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Compiling faculty shows is a balancing act between honoring the artists’ personal styles and still telling a story with an exhibition. An artistic gem in this genre can be found in Sanpete County, in the form of the 2017 Snow College Visual Arts Faculty Biennial Exhibition. It’s a hodgepodge […]
“After the Flood” ca. 1940, oil on board, 28″ x 36″ Winston Churchill, who wrote history when he wasn’t busy making it, once quipped that history is written by the victors. He might have written instead that it is only through the writing of history that a victory […]
For today’s installment of READ LOCAL SUNDAY we feature Springville-based fiction writer Akramah Cofie. His novel-in-progress, “A Fortnight in ’79,” tells the story of Emilia, a woman who refuses to let die her dream of getting an education. It also gives a glimpse of Ghana, in the latter part of […]
Whenever I think of Suzanne Simpson, I think of sunshine. And on learning of her passing from breast cancer on Nov. 3, I find that I still do. We first met more than 20 years ago, when I was working at the photo mecca of Borge Andersen & […]
Photo by Shawn Rossiter Since it was purchased by Phoenix-based Vestar more than a year ago, The Gateway outdoor mall is gradually re-branding itself as a destination for art, entertainment, and culture. That’s not to say shopping has taken a backseat, but shoppers are in for some surprising […]
Artists of Ballet West in Nicolo Fonte’s Carmina Burana. Photo by Luke Isley. Ballet West’s fall offering is loaded with icons. The world premiere of Nicolo Fonte’s Carmina Burana, a co-production with the Cincinnati Ballet, draws inspiration from Carl Orff’s well-known score that set the poetry of medieval clergy to […]
Photo of Paisley Rekdal by Austen Diamond If the Three Tenors can draw stadium-size crowds, why not poets? Asphodel, That Greeny Flower by Williams Carlos Williams (d. 1963) is an institutionally well-established poem among writers, coffee shop patrons, bar flies and academics. The modernist love poem discovers a certitude so […]
The Weyward Sisters, by local playwright L. L. West, is a quaint journey through a never-before-seen side of “Macbeth” that is both hilarious and refreshing, with the three leading ladies carrying the story brilliantly through to its conclusion. The play starts out with a brief introduction – a […]
Katie Paterson (Scottish, born 1981), Totality, 2016, printed mirrorball, motor, and lights, 85 cm in diameter, photo © Ben Blackall, courtesy of the Lowry Take a moment to imagine a Cubist meteor shower, in which a whole sky full of points of light fly through the darkness, through […]
Brad Roghaar at the 2016 Ogden City Mayor’s Awards in the Arts. Courtesy Ogden City. A year ago, in early November, poet Brad Roghaar opened the Ogden Mayor’s Awards in the Arts by reading one of his works about a city at the confluence of two rivers. His […]
“Inversion” by Reid Elem Bringing a group of artists together can be like herding cats: with the natural desire for personal creativity, artists and their work are inclined to go their individual way rather than function as part of a group. So, when universities across the country curate […]
Over the past decade the rate of cesarean births has continually increased so that now one-third of all births in the United States comes about through surgery, well over the 10 percent ideal established by the World Health Organization. Sara Malan-McDonald, a choreographer from the Phoenix area, gave birth to […]
The Bertelsen Manor was an uncommon venue for Deseret Experimental Opera Company’s 2047. Filled with childhood photos, piles of mail, and an old dog that wandered across the wood floors, the space was immediately intimate: I felt as if I was visiting a friend rather than attending a performance. […]
Reviewed by Lis Pankl Trish Hopkinson’s most recent volume of poetry, Footnote, is a deeply personal tribute to her favorite poems, prose, music, and films. She takes references from these works throughout to extrapolate into her own subject, often responding to the creator of the text or to the […]
The breadth of Trent Call’s artistic ability stretches so wide that compartmentalizing it into bite-size pieces may be the best solution to trying to absorb his creativity. Fortunately, his new show at the chameleon-like God Hates Robots does just that. The small venue pushes artists to be more […]
No matter how much we may enjoy and even prefer an immediate and strong response to what we see, not all artworks can be adequately replied to with a simple “yes” or “no.” For two promising young multidisciplinary artists, Naomi Marine and Matt Kruback, art is clearly a […]
Joy Haynes and Steven Labrum show their playful site at their Impact Hub office. What started as a weekly challenge between two friends to do something – anything – creative has grown. Today the two friends, Joy Haynes and Steven Labrum, still embrace the playfulness of their original […]
“Woman Sewing, Frankfurt,” Ilse Bing, 1929, gelatin silver print, courtesy Utah Museum of Fine Arts The new imagining of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts includes a small gallery devoted to photography from their permanent collection. The first rotation in this space features Ilse Bing, a 20th-century photographer […]
