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BDAC’s Juried Annual Leaves an Impression

By Geoff Wichert on May 17, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Ya La’ford, Ogden Contemporary Arts’ Inaugural Artist-in-Residence, Traverses Utah’s Artistic Landscape 

By Scotti Hill on May 5, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )
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Exhibitions in Utah

  • You May Find Yourself at Modern West
  • Rebecca Pyle: Paintings @ Alchemy Coffee
  • More Than A Thousand Words at Kimball art Center
  • Bountiful Davis Art Center 47ᵗʰ Annual Statewide Competition
  • Local Voices: Equality Utah’s Absolutely Everybody
  • Holladay Arts’ Tribute to Trees
  • Material Witness / Jorge Rojas at Granary Arts
  • Gifts of the Sanpete Land / Jane Roberts DeGroff at Granary Arts
  • Chiasma / Laura Sharp Wilson at Granary Arts
  • Clare Kambhu: Seating Arrangement at Office Space
  • Utah: North to South, G. Russell Case at Brigham City Musuem
  • Japantown: In the Heart of Salt Lake City at Chase Home Museum
  • Kaleidoscopic: Life Through a Multi-Colored Lens at UMOCA
  • Mitsu Salmon: Somatic Tracing at UMOCA
  • Claire Taylor: Snail Lake City at Utah State Capitol
  • Wild Utah: Near the Water’s Edge, Downy Doxey-Marshall at Utah State Capitol
  • Eric Fairclough: Memory Mechanics at Finch Lane Gallery
  • Common Threads at Finch Lane Gallery
  • Bea Hurd’s Corn at Office Space
  • 2 ULTRA 2 SCAPES!! Jerrin Wagstaff at Nox Contemporary
  • Rashawn Griffin: The Little Way at Ogden Contemporary Art
  • David Rios Ferreira: Transcending Time and Space, featuring work and writing by artist Denae Shanidiin at UMFA ACME Lab
  • European Splendors: Old Master Paintings from the Kress Collection at BYU MoA
  • Shattering the Pictures in Our Heads at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Our Wake Up Call For Freedoms at Utah Museum of Contemporary Arts
  • Looking Backward & Forward Forty Years with NEHMA & What’s Next at NEHMA
  • salt  15:  Horacio  Rodriguez at Utah Museum of Fine Arts
  • Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction at NEHMA
  • African American Art, Social Justice and Identity: Works by Black Artists from the NEHMA Collection

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Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

With Sound, Sculpture and a Riot of Color, Mitsu Salmon Honors the History of Japanese-Americans

By Rebecca Pyle on May 15, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Nothing’s more full of promise than a prop room in a theater, and that’s what this corner of the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art feels like, filled with Mitsu Salmon’s paintings on raw muslin. All six of Salmon’s big paintings (approximately 4 x 5 feet) are happy explosions […]

Visual Arts

Local Comic Zine Celebrates a Skate Culture Quest

By Geoff Wichert on May 12, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Welcome, my cool cats and kittens, to the . . .  Circus of Death After navigating the Ramp of Doom, you’ll be faced with the Beams of Peril! Survive that and be tested by the Balancing Ball of Fright! Lucky enough to live through that? Well, try making […]

Recognized

Utah Arts & Museums Announces 12 Winners of Utah Artist Fellowships

By 15 Bytes on May 11, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Utah Arts & Museums has announced the 12 recipients of their 2012 Utah Artist Fellowships. The $5,000 unrestricted cash prizes were award to six Utah visual artists and six performing artists. Allison Glenn, a New York-based curator and writer, juried the visual arts fellowships. “Through the jurying process, […]

Variant of Concern | Visual Arts

Carol Sogard Likes to Think Globally, Act Locally During the Holiday Season

By Variant of Concern on May 10, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Think globally, act locally. That’s Carol Sogard. From Detroit, Sogard has been a professor of graphic design at the University of Utah for more than two decades. Her work as a designer, educator and community-engaged artist focuses on the type of contemporary issues that affect the entire globe: […]

Book Reviews | Literary Arts

In Dear Damage, Tragedy Foregrounds the Strength of Ashley Farmer’s Family

By Geoff Wichert on May 9, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

“I’m not the artist my family members are, but I write.” What Ashley Marie Farmer almost certainly means is that she never felt the sense of vocation that led her grandmother, mom, and sister to paint, her brother to shape pottery, and her grandfather to build a house […]

Theater

Annie Baker’s “Body Awareness” at Pygmalion

By Rebecca Pyle on May 8, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Allen Smith’s set for Annie Baker’s play Body Awareness at Pygmalion Theater is a kitchen and a bedroom — as Ikea-perfect as a dollhouse. There is something so orderly about the kitchen it’s startling; it ‘s too precious to be real. It seems it’s still a drawing on […]

Dance

Ririe-Woodbury’s Spring Season

By Indigo Cook on May 7, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The drive to the new Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center involves a turn off Redwood Road to a straight shot down 5400 South’s Flex Lanes – the middle lanes in the road are marked solely with dotted yellow lanes and a light indicating which direction of traffic is allowed […]

Variant of Concern | Visual Arts

Paul Crow Puts Down the Camera for a Series of Meditative Paintings

By Variant of Concern on May 4, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

For several years Paul Crow’s art was about the outside world. The Weber State University professor’s work was frequently lens-based, passing through and observing the world, whether it be urban, ex-urban or rural. “Before, during and for a several years after art graduate school [MFA, University of Southern […]

Variant of Concern | Visual Arts

Kristina Lenzi Becomes the Teacher and the Student

By Variant of Concern on May 3, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

