(upbeat music) - Wake The Great Salt Lake is a temporary public art project to educate and inspire residents and visitors about preventing the decline of the Great Salt Lake.

Artist and grant awardee, Kellie Bornhoft is here to tell us about the new art installation "By a Thread".

Hi Kellie.

Welcome.

So you are having your work shown, you're one of 12 who received grants and tell us about your project "By a Thread."

- I'd love to.

I spent a few months consulting and working with different scientists from the Great Salt Lake Institute in the Department of Natural Resources here in Utah.

And we identified 64 species that needed better visualization.

I illustrated them, I printed them on fabric and they are a part of a large installation that you can touch and walk through.

A big part of the project is that I actually release the images in the Creative Commons.

So they're open resources for educators, scientists, and activists.

- Great, great.

And this one is a new species of algae.

- This is Green Frilly Boy, it was just discovered this year by Dr. Bonnie Baxter, and it's believed to be a pioneer species.

It's one of the first algae species to grow back after the drought that we had in 2022.

- Wow.

And so you've got how many of these you'll be showing at the exhibit?

- 64.

- 64 different things.

And you've illustrated all of them?

- Each of them.

- All right.

Wonderful, wonderful.

And this is going to be at the Marmalade Hill.

I know you've got various locations.

- Yeah, it'll go to several places.

It'll start at the Marmalade Library on November 30th.

We'll have a big reception with poetry read, and this will fill the whole multipurpose room, which is this big, beautiful space with a lot of light.

And then it'll travel to the Capitol.

It'll go to the lake at the Eccles Education Center in Farmington Bay.

And it'll be at several different destinations throughout the next year.

- Wonderful, well, congratulations on getting the award and on the exhibit, thanks for being here.

- Thank you.

- And if you'd like to know more about "By a Thread", that will be at the Marmalade Library branch.

It will be November 26th to the fourth with the reception on November 30th.

It's part of the Wake The Great Salt Lake and Salt Lake City Arts Council grant, just go to wakegsl.org.

Wakegsl.org.

I'm Mary Dickson.

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