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Amber Tutwiler: Curating the Fragmented Self

By Shawn Rossiter on June 23, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )
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Exhibitions in Utah

  • Eli Kauffman: Love Is the Message at Finch Lane Gallery
  • Dream States at Finch Lane Gallery
  • Summer Solstice Group Exhibit at “A” Gallery
  • Air at UMFA
  • Lisa Golightly and Nino Yuniardi at Julie Nester Gallery
  • Utah Division of Arts & Museums Presents DesignArts2022 Utah at UMOCA
  • My Grandma is a Meme: Alise Anderson at UMOCA
  • Aloe Corry: Loose Limbs at UMOCA
  • i know you are, but what am i? (De)Framing Identity and the Body at UMOCA
  • Salt Lake City Public Library Exhibits Utah’s Top Student Artwork
  • LAURA SHARP WILSON / Chiasma at Granary Arts
  • JORGE ROJAS / Material Witness at Granary Arts
  • JANE ROBERTS DEGROFF / Gifts of the Sanpete Land at Granary Arts
  • No Brakes: Mike Whiting at Modern West
  • Lilian Agar’s A Hug Away: a breathtaking temple of love at George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Gallery
  • Ya La’ford | Survey: The West at Ogden Contemporary Arts
  • You May Find Yourself at Modern West
  • More Than A Thousand Words at Kimball art Center
  • Bountiful Davis Art Center 47ᵗʰ Annual Statewide Competition
  • 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
  • Claire Taylor: Snail Lake City at Utah State Capitol
  • Wild Utah: Near the Water’s Edge, Downy Doxey-Marshall at Utah State Capitol
  • Bea Hurd’s Corn at Office Space
  • 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
  • Looking Backward & Forward Forty Years with NEHMA & What’s Next at NEHMA

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Doug Caputo
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Star Coulbrooke
Lewis Crawford
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Draper Fine Art
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Dance

Briefly Noted: A New Immersive Work by Oquirrh West

By Samuel Hanson on April 12, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

When we say immersive, what exactly do we mean? Is the term simply a catch-all? A trendy way of saying that the audience will perforce participate? Or that the stage will not be a stage? The supposed genre has been around long enough that perhaps it isn’t even […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Amber Peck and the Art of Making Paper Bandages

By Geoff Wichert on April 11, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

Walking into the small gallery at the Bountiful Davis Art Center where Paper Bandages is installed feels like departing on a road trip so early in the day that it’s still dark out. Silhouettes and familiar shapes can be made out at first, but as inky darkness gradually […]

Dance

Women Choreographers Take the Lead in Salt Lake City

By Alexis Guerrero on April 10, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Opening with a comedic premiere, SuperWomen began as Celine David and McCall McClellan showed us both their hilarious and athletic sides. Casual and colorful clothing transformed into the classic high leotards and tights we all know and love. This also included a seamless mix of ambient music with […]

Literary Arts | Poets in Pajamas

Matthew Ivan Bennett Reaches for Life-Line Poems

By Poets in Pajamas on April 9, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

You probably know Matthew Ivan Bennett from his plays, whether for the stage  — like his 2013 play about gender identity,  Eric(a), or Mesa Verde, which explored the enduring scars of chronic illness — or for the radio (listen here for a recording of “Sleepy Hollow,” produced by […]

Artist Profiles | Visual Arts

The Work of Relentless Traveler Shelby Weaver Finds a Home at SUMA

By Hal Cannon on April 8, 2022 • ( 3 Comments )

Shelby Weaver (U.S., b. 1953) is a Utah outsider artist in a state where outsider has special meaning.  He grew up in the small northern Utah town of Hooper. When asked what made him want to make art, he replied, “It was clouds, seeing shapes in clouds, saying, […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

From Vandalism to the Vapor Trail with McKenna Anderl

By Geoff Wichert on April 6, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

On the one hand, the term “orb” might mean nothing more than a sphere, which is what McKenna Anderl, recently the Junior Artist in Residence at BDAC, chose to paint on a salvaged dictionary page. But then again, the word, primarily used in phrases like “the orb and […]

Literary Arts | Poets in Pajamas

Kathryn Knight Sonntag Turns to Physical Landscapes of Blood and Loss

By Poets in Pajamas on April 5, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

