The PDA Show opens Friday February 19 from 6 to 9pm for Gallery Stroll in Salt Lake City, Utah. With work by over 50 artists exhibited at 4 venues:

NoBrow Coffee @ 315 E. 300 S. www.nobrowcoffee.com

Ken Sanders Rare Books @ 268 S. 200 E. www.kensandersrarebooks.com

The Utah Pride Center, Marmalade Cafe @ 361 N. 300 W.

Alchemy Coffee @ 390n E. 1700 S. www.alchemycoffee.com

there will be a Kissing Booth installation at Kayo Gallery @ 177 E. 300 S. www.kayogallery.com with "kissers" Sister Dottie S. Dixon sisterdottie.com, Band of Annuals bandofannuals.com, members of the Wasatch Roller Derby, www.wasatchrollerderby.com and other surprise guests. "Kissers" are selling kisses by donation as a fundraiser for the Utah Pride Center.

Also for Gallery Stroll there will be an evening of performance from 7 to 9pm at NoBrow Coffee, 315 E. 300 S., featuring a film and performance by Lisa DeFrance and Steve Creson, poetry reading by Andy Hoffman, Joel Long and Mike McLane, and a performance by singer songwriter Eliza Shearon. PDA paraphernalia will also be on sale.

for more information please contact Laura Sharp Wilson @ (360) 349-6973 or sharplaura@mindspring.com

"Only Have Eyes for You", 2010 by L.A. artist Kim Tucker

"Untitled", 2010 by New York artists Lauren Gibbes and Jason Weatherspoon

www.laurengibbes.com

www.jasonweatherspoon.com

"Promoting Discriminatory Agendas" 2010 by Brian Taylor

Taylor is a member of the Copper Palate Press a printmaking collective in Salt Lake City

"Clean", 2010 by Kimya Dawson. http://www.kimyadawson.com/

cut paper collage by North Carolina artist Tory Wright, www.torywright.com

"Untitled study" by New York artist Karen Heagle

Heagle has shown her paintings extensively over the past few years, to see more go to

I-20 Gallery, www.i-20.com

"It Was a Kiss", 2009. by Salt Lake City artist Walter Wilcox

images of "LK" an installation by Nestor Armando Gil. This piece is an ode to Lawrence King, an openly gay middle school student in California who was murdered by a fellow classmate. Gil is currently a professor at Bowdoin College. Large scale digital images of the "LK" installation will hang at Ken Sanders Rare Books, along with "LK" pencils, for "The PDA Show". For more information about Lawrence King: www.rememberinglawrence.org