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.
Calligraphy & Painting
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!
Classical Indian Dance
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.
Vejigante Masks
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
Museum Skills Lab: When to Call a Conservator
This workshop will be taught by UMFA Conservator Robyn Haynie and NHMU Anthropology Collections Manager Glenna Nielsen-Grimm. Participants will learn about collections documentation and record-keeping forms, including hands-on practice with templates. Additionally, we will learn about cleaning collections objects, and what we can do ourselves and what should be left to conservators. We will cover hands-on demonstrations of dry-cleaning methods, …
TIME + MATERIALS
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 …
Waterman the Stranger
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 …
Transcontinental: People, Place, Impact
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 …
Landscapes Calm and Desperate
Work by Susan Beck and Bonnie Susec MARCH 8 – MAY 3, 2019 The artists see collaboration as a cooperative partnership, working together to produce or create something new, something they started doing forty years ago. Early on in their friendship, they realized they both enjoy experimenting with the gap between what is real and what seems to be. “Often …
Utah’s 15 (Vol. II)
Curated by Artists of Utah / 15bytes & Kandace Steadman JANUARY 18 – MARCH 8, 2019 From the curator: “Every five years, we check in with our public to answer an important but not always easy question: Who are the state’s most influential artists? These are not necessarily the “hottest” artists, they are not the most “honored” artists, but these …
Storied Earth
Work by Ron Linn, Hannah Mortensen, Jena Schmidt, Mary Baum, Tiana Birrell JANUARY 18 – MARCH 1, 2019 Storied Earth features the artwork of five artists who met while working at the BFA Studios at Brigham Young University seven years ago. Hannah Wertz Mortensen, Mary Baum, Tiana Birrell, Jena Schmidt, and Ron Linn found themselves continually looking out of the …
Sense of Place, Great Salt Lake
Work by Kelly Baisley and Virginia Catherall NOVEMBER 9, 2018 – JANUARY 11, 2019 Sense of Place, Great Salt Lake depicts the landscape around the Great Salt Lake, which over time transforms not only its geography but also the people who interact with it. Artists Kelly Baisley and Virginia Catherall explore this rugged and transformational landscape through different mediums, photography …