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Sandy Anderson and Howard Wilkerson At City Art Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 02 May '16

02 May '16

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Sandy Anderson and Howard Wilkerson Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday May 4th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Sandy Anderson and HowardWilkerson will present their work on May 4th at the Salt Lake CityPublic Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. SandyAnderson has been involved in organizing and giving poetryreadings and workshops since 1965. Shewas a founding member of Salt Lake Younger Poets in the 1960’s, Word Affair inthe 70’s and 80’s, and City Art in the 90’s. She has been artist in residence at Valley and Alta High School, and hasgiven workshops to groups of disabled, Veterans, and prisoners.. She was the 1997 recipient of the Salt LakeCity Mayor’s Award in Literature, and the 1995 Writers at Work Writing AdvocateAward. She has edited collections of poems by Ken Brewer, Nancy Takacs, andMiriam Murphy, Willie Newbrough, and three collections of poetry by thedisabled. Anderson’schapbook, Jeanne Was Once a Player of Pianos, was published byLimberlost Press in 1998. Her book, Atthe Edge in White Robes, was published by Ghost Planet Press in 1978. She is included in the anthologies Greatand Peculiar Beauty: A Utah Reader, The Trubador Anthology, and TheGreat Salt Lake Anthology. She wasthe editor of the first issue of Wasatch Front, which won first place inthe literary magazine category in the Rocky Mountain Collegiate PressAssociation, and is a former editor of City Art Journal. She has published poems in LimberlostReview, Weber Studies, The Deseret News, Echo Canyon News,Runes, and Lucid Moon. Anderson teaches piano under her married name, Sandy Wilkerson and hasserved as a judging chairman for the Salt Lake Area Chapter of the AmericanMusic Federation since the 1970’s. HowardWilkerson is a writerfrom Salt Lake city. His publications includeSierra Nevada College Review, Open Window, and a host of lesserpublications. His poetry is characterized as fairly short and compact,primarily dealing with experiences of the 1970's decade. He has been active in multiple genres of art -painting and photography, and belongs to the Poor Yorick Studios for the past8 years. His visual work has been exhibited throughout the UnitedStates. Wilkerson retired after 31 years in thedefense industry. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,Arts, and Park Fund. The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, andaudience donations. Joel Long

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Melanie Rae Thon and Eric Robertson at Finch Lane this Thursday.
by CityArt＠thelibrary 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

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Reminder: Joshua Rivkin, Brandon Som, and Susan Goslee at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Joshua Rivkin, Brandon Som, and Susan Goslee Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday Arpil 20th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Joshua Rivkin, Brandon Som,and Susan Goslee will present their work on April 20th at the SaltLake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art ReadingSeries. Brandon Som is the author of The TributeHorse (Nightboat Books), winner of the 2015 Kate Tufts DiscoveryAward, and the chapbook Babel's Moon (Tupelo Press), winner ofthe Snowbound Prize. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in LitHub,Octopus Magazine, Indiana Review, and Black Warrior Review. Aformer fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, he is currently theAnne Newman Sutton Weeks Poet-in-Residence at Westminster College. In the fall,he will be joining the creative writing faculty at the University ofCalifornia, San Diego. JoshuaRivkin's poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, VirginiaQuarterly Review, Slate, Best New Poets, andelsewhere. He has received a winter fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Centerin Provincetown, a Stegner Fellowship in poetry from Stanford, a work-study scholarshipfrom the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy.He is currently working on a nonfiction book about the life and art of CyTwombly. Susan Goslee’spoems have appeared in such journals as WestBranch, Cimarron Review, The Carolina Quarterly, and Salamander. She teaches at Idaho StateUniversity.Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,Arts, and Park Fund. The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, andaudience donations. Joel Long

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Reminder: Alex Caldiero and Joey Franklin at City Art on Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

City ArtPresents Michael McLane and Andy Hoffmann Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday April 13th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Alex Caldiero and JoeyFranklin will present their work on April 13th at the Salt Lake CityPublic Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. AlexCaldiero: sonosopher, polyartists, and scholar of Humanities and intermedia. He makes things that at times appear as language or music or images, and then again as the shape of your own mind. Caldiero is a makar (a maker) of movement, text-sound, visual work, and installations. In addition to numerous performative works, published works include Sound Weave with Theta Naught (Differential Records), Body/Dreams/ Organs (Elik Press), Poetry Is Wanted Here! (Dream Garden Press), sonosuono, a book of memories, language, i-(e-)mmigration (Elik Press), and Some Love (Signature Books). He is co-founder of Arba Sicula, society for the preservation of Sicilian language and culture, and featured in Dictionary of the Avant-gardes (Macmillan, London), the poetry anthology Fire in the Pasture (Peculiar Pages, El Cerrito, CA), and the forthcoming anthology Dove Song, on Mother in Heaven. He is the subject of a full-length experimental documentary Alex Caldiero …in sound…in life. Caldiero is senior artist in residence, the Philosophy/ Humanities Dept. at Utah Valley University. Joey Franklinis the author of My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married(Universityof Nebraska Press, 2015). His essays and articles have appeared in Poets& Writers, Gettysburg Review,The Norton Reader,and elsewhere. He teaches literature and creative writing at Brigham YoungUniversity in Provo, Utah, and is currently working on a memoir about thesaints and scoundrels hiding in his family tree.Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,Arts, and Park Fund. The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, andaudience donations. Joel Long

