“Morning’s Table,” 28″ x 28″ oil Home-decor magazines, with their adoption of the fruit still life as a staple of “kitchen art,” may have dulled our appreciation for the dynamic, emotional, and thrilling aspects of produce-based subjects, but Springville artist Leslie Duke, with her intricate mark-making and lively […]
Abe Kimball is dedicated to his teaching role in Sanpete public schools and at Snow College. He has been entrenched in the arts since he was a small child, watching his artist father work in lithography, and received classical training in art and anthropology at Brigham Young University. […]
An award winner in 2016 and 2017 at the Holladay Art Show, Marianne Goodell has been making jewelry since 2001 and painting professionally since 2012. When she sets out to create something, she says she will often think of an emotion she wants to portray “and determine which symbols would […]
J. Amber Egbert is a ceramic artist and adjunct faculty member at BYU living in Highland. She received her BS in music therapy from USU in 1998 and her MFA in studio arts from BYU in 2016. She has been included in numerous state, regional and national shows, […]
This is Ya’el Pedroza’s third winter in Utah and, “since moving I have been very prolific in making art. I am very much a mountain and outdoor person and so living here has fed my work in a wonderful way. This has been a fantastic year job wise, as […]
Tyler Bloomquist, an artist and designer who earned his BA in Graphic Design from the University of Utah, was born in Salt Lake City and has lived downtown for 20 years. His varied artisitic practices—painting/drawing, printmaking, outdoor murals, photography, video/editing, graphic design, music/DJ-ing led naturally to his being an instructor in […]
They are calling it the most drastic change to the tax code in 30 years, and that’s pretty accurate because there’s a lot of stuff going on in the bill the Senate approved this morning. One big change will affect tax-exempt nonprofits like Artists of Utah, publisher of […]
by Sherl Gillilan William Henry Dethlef Koerner (American, born in Germany, 1878–1938), Madonna of the Prairie, 1921, oil on canvas, 43.5 x 35.5 inches (frame), Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming, USA, Museum purchase, 25.77 I am not a western art aficionado, maybe because I’ve lived […]
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“Resonating Nexus,” by Wendy Wischer, West Valley City. Courtesy the artist. University of Utah sculpture intermedia professor Wendy Wischer has been chosen as one of Epicenter’s Frontier Fellows in the eighth year of the program. Fellows come from a variety of disciplines and include designers, poets, visual artists and folklorists. […]
Hayden Gunter holds a handmade decoration destined for the Utah tree. For almost a century the lighting of the National Christmas Tree in President’s Park in Washington, D.C., has been a part of the American holiday tradition, and this year, as part of the 95th Tree Lighting display, […]
Photo by Chiana Rossiter, December 2017. Created in November 2017 by Salt Lake City artist Josh Scheuerman, this mural stretches along an entire building on 800 South and features the colorful redrock landscape of Bears Ears. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map
There’s a statue of Scott Abbott on the campus of Utah Valley University (UVU) in Orem. It shows a tall, handsome guy, button-down shirt, belted and tucked into jeans falling to a sensible length above dark loafers. Like this representation, Scott Abbott’s demeanor is stoic and thoughtful. His […]
Anna Betbeze’s hide-like abstractions in Dark Sun cling to UMOCA’s gallery walls, sagging slightly as they loom over the viewer with a deranged, yet mysteriously beautiful presence. Betbeze’s irregular painting surfaces are wool rugs that the artist burns, tatters and douses with ink and industrial acid-dyes. Vibrant colors […]
The Statewide Annual Exhibition invites all Utah artists to submit their work—the art itself, not slides—the accepted works to be shown as a group in the Rio Gallery. Each year’s exhibit tackles a loosely defined subset of art, three or four specified media, all work made in the […]
James and Mirabel Rees In the rush of the holiday season it can be easy to get caught up in the commercialization of the winter. However, the holidays are also the best part of the year to spend time with family, express gratitude, and look for ways to […]
For today’s installment of READ LOCAL SUNDAY we feature Salt Lake City-based Matthew Ivan Bennett, resident playwright at Plan-B Theatre Company, listed by American Theater magazine as one of 14 companies nationwide exemplifying social action and civic engagement. A fixture in the local theater scene and beyond, Bennett is currently working on a new […]
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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