Celebrating Native American Heritage Month – Featuring work from the Alice Merrill Horne Art Collection NOVEMBER 12 – JANUARY 10 Gallery Stroll Reception: December 6, from 6 – 9PM Alice Gallery: Tues – Fri, 10AM – 4PM Click here to view all the works included in the exhibition Utah Division of Arts & Museums is pleased to present A Living …
Work by Kathy Puzey, Amanda Lee, and Holland Larsen SEPTEMBER 13 – NOVEMBER 1, 2019 Amidst is an exhibition of current works from artists and full-time USU faculty Kathy Puzey, Amanda Lee, and Holland Larsen who use printmaking to explore their relationship with their surrounding natural environment. Each piece begins with quiet observation, an artist teasing out the experience of …
SEPTEMBER 6 – OCTOBER 18 Click here to view the catalog DesignArts Utah ’19 honors and celebrates some of Utah’s best designers and provides an opportunity for gallery visitors see the talent of Utah’s design community. The juror for DesignArts Utah ’18 is Gail Anderson, is the creative director of Visual Arts Press at the School of Visual Arts New York, …
Work by: Tony Smith, Evan Smith, and Willie Smith JULY 12 – SEPTEMBER 6 From the curator: “Like clockwork at 10 a.m. every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, Willie Smith, who has mild Down syndrome, accompanies his father Tony from their home in the Avenues to their West-side studio across the street from the Mormon-operated Welfare Square in Salt Lake City. …
PYSANKY EGG WORKSHOP March 2024 Ingrid Hersman came to the Chase Home Museum of Folk Arts and led two workshops on a nice Saturday in March. Participants learned how to decorate Ukranian pysanky eggs using melted wax and dye.
Salt Lake Eastern Art ClubDuring March and April artists from the Salt Lake Eastern Art Club taught a series of workshops at some Salt Lake County library branches for patrons!
KARGI KALA KENDRA DANCE AT KEARNS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL Kargi Kala Kendra dance group visited Kearns Junior High School in Granite School District in November of 2023 and worked with students, and taught them about classical Indian dance forms.
Artist Allison Martinez Arocho went down to Emery County and visited Green River High School & where she taught members of the community about Puerto Rican vejigante masks! Vejigante Masks in green river
This workshop was taught by UMFA Conservator Robyn Haynie and NHMU Anthropology Collections Manager Glenna Nielsen-Grimm. Participants learned about collections documentation and record-keeping forms, including hands-on practice with templates. Additionally, we learned about cleaning collections objects, and what we can do ourselves and what should be left to conservators. We covered hands-on demonstrations of dry-cleaning methods, as well as a …
Work by Jacqui Larsen, Heidi Moller Somsen, and Richard Gate JUNE 21 – AUGUST 30 2019 From the artists: “On the one hand, Time + Materials sounds like the banal calculation of a greedy plumber hoping to charge a hapless customer twice what she can afford. On the other, it conveys the Sisyphean task of the artist: how to trap …
Work by Jiyoun Lee-Lodge MAY 10 – JULY 5, 2019 From the artist: “As a self-exiled Asian, woman, mother, and social media addict, I see myself as a vulnerable stranger who critically looks for a definition of others to see myself clearly. In Waterman the Stranger series, I started by asking – ‘If I mimic what an ideal life looks …
Click here to view the catalog MARCH 22 – JUNE 14, 2019 This exhibit is part of the Spike 150 celebrations that mark the 150th anniversary of the completion of the nation’s first Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869. The 35 artists featured in this exhibition currently live and work in Utah, or have significant ties to Utah. The work …
