Baggage: Alex Caldiero in Retrospect @ UMOCA
Alex Caldiero ranks among Utah s most distinctive creative minds, with a career spanning 50 years as a writer, performer and multidisciplinary innovator just don t call him an artist. Caldiero prefers the term maker, and a new exhibition at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (50 S. West Temple, utahmoca.org) explores the many things and ideas he has made.
Baggage: Alex Caldiero in Retrospect currently running digs through Caldiero s archives for a showcase of notebooks, drawings, sculptures, recordings of his live performances and more. The curators state that the exhibition was put together without an attempt to define chronology or any specific progression in Caldiero s career, using custom-made shelves and pedestals similar to those from Caldiero s own studio as a way to convey the range and scope of his work. In an opening event with the curators, Caldiero described the rush he felt from looking at items as they were unpacked:
Sonderimmersive
We all remember where we were, and how it felt, when the COVID-19 pandemic truly hit home a year ago this week. Businesses and schools shut down, toilet paper became more precious than gold and we became very aware of how much we did or didn t like the people we were stuck in our homes with.
Arts organizations in particular were forced to scramble in a world where isolation was the norm; how could you adjust a paradigm built on shared experiences of creative work? But as hard as the past 12 months have been on so many such organizations, they ve also shown remarkable resilience and creativity in figuring out how to continue their missions and connect with their communities. While we all eagerly anticipate returning to the things we miss from The Time Before and see a faint light at the end of a vaccine-illuminated tunnel here s a nod to just some of the many ways that local a
Monthly Food Boxes from Spice Kitchen
Spice Kitchen Incubator (751 W. 800 South, 385-229-4484, spicekitchenincubator.org) has been busy developing new ways for their chefs to flourish during the pandemic. One of their most exciting ideas is the monthly community food box, a pre-composed dinner that includes seasonal eats ready to enjoy at home. Most recently, Spice Kitchen featured their
feminista box to celebrate International Women s Day. Chef Merab Maciel of The Salseria included cheese enchiladas and chicken
pozole, while Chef Emma of La Pizca Andina included
pastelitos de carne, which are savory meat-filled pastries packaged with homemade salsa. Subscribe to the Spice Kitchen online newsletter for info about future community food boxes.
Making the Grade Feb. 25 cover story by Benjamin Wood
Great article, Ben. I remember another kumbaya moment when we passed the Teacher Evaluations Law with then-Sen. Aaron Osmond. Let s hope this moment lasts a bit longer. We will see.
@SharonGF NBCT
Republican AG War Games
In case you missed it, as part of a report by a Missouri organization called Take Back Missouri, new emails released via a public-records request uncovered planning meetings by the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), its policy arm the Rule of Law Defense Fund (RLDF) and Republican Attorneys General to attack our country s democratic institutions.