Fall 2009 - Art Access

Fall 2009
Letter from the Executive Director
In July, I was fortunate to attend the National Summit on
Careers in the Arts For People With Disabilities, hosted by the
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. As many of
our patrons and supporters will understand, I had a vested
interest in attending this event: for the past fifteen years Art
Access has offered its Partners Mentoring program, which
pairs apprentice artists with professional artist mentors to
foster career development.
The first summit of this kind convened in 1998 to discuss
strategies for developing career opportunities for artists with
disabilities. Now we were back in D.C. in 2009 to review
progress made over the past decade and come up with
recommendations for future growth. Many advances have
been made, but it is a fact that those with disabilities who wish
to pursue a career in art still face difficult challenges.
Summit attendees came from all over the country. They were
decision makers who represented government, higher
education, private business, arts and disability organizations,
individual artists, and more. They also were people with and
without disabilities. One of the speakers was Kareem Dale,
Special Assistant to the President for Arts, Culture, and
Disability Policy. Dale, who is partially blind, previously
served as the National Disability Director for the Obama for
America campaign. Dale and fellow guest Robert David Hall
(an actor who portrays a coroner on CSI and who is a long
time supporter of people with disabilities being portrayed
realistically in the media) left together to attend a White
House signing of the United Nations Convention on the Rights
of Persons with Disabilities Proclamation.
It would take many pages to share with you all of the valuable
recommendations that cropped up during this summit. The
most forceful insight came for me, however, as I interacted
with many talented and well-respected people with disabilities
working in a wide range of professions. Their presence
demonstrates that career development for people with
disabilities in the arts is not an impossible dream, but that it
takes a Herculean amount of personal drive, talent, and work.
Is Art Access on the right track with its mentoring program?
Definitely. According to the panel discussions and
presentations that I heard, mentoring and role modeling were
just two effective methods to support professional growth.
Watch for Art Access to develop additional ways to encourage
arts careers for artists with disabilities.
Thank You for the Generous Support
The Francis H.
Zimbeaux Trust,
in conjunction
with Phillips
Gallery,
sponsored a
special sale of
works by Francis
Zimbeaux,
including this
Self-Portrait, to
support Art
Access programs.
Art Access is grateful for the successes of three recent
fundraising events that generated over $85,000 for our
programs! The Seventh Annual 300 Plates Fundraiser and
Exhibition held on May 14 was our most successful yet. Many
thanks to our 96 artists (see donor page), silent auction
sponsors, over 300 patrons, and the following donors for their
in-kind contributions: Printech Plus; Himalayan Kitchen; SDI;
Celestial Floral Salon; Aaron Rashaw and Steve Stewart of
Fifth Fret; and Susan Anderson.
On June 12-14, despite some torrential downpours, artist and
friend Pilar Pobil hosted her annual garden party with all
proceeds being donated to Art Access. Pilar has generously
offered to donate proceeds to us again next year. Finally, a
special sale of works by the late Francis Zimbeaux was held
on October 9-10. The sale was sponsored by the Francis H.
Zimbeaux Trust in conjunction with Phillips Gallery. Many
thanks to Duncan Hilton, Carol Fulton, and Meri DeCaria for
their support of this event.
-- Ruth Lubbers
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In Memoriam
Born in Salt Lake City in 1919, well-known artist Gaell
Lindstom passed away on August 25, 2009 at the age of 90.
Lindstrom studied under George Dibble and LeConte Stewart
at the University of Utah where he earned a bachelor’s degree
in art. He also earned an MFA from the California College of
Arts and Crafts in 1962. A consummate educator, Lindstrom
retired as professor emeritus from Utah State University in
1984. We at Art Access knew Gaell Lindstrom as a kind and
gracious man who participated in two of our eightysomething
exhibits. He will be greatly missed.
