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Divine Love

February 7, 2012

The Fourteenth Ward of the Rubber Room School of Dance and Flexibility will perform at an event called Divine Love on Saturday night. The show begins at 5 p.m. at Lumenas Studios, located at 625 south 600 West in Salt Lake City. It’s a family friendly event that closes around 9 p.m. for kiddo’s bedtimes.

We are excited to dance for a great cause, the $10 tickets will be donated to the Utah PRIDE Center to keep great programs going to serve the GLBTQA community.

This is the Fourteenth Ward’s first belly dance showcase event, which will be all belly dance all the time. The event’s line up looks amazing and includes:

Oryantal Dansi
Sofia Featherwood
Arcana
Kita Zira
Gypsy Flame
Rodrigo (song)
Marta Reeder
Claudia
Myada
Megan
14th ward of the rubber room
Ian of Dustbloom (music)

INTERMISSION (15 mins with Dj good-e)

Tabla Arabia
Maren Lacy (poetry)
Elizabeth charlesworth (poetry)
Myst
Claudia
Arcana
Habibi Habibi
Rodrigo (dance)
14th ward of teh rubber room
Amanda Borba
Claudia
Dayna Mckee
Antigua tierra (music)
Oryantal Dansi

And bring your money because there will also be a silent auction.

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Colt Bowden’s Last Show as a BYU Undergrad

February 2, 2012

Please head out to the BYU library to see my friend, Colt Bowden’s last show as a BYU undergraduate student. He is pretty much the best. You won’t regret it. Here’s the poster, the show opens on Groundhog’s Day and closes on Valentine’s Day.

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Don’t Let Your Style Go to the Groundhogs

January 31, 2012

Every day, when you head out the door, does your hair look exactly the same as the last? Boring pony tail, half-finished bun, or just hanging there?

Megan Moore from Moore Hair Design gave us a primer on how to keep our hair from getting the winter blahs. So get out of your rut with these looks.

First up, we have a retro 1970’s wave. Megan used a 1 inch curling iron and center part to get this fun look for model, Venice. She let each curl cool before teasing it gently with a comb and then setting it with hair spray.

Pony tails are great, practical, professional and. . . well, boring. That’s why Megan’s style team took the pony tail up a notch for this fun look on Karlie. Karlie’s cute bangs add a nice touch, and a braid, three elastics concealed by teasing the hair and a cascade down the side make this a pony that doesn’t look like you just rolled out of bed.

According to Megan, braids were big in 2011, but they aren’t going anywhere for 2012. She did this style in Emily’s chin length bob by doing two French braids on each side and then securing with safety pins. Letting the ends fly free keeps this look loose and casual, great for a day at the office or a date after work.

To get these looks or learn more, visit www.moorehairdesign.com

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Fill the Recipe Box Project!

January 24, 2012

I have my grandmother’s recipe card box. About 1/3 of the recipe cards inside are blank. I’d like to ask my readers to mail me a 3 by 5 handwritten recipe to add to the box. Any recipe will do – new or old. I’m gonna fill this effing recipe card box up and pass it onto the next generation FULL! Please write your name on the back.

If you want to participate, send me an email at artduh@gmail.com – - cuz I don’t wanna give my home address to just anyone.

Tags:grandmother, recipe cards
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My Dead Friends

January 15, 2012

Be sure to come on down and see Anna’s artwork at Ulysses! Tonight is the night. You’ll also enjoy dance performances by the 14th Ward, and traditional depression era treats! Yummy!

“My Dead Friends is a show dedicated to the mothers, grandmothers and great grandmothers who are now passing the yarn and hook to me and my generation. This show is a message to my sisters: Ready or not, here it comes. If we let the domestic arts die, resurrection seems unlikely at this time.”

Anna West - Artist, Dancer and Small Business Owner

Ulysses

629 South State Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Jan 15 to Feb 19
Wake and Last Rites, Jan 15, 6 to 8 p.m.

www.facebook.com | My Dead Friends

Tags:dance performances, dead friends, grandmothers, last rites, Salt Lake City, small business owner
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“It Would Be Impossible to Keep House with Only 36 Doilies”

January 12, 2012

I’ve been making doilies since high school. Are they old-fashioned? Yes. Out-of-fashion? Never.

Giant doilies will grace the walls of my show. Join me to see them, and so much more.

My Dead Friends
Ulysses
629 South State Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Jan 15 to Feb 19
Wake and Last Rites, Jan 15, 6 to 8 p.m.

