WE STRENGTHEN UTAH COMMUNITIES BY CULTIVATING CONNECTIONS, DEEPENING UNDERSTANDING, AND EXPLORING
OUR COMPLEX HUMAN EXPERIENCE
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WELCOME TO KASE JOHNSTUN
PROGRAM MANAGER
UTAH CENTER FOR THE BOOK
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We are thrilled to welcome Kase Johnstun to our Utah Humanities team! He will head up our Center for the Book programming, including our annual Utah Humanities Book Festival.
Kase was recently named the 2021 Ogden Mayor’s Award Recipient for the Literary Arts. He was literary chair for the Ogden City Arts Advisory Committee (2014-2018) and was named to Ogden’s 40 under 40 three weeks before he turned 40 in 2015. He hosts a literary podcast called LITerally where he interviews authors about all things publishing and writing, and is a board member of the Label Me Latina/o Literary Magazine (Queens University of Charlotte).
Kase has a BA in English Literature and Technical and Professional Writing from Weber State University, an MA in Creative Writing and Literature from Kansas State University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University. Before joining UH, he spent ten years in publishing, writing, and editing for newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, and professional baseball. For the last 15 years, Kase has taught writing nationally and internationally for universities, non-profit organizations, undergraduates and graduates, and high school students.
Kase brings a wealth of experience, talent, and a passion for books and literature. We are very happy to be working with him!
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CELEBRATING POETRY:
UTAH POETRY FESTIVAL WAS A SUCCESS
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In celebration of April's National Poetry Month, we were pleased to partner with Utah's new Poet Laureate, Lisa Bickmore, to offer the Utah Poetry Festival.
This year, the festival was held on April 14th and 15th, and included readings by Utah poets with new books, including Jan Minich, Abraham Smith, Natalie Young, Cindy King, Jackie Osherow, and Paisley Rekdal. Panels focused on poets encountering the wild; poetry as activism; poets writing across languages; poets and artists in collaboration; and poetry as it blurs boundaries with other genres. There was also a virtual book fair with links to books from a host of Utah poets.
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REQUEST A CONVERSATION IN A BOX |
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With our Do-It-Yourself Conversation in a Box, community members throughout Utah can hold immersive, meaningful conversations at home. This box includes all the instructions, tips, and tools to create a local event or home-based dialogue focusing on the Great Salt Lake, free of charge!
Created in partnership with Nan Seymour of the River Writing Collective, this box will allow Utahns to discuss the importance of the Great Salt Lake and exercise their creative minds.
We ask that if you request a box, you agree to be contacted by Utah Humanities for information about your event/conversation within six months of receipt to let us know how many people attended, whether the objects included were helpful, and additional feedback.
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2023 UTAH COLLECTIONS PRESERVATION TRAINING |
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WEBINARS AND WORKSHOPS
Register and join us for upcoming webinars and the second of our two-part workshop focusing on Preservation in Storage and Display:
- May 4th | Two-Part Workshop - Part B | Emery County Archives in Castle Dale
- May 18th | Webinar | Preservation Through Partnership: Care of Culturally Sensitive Objects
- June 15th | Webinar | Preservation of Outdated Media
PROGRAM DETAILS
These sessions focus on accessible, practical, hands-on training to give collections stewards preservation tools and knowledge. Our programming includes 12 free webinars held monthly online and quarterly regional workshops held in person over two days (separated by a month). The two-part regional workshops cost just $10 to attend with advance registration. We offer stipends to support participants' travel if needed.
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Beehive Archive is a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal events in Utah history. With all of the history and none of the dust, our Beehive Archive radio show is an engaging way to catch up on Utah’s past.
In celebration of April as National Poetry Month we offer a poetry-related story below. You can also visit our entire Beehive Archive collection, choose Story Items, and search for "poetry" to explore more stories.
THE SAVAGE POEM AROUND ME:
ALFRED LAMBOURNE AND GREAT SALT LAKE
Maybe you’ve seen his paintings in Utah’s museums or read his famous book called Our Inland Sea. Learn about 19th-century artist Alfred Lambourne, who was Great Salt Lake’s biggest fan.
Perhaps no one loved Utah’s Great Salt Lake as much as 19th-century painter and poet Alfred Lambourne. An English-born Mormon convert with a gift for writing and illustration, Lambourne was known for his large panorama-style paintings of Utah scenery and writings about living alone on an island on Great Salt Lake. His paintings were on par with Hudson River School art contemporaries such as Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt, but Lambourne’s work was unique for how it captured Utah’s epic, desolate inland sea with a haunting visual beauty.
Find a new story each week on the Beehive Archive, and stay tuned for more episodes featured in upcoming newsletters. You can always listen on KCPW Radio, Utah Public Radio, or your favorite podcast channel.
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Our statewide events are year-round opportunities to engage with the humanities in firsthand, timely, and deeply relevant ways.
Check our calendar regularly and join us for humanities events that strengthen all of us!
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Utah Humanities is supported by generous contributions from individuals, corporations, and foundations, and receives public support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the State of Utah, the Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts and Parks Fund, and ESRR endowments. |
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Utah Humanities | 801.359.9670 | 202 West 300 North
Salt Lake City, UT 84103 | www.utahhumanities.org
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