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Cute Do-it-yourself Spring Flip Flops!

May 12, 2013

We are glad Rachel Hayes of Cherries and Feathers will be joining us here on ArtDuh and writing about some of her crafting ideas. Check out her first tutorial:

1) Cut a strip of fabric at least 60-70 inches long and 1-2 inches wide.

2)Fold the strip in half

Step 3

Step 3

3)Place the fold under the “v” point of the flip flop and pull both ends of the fabric through the loop of the fold. Pull taut. You now have your strip secured to the sandal.

Step 4

Step 4

4)Begin wrapping each long end of the fabric around each strap of the sandal until the straps are covered.

Step 5

Step 5

5)The remaining long ends of the fabric are crossed behind the heel, wrapped around the ankle and tied to secure.

Rachel's Shoes

Rachel’s Shoes

Make Belly Dance Your New Year’s Resolution

January 1, 2013

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Anna Banarama, director of the Rubber Room School of Dance and Flexibility, is accepting beginning belly dance students. Her introductory class is being offered at 10:45 a.m. at the Salt Lake Arts Hub starting Sunday, January 13. The cost is $7 per class. The length of the class will depend on student progress, but it normally lasts 6 weeks.

Other class times are available, including a class taught by Anna on SLCC’s Redwood campus on Tuesdays. If you are interested, please drop a note to artduh@gmail.com, Facebook Anna Banarama, or fill out and send back the form at the bottom of this post.

The Salt Lake Arts Hub
663 W 100 S
Salt Lake City, UT

About Anna Banarama
Anna has belly danced for 10 years, and taught since 2007. She loves teaching kids, teens, and parent/child pairs, as well as mature adults. Her classes include beginning, intermediate, veil, improvisation, and urban tribal lessons. Anna directs the performing dance company, The Fourteenth Ward of the Rubber Room, a company exclusively for women over age 30, which formed in 2010. Prior to that, she danced with Desert Journey’s Troupe Sekmet and Dragomi, as well as Transfusion Hype’s hip hop and break dance company. She has taken workshops from Rachel Brice, Unmata, Moria Chappell and members of Fat Chance Belly Dance. She excels at costume design, and created a costume for Moria Chappell, who wore it on a Belly Dance Super Star Tour in Paris and Bangkok. Anna is an Urban Tribal Fusion dancer, and she has personalized this style by adding modern, hip hop and performance art. She has her own style of tribal leading, developed in collaboration with her company members, which uses 90′s hip hop music. She is known for her physical flexibility, collaborative personality, discipline and creative use of music and costuming.

Request more Belly Dance Information

Rebirth

August 21, 2012

www.youtube.com | The times, they are a-changin’

It hit me last Sunday. I told my friend Melissa that I had a dream about the first day of school. To get to class, I had to enter a building in New York City, wind through miles of corridors and  finally squeeze through a tiny doorway into Boston. Passing through that doorway was the only way to access my university, which happened to technically lie within the borders of the state where Mitt Romney is governor. Melissa said, “Freud would say the dream represents your rebirth.”

After watching the times change in the journalism industry, I decided two years ago to work toward returning to school. After all these years of using arithmetic only to add and subtract simple budgets, scoring well enough in the GRE’s math portion took a lot of preparation, as well as the help of a great tutor. Todd pushed me along, pointing out that “it makes no sense to wait until your 60s to finally get your Ph.D.” I’m returning to the path I started on in college: health care. Specifically, I’m going to study mental health, become a licensed therapist and later work toward a Ph.D. in psychology.

For now, Todd will serve as editor of ArtDuh.com. I hope that Jessica Klemm will continue to contribute excellent, well-written articles. And I will pop in between classes. Right now, balancing a master’s program in psychological counseling at Westminster College with part-time work in PR, as well as doing my best to run my household and beloved belly dance troupe seems like plenty.

So I’ll leave you with this thought: “Come mothers and fathers throughout the land, and don’t criticize what you can’t understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command. Your old road is rapidly agin’. Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand, for the times, they are a-changin.”

The Drama of Natural History

July 27, 2012

Salt Lake City is lucky to have a beautiful new Natural History Museum of Utah to call our own. This summer, the Museum is running week-long summer camps for youth.  The camps touch different subjects, but of course, since this is an art blog, the workshops that combine science and the arts are of greatest interest to me.

A few weeks ago, a summer camp invited dancers to explore nature and science and how it can inspire their art. Next week, the Museum will hold a camp that combines drama with science, called Dramatic Deserts. The workshop is conducted in partnership with the Children’s Theatre.

Dramatic Deserts campers will explore the desert through hands-on science and theater. Each morning, they will develop acting skills as they rehearse a desert drama with The Children’s Theatre. In the afternoons, participants will investigate deserts, hot and cold, throughout the museum. The camp runs  Monday, July 30 – Aug 3, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm. For more information, visit the Natural History Museum of Utah’s website at http://nhmu.utah.edu/.

