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• Community Nursing Services hosts its 17th annual Celebration of Art & Soup on Wednesday and Thursday at the Sheraton City Centre (150 W. 500 South). For more information call 233-6100, or visit www.cnsvna.org.

• Art Access/VSA arts of Utah, 339 W. Pierpont, will host "Art Positive," a series of art workshops for adults who are HIV positive or living with AIDS. The April workshop will be Wire/Found Object Sculpture, taught by Ric Blackerby. For more information call Art Access at 328-0703.

• The Salt Lake Art Center, 20 S. West Temple, will present another in its series of Art Talks on Wednesday evening at 7. Artist Derek Boshier, participant in the development of British Pop Art, will discuss his media work as well as his projects with David Bowie and the band The Clash. The talk is free and open to the public. For more information call 328-4201.

• The Eccles Community Art Center, 2580 Jefferson, Ogden, will host Jon R. Williams' group interaction workshop on photographers portfolio critiques on Tuesday and Thursday from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Tuition is $65. Call 392-6935 for more information.

• BYU Museum of Art will host a lecture by noted American studies scholar and professor of art history Erika Doss on Thursday evening from 7-8:30. Doss will lecture on "Spirited Moderns: Rethinking Robert Henri's Female Art Students." The lecture is free and open to the public.

• Southern Utah University's Department of Art and Design will host a lecture and demonstration by ceramics artist and instructor Bruce Dehnert on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the J.L. Sorenson Physical Education Building, Room 101. Dehnert will also conduct demonstrations on Monday and Tuesday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., in Centrum Room 203. The public is welcome to attend all events. For more information call 435-865-8800.

• Utah State University's Department of Art Visiting Art Program will host printmaker, installation and conceptual artist Bogdan Achimescu, who will lecture Tuesday, 7 p.m., in the Eccles Conference Center, Room 216. Achimescu will show images and discuss his art. For more information call 435-797-7373.