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Stephen Henry, an art teacher at Two Rivers High School, participates in the Ogden Arts Festival plein air event.<\/p><\/div>\n

Summer approaches, and with long days, blue skies, and dry brush arrives the season for Utah’s plein air festivals. All told, over $20,000 in prize money is being offered at competitions from the top to the bottom of the state and many points in between.<\/p>\n

So, time to go back through some of the plein air Hints & Tips articles by John Hughes<\/a> in past editions, get out those traveling easels, put a little gas in the car, and hope to trade a few hours worth of work for some cold hard cash.<\/p>\n

The process for most competitions if pretty similar. Artists register their surfaces with the sponsoring organizations and then have from a day to sometimes a week to paint within a geographically restricted area. Their entries are then submitted to a jury (the number allowed varies), money is awarded and all the work is presented to the public in an exhibition.<\/p>\n

The first opportunity to paint begins this weekend at the Ogden Arts Festival annual competition. Artists interested in the $6000 in prizes can begin painting this weekend. If they want a few tips before they go in the field alone, they can sign up for the Glen Hawkins workshop, June 1 and 2. Click here for more info. The actual festival takes place June 8th and 9th.<\/p>\n

Artists can try their hand the following week at Logan’s Summerfest, and at the end of the month in Midway.<\/p>\n

The batch of competitions resumes in the fall with events in Helper<\/a>, Spring City<\/a>, Moab, Escalante<\/a>, and in November plein air art lovers can enjoy the invitational competition at Zions National Park.<\/p>\n

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A look at the upcoming plein air competitions with over $20,000 in prizes, including the Ogden Arts Festival competition, which begins this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bytes","category-happenings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PleinAirArtist2007.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-02 05:06:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10789"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71288,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789\/revisions\/71288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}