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Blaine Lafreniere
Outbreaks Create Isolation
When living in Chicago years ago, I was involved on a philanthropic mission with the historical leper colony at Kalaupapa on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. What started out to be a single mission to support the final 90 leprosy patients in a community that for 150 years had been home to thousands of patients became a 15-year endeavor.
The community is still occupied by a final few residents, even though now there is a cure for the disease and the mandatory quarantine at the isolated location at Kalaupapa was lifted in 1969.
The extensive publicity and exposure of our efforts brought alarming phone calls even death threats. At the time, there was an awful leprosy racism, and after our visits, we were targeted by individuals and groups. Some made a point to avoid me in stores and gatherings because, to them, I was a heathen spreading a disease.
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:
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