Craft Lake City Announces Artists for Spring 2017 Celebration of the Hand Exhibit

Craft Lake City is pleased to announce that the following artists have been selected to exhibit their work as part of the Spring 2017 Celebration of the Hand exhibit:

• Dane Goodwin
• Heather Mahler
• Jason Jones
• Matthew Crane
• Miche Wang
• Michael M. Murdock
• Rachelle Smith
• Sydney Shane

The goal of the Celebration of the Hand exhibit is to engage citizens and visitors by enlivening downtown Salt Lake City, creating a walkable outdoor gallery that showcases the work of local artisans, including those who participate in Craft Lake City's annual DIY Festival.

For the Spring 2017 Exhibit, we invited artists to visually tell a personal story about a time when they confronted a fear and conquered it. Artists will begin work this month, and the exhibit will be on display through June 2017.

The exhibit will make use of eight permanent plakats that are installed along the sidewalks in downtown Salt Lake City, located on the North and South sides of Broadway (300 South) between 200 West and West Temple. The exhibit is open to the public 24 hours a day 7 days a week, and is free of charge.

The Center for the Living City, in collaboration with Craft Lake City and The Temporary Museum of Permanent Change, curate this seasonally rotating outdoor art exhibition for the Salt Lake community. The exhibits feature visually inspiring and interactive artwork meant to engage viewers and passersby, and provide the local artisan community a venue to showcase their talent and contribute to the city's cultural enhancement. The artists build upon Jane Jacobs' ideas of self-organized city planning in their work, as they design opportunities for animating the evolving cultural district of downtown Salt Lake City. The exhibit allows the public a first-hand experience of Jane Jacobs' vision of self-organized urbanism as the plakat artisans contribute to the city landscape and essentially become city builders themselves. If you are interested in learning more about Jane Jacobs' work, visit the Center for the Living City's web site: http://centerforthelivingcity.org/.

This exhibit is generously supported by Utah Division Of Arts & Museums.

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