Art Access moved into Artspace on Pierpont Avenue in 1991
where printmaker Fred Brayman was our neighbor and friend
for many years. He was often-times gruff, anti-establishment,
and contrary, but also talented, kind, and intelligent. Brayman
was an effective and caring mentor in the Art Access Partners
Program. He died at the age of 66, on August 16, 2009 —
much too soon!
As this issue was going to press, we received the sad news of
the death of V. Douglas Snow. We will provide a more fitting
tribute in a later issue, but wanted to pass along our
condolences to his friends and family.
Art Access/VSA arts of Utah
Executive Committee,
Board of Directors and Staff
Executive Committee
Leslie Peterson, President
Nancy G. Starks, Vice President
Dennis Scott Owens, Treasurer
Hank Liese, Secretary
Julie K. Berreth, Immediate Past
President
Board Members
Thomas M. Alder
Erin W. Berrett
Marcee Blackerby
Carol W. Firmage
Andrea R. Globokar
Marcia K. Knorr
Jimmy Lucero
Noémi Perelman Mattis
Frank McEntire
Eric Mitchell
April Motley
Mary Lee Peters
Kent Reynolds
Steven K. Sheffield
Shauna Sowles
Lori Feld Steele
Diane Stewart
Staff
Ruth A. Lubbers,
Executive Director
ruth@accessart.org
Sheryl D. Gillilan,
Assistant Director
sheryl@accessart.org
Amanda Kaye Finlayson,
Programming and
Development Manager
amanda@accessart.org
Contracted Staff
Susan Anderson
Editor, Access Art
Jean LaSarre Gardner
Coordinator, Teen and Adult
Workshops
Contact Information
230 South 500 West, #125
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
Phone/TTY: (801) 328-0703
Fax: (801) 328-9868
Website: www.accessart.org
Mission Statement
Art Access/VSA arts of Utah provides equal opportunities to
inclusive arts programs for Utahns with disabilities and for
those with limited access to the arts.
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National VSA arts Calls for Entries
The VSA arts International Young Soloists Award is given
annually to four outstanding musicians (age 25 and under)
who have a disability. The award provides an opportunity for
each emerging musician — two selected from the United
States and two selected from the international arena — to earn
a $5,000 award and a performance in Washington, D.C.
EsSense, The VSA arts Call for Writing, invites students (ages
11-18) to interpret their world through the use of creative
writing. Writers may use their own experience for inspiration
or base their writings on fictional events. Students who submit
work must have a disability or a connection to people with
disabilities. The selected pieces will become part of the VSA
arts online writing journal, Infinite Difference.
For additional information, please consult www.vsaarts.org or
contact us at (801) 328-0703. Because VSA arts United States
affiliates implement their own programs, Utah applicants must
send entry materials to Art Access/VSA arts of Utah by
Monday, November 16, 2009 for the International Young
Soloists Award and by Friday, November 20, 2009 for
EsSense.
Good News for Friends of Art Access
Ben Behunin, a former mentor in the Art Access Partners
program, will be signing copies of his new novel,
Remembering Isaac, at the Gallery Stroll on November 20.
Based on Behunin’s experiences as a potter’s apprentice in
Germany, the novel tells the tale of a potter who shapes the
lives of the people of Niederbipp, a Pennsylvania Quaker
town. Special Art Access pricing: $15.00.
University of Utah Professor Sam Wilson has been honored
with the 2009 Salt Lake City Mayor’s Award in the Visual
Arts. Wilson has had an enormous impact on the visual arts in
Utah. In addition to being a prolific artist and talented teacher,
Wilson has been a mentor three times in the Art Access
Partners Program and he will exhibit in the gallery in 2010.
S. Matthew Jones, origami artist extraordinaire, recently
received the prestigious 2009 Florence Temko Award from
Origami USA in order to recognize his creativity. Jones has
had a solo show at Art Access Gallery and was a mentor in the
2009 Partners Program.
We publish Access Art twice a year. If you would like to be added to
or removed from our mailing list, contact Amanda Finlayson at (801)
328-0703 or amanda@accessart.org. You also may access the
newsletter from our website at www.accessart.org.
