Replenish

Live Event April 4th: https://replenish-exhibition.eventbrite.com

Can Art Save the Lake?
by Nan Seymour

What can a poem do to help get water to the lake? How could a painting possibly help?

Questions have been posed by art skeptics since the onset of the lake-facing movement. Why dance, sing, and celebrate a lake in peril?

Because we will save what we love.

Art makes love visible and more powerful. Art creates culture. Culture defines our values and our collective values will determine how we live.

Can we save the lake without art? Well, we’re not going to chance it.

Replenish is a vital fundraiser to help sustain this movement—it is also gathering of lake-facing friends that will replenish our spirits and help us refresh our commitment.

Art is the vital heart of the lake-saving movement and an agent of change. Art calls us into right relationship with waves and migrations—into reciprocity with cormorants, coyotes, and microbialites. Through art we pledge allegiance to our ecosystem.

So let us gather in a lake-facing way!

Thank you for coming to strengthen this already robust and beautiful movement. Your presence at Replenish will complete the picture.

Let us celebrate our shared devotion to our sacred lake. Let the waters flow through new channels carved by art and love.

Grow the Flow is an initiative of Conserve Utah Valley, a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to conserving land and water, forever. Conserve Utah Valley has successfully helped protect Bridal Veil Falls, the Bonneville Shoreline Trail, Slate Canyon, and Utah Lake. In 2023, Grow the Flow recognized an immense need to unify siloed efforts to save Great Salt Lake and build bridges between geographically and ideologically diverse communities across the watershed. Under the leadership of Executive Director Dr. Ben Abbott, Grow the Flow is harnessing the political and public will to restore Great Salt Lake by empowering citizens, identifying non-partisan solutions, and leading collaborative efforts with NGOs, the private sector, community members, institutions, and government leaders to get water to the Lake.