Environmentally-Themed Exhibits at UMOCA and Drinks at Lake Effect

A Saturday afternoon visit to the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), where we'll check out the current exhibitions including:

As the Lake Fades: A multi-media exhibit, featuring works by multiple artists, that explores drought, climate change, and the environmental crisis facing Utahns today through the lens of the Great Salt Lake. The exhibit explores how people have been, and continue to be, connected to the lake as well as its importance to the past, present, and future residents of the Salt Lake Valley­­.
Parable Bodies: Sculptural works by Moses Williams featuring materials that are tactile, lustrous, visceral, and inherently emotive. Referencing deserts, mountains, plants, human and non-human creatures, this exhibit presents a world of entities that are not separate but rather exist in a relational web where “slippage, entanglement, and influence” occur between all materials.

Suggested donation for admission to the museum is $10.

After the museum visit, we'll discuss the art over drinks and appetizers at nearby (and aptly named) Lake Effect (155 W. 200 South).

For extra credit - read these articles about the ecological crisis facing the Great Salt Lake, and we can discuss them (book club style) over cocktails:

"The Great Salt Lake's Dire Need for Regeneration" (GreenBiz, April 2023)

"As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces an Environmental Nuclear Bomb" (New York Times, June 2023)

When you RSVP, please comment below or in the event chat to let me know if you're planning to join for drinks at Lake Effect so I can make sure we have an accurate number for our reservation with the bar.