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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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191116
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
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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:20260419T071832
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191025T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191025T190000
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
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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:20260419T071832
CREATED: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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191014
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190922
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
CREATED: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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190906
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191007
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190906
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191007
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
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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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190728
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190826
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
CREATED: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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190524
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190628
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
CREATED:20180924T180137Z
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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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190510
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190609
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
CREATED:20190612T212835Z
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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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190405
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190506
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
CREATED:20190612T214749Z
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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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190405
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190506
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
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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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190405
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190408
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190326
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
CREATED:20190612T211711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190612T212044Z
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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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181102
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181119
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181029
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
CREATED:20180924T174622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180924T174622Z
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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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180712
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180817
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
CREATED:20180924T175248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180924T175248Z
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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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180608
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180709
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
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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/
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SUMMARY:Frontier Fellowship: Wendy Wischer
DESCRIPTION:Born in Wisconsin 1971\, Wendy Wischer currently lives and works in Salt Lake City\, UT. She received an MFA from Florida State University (1995) and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin Madison (1993). With a focus on artwork in a variety of media from sculptural objects\, to installations\, to video\, sound and public works. Much of the artwork is based on blurring the separation between the intrinsic history of working with nature and the cutting edge of New Genre and New Media. The conceptual focus highlights environmental issues; finding ways to translate data into personal understanding and create artwork that moves the viewer in poetic ways. She is the recipient of numerous grants including the Pollock-Krasner Grant\, the South Florida Consortium\, the Florida Individual Artist Fellowship\, and the Utah Division of Arts & Museums Visual Arts Fellowship. Wendy has exhibited extensively nationally\, and her international exhibits include Spain\, the Dominican Republic\, Mexico\, Canada\, Italy\, and Israel. Her work is part of several public collections including the Perez Art Museum\, Art in Public Places Miami and Miami Beach\, the Boca Museum of Art\, the Colorado State Art Collection\, and the Utah Division of Arts & Museums Collection. \n“I am excited to spend time in Green River\, away from the city\, immersed in this unique rural community and learn more about the land and\nthe people there. I hope to be inspired and to inspire in ways I cannot yet imagine from afar.”
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/frontier-fellowship-wendy-wischer/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180503
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190324
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
CREATED:20180111T174556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190311T154953Z
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SUMMARY:Glen Canyon: A River Guide Remembers
DESCRIPTION:“…Carved walls\, royal arches\, glens\, alcove gulches\, mounds and monuments. From which of these features shall we select a name? We decide to call it Glen Canyon.” -John Wesley Powell\, August 3\, 1869. \nIconic Utah outfitter Ken Sleight began his river-guiding career in Glen Canyon during the mid-1950s\, just as the Glen Canyon Dam blueprints jumped from the drawing board to remote desert terrain. The pulse of the Colorado River through the canyon would soon be halted by a cement wall and Glen Canyon backfilled with water. Ken knew the condition of the canyon was terminal. He used every ray of daylight to memorize every detail of the canyon before inundation: to learn its 125 side canyons\, to observe Native American ruins and mining relics\, and to immerse himself in the lives of seminal guides who preceded him like Dave Rust\, Bert Loper\, and Moki Mac. \nNow 88 years old\, Ken and a team of Glen Canyon curators open the archives to create a museum exhibit: Glen Canyon: A River Guide Remembers. With historic landscape photographs\, First American artifacts\, boats and other gear\, passenger portraits and journals\, guides’ handwritten-packing lists\, and more\, this is an exhibit as simple\, gritty\, and rich as a trip through Glen Canyon with Ken. Within the walls of the John Wesley Powell River History Museum in Green River\, Utah in 2018\, Glen Canyon lives again. \nJoin us May 4\, 2018 to March 30\, 2019.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/glen-canyon/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180326
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
CREATED:20171117T212414Z
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SUMMARY:The Green River Rock & Mineral Festival 2018
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the City of Green river\, the second annual Green River Rock & Mineral Festival is tentatively scheduled for the weekend of March 23-25\, 2018. Visit greenriverrocks.com for more information. \nThe first festival was made possible through support from The National Endowment for the Arts\, Emery County Travel Board\, Sorenson Legacy Foundation\, City of Green River\, J. W. Powell River History Museum\, Robber’s Roost Motel\, Colorado River & Trail Expeditions\, Alison Jean Cole\, Lisa Ward\, Anna Evans\, Jim Kirkland – Utah Geological Survey\, River Terrace\, and Steve & Juanita Sykes. Special thanks to PACT\, Jackie Nelson\, The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)\, Amy Wilmarth – Green River Coffee Co.\, The Tamarisk Restaurant\, Savage Territory Gallery\, Rebecca Davis\, Knight’s Inn\, West Winds Restaurant\, and the Columbia Willamette Faceting Guild.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/rock2018/
