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Show LIFE VOLUME LII ISSUE 17 JANUARY 9, 2012 WWW.UVUREVIEW.COM Student thanks taxpayers for keeping her alive WOODBURY ART MUSEUM HIDDEN VOICES EXPOSES azairaTilA g It was through social programs that student Keira Sloan Scholz is alive and well today. Her thank-you letter to the taxpayers of Utah and America that has received national attention tells the story of when socialize programs work. • ..'"1*-1---- ■ 0 I rag haw 1 Keira Sloan Scholz recently wrote a letter thanking taxpayers for supporting social programs. a thank you letter on her blog that was addressed as "Dear American Taxpayers." In the Sitting on the floor of her letter, Scholz outlines the cirfurnished living room, Keira cumstances of her childhood. Sloan Scholz stacks blocks The first line simply yet powwith her 17-month old son. erfully states, "My name is As soon as she builds a tower, Keira (Sloan) Scholz, I am her son knocks it down with twenty-three years old. I am his chubby hand, squealing a daughter of a prostitute, with laughter. The gregari- meth-addicted, uneducated ous little boy is a smaller, single mother of six chilchubbier version of Scholz's dren." Scholz remembers little of husband Nick, who recently graduated from UVU with her earlier childhood, mostly degree in Communications due to the fact her family and a minor in Digital Media. moved around so much. "We lived in Scholz and her Colorado, Illifamily are hapnois, Oklahoma, py and healthy. Virginia and When considerUtah," Scholz ing Scholz's own said. They ended situation when up in Utah after she was her son's Scholz's mother age, it seems like divorced from a miracle things her third husturned out so band and lived well. The only in governmentreason Scholz is subsidized housalive and well toing. Scholz was day is due to the KEIRA SLOAN SCHOLZ in the fifth grade. social programs "Utah governthat taxpayers help fund. And she wanted to ment subsidized housing is really nice compared to the tell them all thank you. Scholz's upbringing was others," Scholz said. In her less than ideal. She was the letter, Scholz addresses livfirst of six children who were ing in subsidized housing. born to an uneducated single "These houses were a little mother who was also a pros- sparse, but they were always titute and a meth addict. Un- clean, always safe, and alable to support her children ways in good repair. Scholz remembers her on her own, Scholz's fammom before she became adily relied on social programs such as Medicaid, Women, dicted to meth. "She was a Infants, Children (WIC), good mom before the meth," Food Stamps, food banks Scholz said. Her mom began and free breakfast and lunch- doing meth when a relation es at public schools. It was of her fifth husband became through these programs that a dealer. Scholz was 12 years Scholz was fed, kept warm, old. Now, nearly 12 years healthy and educated. Look- later, Scholz states that her ing back on her life, the soon mother has never been off of to be 24 year old wife and meth for more than 90 days. "She is bipolar," Scholz mother wanted to somehow said. "The meth makes the thank the taxpayers whose bipolar even worse." dollars helped her become who she is today. LETTER B6 In Nov. 2011, Scholz wrote By KELLY CANNON Life Editor GILBERT CISNEROS/UVU REVIEW The Woodbury Art Museum's permanent installment, featuring exclusively female artist. This particular selection will be on display until March 3, 2012. Women with suppressed voices and underrepresented needs have been offered an outlet for expression and empowerment through the Woodbury Art Museum's latest show, Hidden Voices: Women in Printmaking, opening Jan. 10 By JEFF JACOBSEN Asst. Life Editor T-shirts, held by clothespins on lines hanging low across the room, displayed raw emotion, scrawled with permanent marker by victims of abuse and violence. The graphic nature of the personal feelings of pain and anger was countered by the simple, almost quiet attributes of the black-and-white prints in the main section of the museum, also made by women who have suffered. The depictions on the prints ranged from birds and people to words and other images, but each represented part of the journey that the artist went through while processing their pain. The Woodbury Art Museum, in an effort to equalize the balance of representation between male and female artists, has transformed their gallery into an all-womanartist feature, with Hidden Voices: Women in Printmaking, a show that will open Jan. 10. The permanent rotating collection has even been tweaked to go along with the theme, showing only work from the collection that was created by female artists. Interim Curator and Director Melissa Hempel came up with the idea for the project, saying that it started out as an idea centered on urban arts, then later developed into working solely with underrepresented populations. of artists. Hempel chose printmaking as the medium for this group of artists because she thought maybe working with the hand tools involved with this type of artwork, carving metal sheets by hand, is The first time I started reading it, I was just about in tears.'/'1 -ADMINISTRATOR KATHERINE HALL Hempel and the museum have teamed up with the Center for Women and Children in Crisis for the project to find volunteer artists. "They put a lot of themselves into their work," Hempel said. "We're really lucky." This isn't the first time the Hempel has put the museum spotlight on these types of populations though. Last year the museum put on a "graffiti show," which featured work mostly from teenage males. Hempel hopes to make exposing hidden voices an annual event, each year using a different medium to focus on a different group GILBERT CISNEROS / UVU REVIEW not something these women have likely had the opportunity to do. Each printmaking artist posted their feelings Taxpayers need to know that sometimes [social programs] work. about working with this medium in the museum for their viewers. According to the words of Carrie Espinoza, one of these artists, Hempel made the right choice: "In printmaking every mark shows. I must stop my multitasking and concentrate on one cut at a time. It is a physically difficult process, yet the final result ... is invigorating," Espinoza wrote. It may have been invigorating for the artists, but it is definitely emotionally invigorating to be a part of this exhibit as a viewer. The museum administrator Katherine Hall grew silent as she walked past the very personal works of art, pointing out the captions that give insight to the pieces. WOODBURY B6 If you need help, don't wait Contact UVU's Turning Point program www.uvu.edu/turningpoint or The Center for Women and Children in Crisis www.cwcic.com . Little details in the works By TIMOTHY ERIC WOOD II Life Writer A chain link fence stands, checkering the land. Gear teeth churn the machine heart to life. A tree, a plant, a weed nestles the sidewalk in the middle of urbanization, its stems and fronds and leafs a blueprint of natural jigsaw. Alise Allen is in her closing semester of finishing her Bachelor of Fine Arts this summer. Over the last four years , she's taken photos of the undermined significance of CONTACT: the little things that surround the passersby in the street, on the road and throughout the If you like the more industrial focused art, come take a look. gf ALISE ALLEN urban clockwork rhythm of construction and industrial progression. Selections of her art hang in the Orem City Rotunda through the month of January, an artistic opening to the New Year for any visitor. Though the majority of her pieces exhibit the design scheme in human constructs, such as the diamond patches in a fence, the repeating triangles of a Ferris wheel radiating like refracted light, her work also touches the intricacies of natural creations, such as the enfolded needles of a cactus in the dessert. "I love the little details," Allen said. "The ones that people don't notice intrigue me." All of her still life photos are in black and white, to em- phasize the shape aspects of design, the focus of her project. Allen invites all to come to the rotunda to see her work as well as that of future student exhibits. "If you like the more industrial focused art, come take a look." The Orem City Center Rotunda has exhibited, with the addition of Allen, twelve UVU students' works so far and shall continue to display new work each month. The professor in charge of the project is Travis Lovell from the photography department. Motif (mo-tef): A distinct and recurring form, shape, figure, etc. in a design. LIFE EDITOR ASST. LIFE EDITOR LIFE DESIGNER Iifesectionuvu@gmail.com devenleighe@gmail.com drewmilton@gmail.com KELLY CANNON DEVEN LEIGH ELLIS DREW MILTON PHOTO COURTESY OF ALISE ALLEN TWITTER UVU LIFE SECTION @UVULife |