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The Decorative Arts SIG will be hosting a panel on Thursday, March 28th, at the ARLIS/NA 2019 conference in Salt Lake City. This panel, titled "Material Culture in Utah and the West: Insights from Decorative and Fine Arts Objects<https://arlisna2019.sched.com/event/ITsj/material-culture-in-utah-and-the-west-insights-from-decorative-and-fine-arts-objects?iframe=yes&w=100%25&sidebar=yes&bg=no>," will feature three Utah-area experts who will discuss traditional and non-traditional fine and decorative arts of Utah and the West. Leslie Anderson of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts will explore art of the American West and objects created in other regions in her talk, "Challenging the Canon with the Permanent Collection: American and Regional Art at the UMFA." Adrienne Decker will discuss the Utah Folk Arts Program, a state program that features a permanent collection of art pieces created by living tradition bearers in her talk, "This is Our Place: Utah's Traditional Arts Landscape." Josh Probert, from Brigham Young University's Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, will examine objects made by the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in relationship to the transatlantic world from which they emigrated in his presentation, "Mormon Iconography in the Decorative Arts as a Strategy of Identity during the Nineteenth Century." These three dynamic presentations will shed light on how the environs of the West and the historic context of human interaction with this unique region have shaped the artistic output of fine and decorative artists. We look forward to seeing everyone at the panel on Thursday and in Salt Lake City for the rest of the conference. Kathy Woodrell and Katie Monroe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~