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Reminder: Australian Poets at City Art, April 6th
by CityArt＠thelibrary 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

Australianpoets Jen Webb, Jeri Kroll, and Paul Hetherington will present their work onApril 6th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the CityArt Reading Series. Jen Webb is a Canberra-based writer who has been publishing, performing,presenting and exhibiting her work since 1992. Currently the director of theCentre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra whereshe is also Distinguished Professor of Creative Practice, she has taughtcreative writing for about 10 years, supervises research students in creativewriting and other creative practices, and has worked as a book editor and artsmanager. Prior to becoming an academic, Jen was an accountant and tax inspector.She is South African by origin, and has also lived in New Zealand, Canada andthe UK, before settling in Australia. Recent publications include: StolenStories, Borrowed Lines (poetry chapbook, 2015); Watching the World:Impressions of Canberra (with Paul Hetherington; poems and photographs; 2015);Researching Creative Writing (scholarly book, 2015). Jen is completing anAustralian Research Council (ARC)-funded investigation on poetry and creativeexcellence, and is working on two other ARC projects, both concerned withcreative labour and career outcomes for creative arts graduates. Professor Jeri Kroll established the creative writing program – including thedoctorate – at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. A former Presidentof the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, she is also anaward-winning poet who has published twenty-five titles for adults and youngpeople. Criticism includes Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research andPedagogy (Multilingual Matters, 2008) and Research Methods in Creative Writing(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Workshopping the Heart: New and Selected Poems(Wakefield Press, 2013) and a verse novel, Vanishing Point (Puncher andWattman, 2015), are recent books. A MainStage production of Vanishing Point washeld at George Washington University in October 2014. The play was a winner inthe 47th Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and produced inJanuary 2015 in Ohio. Vanishing Point was short-listed in the 2015 Queensland LiteraryAwards. Paul Hetherington is professor of writing at the University of Canberra andhead of the International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI) there. His poetrycollection, Six Different Windows won the 2014 Western Australian Premier’sBook Awards and he was a finalist in the 2012, 2013 and 2014 internationalAesthetica Creative Writing Competitions. He was shortlisted for the 2013Montreal International Poetry Prize and the 2013 Newcastle Poetry Prize. He hashas an abiding interest in the visual arts and edited the final three volumesof the National Library of Australia’s four-volume edition of the diaries ofthe artist Donald Friend. He is one of the founding editors of theinternational online journal Axon: Creative Explorations and a founding editorialcommittee member of the Meniscus journal. In 2002 he was the recipient of aChief Minister’s ACT Creative Arts Fellowship and he was awarded one of twoplaces on the 2012 Australian Poetry Tour of Ireland. He was recently awardedan Australia Council for the Arts Residency in the BR Whiting Studio in Rome. Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsoredby the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the SaltLake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission,and audience donations. Joel Long

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Australian poets Jen Webb, Jeri Kroll, and Paul Hetherington at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 27 Mar '16