Art Access Welcomes New Board Members
Jimmy Lucero received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Fine Arts from the University of Utah. He is a professional artist and
professor who teaches painting and drawing at the University of Utah and Westminster College. Lucero also volunteers every
Saturday to run a figure drawing session at the University of Utah and provides free drawing lessons to teens through the Mestizo
Institute of Culture and Art. He has been heavily involved in the Bridges Over Barriers mosaic project and participated in this year’s
337 Project Face Off at Neighborhood House.
Eric Mitchell previously served on the Board of Directors for Art Access and on its Executive Committee. He has been an advocate
for people with disabilities for more than 20 years and recently established his own business to provide consulting services to
nonprofit organizations that promote social justice. For the past 15 years he has been employed at the Disability Law Center and
currently holds the position of Director of Community Relations. Mitchell is in the process of being appointed by Salt Lake County
Mayor Peter Coroon as the official disability representative on the County’s Committee on Diversity Affairs. In addition, Mitchell is
the Immediate Past President of the Human Rights Education Center of Utah’s Board of Directors and he has worked as the manager
of Object Gallery in Salt Lake City.
Mary Lee Peters has worked to foster local arts communities throughout her career. She was Executive Director of the Salt Lake City
Arts Council for five years in the 1980’s and served as the Executive Director of the Riverside Arts Foundation in California for ten
years. Both organizations had galleries dedicated to promoting local artists and well-regarded arts education programs. Peters also has
organized fundraising events, development campaigns, and art fairs, and has written numerous grant proposals. She currently works as
the Development Director at the Center for Documentary Arts in Salt Lake City.
Shauna Sowles earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and a Master of Business Administration degree from the
University of Utah. She currently works as a controller for a small government agency, Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems,
and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant. She served on the Utah Association of Certified Public Accountants’ Financial Literacy
Task Force, where she taught financial literacy courses for programs through the Salvation Army and the VA Medical Center. Sowles
also has volunteered for programs that provide income tax services to low income and elderly individuals.
Diane Stewart’s background is in commercial design, and she graduated from Brigham Young University. She worked at several
design firms before opening her own business in 1986, which she operated for eight years. Her clients have included Huntsman
Chemical and the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute, and she has served on the Board of Directors for the Ronald
McDonald House and the Deseret Foundation for LDS Hospital. She currently holds positions on the Museum of Utah Art and
History’s general and executive boards, Springville Museum of Art’s Art Advisory Board, and the Utah Museum of Fine Art’s
National Leadership Council, including the Task Chair for Utah and Western Art.
Film and Lecture Series
The Disability Law Center,
Salt Lake City Film Center,
and Art Access are
collaborating to present
LOUD & CLEAR: Voices
from the Disability
Community.
This film and lecture series
presents fresh and unique
stories about people living
with disabilities. The series
has already presented two
films, Including Samuel and
Blindsight, but will continue
with Body & Soul on
November 19 and So Much
So Fast on December 16. Body & Soul depicts an unusual,
symbiotic 37-year relationship between Diana, who has Down
Syndrome, and Kathy, who has cerebral palsy. The two
women have become remarkable advocates for people
with disabilities and a model
for living independently. So
Much So Fast tracks one
family’s ferocious response
to their brother’s/son’s
diagnosis of Lou Gehrig’s
disease (ALS). As the film
argues, ALS is the kind of
disease drug companies
ignore because there’s not
enough profit in curing it.
All screenings are free and
start at 7:00 p.m. at the Utah
Museum of Fine Arts –
Dumke Auditorium at 410
Campus Center Drive, Salt
Lake City. Free, accessible
parking is located near the auditorium. Each film will be
followed by a post-screening discussion with sign language
interpreters and real-time captioning available.
