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We asked attendees of Wake the Great Salt Lake events: what role do you think art can play in addressing local civic issues? This is what they said.
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We’d like to take a moment to thank all of the incredible organizations that made Wake the Great Salt Lake possible. Their generous contributions and partnerships helped encourage thousands of people from Utah and beyond to reflect and engage in support for Great Salt Lake’s future.
Thank you to the following presenting sponsors:
The Salt Lake City Arts Council, Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office, and Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge.
Thank you to the following funders:
Kem and Carolyn Gardner Family Foundation, the John and Marcia Price Family Foundation, the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, Zions Bank, Shaleane Gee, the Larry H. and Gail Miller Family Foundation, the Laurence T. and Janet T. Dee Foundation, Diane and Sam Stewart Family Foundation, Delta Airlines, and GFiber.
Thank you to the following partners:
Westminster University’s Great Salt Lake Institute, Salt Lake County Art & Culture’s Art in Public Spaces, and Grow the Flow.
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“I created an audiovisual sculpture, like a spherical billboard. I took all the colors of the lake, all the narrative material from the lake — the frogs, the weather, the shade, the heat, the cloud, the dust, and salt crystals and mineral crystals that can only be seen under polarized microscopes — and made a compilation of everything.” — Olafur Eliasson speaking about “A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake” in The New York Times
Read more of this piece from Farah Nayeri at The New York Times using the link in our bio.
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“What does extinction or a shrinking lake sound and look like? This is the question that structured Eliasson’s project. The artist describes this work as “a symphony the animals are performing for us”, a framing that decentres human viewers while imploring us to consider our role as stewards of the lake...”
Read more of this piece from Angella d’Avignon (@heyangella ) at The Art Newspaper using the link in our bio.
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As Wake the Great Salt Lake comes to a close, we want to take a moment to celebrate the incredible artists who made this project possible. ✨
Thank you to:
Olafur Eliasson (@studioolafureliasson ) — “A Symphony of Disappearing Sounds for the Great Salt Lake”
Kellie Bornhoft (@kelliebornhoft ) — “By a Thread”
Trevor Dahl (@goodhappystuff ) — “Watchers of the Shore”
Stefan Lesueur (@watershedstories ) — “Watershed Stories”
Nick Pedersen (@nick_pedersen ) — “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow”
Mitsu Salmon (@mitsusalmon ) — “Feathered Tides”
Diverted Doc (@diverteddoc ) — “Diverted: Indigenous Stewardship and Saving Great Salt Lake”
GSL Hopeline — “Great Salt Lake Hopeline” (Han Calder, Nick Carpenter & Ben Doxey @gslhopeline )
Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts (@mestizoarts_slc ) — “Vanishing Waters, Rising Voices”
Of Salt and Sand (@ofsaltandsand )
Plan-B Theatre (@planbtheatreco ) — “Just Add Water” & “Eb & Flo”
Spy Hop Productions (@spy_hop )
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art & Oscar Tuazon (@utahmoca , @waterschool_ ) — “Salt Lake Water School”
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Thank you to everyone who attended “A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake” by Olafur Eliasson. Whether you came from Salt Lake City, New York, or even farther, we hope this event offered a moment to reflect on the urgency facing the Great Salt Lake and how no action is too small to make a difference.
If you attended, we’d love to hear from you. Please take a moment to complete the short survey linked in our bio and share your thoughts.
Wake the Great Salt Lake is a public art program presented by Salt Lake City Arts Council, Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office, and the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge.
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Listen to Great Salt Lake at Memory Grove with “A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake” by Olafur Eliasson.
“When we engage with Great Salt Lake – look at it and listen to it – can we experience, or even feel, the immense scale of what is disappearing?” - Eliasson
This free temporary artwork runs every night at 9pm through April 4, use the link in our bio to RSVP.
Wake the Great Salt Lake is a public art program presented by Salt Lake City Arts Council, Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office, and the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge.
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“Listening to Great Salt Lake: A Conversation” explored what it really means to respond to environmental crisis and how deeply connected we all are to the lake’s future. This panel took place just before the debut of “A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake” taking place every day at 9pm until April 4th at Memory Grove Park.
If you missed the panel featuring Olafur Eliasson, Bonnie K. Baxter, Emily E. Lewis, and moderator Chris Ingraham you can watch it on YouTube using the link in our bio.
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There is no Salt Lake City without the Great Salt Lake. 1,150 square miles of its shore are dust...that’s more than 10x the size of our city. There is no action that is too small.
@wakegsl is a public art program that’s been drawing awareness to the lake’s decline for the past two years, presented by @slcartscouncil , our Mayor’s Office, and @bloombergdotorg .
A must see this week! This new art installation is by Olafur Eliasson—titled “A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake”. Every night at 9pm until April 4th at Memory Grove Park. ✨
Make sure to bring blankets & warm clothes! It’s 30 minutes long! And yes it’s FREE!!
📍 300 N Canyon Road, Salt Lake City, UT 84103
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Salt Lake area friends! You’ve only got until April 4th to check out this installation by the great Olafur Eliasson and the team at @studioolafureliasson . Every evening at 9:00PM in Memory Grove Park, lasts 30 minutes, and is an incredible show and homage to the lake. This is a really incredible opportunity, so don’t miss it. I’m absolutely gonna be checking it out again, so keep an eye out for me and say hi if you spot me there!
Big thanks to Wake the Great Salt Lake (a partnership of Salt Lake City Arts Council, Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office, and the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge) for pulling this all together! We need big pieces like this now more than ever.
Paid Partnership with @wakegsl@studioolafureliasson@bloombergdotorg@slcgov@slcartscouncil@slcmayor
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