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DTSTAMP:20260724T194414Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20230216T170000
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SUMMARY:Dissolving Contradictions
LOCATION:Day-Riverside Branch\nDay-Riverside Branch
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DESCRIPTION:Collaborative Art Exhibit by Mollie Hosmer-Dillard • Exh
 ibit runs from February 15 to March 29\, 2023\n.\nhttps://slcpl.libnet.inf
 o/event/7920553
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><strong>ARTIST STATEMENT:</strong></p>\n<p
 >Dissolving Contradictions is a two-fold exhibition: it includes a series 
 of paintings by incarcerated youth from the Salt Lake City area as well as
  a large-scale &ldquo\;multi-vocal&rdquo\; painting (Clouds) made by over 
 200 citizens of Salt Lake City. The title of the exhibition unites all the
  paintings on display: All of them utilize art as a space where we can pra
 ctice dissolving contradictions between how the world is\, and how we imag
 ine it could be.</p>\n<p><strong>ARTIST BIOGRAPHY: </strong></p>\n<p>UTAH 
 TECH&rsquo\;S HIGHER EDUCATION FOR INCARCERATED YOUTH PROGRAM During a col
 lege-credit art seminar taught by Mollie Hosmer-Dillard through Utah Tech 
 University\, incarcerated youth discussed surrealism and the freedom and p
 ossibilities offered by the blank canvas. They created the personal narrat
 ive paintings on display here in response to a prompt from Franklin Rosemo
 nt in which he describes surrealism as &ldquo\;the exaltation of freedom\,
  revolt\, imagination\, and love... Its basic aim is to lessen and eventua
 lly to completely resolve the contradiction between everyday life and our 
 wildest dreams".</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>CLOUDS A MULTI-VOCAL PAINTING:</p>\n<p>T
 he large piece on display is a &ldquo\;multi-vocal&rdquo\; painting\, an i
 nnovation by Hosmer-Dillard in which many different people create a single
  painting. In more than 35 workshops held throughout Salt Lake City\, Hosm
 er-Dillard engaged over 200 people to create this piece. Many of the group
 s Hosmer-Dillard chose to work with are ones often underrepresented by the
  society we live in. Community partners included Rivers Bend Senior Center
 \, Sunday Anderson Senior Center\, Pingree Autism Center\, Spectrum Academ
 y\, Magnolia House\, The Inn Between\, Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind
 \, The Road Home\, Bud Bailey Apartment Community\, Crossroads Urban Cente
 r\, Farmington Bay Youth Center\, and Decker Lake Youth Center. The parame
 ters were simple: Each person selected a cluster of wooden laser-cut tiles
 \, chose from a selection of blue and white paint\, and was invited to pai
 nt clouds. The finished painting celebrates a variety of approaches\, in w
 hat Hosmer-Dillard says is a critique of the Western world&rsquo\;s emphas
 is on the single individual. She wanted to create a vision of a different 
 social reality\, a visible disruption of Western society&rsquo\;s isolatin
 g focus. Clouds was made possible with a grant from the Salt Lake City Art
 s Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.</p>\nhttps://slcpl.libn
 et.info/event/7920553
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