Artist and former schoolteacher Kate Jarman-Gates runs Clever Cucumber out of the garage of her west-side Salt Lake City home — helping would-be artists by giving workshops and providing access to supplies and equipment.
“Most of the opportunities to do art on the west side are if your kids are going to school and they have an art teacher,” Jarman-Gates said. “We don’t have a real art studio. We do have a bunch of independent practicing artists, but we don’t have like a community art space.”
“It turns out, we attract a lot of people who are on disability, either for mental health or physical reasons,” she said. As important as it is to get people supplies, Jarman-Gates said, the second part of Clever Cucumber’s mission — teaching art techniques — is more crucial. The community operation is sustainable, Jarman-Gates said, in part because she doesn’t take a salary — she makes her money off of private commissions of her own art.
One of her own works on display, “Lovely and Lost,” is a glass piece with big circles. Jarman-Gates said she created the work to “explore and memorialize the two miscarriages that I’ve had, and to talk about pregnancy loss.”
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