Editor’s Note: Day 7 of The Selective Echo’s coverage of the Utah Arts Festival continues with several features. The first is a preview of tomorrow’s Art Attack 5K and today’s highlights for kids and music. The second and third above deal with the Saltgrass Printmakers and three young artists at this year’s festival. Tomorrow’s coverage continues with features from various aspects of the festival.

DID YOU KNOW? All 84 portable toilets at the festival are flushable units, just as in a plane lavatory.

Runners and kids eager to test their summer fitness capabilities will take advantage of a fast USAT&F certified course tomorrow morning. Now in its 16th year, the Annual Sports Medicine Center of Utah Art Attack 5K will be held at Sugarhouse Park.

The first loop will be on the road and the second loop will be on grass running along the perimeter of the park and will finish in front of the Dodo Restaurant, which is providing food for the event. There also will be music by Kevyn Dern.

The event has become a solid way to raise funds for arts programs associated with the festival, according to Lisa Sewell, festival director who also happens to be an experienced marathon runner. The run, which includes a 1K component for kids 12 and under, is expected to raise between $12,000 and $15,000 and attract between 450 and 500 runners.

Coming today:

After yesterday’s enthusiastic crowds, noticeably larger than what has been observed on the first day of previous festivals, today looks even more promising as all of the festival venues will offer a full day of entertainment, artists’ demonstrations, film screenings, workshops, and a full day of activities for kids in the Target Art Yard open until 9 p.m. With a theme of “Everything Above Our Heads,” the features are the Birds and Bees Trees, Celestial Cave, Cloud Mountains, Spaceship Central, Flying Insects, and the Instrument Petting Zoo coordinated by the Summerhays Music Center.

On the Amphitheater Stage:

Charley Jenkins (8:45 p.m.) — Country, western, and bluegrass music

Soul Survivors (10 p.m.) — R&B, and blues

On The Festival Stage:

Mayor’s Artists Awards (7:30 p.m.) — This year’s winners comprise Sam Wilson (Visual Arts), a University of Utah art faculty member who has participated extensively in the Art Access Partners Program, has worked in art therapy programs, and is known for the Fourteen Stations of the Cross at the Cathedral of the Madeleine; Joel Long (Literary Arts), poet (the prize-winning Winged Insects anthology), high school creative writing teacher, co-president of City Art, and founder of the Lake Effect Writers’ Conference for High School Writers and Teachers; Keven Myhre (Performing Arts), a long-time Salt Lake Acting Company member who has served as professional set designer, costume designer, director, and producing director; Heart and Soul (Service to the Arts-Organization), a group of musicians who, since 1994, have performed in convalescent homes, rehabilitation centers, prisons, homeless shelters, refugee centers, and other venues for individuals in isolated circumstances, and the 337 Project (Service to the Arts-Organization), well known for the 337 Project Building, the Urban Gallery at Salt Lake City’s Neighborhood House, Present Tense at the Salt Lake Art Center, the Art Truck, and countless other community art outreach activities.

Pictures below are from 337 Project’s latest Urban Gallery installation at the Neighborhood House. Taken by Stefan LeSueur, one features the winning door, by Chuck Landvatter and Dave Doman, which depicts Kanosh, an early Native American convert to Mormonism.

Jazz Composer Commissions (8 p.m.) — Jay Lawrence, a University of Utah music faculty member, and Steve Lindeman, a Brigham Young University faculty member, are the second recipients of the festival’s jazz commissions

The Infamous Stringdusters (9:45 p.m.) — Their 2007 album Fork In The Road drew major attention, named best release of the year by the International Bluegrass Music Association. A bold 21st Century take on a classic American music style.