Sanctuaries Form

For an upcoming community-curated exhibition we are inviting members of our community to choose a work of art from our Permanent Collection that represents Sanctuary to them. All nominated works will be featured in a slideshow at the Museum and some of the nominated works will be chosen to be featured in an exhibition that will run concurrently with the 36^th Annual Spiritual & Religious Art of Utah Exhibition. Submissions must be received before 8:00am on Monday Se

To participate you will nominate a work from our Permanent Collection that represents sanctuary to you.

• You can browse our collection at this link. 
• You can search by keywords, browse by object type, or look by artist’s name.
• There is a portfolio of Spiritual & Religious artwork here if that’s helpful (but feel free to branch outside of this portfolio to any works in the collection).

After you’ve chosen a work fill out the form below. 

Our current working definition of sanctuary is:

Sanctuaries are meaningful spaces, where we seek refuge from our daily troubles and concerns. Where and how do you find peace or sanctuary in your life? 

We’ve also been referencing this quote by Diane Kalen-Sukra:

“Offering sanctuary is a revolutionary act; it expresses love, when others offer scorn or hate.  It recognizes humanity, when other deny and seek to debase it.  Sanctuary says ‘we’ rather than ‘I’.  It is belonging – the building block of community.”