On Friday December 6th 2019, Nox Contemporary will be presenting the exhibition Tracing The Untraceable by Lydia Gravis. There will be a public reception that evening, during the Salt Lake City Gallery Stroll, from 6-9 p.m Tracing The Untraceable is a body of work that has evolved over the last eight years.  This exhibition stems from the Lydia's empathetic desire to respond to situations that she or others feel, but don’t necessarily understand; (situations that may seem senseless, or tragic) that connect us to our collective experience of being human. She's fascinated by experiences that aren’t easily defined, but that are undoubtedly felt. This is an abstract idea.  Instead of taking something specific, and abstracting its essence, her work attempts to take something abstract, like the idea of liminal psychological space, and suggest its specificity through visual language. We are often overwhelmed by experiences we don’t understand, but at the same time we can also be seduced by our want to understand them.  She uses mark-making and obsessive micro-textures to express that tension. By conjuring and obscuring biomorphic shapes with graphite and water media she attempts to depict these infinite spaces of human experience, giving the illusion of form to something that seems present but simultaneously formless. Tracing The Untraceable will be open to the public Monday Through Friday,11 am - 2 pm (excluding the week of Christmas, New Year's Eve, & New Year's Day ) through Friday February 7th.  There will be a final reception on Friday January 17th, 6-9 pm during the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll.  For more information please contact [email protected]

https://www.nowplayingutah.com/event/tracing-the-untraceable/ rsvp

Learn the basics of clay, form, and texture using classic techniques This class is designed for adults that have no prior experience in clay. Students will learn handbuilding techniques and surface treatments, adding important foundational skills to their tool belt. Topics to be covered in the course include, but are not limited to - pinch pots, slab building, slump molds, solid form sculpture, and slip decoration. Through these techniques, students will have the opportunity to explore both functional and non-functional (decorative) forms. The course will also touch on the fundamentals of glazing and finishing work.

https://www.nowplayingutah.com/event/intro-to-clay-handbuilding-6-weeks/ rsvp

Six week class to learn about color mixing, theory, good composition in oils.

The first two weeks students will learn about color mixing, color theory, and what makes a good composition as well as spending time beginning a painting. The rest of the classes will be spent painting and receiving one-on-one and group instruction. January 8th - February 12th (2-week extension ends on February 26th) Ages 14+

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Calling all Park City locals! Join us as at The Paint Mixer for Locals Night (and take $5 OFF too)! We will paint a vivid composition as we socialize and enjoy delicious drinks! Our goal is to encourage everyone to try something new

https://www.nowplayingutah.com/event/park-city-locals-night-antique-skis/ rsvp

Five week course for beginning to intermediate level watercolors

Ages 8+ Instructor: Jieun Rasband Jieun Rasband will be teaching students how to paint interesting and exciting animals or flowers using watercolors. The first day plan on learning basic color mixing and how to transfer an image to your watercolor paper. All ages and levels are welcome! If you are taking this class again you will begin working on your own project the first day of class. All Materials are provided

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YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO AN EVENING OF CONTEMPORARY ART:

Love & Work  by Maureen O'Hara Ure

Maureen O'Hara Ure, "Quiet", mixed media, 16 X 20 inches

www.phillips-gallery.com

October 21st - November 11th   Please join us this Friday, October 21st from 6 – 9pm for the opening of Love & Work, new paintings by Maureen O'Hara Ure in our Main Gallery and photographs printed on metal by Gini Pringle in our downstairs Dibble Gallery.    Love & Work, - references to the medieval art and artifacts Maureen O’Hara Ureencountered in Italy and France. “Love & Work may be read as the latest report from the quiet depths of my studio, a sort of journal edited for publication, or perhaps a collection of short stories I have revised off-and-on over the years. These images have their own tales to tell about grace and love and loss and survival and through it all, about the simple pleasures of work.”

Gini Pringle, "Havana Cafe", photograph on metal with neon, 31 X 40 inches

Now in this ever changing photographic world, urban photographer, Gini Pringle has embraced printing on metal and enhancing some with neon. She brings to life the dozens of car images she captured in her Cuban travels with a process that makes them look different than other car images that are exploding out of the “new” Cuba.  About her work she says: “Through all the years of distillation I find that I am totally fascinated by the human condition; how people spend time together, how they celebrate, where and how they eat, the joy of the party, the brilliance of one era, leading to its decay in another. It is an unending tapestry, from one country to another, from one city to another, one family to another, from one age to another.” This exhibit is a celebration of colorful Cuban life.