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Featured Artist: Heather Madsen
by Sheryl Gillilan
H
eather Madsen’s mind clips along at about 60 mph as she
sits in her rocking chair and contemplates the deeper
meanings of rituals most people never even think about. Like the
“greeting script” people perform when they
meet: “Hi, how are you? I’m fine, how are you?
Fine, thanks.” Madsen has autism, and she never
understood the point of this chit chat as a child.
“I thought it was inane,” she says, “because
people don’t want to know how you really are.”
Then she says she understood when she was
older. “I was watching The Dog Whisperer and
realized that when dogs meet and smell each
other, they’re doing exactly what humans are
doing – checking each other out as a baseline
way to connect or not connect.”
In addition to autism, Madsen has a medical
condition called postaxial acrofacial dysostosis,
commonly known as Miller Syndrome. It is an extremely rare
genetic condition that affects only about 30 people in the world,
two of whom are Madsen and her brother Logan, an artist who
has shown his work at Art Access. Heather has had 25 surgeries
to correct some physical irregularities and has also been
diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. Laughing sardonically,
she says, “Aren’t I lucky!”
relationship to the world, but the self-knowledge came at a price.
“I learned I was even more different and removed from society
than I had realized.” She sank into a severe depression that
continued through her first years of college, but
she continued to use BBS and poetry as a way to
understand her emotions “in a more visual
sense.”
Now out of school with a bachelor’s degree in
Psychology, Madsen is at peace with her autism
and thrives on untangling social mysteries. “My
motivation for living is to learn,” she says, and
she spends her time each day reading,
researching, watching TV, and writing,
exploring autism as well as other medical topics.
Madsen also likes to read biographies and
autobiographies, both of which help her to
understand other people. “I feel connected to
others this way; I get to see how other people deal with things. I
don’t really have any friends,” she says matter-of-factly, “so
that’s as close as I get.”
The ripe fruit of Madsen’s reading and contemplation continues
to fall into her writing. “I’m poetic,” she says, “I can connect
words together.” She prefers writing with a pencil and paper to
get the tactile stimulation and
to calm herself physically, but
Willing by Heather Madsen
she usually writes on the
computer because her hands
Facing an empty canvas, the white fabric of my future,
tire quickly. Poetry was her
I wander in its fractals of time.
medium of choice for many
Pulling from the past, pictures I want to paint,
years, but Madsen has
With each one slowly encompassing me into its world.
recently turned almost
Stroke by stroke, I feel its heartbeat come alive inside of me.
exclusively to prose. She says,
As I try to step inside of a world, it crumbles
“I realized that I am a poetic
writer in my soul and that I
Meshing together into a raindrop that spreads
don’t need to write in poetic
On the canvas swirling into a whirlpool
form to see that expressed.”
Madsen’s early days in school
were hard because she knew
she was different, but didn’t
really know how or why. “I
knew kids looked at me, but it
didn’t really disturb me. I
didn’t know what to do with
it.” She was pretty much a
loner, but she fondly
remembers her third grade
teacher. “She knit me a
sweater that actually fit my
Sinking into the center dot and gone forever.
arms – it felt really good.” In
Madsen writes because she
The blank, white canvas stares at me, daring me to
fourth grade, Madsen got
enjoys “creating a flow of
Raise my brush, strike the colors I’ve never seen:
some recognition for her
ideas and sounds that feel like
Create visions of my future that I can walk among.
writing. Her essay about Utah
music” and to help her gain
and what its mountains, lakes,
insight into past experiences
and desert meant to her, was selected as the winner in her school.
so she can comprehend new social situations more quickly. But
Later she started writing poetry. “My poetry wasn’t that great,”
perhaps most importantly, Madsen hopes to reach people with her
she says, but she enjoyed exploring the possibilities of language.