27 Mar '16

Australian poets Jen Webb, Jeri Kroll, and Paul Hetherington will present their work on April 6th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Jen Webb is a Canberra-based writer who has been publishing, performing, presenting and exhibiting her work since 1992. Currently the director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra where she is also Distinguished Professor of Creative Practice, she has taught creative writing for about 10 years, supervises research students in creative writing and other creative practices, and has worked as a book editor and arts manager. Prior to becoming an academic, Jen was an accountant and tax inspector. She is South African by origin, and has also lived in New Zealand, Canada and the UK, before settling in Australia. Recent publications include: Stolen Stories, Borrowed Lines (poetry chapbook, 2015); Watching the World: Impressions of Canberra (with Paul Hetherington; poems and photographs; 2015); Researching Creative Writing (scholarly book, 2015). Jen is completing an Australian Research Council (ARC)-funded investigation on poetry and creative excellence, and is working on two other ARC projects, both concerned with creative labour and career outcomes for creative arts graduates. Professor Jeri Kroll established the creative writing program – including the doctorate – at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. A former President of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, she is also an award-winning poet who has published twenty-five titles for adults and young people. Criticism includes Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research and Pedagogy (Multilingual Matters, 2008) and Research Methods in Creative Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Workshopping the Heart: New and Selected Poems (Wakefield Press, 2013) and a verse novel, Vanishing Point (Puncher and Wattman, 2015), are recent books. A MainStage production of Vanishing Point was held at George Washington University in October 2014. The play was a winner in the 47th Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and produced in January 2015 in Ohio. Vanishing Point was short-listed in the 2015 Queensland Literary Awards. Paul Hetherington is professor of writing at the University of Canberra and head of the International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI) there. His poetry collection, Six Different Windows won the 2014 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards and he was a finalist in the 2012, 2013 and 2014 international Aesthetica Creative Writing Competitions. He was shortlisted for the 2013 Montreal International Poetry Prize and the 2013 Newcastle Poetry Prize. He has has an abiding interest in the visual arts and edited the final three volumes of the National Library of Australia’s four-volume edition of the diaries of the artist Donald Friend. He is one of the founding editors of the international online journal Axon: Creative Explorations and a founding editorial committee member of the Meniscus journal. In 2002 he was the recipient of a Chief Minister’s ACT Creative Arts Fellowship and he was awarded one of two places on the 2012 Australian Poetry Tour of Ireland. He was recently awarded an Australia Council for the Arts Residency in the BR Whiting Studio in Rome. Most featured readings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund. The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long

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Julie Checkoway and Lance Larsen at City Art Wednesday March 9th
by CityArt＠thelibrary 07 Mar '16

07 Mar '16

City ArtPresents Julie Checkoway and Lance Larsen Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday March 9th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writer Julie Checkoway and Utah’sPoet Laureate Lance Larsen will present their work on March 9th atthe Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art ReadingSeries. Julie Checkoway is a documentary filmmaker and the author of The Three-Year Swim Club, which has received wide critical praiseand has been on the Best Selling Sports Books list in The New York Times. Checkowayis also the author of the book Little Sister: Searching for the Shadow World ofChinese Women (Viking Penguin) and the editor of thebestselling Creating Fiction.Her writing has appeared in the NewYork Times, Salt LakeTribune, and HuffingtonPost. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, HuffingtonPost, and numerous anthologies. In 2001, she gave up tenureat the University of Houston (where she had been a professor and director ofthe creative writing program) and while producing and reporting radio storiesfor NPR’s Morning Edition and PRI’s ThisAmerican Life, she came across the story of artist BillyPappas. With the encouragement of her older brother, she set out tomake Waiting for Hockney,her first film. She graduated from Harvard College, the Iowa WritersWorkshop, and the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She is the recipient of aNational Endowment for the Arts individual artist grant and fellowships atwriters’ colonies, including Yaddo. She lives in Salt Lake City with herhusband and two daughters. Lance Larsen’s fourth collection of poems, GeniusLoci, was recently published by University of Tampa Press. His earlier collections include BackyardAlchemy (2009), In All TheirAnimal Brilliance (2005), and ErasableWalls (1998). He holds a PhD from the University ofHouston. His work appears widely, in such venues as Georgia Review,Southern Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, River Styx, Orion, The Pushcart PrizeAnthology, Best American Poetry 2009, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. Hisnonfiction has twice made the Notable Essay list in Best American Essays. He is currently working on Seventeen Waysto Float, a collection of essays about place, family, and memory,which won 1st place in the 2011 Utah Original Writing Competition. Hegrew up in Idaho and Colorado and lived in Chile for two years while serving anLDS mission. He collects antiques, plays basketball, occasionally walkson his hands, grows daylilies, hikes, and loves Indian and Thai food. Hesometimes collaborates with his wife, Jacqui Biggs Larsen, a painter andmulti-media artist. Since 1993 he has taught literature and creative writingat BYU, where he currently serves as associate chair. He and Jacquirecently directed a study abroad program in Madrid. In 2012, he was namedto a five-year term as Utah Poet Laureate. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,Arts, and Park Fund. The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah ArtsCouncil, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, andaudience donations. Joel Long

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Debra Monroe at City Art this Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 21 Feb '16

21 Feb '16

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Debra Monroe Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 24th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writer Debra Monroe will presenttheir work on February 24th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M.as part of the City Art Reading Series. Debra Monroe, author of six books and University of Utah graduate,will read from her lastest book, which has been described as "perfect,earthy and self-deprecating and funny" (Sara Nelson, Omnivoraciious);"a vibrant, tough, fascinating look at women shifting classes andplaces," (Anna March, Rumpus); "blunt and salty and smart"(Houston Chronicle); and "a love story, with poetry and fiction more thanany person" (Chicago Tribune). Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,Arts, and Park Fund. Theevent is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City ArtsCouncil, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long