& Across the street at Evolutionary Healthcare will be photography by Paul Dougan, covering a variety of subject matter.

For a preview of the exhibit please visit www.phillips-gallery.com

Please join us. Admission, as always, is free.

Salt Lake City—The Finch Lane Gallery is offering a workshop on collecting art while keeping to a budget. “Building an Art Collection on a Modest Budget”, featuring Dr. Donna Poulton, will be presented Saturday, November 5 from 2:00-3:30 at the Finch Lane Gallery. The event is free of charge. 

 

“You don’t need millions or even thousands of dollars to start a serious art collection,” says Dr. Poulton. “For anywhere from $50 to $1000 you can begin to create an enviable body of work of the course of your lifetime of collecting.” Some topics covered in the workshop includes techniques for creating a cohesive collection, knowing places where to buy art, how to acquire it, and how to tell a good work of art.

 

Through this workshop young collectors and any collector on a budget will understand that he or she can live with authentic and compelling objects. These objects hold the creative energy of their makers, which in turn inspires a substantive life for the collector. Dr. Poulton wants to demystify the idea that collecting is only for the well-to-do and encourage those on very tight budgets to discover the thrill of searching for good and even great art.

 

About the presenter: A former curator at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Dr. Donna Poulton currently has her own consulting company. She has juried and curated many exhibitions, written articles on Utah and Western art, and is the co-author of several books on Utah art. She is currently working on the revised edition of “Dictionary of Utah Artists” with Dr. Vern Swanson.

 

What:              “Building an Art Collection on a Modest Budget”

When:             Saturday, November 5 from 2:00-3:30 p.m.

Where:           Finch Lane Gallery, 54 Finch Lane in Reservoir Park

Cache Valley Arts Leaders,

 

You are cordially invited to attend the upcoming Arts Summit meeting 

October 25, 12-1pm in the Carousel Ballroom of the Bullen Center, 43 S. Main, Logan.  Bring your lunch if you wish.

Topic: Arts Advocacy with Utah Cultural Alliance

Strategizing for Arts Day on the Hill which will be February 9.

 

Who is thinking of going to Arts Day?  What message do we want to take?  If you are planning on going to Arts Day, but cannot attend the meeting, please let Robyn know along with any issues you’d like to discuss with our legislators.

 

In the meantime, you can identify who your legislators are through this website:https://le.utah.gov/GIS/findDistrict.jsp

 

I also highly recommend reviewing the advocacy tools from the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, especially the “Forty Action Strategies” under Expanding Your Influence.

http://www.nasaa-arts.org/Advocacy/Advocacy-Tools/

 

We can all learn how to be better advocates for the arts with our legislators.  I hope to see you there!

 

Robyn Hoth

Arts Education Coordinator

Cache Valley Center for the Arts

43 S Main St, Logan, UT 84321

P: 435-554-7065

[email protected]

www.cacheARTS.org

 

CacheArts Presents Nationally Touring Season

at the ellen eccles theatre

Tickets on sale august 15 at cachearts.org

 

October 11, 2016 -  MOMIX: Opus Cactus

October 17, 2016 -  Olate Dogs

November 8, 2016 -  ONCE: The Musical

November 15, 2016 -  The Summit: Manhattan Transfer & Take 6

November 18, 2016 -  Mamma Mia! The Farewell Tour

December 17, 2016 -  Bar J Wranglers

March 18, 2017 -  Cirk La Putyka: Slapstick Sonata

April 11, 2017 -  Hillbenders The Who’s Tommy: A Bluegrass Opry

April 19, 2017  -  Broadway’s Next H!t Musical

 

