Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
The Salt Lake Arts Council and the Public Art Program celebrates the newest addition to the City’s public art collection, The Crossing, (unveiled July 26, 2022) with an interview with the artist Jiyoun Lee-Lodge. … What is your favorite medium to work with? Pen and iPad for immediacy […]
loveDANCEmore announces that Arin Lynn will replace Samuel Hanson as editor of the dance publication. “As I leave the position, I would like to thank our talented writers, as well as the artists whose work we’ve catalogued and critiqued in over 250 articles, reviews and digest pieces,” Hanson writes in a press release. “I also want to thank the many photographers who volunteer their time to document dance — both for our publication and for dance companies and independent producers across our state. If you haven’t already, I encourage you to take a look at our virtual exhibition, Through the Eyes of a Dancer, a collaboration with the Utah Division of Arts and Museums. We hope to present this exhibition, which celebrates Utah dance photography, in a gallery show in 2023 or 2024.”
Artists of Utah is excited to announce the launch of a new program, Before Now. In more than one sense, it’s an old program. What we are gathering together under the rubric “Before Now” has existed in various preliminary forms throughout our twenty-year history: most prominently in the […]
The Utah Division of Arts & Museums has announced Lisa Bickmore will be Utah’s new Poet Laureate. Established in 1997, the position is “a governor-appointed advocate for literature and the arts throughout the state, who presents in communities, schools, libraries, and public events,” according to the press release. […]
Friday evening, at the Utah Arts Festival in downtown Salt Lake City, seven of the city’s most creative will be heading to the Festival Stage to accept a 2022 Mayor’s Artists Award. Since 1992, the awards have honored artists and art organizations who, according to the city’s press […]
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) has received a 2022 Bank of America Art Conservation Project grant to conserve “Two Running Horses (1932),” a four-panel screen by Chiura Obata (1885–1975). Obata is considered one of the most prominent Japanese-American artists of the 20th century. The work is […]
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, […]
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: […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
Just sitting on your butt in Salt Lake City watching the snow melt or the sad war on CNN? It’s easy to forget that well within reach, mere hours away, there are rich, warm places to visit in the south, like the Snow Canyon Lava Tubes or the […]
For nearly three decades in his role as a professor of ceramics at Brigham Young University’s department of art, and as an award-winning artist with a long list of regional and national exhibitions on his CV, Brian Christensen has been able to observe the changing critical and commercial […]
When Claire Tollstrup thinks about influence her first thoughts go to Monet, though Mary Cassatt would be a close second. “Claude Monet showed in his later work how to be free in his paintings. His loose brush strokes give every artist permission to be themselves and to interpret […]