perceptions of life. One poignant example of Madsen’s ability to
touch other people is “Recess,” which was published in Art
Madsen continued to write during high school, mostly for her
Access’ 2008 Desert Wanderings magazine. She cites the
English classes, but when she was a senior she discovered BBS
comforting sound of her feet scraping the asphalt as she dodges
(Bulletin Board Systems, a precursor to online chat rooms), where
her way through the “noisy, jumbling kids, out onto the
she was able to interact in depth for the first time with other
playground into the deafening silence of rejection.” Until the bell
people. “It was a relief,” she says, “because I could just say,
rings, she finds solace in swinging, which “comforts me while I
‘What do you think about Einstein’s Theory of Relativity?’ It was
glide through the air in a predictable, rocking rhythm that calms
the first time I really talked to people my own age and I didn’t
the inner turmoil and contention of living in my body.”
have to worry about all that social stuff.” Through the process of
chatting online, Madsen learned more about herself and her
continued on page 6
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Art Access Gallery Program
2010 promises to be
an exciting year for
the Art Access
Gallery, and we
wanted to give you a
heads up about several
exhibitions that will
take place early in the
year.
In the Art Access
Gallery, we kick
things off with wellknown fiber artist
John Hess’s woven
textile reliefs and the
retro ceramics of
Rachel Van Wagoner.
and Capitol Hill. In
Access II,
photographer Cindy
McConkie, who reentered college at age
37 (when her youngest
child also started
kindergarten!) displays
close-up images of
light and color as shot
through water and
glass.
From March 19 through April 9, patrons will be treated to two
unusual exhibits. Art Access Gallery will host Landscape:
Gently Shaken With a Twist, a
very different look at a familiar
Utah genre. This exhibition will
be curated by Sheryl Gillilan
and Ruth Lubbers, and artists
will include Marina
Alexandrescu, Daniel Barney,
Roxanne Bartel, Jason Jones,
Lenka Konopasek, Steve
Larson, Beth Miklavcic, Carol
Sogard, and Anne Vinsel. In
Access II, we’ll be joining
forces with our sister VSA arts
affiliates in New Mexico,
Colorado, and Arizona to create
a traveling exhibition called Four Corners “Outsider” Art.
Each state has chosen four unique artists to explore this
concept, and the Utah artists are Radford Cuch, Marcee
Blackerby, José Fernandez and Kaziah Hancock.
In Access II, John Welch, a product of the early sixties in San
Francisco, will show dramatic hanging sculptures that he
creates with found objects. These exhibitions will hang from
January 15 through February 12.
Justin
Wheatley’s
work will fill
the front
gallery from
February 19
through
March 12. He
will present
mixed-media
images of
buildings and
houses in
areas such as
Rose Park,
Sugarhouse,
the Avenues,
Stay tuned for additional information about these exhibitions
and about other artists who will be showing their work at Art
Access during the latter part of 2010: E.J. Curry & Carlos
Perez; Jeff Juhlin & Jodi Steen; Denise Crane; Olivia Mae
Pendergast; Sam Wilson & Roger Reaves; Blue Critchfield &
Erica Houston; Erin W. Berrett & Elizabeth Crowe; Vance
Mellen; Lance Peacock; Chad Crane; Angels in Architecture,
curated by Namon Bills; The Eighth Annual 300 Plates
Fundraiser and Exhibition; the Sixteenth Annual Partners
Exhibition; the Thirteenth Annual Teen Workshops
Exhibition; and the Sixteenth Annual Holiday Group
Exhibition.
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Featured Artist, continued from page 4
All in all, Madsen is happy with her life. She says her mother
taught her well about the importance of being herself and
doing what she loves. “Life is an amazing adventure,” Madsen
says, “and I’m pretty content. At times I feel like I have a love
affair with life because I’m fascinated by all the beauty and
expression it has to offer. With my enjoyment of words, I’m
grateful for the ability to re-create those love affair moments
on paper for others to be able to experience as well.”
Teen Art Workshops
By Jean LaSarre Gardner
Mark Vaynshteyn at Access II Gallery
By Ruth Lubbers
Meghan Jones produced Blind By Insight during a Teen Art
Workshop taught by Trent Alvey. This workshop encouraged
participants to explore social issues through mixed-media.