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180608T000000
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SUMMARY:Our Futures Exhibit at UMFA
DESCRIPTION:Epicenter has been invited by the Utah Museum of Fine Arts to co-create an exhibition (ACME Lab) and K-12 programming (ACME Session) as a part of their Art. Community. Museum. Education. (“ACME”) outreach initiative. ACME is dedicated to rethinking the public role of museums and to transform how the UMFA connects with\, engages\, and learns from the community. \nLocated in the UMFA Emma Eccles Jones Education Center\, the ACME Lab is an exhibition space for art experimentation and exploration. Visitors of all ages are encouraged to ask questions\, make connections across disciplines\, and engage with art in new ways. The Lab promotes collaboration between museum and community through active participation—providing an avenue for mutual learning\, discovery\, and understanding. Epicenter’s ACME Lab titled “Our Futures” will be on exhibit from March through August of 2018. The exhibit and programming will blend fact and fiction and highlight the relationship between landscape\, society\, and culture by investigating possible futures for rural Utah. \nTransporting the UMFA into the community\, ACME Sessions are a series of public meetups where participants can imagine and articulate new models of education and community engagement through hands-on activities and dialogue. The “Our Futures” ACME Session will take place in select Salt Lake City and Green River 4th and 7th grade Utah History classes from March – August 2018. Students and teachers from will collaborate to break down barriers\, gain a greater appreciation for different ways of life\, and develop a statewide community.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/our-futures-exhibit-at-umfa/
LOCATION:Utah Museum of Fine Arts
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180803
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
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SUMMARY:Our Futures
DESCRIPTION:Epicenter has been invited by the Utah Museum of Fine Arts to co-create an exhibition (ACME Lab) and K-12 programming (ACME Session) as a part of their Art. Community. Museum. Education. (“ACME”) outreach initiative. ACME is dedicated to rethinking the public role of museums and to transform how the UMFA connects with\, engages\, and learns from the community. \nLocated in the UMFA Emma Eccles Jones Education Center\, the ACME Lab is an exhibition space for art experimentation and exploration. Visitors of all ages are encouraged to ask questions\, make connections across disciplines\, and engage with art in new ways. The Lab promotes collaboration between museum and community through active participation—providing an avenue for mutual learning\, discovery\, and understanding. Epicenter’s ACME Lab titled “Our Futures” will be on exhibit from March through August of 2018. The exhibit and programming will blend fact and fiction and highlight the relationship between landscape\, society\, and culture by investigating possible futures for rural Utah. \nTransporting the UMFA into the community\, ACME Sessions are a series of public meetups where participants can imagine and articulate new models of education and community engagement through hands-on activities and dialogue. The “Our Futures” ACME Session will take place in select Salt Lake City and Green River 4th and 7th grade Utah History classes from March – August 2018. Students and teachers from will collaborate to break down barriers\, gain a greater appreciation for different ways of life\, and develop a statewide community.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/our-futures/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180301T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180301T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
CREATED:20180223T204007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180223T204007Z
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SUMMARY:Designing Our Futures
DESCRIPTION:Step into the year 2039 and imagine our futures. Vote for the version you hope to see\, explore futuristic objects\, snap a souvenir photo\, and consider your own role in shaping your community’s destiny. \n“
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/designing-our-futures/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180319
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
CREATED:20180924T175828Z
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SUMMARY:Frontier Fellowship: Jamie Horter
DESCRIPTION:Jamie Horter is a rural advocate\, community artist\, and community coach based in Lyons\, NE (pop.851). She created her first public work when she was commissioned at the age of 10 to paint a mural in the elementary hallway of her hometown school. Then and now\, her works are inclusive and community centered\, often placing rural citizens in the design process as co-creators. Jamie’s work is multidisciplinary in scope and her work is informed by a personal history of eclectic explorations. She has degrees in art and chemistry and experience in working on Capitol Hill\, within grassroots advocacy and non-profit organizations\, and serving as editor of a small town newspaper. She now works in rural communities in South Dakota and Nebraska\, using art to engage citizens in building the future they wish to see. \n“I’m looking forward to meeting the people of Green River and learning about the community through their perspectives. What do Green River youth think about their community? I’m interested to hear the youth perspective on their town and explore local intergenerational connections. I’m excited to engage with local artists\, share in dialogue\, and collaborate on work together. And I’m looking forward to connecting with everyone at Epicenter and getting a firsthand experience of their work in Green River.”
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/frontier-fellowship-jamie-horter/
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171215T210000
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CREATED:20171117T210406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171117T210406Z
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SUMMARY:Light the Night
DESCRIPTION:Light the Night is a community-wide light parade and holiday programming that Epicenter helped start in 2015. The light parade\, which never disappoints\, features locally designed\, decorated\, and driven creations starts at 7 pm and runs from east to west on Main Street. Programming\, typically showcasing local singers and dancers\, is held shortly after in the recreational building at the corner of Pearl and Main streets\, next to the Green River Bible Church. Light (often warm and sweet) refreshments are served during the program. Hundreds are always in attendance and this is not an event to be missed!
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/light-the-night/
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171221
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CREATED:20171117T194832Z
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SUMMARY:Frontier Fellowship: Jason Dilworth
DESCRIPTION:Jason Dilworth joins Epicenter as a Frontier Fellow from November 26 – December 20\, 2017. \nJason Dilworth has a BFA in Visual Communication from Weber State University (Ogden\, UT) and\na MFA in Graphic Design from Virginia Commonwealth (Richmond\, VA). His art and practice\nreflect a love of geology\, history\, and ecology. He has collaborated with artists and designers in Sweden\, Iceland\, Nepal\, and Germany. Jason is a co-founder of the collective Designers & Forests.  \n“I’m most excited about being able to see the desert during the start of winter. I have always enjoyed this time of year the most\, and I’m looking forward to being in Green River to watch the transition from autumn to winter.”
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/frontier-fellowship-jason-dilworth/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171128
DTSTAMP:20260419T071832
CREATED:20171117T201032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171117T201032Z
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SUMMARY:Epicenter Closed: Thanksgiving
DESCRIPTION:To give our staff and AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer time with friends and family\, Epicenter will be closed November 22-26\, 2017. We will reopen on November 27\, 2017\, at 9:00 am.
URL:https://ruralandproud.org/events/epicenter-closed-thanksgiving/
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