Faces and Voices of Refugee Youth

is an exhibit of intimate portraits and touching interviews with youth who have endured unimaginable circumstances. The exhibit contains 30 images with extensive wall text, which reveals the children’s flight from persecution; their finding temporary haven in refugee camps; and their efforts to acculturate into Utah’s educational environment.

The exhibit is accompanied by a 62-page catalogue; curriculum guides for students in grades K-6 and 7-12; and a 30-minute film also called “Faces and Voice of Refugee Youth,” produced by Utah’s PBS affiliate KUED.

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Sacred Images: A Vision of Utah’s Rock Art

brings together the documentaryvisions of Utah wilderness photographers Craig Law, John Telford, andTom Till; the insights of Utah artist and art historian David Sucec; and the storytelling skills of Hopi, Paiute, Northern Ute, White Mesa Ute, and Northwest Shoshone people to convey the meaning and significance of Utah’s rock art.

The exhibit contains 45 color photographs and extensive wall text and is accompanied by a 112-page catalogue, available through the Canyonlands Natural History Association; a K-12 curriculum guide, accessible on the UEN website at www.uen.org/sacredimages; and a 30-minute long film, co-produced by CDA and Salt Lake City’s Youth Artways, that features four easy lessons for art teachers wishing to use these images to inspire contemporary student art work.

If we are going to take advantage of the assumption that all people want peace, then the

problem is for people to get together and to leap governments—if necessary to evade

governments—to work out not one method but thousands of methods by which people can

gradually learn a little bit more of each other. - President Dwight D Eisenhower

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Ceremonies: A Tale of Sister Cities

celebrates 50 years of friendship between the residents of Matsumoto, Japan and Salt Lake City, Utah. Comprised of many little stories, the exhibit uses interviews, letters, journals, photos, and memoirs to convey this unique relationship that developed out of President Eisenhower’s “People to People” initiative.

Most of the display’s photos were found in archives and scrapbooks and are personal items never intended for public display. Their presence reflects the grassroots nature of the interactions they capture and the importance of ceremony in American relationships with the Japanese. As a society rich with ceremony, the Japanese help us to appreciate ceremony as a way to honor and perhaps transcend our mutual differences.

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Reawakened Beauty: Tillman Cranes’ Jordan River Photographs

is a photography exhibit displayed on nine mural-sized panels accompanied by didactic text that explores the past, present, and future of Utah’s Jordan River. Images and text are printed on fabric and displayed on three 14 ‘ wide by 7 ‘ high moveable panels. The exhibit uses nine images from photographer Tillman Cranes’ original 30 platinum print show at the Salt Lake Art Center.

A 32-page educational catalogue accompanies the exhibit. Designed as an accordion book, one side of the catalogue contains Crane’s images of the river. The other side has a moving personal essay written by former Salt Lake City Mayor Ted Wilson that
presents the river’s history and an essay by Dr. Justina Parson-Bernstein, historian and former executive director of TreeUtah, that tells the story of the 14-year old restoration project carried out by the Great Salt Lake Audubon Society and TreeUtah. The exhibit and the catalogue are intended to introduce K-12 students to the human and natural history of the Jordan River.