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Wyn Cooper and Lisa Bickmore at City Art Wednesday
by CityArt＠thelibrary 15 Feb '16

15 Feb '16

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Wyn Cooper and Lisa Bickmore Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 17th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Poets Wyn Cooper and Lisa Bickmore willpresent their work on February 17th at the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Wyn Cooper is theauthor of four books of poems, most recently Chaos is the New Calm. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Slate, The Southern Review, AGNI,and in 25 anthologies of contemporary poetry. His poems have been turned intosongs by Sheryl Crow, David Broza, and Madison Smartt Bell, among others. Hehas taught at Bennington and Marlboro colleges, and at The Frost Place. Helives in Boston and Vermont, and works as a freelance editor of poetry,fiction, and non-fiction. www.wyncooper.com Lisa Bickmore is the author of twobooks of poems: flicker, whichwon the 2014 Antivenom Prize from Elixir Press;and Haste (Signature Books,1994). Herpoetry, scholarship, and video work have been published in Glass: A Journal ofPoetry; Tar River Poetry; Sugar House Review; SouthWord; Caketrain; Hunger Mountain Review; Terrain.org; Bite Size Poemsproject (Utah Arts Council); Quarterly West; The Moth; MappingSLC.org; Fire in thePasture: 21st Century Mormon Poets; andelsewhere. In 2015, her poem 'Eidolon' was awarded the BallymaloeInternational Poetry Award. Sheearned a B.A. and an M.A. from Brigham Young University. Currently,she is a Professor of English at Salt Lake Community College, where shewas the recipient of the SLCC Foundation Teaching Excellence Award in 2006. Sheteaches writing of all sorts, as well as publication studies, and is one of thefounders of the SLCC Publication Center. City Art islongest running literary arts series in Salt Lake. We present authors of allgenres as well as artists and musicians on the first three Wednesdays of eachmonth at the Main Public Library from September to May. We feature both localas well as nationally and internationally acclaimed writers. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,Arts, and Park Fund. Theevent is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City ArtsCouncil, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long

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Reminder: Lin Ostler and Gray Thomas at City Art
by CityArt＠thelibrary 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

ForImmediate Release Contact: City Art Director Joel Long: joeltlong(a)yahoo.com City ArtPresents Lin Ostler and Gray Thomas Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City UT 84111 Wednesday February 10th 7:00—9:00 P.M. Writers Lin Ostler and Gray Thomas willpresent their work on February 10th at the Salt Lake City PublicLibrary at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art Reading Series. Since shespearheaded the first literary magazine--Satori-- at her first college, Lin Ostler has been the engaged inwriting, reading and sharing poetry. With a fresh B.A. degree in English andFrench, she taught literature in Edmonton, Alberta for a while, then helpedestablish Marmalade Hill “free” school in Salt Lake City, taught in a college inVermont, and has guided writers’ workshops through various agencies of UtahArts, all the while being a Yoga Instructor for over 40 years, a mother for 35.Ostler’s work hasbeen danced, manifest and incorporated into multi-cultural collaborations such as“Moving the Stone” and “Emergents--Tracks in the Motherline” since her initialaward-winning poem--Woman, the Pioneer-- illustrating a dance piece in1971.Several times since 2010, she has placed in the Iron Pen Marathon, as shedid in the 1995 Utah Arts Original Writing competition.Most recently,Ostler has been asked to read with her international group of poet friend, theFaraway Poets, in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Ojai, California. George JishoRobertson of London says of her poetry: “This is the authentic voice of beingalive... it inspires with its lived particularity and lucidly involveddetachment - truly from the Apex embracing the senses and creativeintelligence. Your feeling for the texture and sound of words is elegant andmoving.” Gray Thomas grew up in Salt Lake City, UT.For the past several years, he has been involved with the Salt Lake Cityperformance poetry community. He has been a member of five Salt Lake City slamteams, reaching semi-finals twice. He has represented Salt Lake City twice atthe Individual World Poetry Slam. He co-founded the University of Utah PoetrySlam Team (YouSpeak) and the non-profit Wasatch Wordsmiths. He received his BAin English from the University of Utah, and is currently a graduate student ofWestminster College’s Strategic Communications program. City Art islongest running literary arts series in Salt Lake. We present authors of allgenres as well as artists and musicians on the first three Wednesdays of eachmonth at the Main Public Library from September to May. We feature both localas well as nationally and internationally acclaimed writers. Most featuredreadings are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the UtahArts Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst, the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo,Arts, and Park Fund. Theevent is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts Council, the Salt Lake City ArtsCouncil, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and audience donations. Joel Long

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