Professionally, the 2018 high water mark for Jethro Gillespie was the successful defense of his doctoral dissertation in Art Education from Concordia University in Montreal – “Rethinking and remaking a high school art foundations curriculum” was the title. His research for it was as much practical as theoretical: […]
Out of her studio in the Salt Lake City area, Cristall Harper has painted series of vibrant contemporary interpretations of traditional genres like seascapes and florals, but she is best known for her portraits of dogs. She’s looking forward to an exhibition of these canine canvases at Park […]
Ask most people about their best times and they’re likely to mention family and friends (if only because it’s the socially acceptable thing to do). Not Laura Hendricks. “The best thing to happen to me in 2018 was a solo trip I took to Yellowstone National Park. I […]
Gilmore Scott was just short of finishing his art degree at Utah State University when he began a career as a wildland firefighter. For 9 years he worked with the U.S. Forest service fighting the West’s wildfires, protecting the land he loves. Since 2010, he has returned to […]
On Saturday, Amanda Michelle Smith’s ceramic painting “Virtual Reality” will be sold at auction via Unibrow, the startup begun by her husband, Casey Jex Smith. “It’s the culmination of 11 1/2 years of effort. It’s been overwhelming for our family, but we’re hoping for some good to come […]
Every five years, we check in with our public to answer an important but not always easy question: Who are the state’s most influential artists? These are not necessarily the “hottest” artists, they are not the most “honored” artists, but these are the artists who make a difference […]
Ben Hammond says he creates art because some of his deepest feelings can’t be articulated in words. “I hope that the viewer can sense what is most important to me when they see my work,” he says. “I don’t try to hide any secret meaning in my art. Each […]
“I want to take a viewer somewhere”—Roland Thompson There’s something that in theory can happen to any artist, but is particularly wonderful when it happens to one who has chosen an arduous path: one that imposes some external standards of its own on the craft of art making. […]
Traveling south on Main Street, it’s hard to miss Trent Call’s eclectic homage to the Utah Jazz. There are plenty of Easter eggs to be found in the mural that celebrates the team’s 40 seasons: longtime fans will be able to pick out the evolution of the team’s […]
Professors may retire, artists don’t. For Wayne Kimball, a former professor of printmaking at Brigham Young University, the post-university years have been a flourishing period of artistic creativity. Pressing On, an exhibition of his most recent prints, collages, and boxes, on exhibit through Dec. 12 at his old […]
I like a man who fly-fishes; who has spent much of his life, “thigh deep in moving water.” Don’t know much about fly-fishing, myself, though I know many who do and revel in its necessary quietude and Zen-like keen focus. Oh, and c’mon, can there be a better-named […]
It’s about time they did an art show together: Bob Griswold, 97, and his son John, recently retired, who cares for him. Both watercolorists, father and son share an interest in painting their favorite things: camping, hunting, fishing, dogs, and subjects from hundreds of photographs they’ve taken. On […]
Tyler Bloomquist announces he is stepping down from THE BLOCKS
July 3rd is Tyler Bloomquist’s last day as artistic director of THE BLOCKS, the Salt Lake Cultural Core initiative. He was hired as the project’s first artistic director in November 2017. Bloomquist announced that he’ll be stepping down to take a position working with Modern West and The Foundry SLC.
“I have been honored to have had the opportunity to serve the City, County and the Downtown Alliance, to build relationships with and showcase our amazingly talented and dedicated creative community and to have had a role in launching and developing the Cultural Core brand and initiative,” Bloomquist said.
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