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Salt Lake City September 13, 2025 – June 14, 2025 Opening reception: Friday, September 26, celebration with artist and live DJ Adama Delphine Fawundu is a New York–based artist of Mende, Krim, Bamileke, and Bubi descent. Her practice embodies ancestral memory across space and time, reconnecting places, objects, […]
Springville August 20, 2025 – July 25, 2026 The Springville Museum of Art presents Enduring Beauty: John Hafen and the Power of Art, the first major retrospective of John Hafen, a pivotal figure in Utah’s artistic heritage and co-founder of the Springville Art Movement. This landmark exhibition celebrates […]
DUE: AUGUST 15 The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) is thrilled to announce the launch of the Assemblage Art Fund, a new grant program designed to support visual artists and collectives working in Salt Lake County. Developed through the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Regional […]
Springville June 18, 2025 – May 2027 The Springville Museum of Art invites you to experience In Search of Ourselves: Soviet Art and the Shared Human Spirit, a reexamination of its renowned Soviet and Russian Art Collection. This long-term exhibition explores themes of identity, community, labor, and leisure, […]
The Utah Public Art Progam is seeking qualifications from Utah-based artists and/or artist teams with rich ties to Utah interested in creating site-specific artwork(s) for the new Ogden-Weber Technical College Pathway Building. The committee is interested in functional and environmental artwork — pieces that invite movement, offer rest, […]
OgdenMay 16, 2025 – April 30, 2026Public Opening: Friday, May 16 (6-8 p.m.) On view at Dumke Arts Plaza, This was water is an interactive installation that combines sculpture, sound, and video to reflect on the precarious state of the Great Salt Lake. Created by artists Kellie Bornhoft […]
Salt Lake City Feb. 15, 2025 – Feb. 15, 2027 Japanese artist Onishi Yasuaki is fascinated with the molds, shells, and “reverse casts” of objects that help shape our perception of the physical world. As an installation artist, Onishi designs large-scale works that respond to a building’s architecture […]
DUE: Mar. 3 The 4th annual Los Muros on Main: Midvale City Mural Festival is taking place on June 7th, 2025. The festival celebrates Midvale’s rich culture, history, and community spirit by bringing together artists, makers, local breweries, musicians, and visitors to create stunning works of art that capture […]
Deadline: May 10 $10,500 in cash prizes free to enter Currently accepting submissions APPLY HERE Share your experiences to enter to win cash prizes for your handmade art, writing, music, photography, video, digital art, and digital storytelling. The Celebrate Utah Wildlife Contest is a cash-prize multi-media contest designed to crowd […]
February 15 – March 2
Salt Lake City
by Kim Burgess The Patrick Moore Gallery’s floor-to-ceiling windows look out at the blinking lights of Gateway Megaplex and a hip Mexican restaurant. Valets stand on the corner, waiting for the Jags and SUVs to pull up. Despite these corporate surroundings, Patrick Moore Gallery avoids consumerism, supporting emerging […]
Abstract artist Gary Denmark will have his first gallery exhibit in Utah beginning November 4th at the Julie Nester Gallery. Denmark’s exhibit, which continues through the month of November includes original works on canvas and paper. In his artist statement for the show, Denmark writes, “Building pictures has […]
by Vera Bachman As we crowd around the shady side of a patio table at Cocoa Caffé to discuss the upcoming group show at Kayo Gallery, Sri Whipple calls for revolution. It is Saturday morning, and soon it is apparent that I am dealing with a bunch of […]
Org Spotlight: The Arts Organizaton Finding the Artist’s Way by Dana Hagio Utah has many venues for instruction in creating art: University classes, private instruction, art academies, continuing education programs, plein air groups, etc. The Arts Organization, located in Salt Lake City, believes in a different type of […]
photos by Kim Driggs ~ text by Jules Augson Five years ago, Sandy Brunvand set out to buy a new home in the Avenues. Not long after her search began, she discovered what was to soon become her studio space – the third-story attic of a Victorian home. […]
Disarming Your Opponent by Giving Them Your Full, Authentic Attention by Trent Thursby Alvey Recently, I had the great privilege to travel to Botswana with two wonderful men: my husband, Dennis Sizemore, and the “Mother of Conservation Biology,” Dr. Michael Soule. Both are wonderful storytellers. What I […]
by William C. Seifrit Rich. Varied. Often exciting. Well presented. These descriptors come quickly to mind with an initial walk-through of the 2005 Springville Salon. Many familiar names are represented; some old favorites are not. Newer, less well-known artists are also shown, and I find their inclusion encouraging […]
Ruby Chacon’s stunning portrait of Cesar Chavez (pictured above) won first prize at the 2004 Chalk Art Festival. Now, you can join Ruby and other local artists transforming the streets of The Gateway into a gallery of large chalk murals. Amateur and professional artists of all ages are […]
Book Review: First Sight of the Desert Artist Interrupted: The Life and Art of Ella Peacock by Tony Watson [portfolio_slideshow] The University of Utah Press recently published a biography of Spring City artist Ella Peacock by first-time author Kathryn J. Abajian. Abajian’s biography, entitled First Sight of the […]
