Craft Lake City Announces New Installation Local Voices: 50 Years of Healing and Community
April 1, 2024, Salt Lake City, UT – Craft Lake City and the Rape Recovery Center are excited to present a new street-side installation, Local Voices: 50 Years of Healing and Community. This installation, celebrating five decades of honoring survivors and victims of sexual violence through the steadfast support of the community and the hope to create a society free from sexual violence, is displayed to the public via 4 steel frames along Broadway (300 S), between 200 West and Main Street in downtown Salt Lake City through the end of June.
In its mission to support and empower survivors and victims of sexual violence and educate the community about the cause, impact and prevention of sexual violence, Local Voices: 50 Years of Healing and Community utilizes beautiful images to illustrate the incredible mission and work of the Rape Recovery Center over the last 50 years.
“In 1974, a group of compassionate individuals in Utah recognized the need for support and care for survivors of sexual violence,” says Stephany Murguia, Associate Director for the Rape Recovery Center. “Over the past five decades, the center has provided a safe space for survivors and their families, offering unwavering support and guidance. Our exhibit celebrates 50 years of Healing and Community. We honor survivors/victims through the steadfast support of the community and the hope that we can create a society free from sexual violence.”
The Rape Recovery Center began in 1974 as a local community rape awareness program, started by community members committed to change. Today, the Rape Recovery Center assists nearly 800 survivors annually through its Mobile Response Team, while their in-office services (which include personal advocacy, short and long-term counseling, and an array of therapy and support groups) serve over 3,000 clients annually. The RRC also provides outreach and education programs, reaching roughly 40,000 community members annually.
“Craft Lake City is deeply honored to partner with the Rape Recovery Center during their 50th Anniversary for this new seasonal installation,” says Craft Lake City Artisan & Programs Manager Tiana Young, “to highlight RRC’s important work and mission to provide support and empowerment to survivors and victims of sexual violence while educating the community on the causes, repercussions and prevention strategies in an artful way.”
Local Voices: 50 Years of Healing and Community in partnership with the Rape Recovery Center is open to the public 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, free of charge. To learn more about the Rape Recovery Center’s mission and programs, visitors will have the opportunity to scan a QR code while viewing the artwork series on the streets of downtown Salt Lake City. Local Voices: 50 Years of Healing and Community will be on display in 4 frames from April 1 to June 30, 2024.
With support from The Center for the Living City and The Temporary Museum of Permanent Change, Craft Lake City’s Local Voices installation series spotlights the inspiring work of Utah-based organizations in an effort to connect the community with ideas that matter. Craft Lake City curates this seasonal, rotating outdoor art exhibition for the Salt Lake community. The exhibits feature visually inspiring and interactive artwork meant to engage visitors and patrons. All Local Voices installations are displayed in fourteen metal frames along the sidewalks on the north and south sides of Broadway (300 South) between 200 West and Main Street in downtown Salt Lake City. For more information, please visit us at: https://craftlakecity.com/local-voices.
Local Voices highlights the inspiring work of Utah-based organizations in an effort to connect the community with ideas that matter. Local Voices is an installation series supported by Craft Lake City, The Temporary Museum of Permanent Change and The Center for the Living City. For more information about the series, click here.
To learn more about this installation, the public is invited to join Craft Lake City for a virtual “Lunch & Learn” discussion on Wednesday, April 10 from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. In this public online event, attendees can learn more about this exhibition while hearing from the Rape Recovery Center’s Executive Director Sonya Martinez-Ortiz, Board Member Nicole Munson and Marketing & Outreach Specialist Miriam Flores.
Watch our Lunch & Learn Virtual Discussion to learn more about the exhibition below:
Local Voices: Rape Recovery Center’s 50 Years of Healing and Community on
Wed., April 10 at 12 p.m.
About Craft Lake City:
Founded in 2009 by Angela H. Brown, Executive Editor of SLUG (Salt Lake UnderGround) Magazine, Craft Lake City® is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization with the mission to educate, promote and inspire local artisans while elevating the creative culture of the Utah arts community through science, technology and art. Craft Lake City strives to further define the term “Craft,” by modernizing the definition for handmade creativity.
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Craft Lake City’s year-round programming is supported in part by the residents of Salt Lake County through the Zoo, Arts & Parks (ZAP) Program, the Salt Lake Arts Council, the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, and Utah Arts & Museums, with funding from the State of Utah and the National Endowment for the Arts.
About the Temporary Museum of Permanent Change:
The Temporary Museum of Permanent Change is a community based, participatory project that uses the ever-changing development processes underway in Salt Lake City as catalysts to animate city life. The Museum engages a variety of audiences using a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach that includes performance art and video production, visual art, urban archaeology, anthropology, local history, existing businesses and ongoing deconstruction and construction processes as spectacles for people of all ages. Together these elements provide teachable moments in our efforts to manage and celebrate change. This museum has no specific address. Rather it is a construction of ideas, installations and illuminations that comprise a new way of seeing our city.
About the Center for Living City:
The Center for the Living City’s purpose is to expand the understanding of the complexity of contemporary urban life and through it, promote increased civic engagement among people who care deeply for their communities. The Center provides portals for community engagement through the lens of urban ecology to further the understanding of the interconnected human and ecological systems in our communities. The Center’s multi-disciplinary approach to community engagement is applied through educational programs, collaborative projects, fellowships, on-line portals, workshops and publications.
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