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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Call for Entries - DesignArts Utah '13 @ Utah Dept. of Heritage and Arts (SLC: April 26)

For immediate release               Alyssa Hickman Grove, 801.236.7548
19 March 2013                           Constituent Relations & Media, Utah Arts & Museums

Geoffrey Fattah, 801.245.7205
Communications Director, Utah Dept. of Heritage and Arts

Call for Entries for "DesignArts Utah ´13"

SALT LAKE CITY - Utah Arts & Museums announces a call for entries for "DesignArts Utah ´13," a juried exhibition highlighting the work of designers in any design field who currently live in Utah. Monica Ponce de Leon from the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning is the juror and curator. All entries must be submitted by April 26, 2013. The exhibition of selected designs opens Friday, June 21 and runs through Friday, August 2, 2013 at the Rio Gallery inside the Rio Grande Depot, located at 300 S. Rio Grande (455 West) in Salt Lake City. The designer selected as the Juror´s Award Winner will receive a $3,000 recognition and thank-you award for the achievement and contribution to Utah.

"It´s vital that we recognize Utah´s best designers," said Margaret Hunt, Utah Arts & Museums Director. "They make remarkable contributions to our state´s quality of life and economy."

The juror, Monica Ponce de Leon, is presently the dean and Eliel Saarinen Collegiate Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. In 1991, Ponce de Leon co-founded Office dA and, in 2011, launched her own design practice, Monica Ponce de Leon Studio. Ponce de Leon received a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1989 from the University of Miami and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1991. She joined the Harvard Graduate School of Design faculty in 1996, where she was a professor of architecture and the director of the digital lab. She has also held teaching appointments at Northeastern University, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design, and Georgia Institute of Technology, among others. In 2000, Ponce de Leon served on the selection panel for the National Design Awards of the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Design Museum and as a panelist for the U.S. entry for the Venice Biennale.

DesignArts annual exhibitions feature selections of designs, prototypes, and produced samples by designers in Utah´s various design fields. Designers may submit produced work or conceptual, pre-production documentation. All Utah designers, including those in the fields of architecture (landscape or structural and community planning and design - urban and rural), as well as those in brand/packaging, display, fashion, furniture, graphic, industrial, interior, lighting, theatre or film set, transportation, web design or other design fields, are invited to participate. Entries must be submitted to Utah Arts and Museums, Design Arts Program, 300 S. Rio Grande, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, 2013.

Further information, including entry forms and instructions, is available online at www.designartsutah.org or by contacting Jim Glenn at jglenn@utah.gov or 801-245-7271.


About Utah Arts & Museums
Utah Arts & Museums is a division of the Utah Department of Heritage and Arts with a goal to promote innovation in and the growth of Utah´s arts and culture community. The division provides funding, education, and technical services to individuals and organizations statewide so that all Utahns, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic status, can access, understand, and receive the benefits of arts and culture. Additional information on the programs and services can be found at artsandmuseums.utah.gov or by calling 801.236.7555.

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