Pioneer Craft House: A Jewel in the Cultural Crown
An old institution looks to the future.
Millcreek Arts: New Lands at Flynn’s Artipelago
The heart and character of any neighborhood are defined by the local independent restaurants, shops, boutiques and galleries that line its streets: it is because of these places that people venture out of their homes, say hello to one another, and a neighborhood turns into a community. As […]
Glass Art Guild and the Glory of Glass
Kerry Transtrum places a piece of glass in the kiln. It’s a brisk Sunday morning in March. We’re in a large warehouse in South Salt Lake where Kerry Transtrumis demonstrating a technique that we can’t properly describe in these pages without the fear of internet filters shutting out our […]
Bad Dog Rediscovers America: An interview with Michael Moonbird and Victoria Lyons
Bad Dog Rediscovers America is a grassroots arts organization that is flourishing. From its beginning in 1997 in a small, live/work apartment where it served about 30 low-income youths, the organization now has spacious digs in the Artspace City Center building, serves 2,000 students annually with a curriculum that […]
Traditional Technique
Utah County seems to be the gathering place for students looking to pursue a traditional, academic approach to art. Surprisingly this mustering is the result not of the instructors of the two Universities in the area, but of individual artists setting up their own academies. This approach brings […]
The UMFA’s Young Benefactors
While organizations that choose for titles expressing youth or contemporaneity benefit from the energy evoked by their name, time has a way of catching up to them and complicating their brand. When the Museum of Modern Art in New York was dubbed, its founders surely thought the title […]
The Tradition of Artistic Freedom Provo’s Bridge Acadmey of Art
The Bridge Academy of Art in Provo is set to open later this month. Founders and instructors Jeff Hein, Justin Taylor, Ben McPherson and Sean Diediker began the Academy, an experimental institution that proposes to endorse the “Classical Tradition without excluding the insight and advancements of the Modern […]
An Organic Development: Spring City Arts, Studio Tour, and Plein-air Competition
With the number of artists in the small Sanpete County town of Spring City — over 30 out of a population of about 800 — you’d think this rural town’s reputation as an art destination was planned: by the city council, looking for economic development, or by artists […]
A New Beginning: The Sego Art Center & Contemporary Art in Provo
Utah Valley happily maintains a substantial cultural arts scene. On any given evening one might see a concert at the new Covey Center for the Arts, a play at one of the theaters at Brigham Young University’s Harris Fine Arts Center, a musical at the Scera Theater or […]
A Good Idea is Not Enough: Spiro Arts Residencies & Workshops
A good idea is not enough. And while blood, sweat and tears go a long way, sometimes it takes a case of serendipity — and the willingness to embrace it — to make something happen. Take Spiro Arts as an example. Spiro Arts, a 501 (c) 3 arts […]
Noticing the Blooming Cactus: Wendover’s Center for Land Use Interpretation
Wendover from Salt Lake City is a trip. A trip that takes an hour and a half, a trip punctuated by several mountain ranges before the flat, white expanse of Bonneville Salt Flats. Usually this trip is made with eyes closed, waiting for the relief that comes with […]
A Future for the Provo Gallery Stroll?
An interview with Ryan Neely If the past two months is any indication, it may be safe to say that Provo is undergoing an artistic renaissance. Like Salt Lake City and major communities across the country, Provo holds a monthly Gallery Stroll, an event that helps galvanize participation […]
Not Your Grandmother’s Stroll
Gallery Stroll Turns Two This Month To most of you in Salt Lake it might come as a surprise when I tell you that the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll is two years old this month. “Surely,” you’ll say, “Gallery Stroll has been around longer than that. My grandma […]
Southern Utah’s Walking Lizards
In January I attended an exhibition of original prints at the Sears Gallery in the Dolores Dore Eccles Fine Arts Center on the campus of Dixie State College in St. George, Utah. My experience so far with prints was limited so I was captivated by the rich colors and diversity […]
Finding the Artist’s Way
Org Spotlight: The Arts Organizaton Finding the Artist’s Way by Dana Hagio Utah has many venues for instruction in creating art: University classes, private instruction, art academies, continuing education programs, plein air groups, etc. The Arts Organization, located in Salt Lake City, believes in a different type of […]
Organization Profile: Saltgrass Printmakers
by Allen Bishop | Photos by Tami Baum When printmakers Sandy Brunvand (MFA) and Stefanie Dykes (BFA) graduated from the University of Utah, they recognized a real need in the Wasatch Front art community, one I also felt after graduation years ago. Many art students revel in learning […]
Painters6
Organization Profile: Salt Lake City Painters6 by Laura Durham What do you get when you bring together a child pathologist, a nurse, a teacher, a business owner and an intellectual property attorney? An artist group, of course. These individuals are all members of an artist support group called […]
The Proposed Utah Arts Center
The Utah Arts Alliance would like to give Salt Lake City a full-blown arts center in the heart of downtown. But they may need your help. The Utah Arts Alliance, a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, was formed in early 2003 by Derek Dyer, Angela Brown and Jason Stewart, […]
