Exhibitions

Salt Lake Community College, in collaboration with The Consulate of Mexico in Salt Lake City and Artes de México en Utah, presents the 8th Edition of “LatinArte – Our Roots” exhibition and the 14th annual “Sor Juana Spanish Poetry Contest.”

Participating Artists / Artistas participantes
- Abel Adame
- Danae Angulo
- José Araujo Durán
- Gloria Arredondo
- Gricelia A. Baker
- Manuel Bernal
- Victoria Cabanerio Gonzalez
- Luis Alejandro Canelón Escobar
- Andrea Cárdenas Arceo
- Norma Carver
- Abi Cedillo
- Ambar Chacin
- Pablo Cruz-Ayala
- Oscar Da Silva
- Alejandra Quechol Delgado
- Pablo Andrés Escobar
- Sophia Patricia Estrada
- Jorge Estrano
- Sofía Farias Díaz de Leon
- Inez Garcia
- Elisa Gómez
- Cecilia Izarraraz
- Magdalena Jones (Jaggy Mones)
- Sugey Lopez
- Sergio Marquez
- Nataly Muñoz
- Stephania Muro
- Daniella Ortiz Ramírez
- Oswaldo Ponce de Leon Landa
- Josefina Priotti Manzo
- Cisco Rodriguez
- Laura Romero
- Vicente Romo
- Kenneth Sanchez
- Yusdelly Sanchez
- Federico Valerio
- Bianca Velasquez

Local Latino artists will be included in the exhibition at SLCC’s George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Gallery, where they will showcase painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, and installations.

High school students and adults residing in Utah are invited to share their voices with the community as part of the Sor Juana Spanish Poetry Contest. Previously unpublished poems or prose in Spanish will be published in the Sor Juana Poetry Catalog. Winning texts will receive awards and be featured in the 2026 Utah Arts Festival and other cultural events in the state.

“No se pinta con las manos: la pintura debe nacer en el alma, pasar por el cerebro y luego las emociones deben derramarse sobre un lienzo.”

– María Izquierdo

“One does not paint with the hands: painting must be born in the soul, pass through the brain, and then emotions must spill onto a canvas.”

– María Izquierdo

El arte latinoamericano combina las expresiones artísticas únicas de México, Centroamérica, Sudamérica y el Caribe, así como la creatividad de los latinoamericanos que viven en el extranjero. Nuestras raíces son profundas y complejas: desde los pueblos originarios hasta la llegada de las culturas europeas, somos una simbiosis de tradiciones.

The Consulate of Mexico in Salt Lake City, Artes de México in Utah, and the George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Gallery at Salt Lake Community College welcome you to “LatinArte Nuestras Raíces,” Eighth Edition, an exhibition of works by Latino artists residing in Utah and western Wyoming. We hope you enjoy it!

Artist highlights

Megan Wilson (SLCC alumna) is a mixed media artist based in Ogden, UT. She explores themes of life cycles and energy transfer through close observational and scientific drawings of natural phenomena combined with hand-painted textural surfaces and materials. Her work creates mixed media collages that reflect complex, layered, and cyclical processes of energy disintegration and transformation. She received her BFA from Weber State University in 2012 and has exhibited at the Utah Division of Arts & Museums Statewide Annual Mixed Media and Works on Paper Exhibition, the national PaperWest Works on Paper Exhibition at the University of Utah, the George S. & Dolores Dore Eccles Gallery at Salt Lake Community College, and regularly at the Eccles Art Center in Ogden, UT. Her current body of work integrates themes of decay and renewal to explore and process the transfer of energy and generational experiences passed on through the passage of time.

“I am consistently in awe of the world around me. I love to study and closely observe the natural world, from microbes, insects, and plants, to geological formations and astronomical phenomena. I am specifically interested in the balance of destruction and production in both biotic life cycles, like detritivores who recycle nutrients and make them available again for the next generation of living things, and abiotic processes that cycle materials in the environment through destructive processes like erosion and supernovae.”

Izzy Beauchesne (known professionally as De Izzy) is a Salt Lake City–based mixed media artist and SLCC student whose work explores memory, family, sustainability, and the natural cycle of life. Through immersive sculptural installations, as seen in her ongoing series Archive in the Wild, she reclaims discarded materials and transforms them into living archives and intimate worlds that explore family dynamics, memory, and humanity's relationship with the natural world.

Growing up, she spent hours creating fairy houses with her mother from fallen palm fronds, leaves, and other natural materials. These childhood creations led her to build miniature sets for stop-motion animation. After moving to Utah, Beauchesne became involved with the Utah Arts Alliance through Dreamscapes, where she volunteered as a young teenager, became one of Dreamscapes' primary artists, and eventually served as Volunteer Director.

Working primarily with reclaimed, secondhand, and discarded materials, she believes every object carries a history. By giving these materials a second life, she creates works that honor both the environment and the memories embedded within the objects. Her perspective on mortality was shaped by her experience working as a Certified Nursing Assistant during her teenage years, which led her to view death as a natural part of life's continuum. Rather than representing loss, the skeletons, greenery, reclaimed technology, vintage film, and fragments of history that appear in Beauchesne’s installations celebrate remembrance, transformation, and enduring bonds between generations.

While Beauchesne leaves her work open to interpretation, every installation is rooted in personal experience. Through immersive environments, she invites viewers to reflect on the memories they carry, the people who have shaped them, and the beauty found throughout every stage of life.