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TOUR ITINERARY

October 4 – November 8, 2024 Bountiful Davis Art Center Bountiful, UT December 12, 2025 – March 31, 2026 Stewart Library, Weber State University Ogden, UT April 1 – May 14, 2026 Grand County Library Moab, UT June 15 – July 30, 2026 Hub City Gallery Mount Pleasant, UT Fall 2026 (dates to be announced) Museums at Union Station Ogden, UT January 4 – February 12, 2027 Canyon Community Center Springdale, UT

THE UTAH EXQUISITE CORPSE PROJECT

 The Utah Exquisite Corpse Project is a series of collaborative paintings and drawings created by 58 Utah artists. Each piece is divided into several panels, with a different artist painting each one in ignorance of what the other participants are doing. The only clues telling each artist what to paint are the knowledge of where their panel is in relation to the whole, and lines or colors left at the top of their panel by the previous artist. The project was inspired by games played in the 1920s and ‘30s by the Surrealists in Paris. The name Exquisite Corpse (translated from the French Cadavre Exquis) came from the phrase “The exquisite corpse shall drink the new wine,” which was generated from a word game played by Surrealist leader Andre Breton, Marcel Duhamel, Yves Tanguy and others around 1920. The first conceal part of the story before passing it to the next player, who continued writing from there, folding the paper again and passing it along, etc. Before long, the practice w...