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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
ORGANIZER;CN="Epicenter":MAILTO:admin@ruralandproud.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20211006T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20211006T193000
DTSTAMP:20260419T053905
CREATED:20210915T185023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T185344Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Utah Humanities":MAILTO:Palomo@utahhumanities.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210918
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211019
DTSTAMP:20260419T053905
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200302
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191116
DTSTAMP:20260419T053905
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191025T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191025T190000
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191028
DTSTAMP:20260419T053905
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191014
DTSTAMP:20260419T053905
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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
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190906
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191007
DTSTAMP:20260419T053905
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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:20260419T053905
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190728
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190826
DTSTAMP:20260419T053905
CREATED:20190612T212510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190612T212510Z
UID:21197-1564272000-1566777599@ruralandproud.org
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190524
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190628
DTSTAMP:20260419T053905
CREATED:20180924T180137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190612T211403Z
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SUMMARY:Frontier Fellowship: Jess Lamar Reece Holler
DESCRIPTION:Jess Lamar Reece Holler\, Community-Based Folklorist & Documentary Artist (Columbus\, OH) \nJess Lamar Reece Holler is a community-based applied folklorist\, oral historian\, public historian\, exhibit co-curator\, and multi-media producer based in Columbus and Caledonia\, OH. Her projects imagine cultural work for social change at the intersections of food\, health\, environmental justice\, place and memory\, with a particular attention to vernacular perspectives and beliefs and activism around ecology\, everyday toxicity\, and toxic heritages. She is the Project Director and Founder of the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association’s Growing Right Oral History Project\, documenting the rise of organic farming in Ohio as an intersectional social movement\, and experimenting with multi-modal ways to engage the public and cultivate transformative listening from oral history materials. Jess leads Caledonia Northern Folk Studios\, an oral history and folklife consultancy rooted in community-collaborative practice and co-curated oral history-to-exhibition workflows. Both projects engage questions of site-based installation and the role of place\, context and ecology as participants in documentation\, exhibition and reception. Jess is working to complete Growing Right’s first experimental short film\, on ecological farming in the fracklands of Eastern Ohio. \nWhat about Green River & the Frontier Fellowship excites you most? \nAfter so much deep\, place-based work in the places I am from\, I’m thrilled to come to Green River and explore if and how to do ecologically-sensitive\, deep-listening work in a community where I’m an outsider. Much of my work explores the complex attachments people have to place — especially when their places have been impacted by environmental trauma\, redevelopment\, outmigration\, extractive industry\, or forced removals. I’m especially curious to explore these dynamics in Green River\, and to continue working towards a community-collaborative ecological documentary practice that seeks to amplify and make public what we’d ordinarily keep as private memories and experiences with space\, place and environment. I’m also very interested in site-specific work and the particular environment(s) of Green River as locations for exhibition\, encounter and exchange of this and other work.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/frontier-fellowship-jess-lamar-reece-holler/
LOCATION:Utah
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190510
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190609
DTSTAMP:20260419T053905
CREATED:20190612T212835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190612T212835Z
UID:21199-1557446400-1560038399@ruralandproud.org
SUMMARY:Frontier Fellowship: Calista Lyon
DESCRIPTION:Calista Lyon\, Artist (Columbus\, OH) \nCalista Lyon is a visual artist living and working in Columbus\, Ohio. Her research lives at the intersection of non-human and human worlds\nin our time of climate breakdown\, prompting questions around human response-ability and care. In 2006\, she earned a Diploma of Art in\nApplied Photography from Melbourne Polytechnic\, Australia. Relocating to the United States in 2012 she earned a BA in Studio Art at California State University\, Los Angeles. Presenting a solo exhibition at the Murray Art Museum Albury\, Australia in 2017 along with group shows at DAAP Galleries\, University of Cincinnati (2018); Cultural Arts Center\, Columbus (2018); Angela Meleca Gallery\, Columbus (2018); Beeghly Library\, Ohio Wesleyan University\, Delaware (2018); Fine Arts Gallery\, California State University\, Los Angeles (2017) and The Luckman Gallery\, Los Angeles (2015) among others. Lyon will present a solo exhibition at ROY G BIV Gallery in Columbus\, Ohio in 2019. Lyon was awarded the 2016/17 University Fellowship at The Ohio State University where she is currently undertaking her MFA. \nWhat about Green River & the Frontier Fellowship excites you most? \nEpicenter has offered me the gift of listening and engaging with the community of Green River—both the non-human and human—presenting a new challenge in working with a community that I don’t presently have ties with. I’m looking forward to researching the history of Green River and the ways I might understand place through past\, present and future entanglements.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/frontier-fellowship-calista-lyon/
LOCATION:Utah
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190405
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190506
DTSTAMP:20260419T053905
CREATED:20190612T214749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190612T214749Z
UID:21213-1554422400-1557100799@ruralandproud.org
SUMMARY:Emerging Frontier Fellowship: Summer Orr
