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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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
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Everyone has had to adapt during the pandemic. For playwright Julie Jensen, that meant taking a play that had been written as a profoundly visual stage experience and adapting it so that it could work as an entirely audio performance.
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P.G. Anon opens a unique season for Plan-B Theatre Company, which decided to deal with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic by transitioning to a full slate of audio dramas. The company had just announced its next season in early 2020, and was beginning to sell season subscriptions, when it became clear that things would definitely not be normal. That was when artistic director Jerry Rapier and managing director Cheryl Ann Cluff began to consider a radical notion based on the company s history of annual radio-drama productions.
Supporters say they learned a lot last year and see reason for hope in 2021.
(Trent Nelson | Tribune file photo) The downtown Salt Lake City skyline and mountains on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. Downtown is looking to rebound from COVID-19 this year.
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Grit, hardship and optimism were all on display Tuesday as backers of downtown Salt Lake City merchants took stock of one of their more devastating economic years.
The coronavirus pandemic dealt deep blows to tourism, shopping and millions of ticket sales as well as the daily flow of office workers into the heart of Utah’s capital for most of 2020, pushing many retailers and hospitality providers into peril. Arts and cultural events among the urban core’s main draws have remained shuttered due to health worries.