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Show www.dailyutahchronide.com 5 ARTS Tuesday June 5, 2012 UMFA picks up Speed, its new exhibit Frances Moody STAFF WRITER "You have to realize. Great racers are great cheaters," said guest museum curator Ken Gross while explaining the mechanics behind the Speed-o-motive Special Streamliner. Gross said the engineers and racers behind the Speed-o-motive Special strategically lined two front tires in order to meet the requirements of the Bonneville Salt Flats racetrack, standards that require four tires for race cars. However, the addition of a fourth tire was unnecessary to the design. The Speed-o-motive Special is just one of many cars on exhibition in Speed: The Art of The Performance Automobile at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. This new exhibition, which opened Saturday, aims to inspire car enthusiasts and art lovers alike. With donations from car collector Ambassador John Price and a collaboration between Gross and the College of Fine Arts, the goal of Speed: The Art of the Performance Automobile is to attract automobile lovers to the world of art. The exhibition not only offers the thrill of fast cars, but the history involved in the making and racing of such cars. H1 111411111 ! PHOTO COURTESY PETER HARHOLDT The Mormon Meteor III 005 is one of the automobiles displayed at the Speed: The Art of the Performance Automobile exhibit at UMFA during the summer. "What's special about [the cars] is they all have a metallic soul," Price said. If the cars exhibited at UMFA could talk, they would be able to tell stories of human sweat, pain Festival centers around urban entertainment Levi Rogers STAFF WRITER The Utah Arts Alliance hosted the first annual Urban Arts Festival last year, which drew more than 5,000 attendees and showcased musicians, DJs, slam poets, break dancers, skateboarders, and many others. This year, the event moves to the new Utah Arts Alliance at the SLC Arts Hub on 663 W. 100 South. The space opened in January and houses 35 artist studios, a 4,000 square-foot art gallery and a 5,000 squarefoot dance studio that's booked seven days a week. "On any given day, there's 200 people here," said Derek Dyer, executive director of the alliance. This year's Urban Arts Festival will be very similar to that of the previous year. Dyer said that the festival is a celebration of urban creativity. "You see a performance dance group and then walk across the parking lot to the next stage and see a concert or slam poetry performance," Dyer said. There are more than 3o different musical groups performing, spanning a range of genres from rap to rock to funk. There will also be skateboarding demonstrations in a make-shift skate park and dance performances with break-dancing competitions. Some food vendors will be on hand as well as an urban gardening area with demonstrations throughout the day. Dyer said they are adding a third stage this year, with one stage exclusively for DJs, the second and center stage for all performances and the third stage for live music. Whereas the Utah Arts Festival only has a small section for urban art, the Urban Arts Festival is urban-themed and entirely made up of local artists. The festival will showcase graffiti, stencils, photography, painting and even bag-making. Notable artists include Darrell Driver, Tony Poulson, Kat Martin and Troy Henderson. One of the bag companies making an appearance at the festival is Velo City Bags. The company makes waterproof messenger bags, backpacks and roll-top bags for biking. All of the gear is handmade by owner and founder Nathan Larsen. Another company that hand makes artsy bags is Glitch Wear. The company has many different types of bags including burlap bags made from coffee sacks. A poetry slam is scheduled for Saturday, hosted by Salt City Indie Arts, which runs the Poetry Slam at Mo's Bar and Grill. "The slam on Saturday will feature io contestants in three rounds of poetry with roaming judges," said Skylar "Church" Henderson, the vice president of Salt City Indie Arts. Salt City Indie Arts is working on developing a second slam team to send to the National Poetry Slam this year, Henderson said. The Salt Lake City team placed eighth in the competition last year. Dyer said that he's most excited to see the different arts coming together at the festival. 1.rogers@ chronicle.utah.edu and emotion. The exhibit offers cars that pertain and connect to world history. One car at the exhibition, the 1937 Million Franc Delahaye, symbolizes the French struggles against the German Nazis. The Million Franc Delahaye was the car that won the Prix du Million, a race fashioned by the French Popular Front. The race was designed to inspire French car manufacturers to compete against the German Mercedes-Benz, a car and company supported by the Nazi government. In addition to the Million Franc Delahaye, several cars took part in the competition between world powers. When explaining the history of car manufacturers, Gross highlighted the differences between car colors. The colors of the cars built in the early 19006 symbolize the different world powers. Red was the color for Italian cars, green the color for British automobiles and silver represented the Germans. Not only did the European powers compete for African Colonies, but they also strived to be the top dog in the competition of fast cars. "If you're not a car enthusiast, I think you will be astonished," said Executive Director of the UMFA Gretchen Dietrich. The cars on exhibition are much more than engines and scraps of metal. They are art and history in many forms. 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