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.
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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