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The Nectar of Death

January 10, 2012

My first solo show is on Sunday, 6 to 8 pm. I know you want to come see the art, but I know it is WAY more important to you that I have some decent food and drink.

Here’s what we have going.

The food and drink will follow the vintage theme – everything in the show is meant to represent my grandmother’s era, when people cooked, cleaned, kept house, embroidered samplers and in the 40s, everyone was shocked to discover that ladies could, in fact, build weapons.

On the food side, I’m going to prepare my grandmother’s tomato cheese mayo jello mold. I’ve never made a jello mold before. I’ll also be making her patented soda cracker pie, which has GOT to be a depression era recipe. With the state of the economy, I’d probably get good at making pies and other edibles based on soda crackers.

We will also have a few snacks that actually taste good. Grandma’s coconut cream pie is on my list.

On the drink side, we will be serving Keystone for the cowboys in attendance, and Dead Orange Blossoms (gin and o.j., shaken with ice) for the lovely gentle ladies who would enjoy a nip or two.

Food is art, art is food.

See you on Sunday, and by the way I’m supposed to put tuna in the jello mold, and also make a banana carrot stir fry to prevent strokes. But I just cannot go that far, not even for art.

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Bullet in My Shoulder

January 5, 2012

blood running down my vest

For hmm at least four years now I’ve been paying tribute to my cowboy/pioneer heritage by mixing textiles with spent bullet cartridges. It all started with The Bullet Bra – a costume I was asked to make out of industrial materials. If bullets aren’t a useful industrial material, what is?

I became interested in wearing bullets on more than just my bra, and I’m now refurbishing denim cowboy style jackets with bullets. I’m calling this series “Bullet in my Shoulder” after an old Frankie Lane song I listened to as a kid.

I don’t want to give all the pieces away, and in fact, some of them haven’t yet been made. But here is my favorite, a mating of a pioneer girl and an old school cowboy I like to call “Blood Runnin Down My Vest.”

Oh and guess where you can see them and maybe take home one of your very own? The My Dead Friends Show, Ulysses, opening Jan 15.

Tags:cowboy style, dead friends, frankie lane, industrial material, pioneer girl, pioneer heritage
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New Year’s Resolution Achieved

January 3, 2012

In college I worked out on a stair stepper that would proclaim at the end of the workout: “Goal Attained.” It was my favorite part of the day, every single time. I am stoked to be worthy of the right to scream “Goal Attained” once again. I not only achieved one of last year’s goals. I over achieved the mutha.

One of my 2011 resolutions was to improve my photography skills. I wanted to photograph Utah architecture, which I love, and put together a show based on buildings.

Well, I got my resolution half right. I’ve taken at least 10,000 photographs this year. I’m sure 9,000 of them are crap. I’m very happy to have 1,000 photos that I love. The part I missed – only about 50 of them are of architecture.

I’ll be showing about 70 of this past year’s photos at “My Dead Friends,” my first solo art exhibit at Ulysees on January 15. I hope you will join us for the wake from 6 to 8 p.m. If you come, you will get to see The Fourteenth Ward, my belly dance company rock out and hear Christian Coleman wail The Blues in memory of my very best friends – the domestic arts. They are dying. Drive through windows, sweat shops and. . . well some misguided aspects of feminism* are nailing the coffin closed.

I am setting a new goal for next year. I want to write a cookbook and photograph my recipes in a way food has not been photographed before. I want to show the photos and recipes in a gallery. I want it to be beautiful.

Hope to see you at “My Dead Friends.”

a poem is a naked person -- bob dylan

if they say you cannot paint, by all means paint -- van gogh

* I am a feminist.
** All my photos were taken with cell phones. I love it that they are so technically improper.

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Artwork at Whole Foods

December 4, 2011

This fall I’ve worked on a number of different projects, including a new series of artwork that I will be hanging at the Whole Foods in Trolley Square. My artwork will be up through December, with a reception on December 7th from 6-7 pm. Please stop in and say hello or, if you can’t make it that evening, I hope you’ll drop by their delicatessen and check out my recent work while you’re shopping.

Much love and thanks to SLUG Magazine for the opportunity and continued support. And also Whole Foods for sharing the walls. I appreciate being able to get my artwork in front of people who may never go to a gallery or art related event.

I’ll have the two new pieces below on display, along with others not shown here. The two images below are part of a series of digital paintings that I made using Adobe Ideas, and are printed out as very high quality giclee prints. To order your copy, please visit our store at: artduh.bigcartel.com

Whole Foods
544 South 700 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84102
facebook.com/wfmtrolleysqr

Burn

Grow

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