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• The Utah Foster Care Foundation announces a call for artists, amateur and professional, to participate in the June 17-18 Chalk Art Festival at The Gateway. All materials will be provided and artwork must be suitable for family viewing. Participants may attend a free workshop on June 11 with a master chalk artist. The event is to increase community awareness of the need for foster/adoptive families. Interested individuals should call Deborah Lindner at 994-5205 or deborah@utahfostercare.org.

• Brigham Young University visual arts professor Martha Peacock has been awarded the 2005 BYU Women's Research Institute Distinguished Research Award. Peacock received her doctorate in the history of 17th century Dutch art from Ohio State University in 1989. Her research centered on the relationship of art in the lives of women, both as artists and subjects in the Dutch Republic. Peacock is currently working on an exhibit for BYU's Museum of Art — "Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age: Heroines, Harpies and Housewives."

• Higher Ground Learning, 325 Pierpont (east end of the historic Artspace), an academic tutoring and mentoring center, will exhibit its student artwork Friday evening, from 6-9, during monthly Gallery Stroll. For more information on Higher Ground, visit www.highergroundlearning.com