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The
theme of the 2008 Bluff Arts Festival focuses on the
intersection between art and science. Our featured
artist, JR Lancaster, a chemical engineer by training
and an artist by desire, literally brings the world
into his mixed media works. Experts in literature,
entomology, archaeoastronomy, and ethnomathematics
will share thoughts about science, art and culture.
Utah's Poet Laureate, Katharine Coles, co-director
of the Utah Symposium in Science and Literature, headlines
our Poetry and Potluck event. Please join us.
Artist
Application | Schedule
of Events | Walking
Trail of the Artists
This
year's festival sponsors are:
The
Utah Humanities Council; Utah Arts Council; VSA/Arts
Access; San Juan County Economic Development; San Juan
County School District; Rocky Mountain Power; Business
Owners of Bluff; Bluff Arts and Education Foundation
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Bluff:
a great place to get away...
Bluff offers many wonderful
activities to enjoy before and after the festival. Explore
miles of hiking trails and canyons. Walk the historic
district and check out the new Visitor Center at the
Bluff Fort. Run the river. Gaze at the stars. Go bird
watching. Discover ancient rock art and archaeological
sites. |
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Schedule of Events
Friday,
November 28 |
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1:00-5pm |
Meet
at the top of the Bluff Cemetery Hill
"In Search of Twin
Symbolism" - Lecture and hike
with artist and archaeoastronomy expert, Joe Pachak.
Space is limited to 15 people. Reservations are
required. |
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7-9pm |
Bluff
Community Center
"The Eleventh Cosmic Direction" - With
retired Hansen Planetarium and Albert Einstein Planetarium
Director (Smithsonian Institution), Von Del Chamberlain
“Bluff's
Sense of Place - Repetition of Twins”-
With Joe Pachak, a Utah artist who specializes
in life-sized representations of rock art as
well as Anasazi-like solstice observatories. Joe
will share his lifelong passion for the
preservation and interpretation of ruins and
ancient artwork while speaking about humanity’s
interaction with the Four Corners land and sky
scapes. |
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9am-12pm |
Locations
Throughout Bluff
Trail of the Artists Exhibits
and Receptions |
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10am-4pm |
Bluff
Community Center
Arts Fair - Regional
artists will exhibit and sell their works
Leonardo
on Wheels - The
Leonardo (formerly Utah
Science Center) traveling exhibit will present
a variety of interactive exhibits based on
the notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. This
family friendly presentation will include the
following:
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FlightSim -
An interactive flight simulation experience
provided by Rockwell
Collins in Salt
Lake City. Fly to and from Salt
Lake City and 29 other airports around
the world (and safely crash!) using high resolution
digital geographic images coupled with GoogleEarth
for perspective and awareness. One of our demonstrators
will be a young woman from Bluff, now with
Rockwell Collins in Salt Lake City! |
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DuffArt -
Sit down on a pressure sensor mat and discover
the artistic image of your own "duff" or
your partner's. Now that's science and art! |
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Seeing YOUR Insides -
View your own carotid artery and jugular vein
using a unique ultrasound system provided by
Bard Access in Salt Lake City. Participants
can save the file for their future artistic
use (bring a flash or thumb drive to record
the file). |
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1:00-3pm |
Desert
Rose Inn Conference Center
"Writing What You Don't
Know" -
Writing workshop with Katharine Coles, Utah Poet
Laureate. Space is limited and reservations are required. |
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6:00-9pm |
The
Nada Bar
Poetry and Potluck - Following
the traditionally fabulous Bluff potluck supper,
Utah Poet Laureate Katharine Coles, up and coming
Navajo writer Orlando White, and local poet and
professional entomologist Lorraine Nakai perform
poetry with a scientific flavor. Local poets
are invited to share their works.
Music for the evening will be provided by Randy Bouchard
and Anna Hart. |
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9-10am |
San
Juan River Kitchen
Tree of Life
and Skeleton Coast - Outsider
artist, JR Lancaster will discuss
his Skeleton Coast collage (the festival’s
featured artwork) and his outdoor
stone and living tree installation,
Tree of Life. Following the presentation
at the San Juan River Kitchen, JR
will move to the Tree of Life for
more detailed examination of this
unique work.
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11am |
Twin
Rocks Trading Post
"Artful Expressions
of Mathematical Beauty: Native American
Cultural Connections" - Professors
Becky Monhardt and Jim Barta will
discuss the cultural interface between
the arts and science.
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For
further information, contact Georgiana Kennedy Simpson at
435-672-2360
or georgianasimpson@yahoo.com
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