Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall has announced the recipients of the 2025 Mayor’s Artists Awards, honoring individuals and organizations that have made lasting contributions to the city’s cultural life. A few are such longstanding champions of our arts community—pillars, if you will—we were surprised to learn they […]
Is climate change coming for the arts festivals? Last year, after a $200,000 shortfall representing 10% of its overall budget, the Utah Arts Festival warned it might not survive. Attendance that year was down by 14,000 people. At the time, UAF Executive Director Aimee Dunsmore identified a few […]
In a world where authenticity is prized, we often treat the physical object with much more reverence than its photographic representation. But two exhibits at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) complicate that notion. Repainting the I: The Intermountain Intertribal Indian School Murals presents 11 murals […]
I have a new hero. And she’s a Pop artist. Pop Art is the most—OK, popular—art movement in America, rivaled only by Impressionism. Those French artists looked seriously at modern life as they witnessed its changes: the coming of the steamboat and the railroad, the remodeling of their […]
Lots of restaurants and coffee shops will hang your art on their walls. It doesn’t cost them anything. But Tribe Café & Atelier in Springville goes a step further. They’ll brand your work: not content with just decorating their walls, Tribe has found a way to put artists’ […]
Two striking new murals rise up along the sides of a parking garage in South Salt Lake’s rapidly changing downtown. Unveiled as part of the 2025 edition of South Salt Lake’s Mural Fest, the works are the result of a long-awaited collaboration between Dutch artist Marcus Debie, known […]
Do you remember the excitement of show and tell when you were a child? That giddy feeling of being able to bring your treasure to class and captivate your classmates with stories about your belongings? Maybe someone else in class also had a similar treasure, or you were […]
The phrase “perennial avant-garde” may sound positive, but it’s actually a criticism of one of the primary characteristics of Postmodernism: the need of mainstream artists to continue demolishing the user-friendly accessibility of traditional forms in order to advance the task of making room for a revolutionary new art. […]
In a year when public funding for the arts continues to face significant challenges, the Utah Division of Arts & Museums has awarded $5,000 fellowships to 20 Utah artists across four categories—Visual Arts, Design Arts, Literary Arts, and Performing Arts (Theatre). The 2025 Utah Artist Fellowships recognize exceptional […]
“Birds are really reliant on the Great Salt Lake,” says Mitsu Salmon, director of immersive dance experience Feathered Tides. Centered around native birds and bringing awareness to the drying of the Great Salt Lake, Feathered Tides takes viewers on a journey into all levels of emotion through varying […]
It has happened again. In the immediate aftermath of my breakthrough in understanding an artist whose labors in two separate artistic gardens had puzzled me for years (see here), another artist has brought forth a similarly converse second body of art. Robert Füerer is a seasoned world traveler, […]
Best known for his colorful, expressive murals across Utah, Matt Monsoon takes a leap into three-dimensional work with his new public sculpture “What We Build Together,” now installed in the heart of Salt Lake City’s Fairpark neighborhood. Commissioned through the Salt Lake City Arts Council’s Public Art Program, […]
This profile was originally published in our 2019 publication Utah’s 15: The State’s Most Influential Artists. With the announcement that Linda C. Smith will step down as Executive/Artistic Director of Repertory Dance Theatre at the close of its 59th season and transition to Director Emerita in July 2025, […]
Though there is no set theme for the exhibit, the Spring Salon can create a strong contrast between and among works, causing interesting conversations, whether the pieces are hung near each other or in separate rooms. Hanging Greg Newbold’s “New Year’s Day, Black Rock” and Nick Rees’ “Refinery” […]
It’s the year of the “skier’s subway.” 1965. Park City, Utah. Most of the silver mines are closed, the red light district is shuttered and teetering shacks of weathered wood dot the hills. But a federal loan granted two years before has helped finance the installation of a […]
Tyler Alexander thinks of himself as a bit of a Napoleon. Not the continent-conquering general who rode France’s revolutionary wave to become one of the most fateful figures in European history. Rather, the nephew, an emperor as well, of sorts. He began as the first president of France’s […]
We noticed this the other day—a house in Salt Lake City along West Temple being gutted by construction workers who were careful to keep a mural along two of its sides intact. Turns out, it’s a new library. The Ballpark Library Lab (1406 S. West Temple) is the […]
After a hit Broadway musical, the curious presentation of an animated TV show, and a live-action series on plural wives—each more popular than could have been anticipated—it may be hard to believe that there was a recent time when some Latter-day Saints, except when on a mission, didn’t […]
From vibrant concept to monumental installation, Utah artist Abigale Palmer’s newest public art project is a celebration of ambition, growth, and collaboration—perfectly suited for its home in Utah State University’s Carolyn & Kem Gardner Learning & Leadership Building (GLLB). Titled Dare Mighty Things, the six-panel, 25-foot-wide oil painting […]
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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