UTAH'S ART MAGAZINE October 2016 Edition Artist Profile: Joe Marotta He chooses to photograph primarily in black and white and largely in France and Italy, but writes excellent short stories in any café on a silvery laptop. It's how he begins most days: coffee, prose, perhaps thinking about what he's going to discuss in class. "Teaching has to be interesting for me, as well as the students," says the University of Utah professor, who will retire this year after nearly four decades at the art department. A music aficionado, he listens to jazz, Bach and Dylan with equal avidity (well, perhaps jazz wins out here); reads poetry and serious literature (some in slightly rusty Italian); and makes small tables and tiny boxes from exotic woods - the boxes to hold the collection of classy fountain pens with which he writes. (He even uses a typewriter-manual, of course). . .  READ THE PROFILE Go to 15 Bytes  Trashscapes Everyone has received ads and coupons that pile in a corner or are thrown away, but few want to imagine the scale of that junk, piling up in landfills around the world. For his exhibit Desert Trashscapes, van der Wal places and photographs shredded paper, rusty cans, shotgun shells, old TVs , and other discarded consumables in the Utah landscapes . . ."     Read the Article  Potato Eaters Perhaps the important thing about Rebecca Campbell is her generosity of spirit, a good will that suffuses her art and allows her to paint an often uncomfortable truth without alienating her audience in the process. Between that and her virtuosic ability to find and share brilliant new uses for painting, she points the way to a future for art, and for those who would not do without. . .     Read the Article         Zaqistan in the Age of Irony I can't tell if Zaq Landsberg is simply having a good bit of fun or actually taking himself seriously. Landsberg is the founder of an art project in Utah's west desert called Zaqistan, which consists of two rather inaccessible acres of scrubland that has been given the meta-contextual properties of a sovereign nation-there's a flag, a motto, national monuments, etc. And Landsberg and his crew have managed to orchestrate mention of the project in various media outlets so that, a decade in, while not exactly viral, it is building some internet steam. People might even be taking the project seriously. But as is becoming increasingly clear in the political arena, it can be a depressing world when something that begins as a joke gets taken too seriously. . .   Read the Article  The New Sublime       "To me, the sublime represents that which simultaneously excites and terrifies us," says Scotti Hill. "Nature and the expansiveness of space are particularly strong vehicles for the sublime, because we as humans are both enormously attracted by and fearful of its vastness." In a new exhibit at The Granary, Hill brings together the work of Trent Alvey and Andrew Rice, two artists she calls Tourists of the New Sublime. Alvey explores the conjunction of her idyllic childhood in the mountains of central Utah with the age of atomic detonations while Rice creates daunting images of interior spaces that both protect and imprison. . .      Read the Article     The 1-5-B: Selections from our New Podcast in this Edition We Accept the Place    In his first exhibition as curator, Salt Lake City-based photographer Jared Christensen brings together his friends and colleagues for an examination of place, at Green Loft in Salt Lake City. "With the undeniable impact of globalization and the constantly increasing presence of social media in our daily lives, it can easily feel as though we are more connected than ever," Christensen says. "But with so many options available to us in a seemingly endless supply, we may quickly sacrifice quality in favor of quantity in our daily experience." We begin to lose touch, he says, with our immediate environment and with those around us.  Read the Article   Work in Progress     Can you name five women artists? What about five women scientists? Mathematicians? Poets? Jann Haworth couldn't, and in her new community-sourced mural project, the creative director of The Leonardo set out to investigate and celebrate the accomplishments of women in our lives. The 28-foot long mural - a work in progress -  opens this Friday, October 7, in the Street Gallery of the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. For our second episode in The 1-5-B podcast, Shawn Rossiter sat down with the artist to discuss the project. . .  Read the Article     ALSO FEATURING:   35x35 Awards Rebecca Livermore  Tom Bettin Michael McLane T.K. 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Artist Trevor Paglen, best-known for long-distance photographs of secret government sites and his contributions to the Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour, will present his work at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) Thursday, October 27, at 7 pm.

 

 

Often described as experimental geography, Paglen’s work calls attention to concealed and often alarming aspects of our present time—work that is especially relevant in the West, home to many secret spaces. The event is sponsored by XMission, with additional support from Utah Humanities, and is part of the UMFA’s ARTLandish: Land Art, Landscape, and the Environment series and the Utah Humanities Book Festival. It will be held in the Museum's Katherine W. and Ezekiel R. Dumke Jr. Auditorium.