“I recently read Leila Chatti’s Deluge and was awed by her unflinching gaze at chronic illness,” says Kathryn Knight Sonntag, a writer, poet and landscape architect who lives in Salt Lake City. “In her twenties, Chatti, a young Arab-American woman, started bleeding and didn’t stop. Her physicians referred […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Ron Linn’s Grids Fail to Constrain the Wild Land

By Jesslyn Low on April 4, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

Plain white canvas frames a small rectangle of paint at its center. The painted portion features a viewpoint that looks out over a landscape of red and white rock. A bronze-looking plaque centers itself at the forefront of the work. The viewer is placed as if looking at […]

Dance

SALT’s Spring Season Presents a Trio of Moving Works

By Elle Taylor on April 3, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The beautiful hallways at Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center were filled with the pre-show buzz of an eager audience on the opening night of SALT Contemporary Dance’s Spring 9. My usual excitement was heightened by the fact that the show featured three world premieres, with works by distinguished contemporary […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Jesse Meredith’s Photographic Installation Crawls Through the Camouflage of America’s Militia Movement

By Jesslyn Low on April 2, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Camouflage clothing, tactical vests, dirt, men hidden among trees laid flat along the earth in an army crawl, fill the room of Jesse Meredith’s So That We May Fear Not currently on display at Finch Lane Gallery. At first glance, one might assume that this show focuses on […]

Literary Arts | Poets in Pajamas

Ashley Farmer on Victoria Chang and Belonging

By Poets in Pajamas on April 1, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Writers are sometimes drawn to other writers for what they have in common, like subject or theme. But they also can be drawn by the differences, in say craft or style. Something of both draws Ashley Farmer to Victoria Chang. “Victoria Chang is such a masterful, original poet […]

Theater

Iris Salazar’s New Play Explores the Tremors of the Single Life

By Elaine Jarvik on March 30, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Let’s say you’re a single, 45-year-old woman in a religion where people marry young and procreate often. Now you’re about to age out of your LDS “mid-singles” ward, and on top of that you’re still haunted by an earthquake that compounded the isolation you felt during a global […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Maureen O’Hara Ure’s Elsewhere Travels to a Menagerie of Interior Spaces

By Ann Poore on March 25, 2022 • ( 3 Comments )

I entered Phillips Gallery last week with a little shiver of anticipation: there’s a solo show by Maureen O’Hara Ure, one of the most original and interesting artists working in Utah today. And I was going to get to talk to her about it. Art, for O’Hara Ure, […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Shalee Cooper and Sheldon Harvey’s Convergence of Vision at Modern West

By Geoff Wichert on March 23, 2022 • ( 4 Comments )

An influential art gallery doesn’t just record the history of art; they help make it. An excellent example is the current, primarily painting exhibition at Modern West, shared between gallery director and painter Shalee Cooper and Navajo sculptor and painter Sheldon Harvey. When the gallery’s founder and guiding […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Marti Grace Ashby’s Multiple Personalities

By Geoff Wichert on March 22, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

“I want to make the art that ends up in the history books. “With that remark, a local artist — who had gone to the Coast to polish some skills, only to return when it turned out that impressing the Big Pond is harder than it had looked […]

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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.

 

Discover an Artist

 

 

Samantha daSilva (born 1978 Santos, São Paulo, Brazil) is a professional artist and educator living and working in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

As a third generation artist, daSilva was inspired at an early age by her copiously artistic family, namely; her grandmother, a portrait artist, her aunt, an accomplished jewelry designer, and her mother, a watercolorist, who influenced da Silva to experiment with a variety of mediums.

“Water is an intrinsic part of my process. Straight from the tube, acrylic paint is tight, rigid. With the addition of water, the paint relaxes, takes a long, deep breath, begins to move and dance across the canvas. I tilt and manipulate the canvas so that shapes begin to form. I respond to these shapes intuitively. For this reason, my work is never preconceived. I prefer to have the work direct me instead. Fearless Abstract Painting is a process of adding and subtracting to create balance and harmony on the canvas.

My work is a celebration. Once, I identified myself as a victim. Broken, deficient, lacking. Today I am empowered, grateful, anew. Through my work, I attempt to illustrate the redemptive power of choice.”

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