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• The Dialogue Project, a unique public art installation that disseminates provocative political and community issue statements on 7 by 8 feet screened panels, will be on display Monday from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Gallivan Center, 200 S. Main. Artist Mike Garibaldi Frick's goal is to get people thinking. For more information visit www.DialogueProject.net.

• The Intermountain Society of Artists will meet Tuesday at Wheeler Historic Farm, 6351 S. 900 East, with a paintout from 4:30-7 p.m. and a buffet supper following. Ken Baxter, well-known Utah landscape painter, will be the visiting artist, offering critiques after the paintout. There will be no meeting in July. For more information visit www.isartists.org.

• The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, on the campus of Utah State University, will continue to hold artist-led workshop throughout the summer. For information call 435-797-0163 or visit www.artmuseum.usu.edu.

• The Utah Arts Council and Division of Facilities and Construction Management announce a call for entries for the creation of public art for the new Health Sciences Library Building at the College of Eastern Utah, San Juan Campus in Blanding. The total arts budget is $40,000 and deadline for submissions is Aug. 1. For more information and request for qualification documents, call 533-3585 or arts.utah.gov.

• Clay Arts, Utah, will present an outdoor pottery sale Friday and Saturday at the Eccles Community Art Center, 2580 Jefferson Ave., Ogden. The event will run from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday. For more information call 782-0603, 479-5035 or 277-4030.

• The 2006 Chalk Art Festival, presented by the Utah Foster Care Foundation, will be Friday, 4-9 p.m. and Saturday, noon-9 p.m. at The Gateway. More than 90 artists will transform Rio Grande Street into a gallery of large chalk art murals. The event is free and part of KSL's Family Fair.

• The Rose Wagner Gallery, 138 W. 300 South, announces a call for entries for all Utah artists wishing to exhibit in the gallery during 2007. Applications are due Friday, July 28. For more information or request application call 468-3511 or visit www.finearts.slco.org.