Ruth Lubbers, Nancy Boskoff and Stephanie Harpst to speak at Culture Bytes and Dr. Vern G. Swanson to retire from the Springville Museum of Art.
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A Farewell to Lila Abersold
You work somewhere long enough and it starts to seem like home; leaving your desk, your files, and your coworkers feels a little like leaving your bed, your books and your family. After almost 22 years with Utah’s visual arts program, Lila Abersold has decided it’s time to leave her second home at 300 South...
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Comings & Goings: VAI’s New Home, Micol Hebron, and SUU Faculty
The Visual Art Institute (VAI) is finally able to confirm that they have found a new home. They will be occupying the former Exotica Imports, located at 2901 S. Highland Drive. Earlier this year VAI, which also housed GARFO, was forced to move out of their home of 29 years at the Garfield School when...
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Davey Davis goes to Palestine
Local filmmaker Davey Davis is headed to Palestine. Davis has been doing camera work for some of our video interviews (remember the Sam Wilson interview?), and since he’s been manning the 337 Art Truck you’ve probably run into him at one event or another. In January he’ll be going to Palestine for three months as...
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Jim Jones died Saturday
Jim Jones, the renowned painter of southern Utah, passed away at his home in Cedar City on Saturday. As we reported in this month’s edition of 15 Bytes (see page 2), Jones, who never married or had children, left his estate and his last paintings to Southern Utah University with the intent of starting a...
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UMFA’s new Director of Development
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) recently announced that Lisa A. Arnette has assumed the position of Director of Development and External Relations at the museum. From 1998 to 2003, Arnette served as a development officer at the Utah Museum of Natural History (UMNH) on the University of Utah campus. After a successful tenure...
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Adam Price Named New Executive Director
The Salt Lake Art Center announced today that Adam Price has been named its new Executive Director. Price, best known as the founder of the 337 Project, will take over at Heather Ferrell’s departure at the beginning of December. Price has been serving as the President of the Center’s Board of Trustees. His immediate appointment...
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Heather Ferrell Resigns
The Salt Lake Art Center has announced that its Executive Director, Heather Ferrell, will resign effective December 4th. Farrell joined the Art Center in the summer of 2008, filling the position left vacant when longtime director Ric Collier retired (see our profile of her in the December 2008 edition). During her time as Executive Director...
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VAI’s GARFO Gallery
The Visual Art Institute’s new GARFO Gallery opens this weekend with an exhibition entitled 1982: let’s start here. The Gallery has been carved out of empty space in Sugarhouse’s Garfield School by VAI staff Kenny Riches and Cara Despain. The Visual Art Institute has been in the Garfield School since the building stopped operating...
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State Grants Program Gets New Management
Boise, Idaho native Katie Woslager is the new Grants and Endowment Manager for the Utah Division of Arts and Museums. Woslager, who joins the Division with a background in management, human resources, and sales, will play an integral role in the development and roll-out of the Division’s new online grants system. “As we move into...
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New Members Join Utah Arts Council Board
Victoria Rowe Berry , Director of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University , and Andrew Yarosh, Director of the Moab Music Festival recently joined the Utah Arts Council Board of Directors. “I am excited that we will have expanded geographic representation from northern and southwestern Utah . I also look...
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