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 […]
St. George has a different essence than southern Utah destinations like Moab. It feels distinctly Arizonan, its southern border brushing the state line. Palm trees read differently than junipers; the rock is more vermilion than the saffrons of the southeast. Given its desolation and remoteness, it is perhaps […]
In a new multimedia exhibition, Buenos Aires–based siblings Gonzalo Javier Silva and Susana Isabel Silva examine sound as a cultural technology through a body of work that is varied yet cohesive. They reflect on how sound is made, perceived, recorded, and transmitted across different places and times, using […]
Shoutout to the docents of the St. George Art Museum. I hope to be a morsel as patient and informed as they are one day—showing the youth how to look at art, asking questions that get them grasping at the subject matter. What do the colors make you […]
Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks the most interesting art these days is to be found in the littoral zone where abstraction and representation blend. The new show at ‘A’ Gallery, Love in the Abstract, “invites viewers to explore emotion, connection, and intimacy beyond literal representation.” […]
At the turn of the 20th century, the American West came vividly into focus in the public imagination, shaped by a flourishing body of romantic representation circulated through poetry, illustration, travel writing, and popular media. Among the voices helping to define this picturesque vision was Henry Herbert Knibbs, […]
Getting people to your show is one of the hardest parts of exhibiting—and one of the most important. Artists can spend months making the work. Galleries and institutions spend time shaping the presentation, installing it, writing about it, and putting their name behind it. Then the doors open […]
Clinton Whiting’s Veiled Support, showing in an upstairs gallery at the St. George Museum of Art, walks us through time, asking us to reflect on fleeting moments and intimacies, the people we come from and who we are. Whiting uses a Japanese style in his stroke—simple ink brush […]
Most photographs aren’t begging to be turned into paintings. The things a camera captures effortlessly—busy detail, awkward smiles, a split-second expression—can become stiff or even unbearable once translated into brushwork. But Kirsten Holt Beitler has a rare ability: she can take the casual, unpolished image and make it […]
In the 21st century, it’s not necessary to be a feminist in order to see how the deck is conventionally stacked against women. While some of these inequities are right up to date—pregnancy, contraception, autonomous healthcare among them—others date all the way back to the beginning of Time. […]
Photographers spend their lives recording other people’s stories—weddings, events, news, the fleeting moments that make up someone else’s memory. But they rarely turn the focus on themselves. For longtime Utah photographer Steve Coray, that inversion became both a creative challenge and a reckoning. His recently self-published photo book grew […]
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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