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Ten Years of Arts and Cultural Criticism in the American Southwest (2015-25)

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When Sound Becomes Structure: The Layered Languages of Gonzalo and Susana Silva

Moving from ancient systems of communication into the modern period, Silva and Silva reference early recording devices and the physical mechanics of storing information. In Gonzalo Silva’s “Wandering Thread” (2025), printed and etched Plexiglass panels reproduce colonial and modern representations of quipus, the Andean recording system composed of knotted cords that likely conveyed both numerical and narrative information.
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Derek Dyer and the Imagination Economy of Salt Lake City

Some of the most visible arts experiences in Salt Lake City—the SLC White Party, the Urban Arts Festival, and Dreamscapes: Salt Lake City’s Immersive Art Experience—share more than spectacle or scale. They are part of a longer arc of creative entrepreneurship shaped by Derek Dyer, whose work has consistently focused on building events and spaces that support artists not just aesthetically, but materially. Dyer’s approach has always been deliberately glamorous, aimed at an artistic crowd that values atmosphere, ambition, and polish.
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At Alpine Art, Four Painters Translate Nature’s Calm into Contemporary Design

A Perspective of Nature, now on view at Alpine Art & Frame in Salt Lake City, brings together four artists—Sarah Ashley Peterson, Laura Hope Mason, Jodi Steen, and Matthew Hassing—whose works channel the restorative power of the natural world into the places we live and gather. At a time when the world can feel heavy, these paintings offer an antidote: light, air, and color drawn from quiet horizons and open skies.

2025 Economic Outlook Survey: Surfing the waves of market turbulence | Corpay

Through our work with businesses of all sizes, we’ve seen firsthand how unpredictable market shifts can impact cash flow and profitability. The following analysis of our 2024-25 Economic Outlook Survey provides a closer look at challenges companies are facing, offering key takeaways that can help businesses refine their FX approach and make more informed decisions in a year expected to present challenges.

FX Hedging for Fund Managers: From Policy to Strategy and Implementation | Corpay

In this post by Andrew Shortreid, SVP Global Institutional Sales at Corpay Cross-Border Solutions, he details important steps portfolio managers, members of investment committees, and fund managers can take to create effective hedging policy and optimize FX risk mitigation over time. In this piece, you’ll hear from a seasoned expert, who has worked in challenging roles in the fund and institutional space across European markets.

Currency and Financial Instrument Correlation in FX Markets

Correlation—a statistical measure of how two variables move in relation to each other—plays a key role in shaping trading strategies, managing risk, and identifying market opportunities in FX. Correlation coefficients, which range from -1.0 to +1.0, help quantify the strength and direction of relationships between currency pairs. A value of +1.0 indicates perfect positive correlation, meaning the two variables move in the same direction 100% of the time. A coefficient of -1.0 reflects perfect negative correlation, where the variables move in opposite directions.

Natural Hedging vs. Financial Hedging: Navigating Currency Volatility

When we talk about managing currency risk, two approaches often come up: natural hedging and financial hedging. At their foundation, they are two different strategies for tackling the same problem: protecting your business from fluctuating exchange rates. Here we’ll break them down, using some real-world scenarios to help illustrate how companies deal with this challenge. Whether you’re running a multinational or a small business expanding overseas, understanding these tools is crucial to managing your bottom line.
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Ryan Harrington is Building a Quiet Architecture of Influence

Ryan Harrington has lived in Utah long enough to watch its creative landscape reshape itself—slowly, unevenly, and often through the efforts of people working quietly in the background. Over the past two decades, he has become one of those people. His art blends the clarity of design with the energy of urban visual culture: his marker and acrylic works are built from clean lines, calibrated color interactions, balloon-lettering structures, and a long-running block-head character.
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A Geometry of Balance in Dan Evans’ Cut-Paper Abstractions at Finch Lane

Dan Evans’ work begins with the question of what remains once an image has been pared to its essentials. “I’ve always been drawn to systems where clarity matters,” he says, “where you pare things down until the lack of recognition engages the viewer and holds itself.” It’s a clarity rooted not in what the image depicts, but in the structure left behind after everything recognizable has been reduced.
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Holly Rios Turns Printmaking Into a Conversation on Seeing and Being Seen

Rios’s path to MFA printmaker sharpened her focus on how women learn to see themselves, and her new exhibition uses collage, text, and the uncanny to press into that quiet examination. Her silhouetted collages and cropped bodies form a fragmented visual language that mirrors those inherited pressures and expectations. The show invites a slower kind of looking, where the familiar turns strange just long enough to reveal how deeply those expectations shape us.
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The Salt Lake Art Museum (SLAM) Finds Sanctuary in the Temple

Completed in 1890 for Salt Lake City’s first Jewish congregation, the B’nai Israel Temple carries a depth of cultural memory rare among the city’s remaining historic buildings. Its survival is uncommon in a city where progress has a habit of erasing the physical traces of its own past. Restoring the temple and establishing the Salt Lake Art Museum (SLAM) within it brings into view a narrative that has long remained at the margins of the city’s broader historical accounts.
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Rethinking Rural/Urban Dichotomies at the Epicenter Summit

Utah is home to an art scene that stretches across the state, with subversive art pockets in unlikely places, but sometimes, Salt Lake City’s presence eclipses work and communities in smaller towns. Just outside of Moab is one such unassuming town, sandwiched between the prismatic Book Cliffs and the dusty railroad tracks—Green River. With a population of just under 1,000, Green River hosts the arts organization Epicenter, whose founders worked as AmeriCorps volunteers.
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David Rios Ferreira and Denae Shanidiin: Transcending Time and Space

Like colorful ensos or organic ouroboros unfurling around black centers, David Rios Ferreira’s collages are circular and dynamic forms, what he calls “imagined gateways, objects through which we may connect with those we cannot reach on this plane.” Accompanied by writing, photographs, and video by Denae Shanidiin, a Diné and Korean artist, the exhibition is the pair’s collaboration inspired by missing and murdered Indigenous people.
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Meow Wolf Gives Inner Children a Shopper’s Wonderland at Omega Mart

Tales about the founding of the artist collective Meow Wolf—an interactive entertainment-arts company—are as legendary as the company’s mind-bending art installations. Meow Wolf’s name came out of a hat, and some of the artist collective’s initial investment came from George R. R. Martin (of Game of Thrones fame). Meow Wolf’s newest art experience is a 52,000-square-foot, otherworldly shopping excursion called Omega Mart.