DESCRIPTION:Summer Orr\, Artist (Reno\, NV) \nSummer Orr is a 22-year-old multimedia artist working out of the Sierra Nevada foothills. She is primarily interested in creating animal forms that transfer between various mediums\, often clay\, paper or skin. These forms examine personal experience/memory but have\na penchant for the flora and fauna of the desert where she has lived most of her life. Predator/prey based imagery is often used in current works\, playing with metaphor as well as exploring human social structures and power systems. With her work\, Summer hopes to express/recreate/make sense of feelings of isolation\, fear\, and the grotesque and often grounding beauty of the natural world. \nWhat about Green River & the Frontier Fellowship excites you most? \nMaking small ripples in a community outside of the one I have lived in my whole life\, making connections through artistic means in a way that is important and examining how my work evolves when I am not in my comfort zone.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/emerging-frontier-fellowship-summer-orr/
LOCATION:Utah
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190405
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190506
DTSTAMP:20260419T053905
CREATED:20190612T214522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190612T214522Z
UID:21211-1554422400-1557100799@ruralandproud.org
SUMMARY:Emerging Frontier Fellowship: Sarah Burnett
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Burnett\, Artist (Green River\, UT) \nSarah Burnett is a photographer and artist. 10 years ago\, Sarah found herself wandering aimlessly and was told to find a hobby. After hearing negative commentary about her hometown (Green River\, Utah)\, she wanted others to see the beauty she saw. Sarah took up photography and started posting them on Facebook. Soon all her friends were checking her newsfeed for the next picture and asking where these landscapes and wildflowers were located and to their surprise she answered\, Green River\, Utah! Her favorite quote is “Blessed are those who see beautiful things in humble places” by Camille Pissarro. Sarah is self taught and does not have any professional training so each day is a new adventure of trial and error. In 2017\, Sarah won a First place ribbon at the Utah State Fair in Salt Lake City of a photogenic lizard called “Swaseys’ Dragon”. She also has a photo mural in the Tamarisk Restaurant and sells postcards at the John Wesley Powell Museum in Green River. Sarah also likes to doodle\, draw\, and paint. Some of her favorite shows are cartoons. Namely Steven Universe on Cartoon Network\, she watches to learn how to draw the artists drew the characters and develop her own style and characters. Sarah loves exploring by going on desert rides\, listening to summer thunderstorms\, and being the local paparazzi for her nieces and nephew. Sarah loves making others smile and feeling comfortable around her. \nWhat about Green River & the Frontier Fellowship excites you most? \nMeeting with other creative minds and being able to bounce ideas that maybe were not a thought if I were alone. I love showing off my hometown and things I find interesting\, and I would love sharing that with someone else\, to maybe help them obtain a better understanding of how the community of Green River comes together.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/emerging-frontier-fellowship-sarah-burnett/
LOCATION:Utah
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190405
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190408
DTSTAMP:20260419T053905
CREATED:20190311T155350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190311T155946Z
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SUMMARY:The Green River Rock & Mineral Festival (2019)
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the City of Green River\, the second annual Green River Rock & Mineral Festival is scheduled for the weekend of April 5-7\, 2019. \nGo to greenriverrocks.com for an up-to-date schedule including all field trips. \nThe festival is made possible by Epicenter\, Alison Jean Cole\, the City of Green River\, Emery County Travel Board\, Sorenson Legacy Foundation\, Rebecca Hunt-Foster\, Jim Kirkland\, Kevin Bylund\, Greg McDonald\, Tim Riley\, J. W. Powell River History Museum\, Robber’s Roost Motel\, and the River Terrace. Special thanks to PACT\, Jackie Nelson\, The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)\, The Tamarisk Restaurant\, Knight’s Inn\, and West Winds Restaurant.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/rock-mineral-festival-2019/
LOCATION:John Wesley Powell River History Museum\, Green River\, Utah\, 84525
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190326
DTSTAMP:20260419T053905
CREATED:20190612T211711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190612T212044Z
UID:21193-1551052800-1553558399@ruralandproud.org
SUMMARY:Frontier Fellowship: Jenn Emerling
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Emerling\, Visual Storyteller (California) \nJennifer Emerling is an independent visual storyteller specializing in travel\, editorial\, and documentary photography. Jenn’s long-term work seeks to understand how identity\, personal memories\, the history of Westward Expansion and tourism intersect with cultivating feelings of awe\, wonder\, wildness\, and love. Her calling card is her saturated\, otherworldly perspective—using a documentary approach combined with magic realism\, she mindfully works in the pursuit of joy\, highlighting the uniquely American experience that’s both familiar and slippery in all of its wonderfully exaggerated folklore and whimsy. Jenn’s thoughtful thirst for the world keeps her on the road most of the time\, but when she’s when not chasing the perfect golden light tripping down the cosmic highway in the American West\, she calls California home. \nWhat about Green River & the Frontier Fellowship excites you most? \nI have been looking for more opportunities to combine community service with my art practice\, and to pass on the transformative powers that are uniquely felt within the great\, wild expanse of the Western Landscape through art. There seems to be something magical brewing in Green River\, and I’m excited for this opportunity immerse myself in rural life and get to know the people who make Green River so special. My intentions are to gain a deeper understanding into a way of life that I might not otherwise ever get to experience\, be a positive\ninfluence\, an ambassador for others\, and walk away a more enlightened\, empathetic human being.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/frontier-fellowship-jenn-emerling/
LOCATION:Utah
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181102
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181119
DTSTAMP:20260419T053905
CREATED:20180924T174900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180924T174900Z
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SUMMARY:Frontier Fellowship: Thomas Richardson
DESCRIPTION:Thomas 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 Country Music Museum. He is currently an independent folklorist and documentarian based in Santa Fe\, NM. \n“Every one 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.”
