\, grants\, and media. Jenn often finds herself at two poles—one\nhas her leaning more into the creative practices of a fieldworker\, writer\, and curator\, and the other has her leaning deeper into activism and cultural organizing. Her best contributions find the balance between. \nChris Merchant studied filmmaking at the University of Texas in Austin and currently works as a creative researcher in the film industry\, while simultaneously pursuing his photographic practice. His photography draws on his fascinations for American regionality\, artist-built environments and hobbyist subcultures. He has spent time documenting the worlds of mycology\, rockhounding\, and the natural landscapes of the American west. \nTogether\, they plan to combine these backgrounds (ethnographic methods\, photography\, archival research\, writing\, and curation) in the projects that they produce. They look forward to seeing how this work will develop\, and to what they can learn from the citizens of Green River and Epicenter. \nWhat about Green River & the Frontier Fellowship excites you most? \nAs partners\, we’ve enjoy exploring themes of vernacular art\, cultural landscapes\, rituals\, belief systems\, archives and personal collections. As well as racial and cultural equity\, how to build and keep community\, ecosystems and environmental sustainability\, and how we can and should relate to these things now and into the future. We see the Frontier Fellowship as an opportunity to engage closer with these dynamics: between the two of us\, with Epicenter\, and the larger community of Green River\, Utah.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/frontier-fellowship-jennifer-joy-jameson-chris-merchant/
LOCATION:Utah
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