The Entrada Institute's
Annual Fall Fundraiser and Gathering
Westminster College, Gore School of Business Auditorium
in Salt Lake City
October 11
6:00 PM
Ticket Price: $35, includes food, beverages and entertainment - Credit cards accepted!
Call Nan Anderson at 435-425-2118
email: nan@entradainstitute.org
or To Order Your Tickets Now click here
Fall, food, fun, fundraiser
Entrada Intitute is offering all this and more - David Lee, Utah's former Poet Laureate reading and discussing his new narrative poems.
The fundraiser offers a silent autiion of fine art, textiles, rare and signed books, travel, tour an dining packages with plenty of time to browse, visit other Entrada friends and supporters, graze at the hors d'oeuvres tabel and enjoy a beverage or two - all without having to get dressed up on a Saturday night. Casual attire is in for the Entrada event which also features a live auction.
Entrada will present its Ward Roylance award to Bonnie Posselli, a Utah artist known fro her work outdoors and her stunning depictions of redrock country. Posselli, a Utah native, donates her time and energy to many charitable causes. She is a past member of the Entrada Institute board of directors.
Lee is returning to Utah specifically for the Entrada fundraiser. Now a resident of Texas and the Oregaon Coast, he is the recipient of the Utah Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts and was honored as one of Utah's top 12 writers by Utah Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of A Legacy of Shadows, News from Down to the Cafe, and Wayburn Pig. Lee is debuting new narrative poems at the Entrada event.
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Author David Lee to Appear
as Keynote at Entrada Fundraiser
Since the publication of his first book of poems, the Porcine Legacy (1974), David Lee has written a poetry book unlike any in American letters. His poems are informed by a background that is unique to the world of poetry: he has studied in the seminary for the ministry, was a boxer, is a decorated Army veteran, played semiprofessional baseball as the only white player to ever play for the Negro League Post Texas Blue Stars and was a knuckleball pitcher for the South Plains Texas League Hubbers; he has raised hogs, worked as a laborer in a cotton mill, earned a Ph.D. with a specialty in the poetry of John Milton, and recently retired as the Chairman of the Department of Language and Literature at Southern Utah University.
David Lee was named Utah's first Poet Laureate, and has been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has received both the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. The recipient of the Utah Governor's Award for lifetime achievement in the arts, he has also been honored as one of Utah's top twelve writers of all time by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities.
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David Lee
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Bonnie Posselli - 2008 Ward Roylance Receipient
This year's Ward Roylance Receipient will be artist, Bonnie Posselli.
"From the Sagebrush Cattle Rances north of the Great Salt Lake into the mystical labyrinth of the Colorado Plateau, talk to any Utahan who knows anything about fine art and when the topic of universally loved, homegrown contemporary painters is raised, Bonnie Posselli ranks near the top of the list.
Like Utah's famed adopted son Maynard Dixon [1874-1946], who painted from a studio in Mount Carmel, Posselli's stylistic approach to landscape painting places its emphasis not on a purely realistic recapitulation of the geography, but rather on remaining faithful to the chemical effects of light. For Posselli, as with Dixon, total impact is achieved through a flash flood of color.
...Although Posselli's scenes involve emotional responses to place--small-town Main Streets, ethereal skies, serene agrarian pastures--it is Utah's legendary, almost otherworldy geographical landscape that keeps here constantly engaged. "She goes past the point of painting pretty pictures," says Utah artist Kathryn Stats of her friend of 30 years. "She takes landscape to the next level, into another realm. Her pieces engage you viscerally, and everywhere your eye is led, you are rewarded for having made the trip." --Todd Wilkenson, Southwest Art, Jan. 2005
Visit BonniePosselli.com for more information.
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