Mark Vaynshteyn’s Regarding Homelessness will hang in Access II
Gallery from November 20 through December 19, 2009.
One day in September, a slim man with long hair walked into
the gallery and mentioned that he had been looking for Art
Access on Pierpont Avenue. Mark Vaynshteyn and his small
family were currently living at the Road Home and someone
told him that Art Access was just across the street. He
explained that his parents, Ukrainian artists Vladimar and
Valentina Vaynshteyn, had shown their work at Art Access in
the early nineties. I immediately remembered the show and
asked if Mark were also an artist. In response, he showed me
his web site. Yes, he definitely was an artist and a good one,
too. He had graduated from the SVA School of Visual Arts in
Manhattan where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts.
Born in the Ukraine, Vaynshteyn is a world traveler. He has
lived in Salt Lake City, New York City, and Paris and has
traveled all over Europe. He met his wife Margarita in Paris
and together they have an eighteen-month old daughter
Zinaida (Zeena). Recently he has been creating art in the
workshop space of Art Access in preparation for an exhibit in
Access II, which will focus on homelessness — much of it
from personal experience. Vaynshteyn paints on scrap mat
board donated by Tanner Frames, and his work features strong
figures that he defines using heavy black outlines. The
resulting art reminds me of French painter Georges Rouault
(1871 – 1958), who in his mature stage harkened back to his
early days as an apprentice to a stained glass designer.
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As I look back on my twelve years as the coordinator of this
program, I am struck by how deeply satisfying it is to watch
these workshops unfold and see how they inspire more than
just creative artwork. Each teen artist comes to the workshops
for different reasons. Some come because a parent signed
them up, and they are either put out or pleasantly surprised
with the experience. Some come because they have been told
they are good at art, and they either develop the same style or
break out of their comfort zone and create something totally
new. Some come because they “live for art” yet see
themselves as creative loners, and they are often coolly
delighted to connect with like-minded (and like-talented)
people. Some teens stay isolated and only converse with the
teaching artist, while others talk to everyone about anything
and everything. Many have physical, emotional, or intellectual
disabilities, but all have unique life abilities. Some come from
poor or at-risk environments, while others come from
abundant or privileged homes. But these teens all have one
common bond: they all are young people with the desire to
express themselves and to be seen, heard, and understood
through art.
For many artists, this is their first teaching experience and
some feel anxious (albeit enthusiastic) about the prospect of
teaching young people. But they each find their own way in
their own way, and I’m amazed at how confident the teens are
in soaking up the expertise of the professional artist and diving
into the creative process. Socially, the groups tend to be
reserved at the beginning of the first workshop day because —
unless they come to the workshop with a friend or sibling —
they don’t know anyone. But the noise level usually changes
by lunchtime as they start to interact. The critiquing time
brings out the mature and caring nature of the kids as they
honestly reflect on their own and other students’ work.
The Teen Art Workshops culminate with an exhibition in the
Access II Gallery, and I’m always impressed by the powerful
sense of creativity, potential, and community it engenders. To
learn more about this program, see www.acccessart.org.
Donors to Art Access
Oct. 1, 2008-Sept. 30, 2009
Art Access would like to thank these
donors for their generous support. We
apologize for inadvertent omissions.
$50,000 and up
VSA arts
Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts &
Parks Program
$35,000 - $49,999
Utah State Office of Education:
Special Education Services Unit
$10,000 - $34,999
Anonymous Trust
George S. and Dolores Doré
Eccles Foundation
Jarvis and Constance Doctorow
Family Foundation
$5,000 - $9,999
Chase Bank
Utah Arts Council
Utah Arts Council: Arts Education
Program
$2,500 - $4,999
Fieldstone Foundation
Marriner S. Eccles Foundation
Salt Lake City Arts Council
US Bancorp Foundation
Wells Fargo
$1,000 - $2,499
B. W. Bastian Foundation
Lawrence T. Dee & Janet T.
