Irwin said she was grateful and a bit embarrassed to receive the award. The embarrassment comes, she said, from being rewarded for the tools she had to acquire to “simply navigate and survive in this complex country.”
After all these years of working in the area, Irwin said the one constant is that “the work is never completed.”
In this day and age, Irwin said, the work she does is important because “active, lifelong engagement in the arts is transformative.” The award isn’t the first Irwin has received over her career. She has received the mayor’s Individual Arts Award, the Utah Counselor’s Association’s Human Rights Award, the Ruby Chacon Award for Arts & Social Justice, and the Sorensen Legacy Award for Lifetime Achievement in Arts Education, among others., to transform the “dark and dreary” underpass under Interstate 15, on 300 North between 600 West and 700 West, in Salt Lake City’s Fairpark neighborhood.in 2005.
Irwin also takes pride in blurring the line between “fine art” and “folk art” in Utah, acknowledging and nurturing the skills of folk artists — who are often overlooked by the traditional fine art world — and elevating them in the Utah art landscape.
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