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On the cover
This month’s cover art is a family treasure. Pilar presented the original painting as a wedding present to CATALYST art director, Polly and her husband, Mark Mottonen. It was still wet and unsigned...
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Celebrate Womanhood at the Urban Arts Gallery
By Adelina Whitten, CATALYST intern An annual call for submissions leaves the Gateway’s Urban Arts Gallery with a diverse collection of art at the end of the year. Unsurprisingly, they use the...
View ArticleDeborah Hake Brinkerhoff
Professional Artist As an artist, I paint quickly, intuitively, and work much of the surface at the same time. The tension of composition as well as the emotional and physical weight of a painting is...
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Erin Geesaman Rabke has been a huge fan of CATALYST Magazine and all it has added to the SLC community since she was a high school student 30 years ago. Erin became a regular contributor to this...
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Plan B Theatre: Renovating The Post Office
Rabindranath Tagore’s classic theatre fable The Post Office is important for a number of reasons. It’s a significant work written and performed in Tagore’s birth language, Bengali, before it was...
View ArticleA rare and prolific Odissi Indian dancer in SLC: Bijayini Satpathy
A dancer who ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov goes out of his way to see, and who choreographer Mark Morris considers to be “easily among the top five dancers I’ve seen in my lifetime” offers Salt...
View ArticleUtah Humanities Book Festival
Books and their authors take center stage Book lovers don’t just read books; they talk about books, covet them, share them, buy them and pile them up, look forward to reading them, read reviews,...
View ArticleCelebrating science and nature
Rendezvous with a poet and a bee keeper To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. —To make a prairie (1855) —Emily...
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Flora meets a bee… and discovers the value of a good friend
Morag Shepherd I was born in Scotland and my entire family still lives in the United Kingdom. I have lived in America so long that I feel (mostly) American. But I’m not; I’m a permanent resident. I...
View ArticleOda Might
New Plan-B play explores the perils of existing in a black body (and what happens next) There are some times when the bottom doesn’t seem low enough. Then, after surviving a car crash and knocking on a...
View ArticleConquer Monster Interview – Preview of Nov. 8-9 Illuminate Show
Conquer Monster is an electronic synthwave, sci-fi music and multimedia duo heavily involved in the Salt Lake City local arts scene. Originally conceived as a music venture alone, Conquer Monster has...
View ArticleWhere skiing, science and art intersect
Ski map artist James Niehues visits Salt Lake City Hand-painted ski map illustration has a narrow lineage that still triumphs over its digital competition. The majority of ski maps in North America are...
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New Frontier Central at Sundance 2020 Catalytic Pick #2: Breathe
Courtesy of Sundance Institute To follow up our New Frontier Catalytic Pick #1: Solastalgia, we bring you our second pick of the festival’s New Frontier exhibits: Breathe, by Diego Galafassi in...
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CATALYST at Sundance 2020: Acasă, My Home
Journalist Radu Ciorniciuc set out to make his first film documentary. Four years later, he was leading an entire social project. In this year’s World Documentary Special Jury award winning film, we...
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Moth Boy by Marcee Blackerby (1944-2019)
Marcee liked working with found objects, thriving in the chaos of mixed media art. She felt there is a kind of kinetic energy that develops when combining like with unlike, creating mystery by...
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Poetry month celebration
Eleven poetry boxes are placed throughout the University of Utah’s Red Butte Garden. This month and next, they contain the winning poems of Red Butte Garden’s annual Poetry Month contest. Alas, you...
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On the cover: Quarantini, by Ruth Plummer
The “Quarantini” cocktail picks were created by Atomic Kraftworks of Venice, CA because sometimes we just need a little sense of humor to get through times like this. Atomic Kraftworks is a husband...
View ArticleConstant Creation + Community = Project apART
From college students to office workers to medical professionals, social isolation has taken its toll. Everyday tasks and line items like commuting to work, cafes, and walking to class are now...
View ArticlePoetry needed now more than ever
Literary and performance poet Glenis Redmond’s virtual visit on Thursday , May 7. Say what you want about poetry. Complain that it’s deceptively complicated. Complain about the teacher who made you...
View Article“Time” steeped in time
Am impressionistic portrait of love and waiting. At the time of my writing this review, January’s Sundance Film Festival is likely all but forgotten by most people. Writers, directors, actors, and PR...
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