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Show ARTS & CULTURE 5 ROOT MAGAZINE A teaser of Root Magazine s upcoming edition, due later this September. Root Magazine is now celebrating two years of publishing under its curator, Emily Senkosky. Growing from its Root(s) Blake Bekken Staff Reporter Created over a year ago in the depths of the photo lab over the course of many late nights Root Magazine is now in its second year, and it is moving stronger than before. Root allows the community to see a portfolio of work from students on the Westminster campus. Because Westminster is heavily involved within the community, Root Magazine offers a platform to students that want to expand their reach off campus grounds in order to allow them development with a career. Root is an outlet for expression and offers a way for those individuals who fill their own niche to share their experience, said Emily Senkosky, Root s first curator and communication major. It offers a creative outlet for Westminster students that may not necessarily know where to multi-talent- post-graduati- ed on now-graduat- ed share some of their art, Senkosky said. This issue is shaping up to be as unpredictable as the last, Senkosky said. The last issue cast a wide net, including many different kinds of creative expressionists. British Landscapes" Ranging from film and digital photography to storytelling, to paintings and drawings, Root offers the community a diverse showcasing of what Westminster students are currently working on inside and outside of classroom walls. I had people coming up to me throughout the semester last year asking how they could get involved with the next issue, Senkosky said. For this upcoming issue, seven new contributors, coined roots, have stepped up to the plate to offer new content and styling. This publication was meant to evolve alongside its contributors, Senkosky said. Hopefully that vision will continue to be fulfilled. Many communities see the work produced by students involved with this project.The first issue of Root was made available at most coffee shops and restaurants in Sugar House, Downtown Salt Lake City and Park City. Look out for this next issue of Root in the coming weeks. It will be littered around campus for the taking and around the locations listed previously. If interested in getting involved with this ongoing project, contact Emily Senkosky at ever-evolvi- ng easenkosgmail.com. gallery inspires Utah artists Andres Escobar Staff Reporter The main hall where pari of The British Passion for Landscapes exhibit hangs until December 13. Because of The British Passion for Landscapes gallery that arrived Aug. 29 from the National Museum in Wales, Utah artists are inspired to represent the states landscapes through various styles of painting. The British Passion for Landscapes: Masterpieces from National Museum Wales will be making the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) its home for nearly three and a half months before its departure on Dec. 13. Inside, extending from the back rooms of the building to the end of the long and narrow corridor leading to the front desk, the gallery has over 53 artists and over 60 oil, watercolor paintings and photographs that depicts the tension between the opposites of nature and culture, country and city. Viewers were overwhelmed standing in the large room surrounded by paintings of landscapes ranging from the 1660s to photography from year 2000. Stand in the middle of the room and look down one way and see classical, composed, beautiful, tranquil nature, said Luke Kelly, scanning the gallery with his eyes while explaining the placement of the paintings and why they currently hang where are. Then turn around and just be assaulted and overwhelmed by a sense of machinery in the urban setting. Kelly is the associate curator of antiquities and took part in choosing the placement of the paintings within the room. The gallery argues that the emergence of the industrial age generated a heightened awareness and passion for the natural world. UMFA created its own response in the education gallery to the traveling exhibit for visitors to reflect on the contrasts of nature and city. Illustrating a Utah landscape which is very familiar to us, said Virginia Catherall, explaining her role in bringing the educational reflection to the visitors. Everything that families learn here can be translated to the British landscapes. Catherall is the curator of education and was in charge of creating the Constructing the Utah Landscape gallery and conveying the educational theme it carries. Read more of this story on our website at wcforummedia.com. |