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Photographer Michael Plyler: 1993-94 recipient of a Visual
Artist Fellowship from
The Utah Arts Council. In 1983 he received a commission from the
Guatemalan
Tourist institute, which led to the first international showing
of his work at their headquarters.
Plyler has been photographing the Mayan Indians of Guatemala since
1982. His work is held in numerous public and private collections
on three continents. These collections include the Heard Museum,
the San Diego Museum of Man, Museum of the American Indian, and
the Graham Nash Collection. Plyler is also a co-founder and current
director of his the Utah Canyons Workshops. In the fall of this
year his one-man exhibition, "From Ely to Iberia" will
be displayed at the Open Shutter Gallery in Durango, Colorado.
This is his second collaboration with writer Logan Hebner.
Logan Hebner began writing about the Southern
Paiute in 1989 when the Kaibab Tribe turned down millions of dollars
in rejecting a hazardous waste incinerator. The disconnect between
the Southern Paiute he came to know and their mainstream stereotypes
compelled him to this project. Together with photographer Michael
Plyler, he had produced an earlier exhibit called “Working
Wonders,” about elders who chose to continue working. They
decided that this format, combining biography and portraiture,
created a good way to tell their stories. Hebner’s writings
and oral histories have appeared in the High Country News, The
Best of Writers at Work Anthology, Northern Lights, Boatman’s
Quarterly Review, Catalyst, and other publications.
The exhibit is free and open to the public. For more information
about the exhibit, or to arrange parking, call Tanner Humanities
Center at: 581-7989.
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