For Michael Aaron Hall, 2019 is shaping up to be pretty busy, with travel and a focus on monuments. In the spring he’s headed to Washington D.C. to see Daniel Chester French’s Lincoln Memorial, which has been a long-term goal. In the summer, he’s headed to New York as […]
Among the Utah literary set, “south of the border” can sometimes mean Utah County, but with its two major universities (Brigham Young—think former poet laureate Lance Larsen — and Utah Valley—think “sonosopher” and performance artist Alex Caldiero) as well as its robust independent lit organizations, you overlook it […]
With so much political art being made and shown these days, it would be easy enough to conclude that social criticism and satire are about the only ways art can help in troubling times. Yet however much contemporary art’s moralizing encourages its fan base, it’s far from being […]
Looking back, Sarah Winegar says 2018 was “a year for exploring what role I wanted art to play in my life.” She had opportunities to exhibit and teach, run workshops, get accepted to and refected from shows. The culmination, at least professionally, was a collaborative show at Provo’s […]
READ LOCAL First represents Utah’s most comprehensive collection of celebrated and promising writers of fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, and memoir. This week we bring you poet Jennifer Tonge. Tonge resides in Salt Lake City and earned an MFA at the University of Utah. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and, […]
Rebecca Klundt is a Salt Lake City native and graduate from Brigham Young University with a BFA in 2D studio art, an emphasis on painting. And power tools. From a distance Klundt’s works may look like simple 2-D paintings, or maybe collage works, but they are actually created with found […]
As a self-taught artist, Andrew Alba says he’s able to create works “outside the constraining expectations that contemporary artists educated within the academy often face.” That hasn’t kept the artist out of official art institutions, however. He’s halfway through a year-long residency at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, […]
Tara Carpenter Estrada, an Assistant Professor of Art Education at Brigham Young University who received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Utah, is known mostly for her ceramics and mixed-media art, but she says in 2019 she’ll be diving deeper into textiles. “In […]
Nathanael Read’s BFA from the University of Utah is in painting and drawing, but these days you’re most likely to find him hovering around the presses at Saltgrass Printmakers playing with ferric chloride. 2018 was a good year for the printmaker, painter, illustrator and “wanna-be comic book artist,” with […]
Come inside Tessa Fontaine’s The Electric Woman and you’ll travel through a hall of mirrors. You’ll watch a young woman incorporate the timeless dramas of grief in a sideshow tent, reflecting richer gestures of love and loss in the distant center ring. You’ll see our narrator undone […]
Brigham Young University art professor Brian Christensen says the “most seminal experience of epiphany in 2018” happed during the second season of BYU’s Art Advanced Summer Intensive program, which he organized with colleague Collin Bradford. During the program students visited land art sites and engaged the landscape with […]
When Bill Whitaker died earlier this year, he left behind an impressive roster of talented and accomplished artists he had help to come into their own. Casey Childs is one of them. The Wyoming native studied formally at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming and Brigham Young University, but he says […]
“Today, Mayor Jackie Biskupski announced the appointment of Felicia Baca and Kristian Anderson to help lead Salt Lake City’s arts and culture efforts. Felicia Baca was selected to become the City’s new Arts Division Director and Kristian Anderson will be appointed as Mayor Biskupski’s Senior Advisor for Arts and Culture…”
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