It was 2020 and the pandemic was raging. Kristina Lenzi was teaching an online drawing class through Weber State University. The students were confined to their rooms and had been assigned an art kit that lent itself to mixed-media drawing: black and white acrylic paint, brushes, charcoal pencils, […]

Variant of Concern | Visual Arts

Hanging in Her Crib Gives Laura Erekson Immediate Gratification

By Variant of Concern on May 2, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

In a feature we are introducing this month called Variant of Concern, we ask a Utah artist about a body of work that falls outside their normal practice.   For Laura Ekerson’s upcoming exhibit at Writ and Vision, you can expect to be wowed by an appropriately Spring […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

The Spring Salon Rolls On with Something for Everyone

By Geoff Wichert on April 28, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

With an unknown number works of art accepted, the Spring Salon at the Springville Museum of Art — far and away the exemplary annual show, at the definitive repository of homegrown Utah art and artists — defies imagination. Because it occupies almost the entire main floor, flowing from […]

Literary Arts | Poets in Pajamas

Brenda Sieczkowski: Poetry Changes All the While

By Poets in Pajamas on April 26, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

“The best poems change all the while,” says Brenda Sieczkowski in this recording for our Poetry in Pajamas series. And she provides an example in the work of Kathryn Cowles, who, Sieczkowski says, has influenced her as a poet and a person. Cowles, a Provo native who studied […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Neil Kesterson Creates Memorials to the River Life

By Jesslyn Low on April 25, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

A beautiful wooden boat sits on clear, deep, blue water against a background of rugged mountains. The vibrant, blue sky is only interrupted by fluffy rolling clouds and the boat’s colorful but simple design is reflected in the water. At the bottom of the boat is a turquoise […]

Literary Arts | Poets in Pajamas

Chelsea Guevara Goes Somewhere Over the Border with Rita Dove

By Poets in Pajamas on April 23, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The youngest poet featured in this year’s installment of Poets in Pajamas, Chelsea Guevara discovered poetry in high school, but she had to wait until college before she heard the work of anyone not white or male. She discovered Rita Dove in her first semester at the University […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Nicholas B Jacobsen Learns Flow in a Desert Landscape

By Jesslyn Low on April 22, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

“Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God we would be able to avoid temptation and not lose our way in darkness” – Joseph B. Wirthlin “The truth you believe in and cling to makes you unable to hear anything new.” – Pema Chodron These two […]

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UMFA’S KATIE SEASTRAND NAMED UTAH’ TOP MUSEUM EDUCATOR

Katie Seastrand, manager of school and teacher programs at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) at the University of Utah, has been named Utah Museum Educator of the Year. Seastrand received the award Saturday, March 26, at the Utah Art Education Association (UAEA)’s Spring Conference held online.

“Katie does excellent work to connect K-12 students and teachers to the diverse world of art and creativity,” said Annie Burbidge Ream, co-director of learning and engagement at UMFA. “We truly are so grateful to get to work and learn alongside her, and we look forward to seeing all of the wonderful ways she will continue to enrich people’s lives through engaging art experiences.”

Hired in September 2019 to travel and teach in K-12 classrooms throughout Utah, Seastrand completely re-envisioned school outreach after COVID made in-person Museum tours and classroom visits impossible. Looking for new ways to safely support teachers and students, Seastrand focused first on immediate needs. She worked with classroom teachers and her colleagues in UMFA Learning and Engagement to develop and distribute 1,500 “Art Kits” of supplies to Salt Lake area schools and to Whitehorse High School in San Juan County. She then reimagined and expanded UMFA’s relatively new distance learning efforts into five new programs that have brought UMFA artworks and art-inspired experiences into classrooms virtually.

In two and a half years—most of that time under COVID restrictions—Seastrand has worked with more than 6,000 students and 550 teachers statewide to connect classroom core subjects to UMFA’s global art collection. These programs help students and teachers make connections between objects and their own lived experience, and they give underserved populations some of their only opportunities to experience the visual arts.

“Using art in classrooms not only provides opportunities for students to learn on their own terms but can also help with stress and social-emotional learning,” Seastrand said. “Students need room to be free and creative, to bring what they want to the paper, canvas, clay, or other medium. Art education is an empowering space and outlet for whatever emotions, anxieties, or experiences that may not easily be expressed through words.”

Seastrand grew up in Salt Lake City and graduated from Olympus High School. She has a bachelor’s degree in art history and curatorial studies from Brigham Young University and a master’s degree in museum education from George Washington University. While in graduate school, she interned at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Abracadabra Preschool in Alexandria, Virginia, before returning to Salt Lake City and joining the UMFA.

From the Archives

Baldwin Radio Company and the Flynn Artipelago 

This year, the Baldwin Radio Company in Millcreek turns 100. This is where the first radio headsets were produced by a team of 150 men and women, all hired by the inventor of headphones, Nathaniel Baldwin. More than a decade ago, the buildings were turned into artist studios by Kevin Flynn. Check out this 2011 article on the Flynn Artipelago.

And if you’re an artist and want a booth at the centennial celebration this August, visit our Opportunities section.

 

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Paul Heath is a graduate of the University of Utah and lives and works in Salt Lake.

“I characterize my work as “Pop-Nostalgia”. As a lifetime Salt Lake City resident, I draw inspiration from the awesome neon signs we have around us. I see my work as playful documentation, looking at objects and neighborhood niches through a lighter lens. I also paint images of older antique toys… to elicit a smile or friendly smirk. My art heroes are Andy Warhol, Red Grooms and Wayne Thiebaud.”

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