Opening on February 28, 2024, the Pilar Pobil Legacy Foundation, in partnership with the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, presents Pilar Pobil’s retrospective art show, Mi Vida – My Art. The multi-media, multi-dimensional exhibit will run through May 29, 2024, at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center. Utah art lovers are well acquainted with paintings and sculptures by Pilar Pobil. A Utah treasure born in 1926 and raised in Mallorca, Spain, she is self-taught in the mediums of acrylic, watercolor, oil, and clay. Pilar’s art adorns furniture, doors, shoes, and textiles and spills into her garden. She is also the author of the award winning book, My Kitchen Table: Sketches from my Life.

Enjoy a magical evening in Pilar's serene garden while enjoying the artwork of seven women artists. A portion of the sales benefits the Pilar Pobil Humanities Scholarship.

Featuring:
Pilar Pobil
Anne Albaugh
Hadley Rampton
Carol Biddle
Toni Youngblood
Bonny Royce
Heather Campbell

$15 admission, $10 for seniors and students; Pay at the door.

Pilar Pobil Humanities Scholarship:

As a writer, painter, and sculptor, Pilar Pobil has been devoted to promoting human rights through the humanities. A woman with a generous nature, she has for many years mentored underserved, particularly minority, students in Utah.

To honor Pilar’s generosity and to recognize her commitment to our community, the Pilar Pobil Legacy Foundation (PPLF) created an annual scholarship to be awarded to a student transferring from the Salt Lake Community College to the Writing Studies Scholars program at the U. The scholarship is funded in part by art sales from The Women’s Show.

NOTE: The Women’s Show is open to COVID-19 vaccinated and symptom-free guests only (unless under age 5). Masks are optional in the garden and required indoors.

ARTIST BIOS:

Heather Campbell
Heather Campbell’s art explores life experience. Melding polymer clay with a variety of found objects, she creates elaborate narrative pieces that speak to experiences both personal and universal. Her own story begins in Taylorsville, Utah, where she grew up in a home surrounded by art, and her family encouraged creative thought and artistic experimentation.

Fascinated with polymer clay she has been excited to learn and share all she can about this unique art medium. Heather visualizes each piece she creates as an experience unto itself. Considering shape,color, texture and dimension while infusing mood and uniqueness, she plays upon our emotions and sense of individuality. Each creation is one of a kind, boasting exquisite craftsmanship and attention to detail.

Mastering a variety of techniques Campbell creates complex patterns and designs to entice the eye and spark the curious mind."Millefiori"an ancient Italian glass making process transfered to clay is an integral element in many of her creations. Millefiori has influenced the history of decorative art from ancient times until the present. Precious metals, gems, and crystals add a distinctive flair. All of her special study and education has been through self motivated research and experimentation.

Anne Albaugh
Where others see conflict and danger, Anne Albaugh faces the storms to create compelling landscape paintings capturing the drama and awe of the natural world. Her highly celebrated pieces capture Utah’s natural world and are sure to delight. We are pleased to present Anne Albaugh’s paintings in the 2022 Women’s Show.

Hadley Rampton
Born in Salt Lake City in 1975, Hadley Rampton grew up exploring the Utah wilderness and the Teton/Yellowstone area, a place she has always loved and continues to wander today. In her early professional career, she was drawn to venturing outside and into the landscape she had always loved. There she has remained. Rampton works en plein air (in the open air) whatever the size of canvas may be, thereby combining her passion for the outdoors with that of painting.

In her own words, “I’m energized by the challenges and beauty of nature, by the dynamics of light, atmosphere and temperature in the Rocky Mountains and in the deserts of the southwest. The changes in weather that occur while I’m painting do not bother but thrill me. A storm welling on the horizon, gaining momentum, and catching me in its fury is exhilarating. Even the same location can time and again leave me with a sense of awe.”

Toni Youngblood
Originally from Atlanta, Toni Youngblood is an architect who rescues retired racing greyhounds, an environmentalist, and an accomplished artists who constantly keeps busy.