Dee Foundation
$999 and below
Golden Rule Project
Key Curriculum Press
John & Marcia Price Family
Foundation
Red Lotus School of Movement
Terzian Gallery
Utah State Employees' Charitable
Fund
Williams Fine Art
Individual Donors
Jan Abramson
Lezlie Adler & Ken Houck
Ken & Julia Ament
Aaron Ashcroft
Pamela Atkinson
Namon Bills
Julie & Dale Berreth
Erin W. & Blake Berrett
Marcee & Ric Blackerby
Cal & Laura Boardman
Glenda and Jim Bradley
Skip & Marilyn Branch
Erik & Sandy Brunvand
Phyllis Bussard
Joseph & Jane Carter
Virginia Catherall
Dolores Chase
Patricia Clay
Robert Comstock
Peter Cooke
J. L. Corlett
Mary Ann Cowen & Jim Halliday
Bert & Dorothy Dart
Anne Cullimore Decker
Meri & Mark DeCaria
Marianne Dennison
Patricia Droubay
Elizabeth Dunning & David Watkiss
Amanda Finlayson & Darrell Moore
Carol W. & John H. Firmage
Susan Fleming
James Frazer
Wayne Geary & Louise Fischman
David & Sherrie Gee
David Gillilan
Hugh & Jan Gillilan
Sheryl Gillilan
Roberta Glidden
Andrea Globokar
David Grunwald
Stephanie & Tim Harpst
Jannine Hogan
Kristin Hopfenbeck & Cary Jones
Walter Hunter
Heidi Ingham
Gordon Irving
Julie Jensen
Maren Jeppsen
Arlo Johnson
Michelle & S. Matthew Jones
Debbie Jorde
Margot Kadesch
Maxine E. Kaiser
Veera Kashicharernvat
Robert & Mary Jo Kleinschmidt
Marcia K. & John Knorr
Lynn Koshland
Beth Krensky
Kristie Krumbach & Sam Wilson
Jacqui & Lance Larsen
Elise Lazar
Lester & Jill Lee
Sarah and William Lehmann
Carol & Pete Lenz
Hank & Gail Liese
Marilyn and Gaell Lindstrom
Pam & Willy Littig
Emily Lobatto
Kim & Ron Love
Ruth & Bruce Lubbers
Dave Malone
Catherine Mataisz & Roch Horton
Aida Mattingley
Noémi & Daniel Mattis
Virginia & Sandy McOmber
Grace & Edward McDonough
Beth & Jimmy Miklavcic
John W. & Anne Milliken
Gudrun Mirin
Frank & Marjorie McEntire
Dennis Owens
William Patterson
Helen Peters
Leslie Peterson & Kevin Higgins
Grace Ann Polon
Adam & Dessi Price
Marilyn Read
Aden Ross
Virginia & Gerald Rothstein
Anikó Sáfrán & Kenneth Critchfield
Sam P. Sampinos
Jane & Gary Sheffield
Steven K. Sheffield
Dale Sheld
Kimberly Silcox
Gordon & JoAn Simpson
Nancy & David Starks
Lori & Greg Steele
Deborah Stone
Kris & Jay Stone
Gene & Starlene Stulce
Mauria Tanner
Michael Thompson
Lincoln & Maureen O'Hara Ure
Anne Vinsel
Tracy Von Harten
Erica & Chris Wangsgard
Sarah & Sam Weyrich
Judith Romney Wolbach
Joan & Charles Woodbury
In-Kind and Donated Services
Susan Anderson
Celestial Floral Salon
Fifth Fret
Carol Fulton
Graphic Images
Duncan Hilton
Himalayan Kitchen
Liberty Heights Fresh
Jeff Paris
Printech Plus
Kent Reynolds, CPA
Red Rock Brewing Company
Lori Feld Steele
SDI
Utah Arts Festival
Jo Ann Wong
300 Plates Artists
Joe Adams
Trent Alvey
Cassandra Barney
Daniel Barney
Heather Barron
Gary Barton
Jennifer Barton
Joe Beckstead
Joey Behrens
Leia Bell
Sunny Belliston
Lane Bennion
Paul Vincent Bernard
Erin W. Berrett
Namon Bills
Ric Blackerby
Laura Boardman
Connie Borup
