Granary Arts Fellow, Marnie Powers-Torrey, invites you to participate in a collaborative multimedia assemblage artwork, Makerspace and Time, in the CCA Christensen Cabin. Please bring your small, everyday objects to incorporate into the work. The art will become a visual narrative, emblematic of those who assembled it and the place from where they came. Objects with an interesting texture or silhouette with a flat surface can be documented with a monoprint. Other small pieces might be sewn or placed in pockets. Please only bring items that you are willing to commit to the project permanently. Most importantly, remember that any object bears a significance, particularly if you find it interesting. Roadside detritus, attic and basement leavings, remanence of daily doings, and otherwise random but somehow beautiful and engaging items will all become part of the vocabulary we use to tell a story of time and place.

The collaborative artwork will be on exhibition in the CCA Christensen Cabin alongside the work of Marnie Powers-Torrey through March 8, 2019. This project is co-sponsored by the Book Arts Program as part of the J. Willard Marriot Library at the University of Utah.

Drop In Date

Saturday February 23, 2019 / 5pm-8pm

About the Artist

Marnie Powers-Torrey received an MFA in photography from the University of Utah, and a BA in English and Philosophy from Boston College. She is the Managing Director of the Book Arts Program at the University of Utah, an Associate Librarian at the J. Willard Marriott Library, and is the Master Printer for Red Butte Press.

As a maker, Powers-Torrey places equal value on process and product. The aesthetic and concept of a piece are inherent to its mode of manufacture, materiality, and the space and time in which it’s made. Through her studio practice— the investigation of materials & methods— Powers-Torrey finds and creates meaning steered by the processes she chooses to employ. Through making, she discovers the artifact. Through the artifact, she communicates intention. Her concepts are driven by the everyday—both the routine and the extraordinary, experienced through the multiple modalities of the real and the virtual, the direct, and the mediated.  She has learned how critical it is to integrate making into her busy life, and for her, the assembly of materials and exploration of ideas is synonymous with living.