Toni is a versatile and engaging artist that works in a variety of mediums. Her artwork involves painting with encaustic, watercolor, acrylic, and mixed media, and she loves to experiment with colors, textures, and layers in each piece.

Bonny Royce
Bonny Royce has been an artist in spirit, mind and action since childhood. Her love of nature, color, eye pleasing design and narrative come together in her intuitive and joyful work. Living with a commitment of surrounding herself with beauty, her artistic soul sings through her art.

After growing up in Utah, Bonny has lived in many interesting and beautiful places including Park City, Oahu, Maui, Marin County, San Francisco, California wine country, Half Moon Bay, and Santa Cruz. The influence of these locales is evident in her art where she creates colorful, cheerful work in a variety of mediums including watercolor, acrylics, oils, and sculpture.

Carol Biddle
Carol graduated from Indiana State University with bachelor's degrees in textiles/interior design and painting/drawing and received an MFA in arts administration from the University of Utah. Following a career in development spanning three decades, she retired in 2016 to recommit to art—feltmaking, in particular.

Feltmaking melds her lifelong interest in painting, drawing, sewing, knitting and textile design. Using traditional wet felting techniques, she composes multiple layers of wool fiber embellished with silk or other exotic fibers, embroidery, knit or fabric scraps, recycled materials, stones and glass beads. Her felt wall hangings are influenced by events that have personal meaning, and by the colors and textures of natural environments—geysers, changing seasons, tree bark, root systems, lichens, rivers, rocks, ocean life, forest fires, etc.

She is currently working in what might be called a horror vacui series (fear of empty spaces)—surfaces filled with expressive color, line and texture. Most recently, she started incorporating more analytical felt techniques with sculptural elements such as multilayered fins, panels and ropes that are carved into, revealing colors sandwiched within the layers.

An annual favorite. This year's event features eight local artists and Pilar Pobil. All artwork is for sale.

2022 Featured Artists:

• Pilar Pobil

• Steven K. Sheffield

• Polly Plummer

• Susan Klinker

• Paul Redd-Butterfield

• Angela Bentley Fife

• Tamia Wardle

• Adam Thomas Rees

• Alejandro Pabon

June 10- 12, 5 - 9pm
403 8th Avenue, Salt Lake City, UT 84103

Missed Saturday’s online, women with heART event?

This year’s women with heART Online art catalogue is up through November 14, 2020. Artist Interviews and conversation’s with Pilar as we celebrated her birthday may be viewed on the Pilar Pobil Legacy Foundation Youtube Channel.

Purchase a creative gift for yourself or a loved one, while supporting local women artists and the Pilar Pobil Humanities Scholarship! The event includes conversations with Pilar about the importance of the arts and humanities, the Pilar Pobil Humanities Scholarship, and interviews with this year’s humanities scholarship recipient Rita Anderson, and female exhibiting artists: Susan Conrad Risse, Kristen Mitchell, Briar West, Mary Pusey, Terry Coker Peterson, and Pilar Pobil.

The online women with heART exhibit will run from October 24 - November 14, 2020. Partial proceeds support the Pilar Pobil Humanities Scholarship at the University of Utah.

June 7, 8 and 9 from 5 pm - 9 pm
Come spend a beautiful summer evening in Pilar’s garden surrounded by the art of

Pilar Pobil
Ben Behunin
Erin Berrett
David Estes
Annie Farley
Jamie Love
Stacy Phillips
Steven K. Sheffield

$15 admission supports the Pilar Pobil Legacy Foundation

Good Old Broads in Pilar's Garden.

September 22-23, 4-8p.

403 8th Ave.

$15 donation to enter

Participating artists in addition to Pilar Pobil:

Jackie Mendelson, Ana Sanz, Joyce Baron, Anne Albaugh, Willamarie Huelskamp, KC Muscolino and Kathryn Lindquist.