A graduate of the University of Utah, Ann Poore is a freelance writer and editor who spent most of her career at The Salt Lake Tribune. She was the 2018 recipient of the Salt Lake City Mayor's Artist Award in the Literary Arts.
It was a dark and stormy night. Perfect for reading a good mystery novel, and I had a few on hand that looked promising. The weather seemed a harbinger of winter and I determined to lay in more who-done-its before Utah’s fall/winter season kicks in hard, assuming it […]
Time and Chance, Katharine Coles’ plucky tenth collection of poems, offers riches to any reader. Elegant elegies to her late parents and a delightfully wicked one to an ex—“Sestina in Prose: Three Dreams” and “Degas Dancers”—and a superb breezy commentary on butterflies, “A Note on the Apparent Lowering […]
“As a sculptor, my concern is for form,” Larry Elsner wrote in 1977, “a maddening search for the unity of space and mass.” An Idaho native and longtime Utah State University (USU) professor, Elsner would always choose form over function, regardless of the medium in which he was […]
When Salt Lake City’s visionary art czar Stephen A. Goldsmith decamped for Oregon in 2019, he left some stuff behind – like several of his own works at Phillips Gallery and many entrancing water projects in public spaces and private homes. Now, the Salt Lake City Arts Council’s […]
We have come to rely upon artistic director Jerry Rapier and his Plan-B Theatre for moving productions that require intellect as well as a certain amount of soul surrendering to absorb. Physical tension, too, is usually present—you realize immediately that this likely will not be a relaxing evening […]
Four Lemons, a charming shoppe (I’ve always wanted to write ‘shoppe’) that opened Oct. 4 at 4850 South Highland Drive, is an upscale Pier 1 imports-type store for home interior DIYers. Subtitled “Art Within Reach,” it’s 7,000 square-feet filled with really nice, decidedly eclectic decor you can work […]
Pygmalion Productions opened its 2024/2025 season Friday with Tender Hooks, Julie Jensen’s sad, funny and (under Fran Pruyn’s uber-talented direction) completely captivating play that centers on LaPriel, a nervous, 60-something widowed piano teacher (perfectly played by Jensie Anderson) who buys Postum by the case, devoutly reads the Doctrine […]
Earl Jones, an influential artist known for his deep love of mountains and the human form, passed away Aug. 25, 2024 at age 87 after a remarkable life and career. His works, often described as poetic and unabashed, conveyed his vision of nature’s power and human vulnerability, themes […]
Claudia Sisemore, a distinguished teacher, artist, and filmmaker, passed away on Aug. 9 at the age of 86, leaving behind a profound legacy that shaped the lives of many within Utah’s art community. Known for her charismatic presence, creative spirit, and deep dedication to the arts, Sisemore’s influence […]
Red Butte Garden and Arboretum is a dreamy venue for an exhibition, practically perfect in every way for Susan Makov’s dazzling 31-piece Tree Language, up through Aug. 26. The July opening was crowded and buzzing so the artist will give a talk and answer queries about her haunting […]
If you value intelligent theatre that has a bite, don’t miss Bitter Lemon, Plan-B’s marvelous season-ending one-act production in the Rose Wagner Studio Theatre through April 28th. I’d see this riff on Macbeth again in a heartbeat, and surely would get as much joy out of a second […]
The wind was howling, but people were talking about the art, not the weather, at Maureen O’Hara Ure’s packed opening on Friday evening at Phillips, her longtime gallery, where she’s presenting the second set of mixed-media panels she began with on-site sketches while traveling through Spain in 2022 […]
Plan-B never misses and they have another absorbing evening of socially conscious theater on hand with Debora Threedy’s “Balthazar,” a world premiere running through March 3 at the Rose Wagner Studio Theatre. Threedy has degrees in law and theatre arts and retired fairly recently from teaching law at […]
Kent Christensen is an acclaimed artist, illustrator, and designer as comfortable in New York City and London as he is Sundance or the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City. For more than four decades he’s been making art from all of those places, as we see in […]
Trent Call is a little bit “Disney;” Clint Call is a true Geppetto – a wizard with wood. Together, son and father have a hell of a show going down at Finch Lane. Best in show? Probably the numerous, notable, and intricate hanging kinetic pieces along the walls on […]
Quilting is rapidly moving from folk art to fine art and Sheryl Gillilan is deep into tiny stitches and fabric scraps. Though she continues her day job as executive director of the Holladay Arts Council (she will retire this fall after some six years of delivering diverse arts […]
Clayton Williams was a firm believer in himself and in the American Dream. “He did everything he wanted to do,” says his son, actor and director Stephen Williams. “He never thought that he could not do anything.” The realm of possibilities included becoming, at age 60, a successful […]
I had just exited Quiet Storm, Gilmore Scott’s intriguing landscape show at the Chase Home in Liberty Park when, appropriately, a cloudburst broke overhead. “The concept and idea for the Quiet Storm show evolved from a traditional Diné story about storms that came through my mom, who told […]
After more than 20 years on 800 South, just off State Street, and after having hosted more than 200 Gallery Stroll receptions and championed some terrific emerging artists, HORNE Fine Art is closing its doors. “We will not be opening another gallery,” says Karen Horne. “I don’t want […]