Pablo Picasso Was Never Called an Asshole

July 5, 2012

Only a 22-year-old would think it was cool to spray paint a Picasso. video.today.msnbc.msn.com

I hope they catch this up and coming artist! Someone should have told him “Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl8sWnUZVL4

Alt Press Festival

July 3, 2012

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The Alt Press Festival is coming up on July 7th. It’s held at the Main Library from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Don’t miss this celebration of locally made books and ‘zines. My pal, Travis Gray is joining the festival for the first time with some tiny books for kids. Our friends Isha and Raffi will also perform, rounding out the festival with music. Don’t miss it!

Anna’s Signature Sun Dried Tomato Pasta

June 22, 2012

This recipe originally ran in Cooking Light Magazine more than a decade ago. I’ve been making it ever since. I no longer refer to the recipe at all, and I continually change it and add too it as I get new ideas over the years.

Ingredients
1 packaged penne pasta
1 quarter cup (or less) sun dried tomatoes, not oil packed
1 cup boiling water
sliced green onions
oregano
broccoli, spinach, kale or other green veggie of choice or mushrooms.
About 1/2 cup goat cheese

Prepare penne according to directions. Submerge sundried tomatoes in hot water and allow to soak while preparing everything. Once the pasta is done, drain and set aside. Add green onions and veggies to pot and cook til crisp. Add in tomatoes (including liquid) and goat cheese. Stir all together. The creamy cheese and tomato liquid will form a smooth sauce. Add salt, pepper and dried or fresh oregano and serve. This is one of my stand by weeknight meals because it is so quick.

Lynette Pyper Thorn’s Mesilla Valley Corn Chowder

June 19, 2012

I am obsessed with New Mexico cuisine. I make this corn chowder almost every week. I’ve added fresh corn, chipolte peppers and extra potatoes to my version. I also added extra green chiles and I  top it with cheddar on serving.

Mesilla Valley Corn Chowder

2 stalks celery, chopped
1 large potato, peeled and cubed
1 large onion, chopped
1 cup of water
16 oz. can cream style corn
4 oz. green chile, chopped
2 cups milk (unsweetened rice milk works)
2 T. butter (canola oil)
salt and pepper to taste
1 egg, beaten
green onions, chopped

Put celery, potato, onion, and water in a pot and simmer until potatoes are tender, about 15 minutes. Add corn, chile, milk, butter, and salt and pepper. Bring to a boil. Stir some of the chowder into beaten egg and return all of it to the pot, blending well.

Simmer about 1 minute.

Serve and enjoy.

Makes about 4-6 servings.

Letters Home

June 12, 2012

The Michael Rosenthal Gallery in the Mission District of San Francisco is one of my favorites. It is the gallery where we stumbled on the work of Veronica DeJesus and became fast friends with her. Their current exhibit is one I would very much like to see, called Letters Home by Amber Jean Young. Since I’m not able to get to San Fran right now to review the show, I’ll share the email the gallery sent me describing it:

Letters Home
A solo show of new work by Amber Jean YoungOpening reception for the Artist:
Saturday June 9, 2012
6 PM to 9 PM
Extending our program’s long-standing commitment to emerging experimental practices by young artists, Michael Rosenthal Gallery is pleased to present ” Letters Home ” an exhibition of new work by San Francisco based artist Amber Jean Young. This marks the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery.Negotiating the tension between craft and fine art, the work explores and transforms the conceptual and formal strategies associated with the made object. The artist uses materials and techniques ranging from fabric constructions, crochet messages, sculpture, drawing, painting and photography to explore interpersonal, familial relationships, and personal history. Amber’s work addresses the issues coping mechanisms and complicated emotions such as disappointment and failure that are derived from her experience.Born and raised in the Santa Cruz foothills, Amber is the daughter of Neil and Peggy Young. Her families close relationship, and mentoring has inspired and informed her work. Amber’s  father often shared stories of his career and adventures. Amber absorbed, learned and is subsequently enlightened by her family’s creativity. Growing up surrounded by talent and creativity has pointed Amber toward  a center of integrity and compassion that is intimate and compelling.

amberjeanyoung.com

People’s Market Opening Day

June 7, 2012

On Sunday, June 10 the People’s Market will open the westside farmer’s market for the first time this season. The Fourteenth Ward of the Rubber Room will also be there to welcome you with several new numbers and costume elements.

The Fourteenth Ward is my Tribal Fusion belly dance company and includes members Jessica Payne and Rachel Hayes. Don’t miss our first show of the summer! We will dance at 10:30 and noon, and each set will be different.

International Peace Gardens
1000 S 900 W, Salt Lake City


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