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/frontier-fellowship-thomas-richardson/
LOCATION:Utah
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181029
DTSTAMP:20260419T053905
CREATED:20180924T174622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180924T174622Z
UID:7489-1539561600-1540771199@ruralandproud.org
SUMMARY:Frontier Fellowship: Jacob Kahn (session 2 of 2)
DESCRIPTION:Jacob Kahn is a poet originally from the Rocky Mountains. Currently\, he is a bookseller and managing editor at Wolfman Books in Oakland\, CA. The author of a poetic guidebook\, “A Circuit of Yields: Conventional Wisdom for Giants” (Wolfman\, 2014)\, and the chapbook\, “Lowest Common Denominator” (Schoolprinter\, 2017)\, he regularly contributes to Full Stop; other work can be found online. \n“I am very excited to be back in Green River and reconnect to a place I often went (very fondly) as a child. To be in the desert. To have time to think and write about place\, poetics\, and the pastoral\, around which my writing always orbits. To meet and learn about Green River dwellers\, artists\, farmers\, librarians\, archivists\, laborers\, families\, students\, passers-through\, hangers-on\, of the past and present. To eat melon.”
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/kahn/
LOCATION:Utah
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180712
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180817
DTSTAMP:20260419T053905
CREATED:20180924T175248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180924T175248Z
UID:7694-1531353600-1534463999@ruralandproud.org
SUMMARY:Frontier Fellowship:  Dasha & Jonathan
DESCRIPTION:Dasha Bulatova and Jonathan Herrera join Epicenter for one month for our inaugural Emerging Frontier Fellowship. \nDasha Bulatova is a poet living in Oakland\, CA. She holds a BA in Linguistics from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and is currently an MFA student at the San Francisco State University. Her work intends to examine and interweave the poetics of space\, ecology\, and narrative. She believes poetry is an essential element of placemaking and a deliberate means of settling into a chronology and topography. To this end\, she is interested in the question of how writing in a place can enhance and elongate a regional narrative by facilitating a “rich remembrance” of its communities and ecologies. Her poetry often contains an assertive thread of memory\, always polymorphous and mysterious. Her work can be found in Berkeley Poetry Review\, Cal Literary and Arts Magazine\, Inverness Almanac\, and The Meadow. During the day\, Dasha works as a language therapist with adults who have suffered a stroke or traumatic brain injury. \nJonathan Herrera is a print-based studio artist and teacher from Chicago\, IL. He has recently graduated and holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College in Art and Design. Through his studio practice and teaching philosophy\, he materializes and facilitates ideas through concept building\, process\, and exploration of materials. His work has recently been exhibited at the Minnesota Museum of American Art\, The Soap Factory (Minneapolis\, MN)\, and Concordia Gallery (St. Paul\, MN). Herrera has also recently received residency/fellowship awards from Spudnik Press (Chicago\, IL)\, High Point Center for Printmaking (Minneapolis\, MN)\, and the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson\, VT).
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/frontier-fellowship-dasha-jonathan/
LOCATION:Utah
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180608
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180709
DTSTAMP:20260419T053905
CREATED:20180924T175451Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180924T175451Z
UID:8078-1528416000-1531094399@ruralandproud.org
SUMMARY:Frontier Fellowship: Katie Hargrave
DESCRIPTION:Katie Hargrave is a professor of art and the Foundations Coordinator at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. Her work has been shown at DIY spaces\, commercial galleries\, non-profits\, and festivals\, including Proof Gallery in Boston; Gallerie Analix in Geneva\, Switzerland; the Manifesta Biennial in Murcia\, Spain; the Soap Factory in Minneapolis\, MN\, to name a few. She is a member of the collaborative groups “The Think Tank that has yet to be named” and “Like Riding a Bicycle.” She’s interested in exploring spaces\nfor informal education within her work\, places where people can share their skills and stories. Her work is responsive to environments\, develops over time\, and is co-created with participants as well as collaborators. \n“This will be my third trip to Green River\, but the first time I will get to spend considerable time in Utah. The structure of the Frontier Fellowship is unique in that it encourages residents to get to know Green River before making projects\, which I believe really respects the ecosystem of the community. It is unlike any other residency I have participated in. Epicenter has created an impressive network of participants\, community members\, and former residents\, and I am so excited to be able to be a part of that group.”
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/frontier-fellowship-kative-hargrave/
LOCATION:Utah
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