Title:  “Carl”

Intent:  As a male persona, I will sip drinks on the patio of one of the Plaza restaurants.

Bio:  Kristina Lenzi is a painter, performance artist, professor and the Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival founder and curator. She has exhibited/performed throughout the USA and in Europe.

Title:  “The Light In You”

Intent: One Freestanding door. One freestanding window. Two chairs, two sawhorses.
I will be participant and observer in my carpenter’s shopfront on Main Street.

Bio:  Steve Creson, visual artist, poet, performer, has 40 years experimenting with the nature of the unknown, in the US and abroad. He now lives in Salt Lake City with his lovely wife and daughter.

Title:  “Freeze, Line, Thaw”

Intent: Five used white newborn onesies hang frozen on an outdoor clothesline. I will sit under them as they thaw and drip.

Bio:  For three decades I’ve worked with materials at hand in performance, with textiles, and design. Being present to what is creates a path where judgment can be suspended, and authentic work can emerge.

Title:  “Tasks and Treasures”

Intent:  An experimental, interactive and collaborative community art piece meant to induce catharsis and delight.

Bio:  Erin Esplin is a SLC native who believes art, play, and community can save the world.

Title:  “Leave Your Mark”

Intent:  The intent is to create an interactive piece designed to involve and engage the public. Passersby will be invited to Leave Their Mark (however they wish to interpret that) on butcher block paper rolled out on the ground. With chalk provided, folks may choose to create an outline of their hand or foot, a shadow, or silhouette, leave a poem, story, quote, memory, wish, secret, or whatever feels comfortable to them.

Bio:  Sam is a multidisciplinary artist- visual, book, and performance artist, as well as a retired clinical psychologist. Studio 12 is his art studio on the first floor of the Rockwood Studios building on Monument Plaza in Sugar House.

Title:  “Peregrina”

Intent:  Peregrina is a walking meditation that invites the audience to participate either physically or through contemplation. This piece encourages us to slow down and pay attention. It prompts us to acknowledge issues that may not directly impact us but affect others.

Bio:  Mexico City native and recently 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, Stephanie García is a multi-awarded artist working in ance, video, choreography, film, and performance art.

Title:  “Huh?”

Intent:  Stretch out along piece of string between tin cans and try to talk to each other.

Bio:  Sandy and Jeff Huckleberry live in Boston have been performing together and apart for more than 30 years.

Title:  “Grounded”

Intent:  This piece is about the way the ground carries memory. Many good and many not so good things happen on the ground.

Bio:  Born on the Rez. Lives on the Rez.

Title:  “Troy”

Intent:  A male persona will be showing up to eat lunch at a local restaurant on the plaza.

Bio:  Originally from Utah, Maybelle Tibbs currently lives in Texas with her partner and son. She obtained her BFA in 2D Art at Weber State University in 2015 and has studied Performance Art for many years.

Title:  “Shadow Play”

Intent:  Shadow Play is a collaborative live performance combining movement, projection, and shadow theater by Jorge Rojas, Molly Heller, and Lu Wei. Activating the surrounding outdoor space in front of Sugar House Monument, the work reimagines the ancient practice of shadow play as a contemporary performance language. Drawing on traditions where shadows represent spirits, memory, and the unseen, the piece explores grief, tenderness, resistance, and survival through collective memory.

Bio:  Jorge Rojas is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, performer, educator, and co-founder of Material Art Gallery. His practice spans visual art, performance, and social engagement, examining cultural identity, mediated communication, and systems of art production.

Lu Wei is a visual artist and curator based in Taipei, Taiwan. Her work spans ink painting, installation, artist’s books, handscrolls, and screens, often drawing on symbols of women from religious, literary, and mythological traditions. Through her practice, she reinterprets ink painting to explore gender, feminine thought, and her experiences of womanhood and motherhood.

Molly Heller is an Associate Professor at the University of Utah’s School of Dance and a recipient of the College of Fine Arts Faculty Excellence Award in Research (2024–2025). Her work explores performance as a healing practice and the relationship between physical expression and emotion. She is also the founder and director of Heartland, a multidisciplinary art collective based in Salt Lake City.