Doug Braithwaite
Sandra Brunvand
Erik Brunvand
Fidalis Buehler
Trent Call
Royden Card
Joe Carter
Ruby Chacón
Wendy Chidester
James Christensen
Kent David Christensen
Cheryl Collins
Gary Max Collins
John Collins
Blue Critchfield
E.J. Curry
Benjamin Davis
Meri DeCaria
Marian Dunn
Sara Shepherd Edgar
Mark England
Darryl Erdmann
Carole Evans
Kindra Fehr
Lindsay Frei
Carol Fulton
Susan Gallacher
Dave Hall
George Handrahan
Erica Houston
Shilo Jackson
Brian Kershisnik
Susan Kirby
Mark Knudsen
Jacqui Biggs Larsen
Steven Larson
Chase Leslie
Emily McPhie
David Meikle
Jason Metcalf
Dottie Miles
Chris Miles
Kent Miles
Maya Montanaro
Jea Montanaro
Lori Nelson
Jared Nielsen
Maureen O'Hara Ure
Joseph Ostraff
Cassandria W. Parsons
Melissa Peck
Olivia Mae Pendergast
qi peng
Pilar Pobil
Zachary Proctor
Hadley Rampton
Edie Roberson
Mark Robison
David James Ruhlman
Steven K. Sheffield
Anthony Siciliano
Gary Ernest Smith
Dennis Smith
Bruce Hixson Smith
V. Douglas Snow
Steven Stradley
Bonnie Sucec
Szugye
Travis Tanner
Tricia Forsey Terry
Leslie Thomas
Sue Valentine
Sri Whipple
Sam Wilson
Daren Young
If you would like to help Art Access
provide equal opportunities to
inclusive arts programs for Utahns
with disabilities and for those with
limited access to the arts, please email sheryl@accessart.org or call
(801) 328-0703.
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Non-Profit Org.
US Postage Paid
Salt Lake City, UT
Permit No. 969
Fifteenth Annual Holiday Exhibition
November 20 through December 19
Ceramic Teapots by Vicki Acoba
Oil Paintings by Erin Berrett
Boxes by Marcee Blackerby
Photographs by Traci Carter
Baskets by Connie Denton
Fused Glass by Sarinda Jones
Textile Weavings by Bernarda Lalinde
Paintings by Bobbi Lewin
Retablos by Jeronimo Lozano
Paintings by Sue Martin
Paintings by Abbas Mathlum
Resin Jewelry by Kali Mellus
Paintings by Ann Mortensen
Intaglio & Chine Collé Prints by Jared Nielsen
Paintings by Ian Ramsay
Paintings by Cori Redstone
Winged Women by Colleen Bryan Rodgers
Stoneware Pottery by James Simister
Painted Gourds by Marilyn Sunderland
&
A tree of animals and bugs by artists Vicki Acoba,
Bill James, MiYoung Kim, and Bonnie Sucec
During the entire run of the holiday exhibition, Art Access will be
hosting a food drive for the Utah Food Bank. When you visit the
gallery from November 20 through December 19, please bring in
non-perishable food items for Utahns in need.
Artists’ Reception — Friday, November 20 from 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Holiday Reception — Friday, December 4 from 6:00–9:00 p.m.
Holiday Exhibition Hours
Mondays through Fridays from 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Saturdays from 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
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Momma Light the Tree by Sue Martin will be included in
Art Access’ Fifteenth Annual Holiday Exhibition.