SLUG Contributor Limelight
February 4, 2021
Contributor Limelight: Hannah McBeth
With her jubilant and gracious approach to writing, Hannah McBeth has been covering community stories for SLUG Magazine since December of 2019. McBeth has a penchant for writing about SLC’s local arts community, and the passion, respect and care with which she reviews and analyzes each exhibit provides a key part of our local arts coverage. Working hand in hand with her passions for writing and reading, McBeth is a self-proclaimed “book worm” and also serves as a Marketing and IT Manager at Marissa’s Books and has played a large part in their pivots through COVID-19. For this issue, check out McBeth’s feature on Ashley Finley, a local birth doula, here.
Articles by contributor
Rethinking Rural/Urban Dichotomies at the Epicenter Spring Summit
2022’s Spring Summit gave professionals from around the state an historic chance to collaborate, network and plan for the future. … read more
Film Review: The Runner
What makes Boy Harsher’s The Runner feel timely is its sense of “creep” from one narrative reality and genre into another. … read more
The Rough Landscape of Women’s Existence in Land Body at...
What the Land Body exhibit at Ogden Contemporary Arts explores is not a set pattern, but something our community can recognize and change. … read more
Art as Activism after the Pandemic: Vida, Muerte, Justicia /...
The realities of a global Latin American/Latinx world shines through in Vida, Muerte, Justicia with artists from all walks of life. … read more
Meow Wolf Gives Inner Children a Shopper’s Wonderland at Omega...
After 2020, the concept at the center of Omega Mart—the grocery store—is even more important than when Meow Wolf began the project in 2009. … read more
Sarah May Uncovers Her Heritage in Photographic Layers
Sarah May brings together symbols and actions that contribute to the continual push to help BIPOC communities flourish. … read more
Doula Ashley Finley Leads By Caring For BIPOC Parents’ Spirits
Finley started Sacred Sister Doula because she says she’d “always felt a calling to help babies, especially Black babies, to be born.” … read more
Livin’ a Pug Life: Groovy Grandma Vibes and Body Positivity...
A jack-of-all-trades, Mirmsy provides welcome rays of sunshine as you scroll through your Instagram feed with lovable and comforting art. … read more
A Giving Culture: Fashion Designer Afa Ah Loo Encourages Sharing...
Fashion Designer Afa Ah Loo creates art as an extension of who he is, while noting that art is there to move people to be better. … read more
UMFA Puts a Positive Spin on Women’s Suffrage in Utah...
Utah Women Working for Better Days! is a family-friendly and upbeat effort to focus on progress and a rosy view of the future of women’s rights in Utah. … read more
Outrage as Righteousness in Andrew Alba’s Show Everyone Sucios
Through Everyone Sucios, Andrew Alba uses his painting as a protest, his outrage as a cause and his words to call out racist systems … read more
Journey into a Virtual Fantasy in Laura Hendricks’ SIX MONTH...
Laura Hendricks’ SIX MONTH SUMMER explores the boundary between fantasy and reality in a strangely appropriate virtual exhibit. … read more
Levi Jackson Explores Illusions in the Promised Land
In his photography, Levi Jackson balances technical approaches, levity and weightiness of subject with the polish of New York schooling. … read more
Virtual Public Art Tours During Social Distancing
The Salt Lake City Arts Council organizes a series of virtual art tours amid the COVID-19 “Stay Safe, Stay Home” mandate. … read more
Utah Premiere of Aaron Sorkin’s Adaptation of Harper Lee’s To...
Aaron Sorkin’s stage version of To Kill a Mockingbird is a happy ending to a long story of legal struggles to present the play to Utah audiences. … read more
Guerrilla Girls Drop the F (feminism) Bomb on SLC at...
The Guerrilla Girls exhibit at UMOCA features recent work Utah audiences may not have seen and gives perspectives on racism, classicism and current events. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Ironbark AKA The Courier
The audience shifted nervously in their seats as mushroom clouds blossomed and Cold War events unfolded in Dominic Cooke’s Ironbark. … read more
Sundance Film Review: Luxor
The synopsis of Zeina Durra’s Luxor sounds more like a genre-typical travel romance than what’s delivered. Luxor is closer to a quiet, art-house character study. … read more
The Language of the Body Told Through Cinema’s Frame: The...
Founder Ellen Bromberg discusses her plans for the upcoming Screendance Festival, an event that showcases dance for camera and film. … read more