Salt Lake City is one of 17 finalists for a $1 million grant that would go toward a public art project to draw attention to the endangered Great Salt Lake.
, the charity started by media tycoon and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Salt Lake City’s project is one of five aimed at addressing climate change. Specifically, the drought that is threatening the Great Salt Lake, which Felicia Baca, director of theThe project is called “Wake the Great Salt Lake.” Baca said the title was chosen because of the different meanings of the word “wake.”
Mendenhall told The Tribune that “it’s an exciting idea that we could receive such a phenomenal investment in connecting our own residents’ notions of our relationship with the lake across the city.” “I support the expansion of arts in the city wholeheartedly,” Mendenhall said, “because it tells it both tells the story of who we are as the people of this community and who we have been and who we’re becoming.”
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