RadioACTive Pop! Quiz on 'Survival Instincts'

  • May 18, 2026
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Monday, May 18: RadioACTive Pop! explores the beauty of Survival Instincts, the latest exhibition from artist and We Ride At Dawn DJ Bianca Velasquez. Plus, could where you lived explain your cancer? Downwinder workshops in Utah this week.

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Rallies & Resources Spotlight (full list here):

  • May 22-29: Downwinders Program Free Seminar Tour UT & ID '26. If you lived in Utah or Idaho between 1951 and 1962, you may qualify for federal cancer compensation. Utah Downwinder survivor, advocate and playwright joins us, along with Arizona-based Downwind attorney Laura J. Taylor Turner, to talk about 8 sessions across 3 cities (SLC and Cedar City, UT; Twin Falls, ID) where you can learn more.

  • May 23: No 'Stratos' Data Center | 11 AM @ Utah State Capitol, 350 N State St, SLC.

RadioACTive Pop! Quiz: Survival Instincts

Artist Bianca Velasquez has spent the last few months preparing for her new exhibit, Survival Instincts, which opens Friday night at the Bountiful Davis Art Center. RAPop! gets a preview with the artist herself, who also hosts KRCL's We Ride at Dawn.

  • May 22-Jun 19: Survival Instincts addresses nature’s brutality through six beadwork pieces displaying the parallels between selected bugs and the human condition. Starting with sketches, then precise bead mapping, each artwork is painstakingly built bead by bead, intended to mirror the raw tension between delicate craft and the carnal urge for survival. These bugs and insects’ visceral processes of reproduction and evolution hit hard against human stories of love, power, and control.

    From the scorpion’s deadly mating ritual to the damselfly’s breakout flight, the show strips down the messy, violent, and beautiful side of survival. Influenced by feminist thought and power dynamics, these works expose how unconscious steps toward survival inform our deep and darker motivations.

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