Coming back to Utah after the pandemic allowed Emily Hawkins to embark on a new path—an MFA at Brigham Young University. Twenty years after receiving a BFA in photography from the University of Utah, the mother of four has found her voice and broadened her media to incorporate printmaking, […]
All important ideas must include the trees, the mountains, and the rivers -Mary Oliver Abigale Palmer paints landscapes like Mary Oliver writes poetry. Her brush brings new and yet familiar ways of seeing. The paintings recognize themselves among the family of things. Staring at them echoes a forest […]
Well my friends are all gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places where I used to play And I’m crazy for love, but I’m not comin on I’m just payin my debt every day In the Tower of Song -Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen’s lyrics […]
Modern West opens a new chapter with Unbound: Art of the West, the first exhibition staged in the gallery’s new space at 242 E. South Temple in Salt Lake City. On view through March 20, 2026, the inaugural show introduces the gallery’s presence along one of the city’s […]
Usually, when a creative event is described as “not to be missed,” the claim is rooted in its contemporary relevance. Numerous indispensable art exhibitions have conveyed alarm about the environment and what threatens it, and to be sure no political or social circumstance feels more pressing, nor so […]
Lance Newman is a professor of English and Environmental Studies at Westminster University in Salt Lake City. His best-known work is an edited collection, Grand Canyon Reader (University of California Press, 2011), and he has published an extensive list of scholarly books and articles, many of them about […]
Every year, the Glass Art Guild of Utah mounts a comprehensive exhibition of local glass arts at Red Butte Garden that is exhaustive in more than one sense of the word. All media, from the smallest ornaments and tiny, colorful objects to large functional and decorative creations, are […]
“Above all, see that I am here.” For Salt Lake City artist Desarae Lee, that line anchors everything. Working primarily in pen and ink, she creates intricate narrative drawings built from obsessive, meditative linework. “The work is small: look closer,” she says. “Accept what is unchangeable—mistakes made with […]
Showing in a student-curated exhibition at the Southern Utah Museum of Art, Mass Produced: The Advent of Affordable Art brings together prints from the height of the Associated American Artists era—black-and-white lithographs that capture the lives of everyday Americans during and after the Great Depression. These works take […]
The art of Andrew Wyeth was largely rejected and ignored by the stuffy critics of his day, no doubt due more to the historical moment than to any shortcoming on his part. But he responded to the resulting lack of intermediaries standing between him and his audience by […]
Students at Yale can’t finish an entire book. Film students won’t sit through a two-hour movie. These are the headlines used to announce the decline in attention, deep thought and intellectual stamina of America’s rising generation. Enter Darryl Stamp, whose new play, DUMBED DOWN, opens with a scene […]
Mitsu Salmon speaks with choreographer and interdisciplinary artist Stephanie García about her creative process, collaboration, and the questions shaping her new work, What Have We Lost? García speaks about a practice grounded in inquiry, where meaning develops gradually through the process of making. Our conversation touches on injustice, […]
Modern scholars have revised their opinions on the part that things like talent, energy, determination, and even intelligence play in achieving success. Sure, those things are helpful, but none now seems so critical as luck. Good fortune is essential; bad luck can cancel all those advantages. A good […]
Margaret Abramshe recently attended an artist talk at the St. George Art Museum where Stephanie Leitch discussed her installation Spell Field Two, presented as part of the exhibition Heaven and Earth: Attached by One Pillar. The work repurposes commercially sourced materials, transforming them through careful craftsmanship into something […]
In the statement accompanying his cut-up and reassembled images, which he collectively titles Offense of Legacy, Greggory Wood tells us that by “legacy” he means to invoke something that parents, for example, might bequeath to their children. Or rather, that which they mean to leave, attempt to bestow, […]
Tucked into a storage closet-turned gallery space at the back of the Southern Utah Museum of Art, Bianca Velasquez’s You’re the Best! A Prize Installation glimmers from mirror tiles and metallic shimmer, deep within a black tunnel. Trophies line shelves like those in a kid’s bedroom or a […]
There’s a particular energy that begins in art, drama, or band rooms. These are the places where people first learn that making things can be a way of life rather than something to outgrow. Those early spaces make room for ideas, experiments, and people who never fit the […]
For more than a decade, playwright Elaine Jarvik has been asking big, uncomfortable, and often funny questions on Utah stages—about belief, identity, power, and the stories people tell themselves. With Sunny in the Dark, now receiving its world premiere at Salt Lake Acting Company, she turns that curiosity […]
For poet and book artist Jess Challis, the boundary between writing and visual art has never been a firm line. Her work moves fluidly across mediums—poetry, image, book objects, multimedia—guided less by genre categories than by instinct, material, and the body’s experience of making. “I’ve never felt the […]
Stewart Seidman creates expressive acrylic works on canvas and with recycled FedEx envelopes that once served as his paint palettes, transforming everyday materials into compelling contemporary art.
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