9/15 BYU TV’s Artful: Season 5 Episode 2
Amber Eldredge shares how God creates beauty from ashes and how she seeks to do the same with her art. Santiago Michalek focuses on portraying horses and automobiles with exact detail and strength in his paintings, inspired by his grandfather.
9/11 CITY WEEKLY: An Invitation to Art: Local arts leaders offer ways to welcome newcomers into challenging creative forms.
Modern dance, performance art, spoken-word poetry, opera, contemporary art—each, in its way, can feel like a challenge for newcomers to access. We spoke to local leaders in those fields to get a sense for how folks might be less intimidated, and take a chance on something they’ve never experienced before.
9/14 SLTRIB: Cache Valley legends and leaders live on in massive work of art on Logan main drag
Ogden-based muralist Cole Eisenhour dipped his paintbrush into a deep blue this month to apply the final strokes to his largest mural yet — a tribute to the legends and history of Cache Valley.
After five weeks of work, the mural now spans 72 feet wide and 18 feet tall on the side of Rage Salons on Logan’s Main Street, across from the new Logan Library. Each day while painting, Eisenhour said locals stopped by to talk about the colorful images taking shape.
“This place has been really receptive to the mural,” he said. “I’ve had a lot more engagement than I think any mural I’ve ever had.”
9/10 PARK RECORD: SB Dance conjures up a curious visit to ‘Tarotville’
SB Dance, one of Salt Lake City’s premiere independent dance companies, invites the Park City public to take a chance with its new Curbside Theater production of “Tarotville.”
The company will deal out the work starting at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 14, at The Shop Yoga Studio, 1167 Woodside Ave., said Stephen Brown, the company’s artistic director.
“We’ve been up in Park City in the past, but it’s been mostly for block party shows,” he said. “So I’m psyched to be up there for this performance.”
“Tarotville” is a dance-theater carnival concert, according to Brown.
“It has a sense of Carnivale in it, but it’s basically a tarot reading where the audience chooses the card,” he said. “So every show is different.”
9/10 PARK RECORD: ‘Beauty and the Beaks’ focuses on the Swaner Preserve and sandhill cranes
The Swaner Preserve & EcoCenter’s new exhibit is a tale as old as time.
“Beauty and the Beaks” showcases landscape images that Steve Krongard and Jodi Buren took of the 1,200-acre nature preserve and the sandhill cranes who call it their seasonal home, said Hunter Klingensmith, director of visitor experience.
“These two photographers live on the edge of the preserve,” she said. “When we first started chatting with them, they started showing me photographs, and I thought, ‘What a cool way to see how varying this landscape is day to day, season to season, year to year.’ And they just have such a great understanding of that.”
8/25 DESERET NEWS: Art, music staying in downtown Salt Lake City. But how and where?
In a backroom at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, a dozen children wearing smocks were busily painting and chatting away as executive director Laura Allred Hurtado showed me and a photographer around the indistinct building, sandwiched between the Salt Palace Convention Center and Abravanel Hall in downtown Salt Lake City.
The kids were immersed in the museum’s artist-training program, where they get to explore arts techniques and mediums, visit artist studios, learn about contemporary art and make messes and mistakes along the way, as the course description reads. At the end of the weeklong session, their work goes on display in a special exhibit.
8/18 SLTRIB: Powder Mountain’s billionaire new owner announces outdoor art program for the Utah resort
Billionaire Reed Hastings remembers visiting Storm King Art Center in New York’s Hudson Valley a couple of decades ago.
“Walking around there got my curiosity going,” said Hastings, co-founder and former CEO of Netflix, noting that his wife, Patty Quillin, grew up near the outdoor sculpture mecca. “It changed my perspective on what art is.”
Now, Hastings is announcing an ambitious outdoor art program at the ski resort he recently bought, Powder Mountain in Eden, Utah.
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