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Mayor Erin Mendenhall has announced the winners of the 2024 Mayor’s Artists Awards. The awards, created in 1992, “honor artists and arts organizations who have deeply enriched the cultural landscape of our city and the lives of our citizens.” They will be presented by Felicia Baca, Executive Director […]
The Brigham Young University Department of Art has announced associate professor Collin Bradford has been selected as the new Department Chair. He will began his term June 1st. Bradford replaces professor Joseph Ostraff who is retiring after 31 years in the department (see our profile of Ostraff here). […]
6/14 SLTRIB: A Utah architect, inspired by LGBTQ stories, makes a walk-through art project Doug Staker’s moveable art project — a walk-through “sacred space” he calls “Sanctuary” — is designed to celebrate belonging. Staker said he was motivated to create the project by personal stories from family and […]
The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University (USU) and the University Press of Colorado have published Unearthed: The NEHMA Ceramic Collection and the Woman Behind It—a testament to the museum’s exceptional ceramic collection and the indelible impact of its founder, Nora Eccles Treadwell […]
Beginning this month, the Twilight Concert Series lights up Salt Lake City’s summer skies with an eclectic mix of music. Running from June to August, this series is not just a concert; it’s the cultural heartbeat of the city during the summer months. An urban plaza in downtown […]
The Utah Film Center has announced that Cat Palmer will serve as the Festival Programming Director for the 2024 Utah Queer Film Festival (UQFF), previously known as Damn These Heels. Scheduled to take place from October 24 through 27 at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in downtown […]
On their social media accounts, Meyer Gallery has announced that longtime director Adam Hansen will become the gallery’s new owner. Started as the Hanging Room Gallery in 1965, Meyer Gallery is one of the longest-enduring art galleries in the state. Susan Meyer took over the gallery from her […]
2024 Utah Artist Fellowship Recipients The Utah Division of Arts & Museums has announced the 15 Utah artists in design, performing, and visual arts who have been awarded $5,000 fellowships to recognize their individual artistic excellence and support their professional careers. The fellowship provides unrestricted cash awards based […]
As they conclude their 60th season, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company have announced that Peter Farrow and Alexander Pham are leaving the company. Farrow, from Richmond Virginia, studied at Julliard. He joined the company in 2020. Pham, from Minneapolis, Minnesota studied at the University of Minnesota and joined the company […]
At least UMOCA has had a warning. The announcement that the West Valley Performing Arts Center, facing an expensive overhaul, would instead close forever, was announced “abruptly” by city officials (see below). The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, and its neighbor, Abravanel Hall, have known that their almost […]
4/25 SOUTHWEST CONTEMPORARY: The Desert’s Living Skin: A Collaborative Effort to Bring Biocrust Into the Museum Entering the gallery space initiates a tangible contact with the desert’s living skin—that is, the biocrust. At UMOCA, a portion of the biocrust, a community of organisms—lichens, mosses, and cyanobacteria—that form a carpet-like crust […]
4/3 KUER: Yes, the new Salt Lake City airport tunnel will be a shorter walk. It’s also artsy Where in Utah can you be 26 feet underground and 12 feet above water at the same time? The answer is a new tunnel at the Salt Lake City International […]
2/28 CITYWEEKLY: Everything is Collective: Expected Image at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art In Utah, the landscape and the natural world form a huge part of the state’s identity. Yet while we think we know what that landscape looks like—and what we expect it to look like—that idea is one […]
Hung back to back next to the north windows in the west galleries, Sarah May’s cyanotype tapestries seem to want to flee the gallery—to be taken on the wind to the shores of the Great Salt Lake. While at an artist residency at the Center for Photography in […]
In 2021, Kate Jarman-Gates started Clever Cucumber, a free community art studio for her neighbors on Salt Lake City’s west side. At the heart of its operations is a workshop, ingeniously nestled within Jarman-Gates’ garage, which can accommodate a dozen individuals. This space is a treasure trove of […]
This series of miniature dioramas by Alison Neville visualizes “select scenes from our long relationship with our fellow and sometimes not-so-fellow fauna,” says the artist. “Each one represents a situation based on real events researched through online media sources. Many are truly atrocities and some are subtly […]
Trained at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Aimee Odum works with one of the oldest art mediums, ceramics, and one of the newest, video, often combining the two as installations or assemblages “to create a space where future or parallel universes can be imagined.” Her ceramic sculptures are […]
“I have always been a collector and a keeper, unable to resist the allure of yet another outdated magazine or satisfying trinket,” says Maya England, a Salt Lake City artist who studied at Utah Valley University. “I value everyday accumulations of keepsakes and seemingly insignificant bits of […]
“Sheltered” by Zoe Ellwood is a poignant installation piece that employs the remnants of domesticity to explore the complexities of comfort and confinement within the context of childhood memories. The work is composed of an aged and worn bed frame, consisting of a headboard and footboard, which […]
