POSTPONED
Due to the Garden closure, this is event has been postponed until further notice. **** Colors vibrating off the paper display our botanical experiences in these small treasures from the members of the Utah Watercolor Society. Join us as we share our inspirations from nature in this eclectic watermedia show. You’ll see a lot more than daisies here! The Utah Watercolor Society was founded December 30, 1974, and operates as a Utah Non-profit Corporation and Cooperative Association. The mission of UWS is to promote the advancement of the art of painting watercolors, and to hold annual exhibitions of watercolors. We promote artists continual growth as individuals and as a group, and strive to maintain exhibits of the highest professional quality.
https://www.nowplayingutah.com/event/utah-watercolor-society-art-exhibit-2020/
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Due to the Garden closure, this is event has been postponed until further notice. **** Colors vibrating off the paper display our botanical experiences in these small treasures from the members of the Utah Watercolor Society. Join us as we share our inspirations from nature in this eclectic watermedia show. You’ll see a lot more than daisies here! The Utah Watercolor Society was founded December 30, 1974, and operates as a Utah Non-profit Corporation and Cooperative Association. The mission of UWS is to promote the advancement of the art of painting watercolors, and to hold annual exhibitions of watercolors. We promote artists continual growth as individuals and as a group, and strive to maintain exhibits of the highest professional quality.
https://www.nowplayingutah.com/event/utah-watercolor-society-art-exhibit-2020/
WHEN
May 27, 2020 at 9am - May 31, 2020 at 9pm
WHERE
Maureen O'Hara Ure in Main Gallery, Gini Pringle in Dibble, Paul Dougan Across The Street @ Phillips Gallery (Until Nov 11, SLC)
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Be Smart About Collecting Art @ Finch Lane Gallery (Nov. 5, SLC)
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
Arts Summit @ Cache Arts (Cache Valley: Oct 25)
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
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
newsletter: October 2016 edition of 15 Bytes
UTAH'S ART MAGAZINE
October 2016 Edition
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). . .
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 . . ."
Potato Eaters
Read the ArticlePerhaps 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. . .
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. . .
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. . .
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.
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. . .
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Trevor Paglen will open your eyes @ UMFA (October 27)
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.
Kimball Arts Center Fundraiser (Oct. 7 - Oct. 16)
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Handcrafted Chili Bowls in a Living Room Near You @ SUU (Oct. 19 - 21)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 10/04/2016
Ashley H Pollock, Public Relations & Information Coordinator Office: 435-865-8667
College of Performing and Visual Arts
Cell: 435-590-0961
Southern Utah University
Handcrafted Chili Bowls in a Living Room Near You
Written by Lola Taylor
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah: The Ceramic Guild for the SUU Department of
Art and Design is hosting its Annual Chili Bowl fundraising sale on October 19, 20 and 21. Over
270 handcrafted ceramic bowls will be on sale from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm in the SUU Sharwan
Smith Living Room. Susan Harris, acclaimed ceramic artist and Professor of Art at SUU, will be
donating a few bowls to the sale as well. All proceeds from the sale support Ceramic Guild
members’ attendance at the annual National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
(NCECA) conference.
Chili comes free with the purchase of a ceramic bowl. Every ceramic bowl is microwave and
dishwasher safe, so you may choose to eat the chili from your new bowl or from a disposable
container provided by the Ceramic Guild. With prices ranging from $10 to $25, it is an affordable
way to obtain handcrafted art and feed your appetite at the same time.
Last year’s Annual Chili Bowl allowed five students to attend the NCECA, where the students
were enriched with educational experiences and were able to connect with graduate school
representatives. Jurors were also on hand to critique the students’ portfolios, allowing them to
receive additional feedback on their works of art. Multiple art gallery visits were also included in
their conference trip.
Seth York, SUU Public Administration Masters candidate and the Ceramics Guild President,
said, “Last year [at NCECA], we spent hours walking around the various galleries in the area.
Going to the student exhibits allowed us to see what other artists are creating. I enjoy the
galleries the most because you get so much inspiration.”
The Ceramic Guild has ten students attending NCECA this year, so they are working hard to
ensure this year’s Annual Chili Bowl sale is a big success. All sales events hosted by the
Ceramic Guild fund educational opportunities for its members and allow visiting artists to come
to SUU to teach new techniques.
For questions about the Annual Chili Bowl sale, please contact Seth York at
About the College of Performing and Visual Arts
The Southern Utah University College of Performing and Visual Arts is comprised of nationally
accredited departments of Art and Design, Music, and Dance. The College also offers programs
in Theatre Arts, graduate programs in Arts Administration and Music, as well as a Center for
Shakespeare Studies. The College offers 16 different degree areas, including liberal arts
Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees; professional Bachelor of Music and Bachelor
of Fine Arts in art and theatre degrees; and Master of Fine Arts in Arts Administration, Master of
Arts in Arts Administration, Master of Music Education and Master of Music in Music Technology
graduate degrees. More than 60 full- and part-time faculty and staff are engaged in teaching
and mentoring nearly 600 majors in the College. Over 1,100 students enroll each year in over
195 arts classes on the SUU campus. The College presents over 100 performances, lectures,
presentations, and exhibitions each year. The College’s affiliate organizations include the
Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA), Utah Shakespeare Festival and SUU’s Ballroom Dance
Company. For more information about the College of Performing and Visual Arts, visit
www.suu.edu/pva.
For Calendar Editors: Handcrafted Chili Bowls in a Living Room Near You
What:
The Ceramic Guild for the SUU Department of Art and Design is hosting its
Annual Chili Bowl fundraising sale on October 19, 20 and 21. Over 270
handcrafted ceramic bowls will be on sale from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm in the SUU
Sharwan Smith Living Room. All proceeds from the sale support Ceramic Guild
members’ attendance at the annual National Council on Education for the
Ceramic Arts (NCECA) conference.
Who:
Ceramic Guild, Southern Utah University, Department of Art & Design
When:
October 19, 20 and 21, 2016
Time:
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where:
Sharwan Smith Living Room, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah
Info:
For questions about the Annual Chili Bowl sale, please contact Seth York at
News: The Art Truck's "whereABOUTS" @ UMOCA (Oct. 4)
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Mapping Identities:
whereABOUTS
UMOCA presents Michael Anthony García and Jaime Salvador Castillo
ED. SPACE: AUG 2017
ART TRUCK: 2016 - 2017
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UMOCA wishes to correct the donors cited in the sixth section of this press release.
Salt Lake City, UT- The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) is pleased to present Michael Anthony García and Jaime Salvador Castillo's whereABOUTS as the 2016-17 Art Truck exhibition.
García and Castillo's whereABOUTS is an immersive and interactive installation that investigates location, identity, and community. The Art Truck, which will display artist-altered maps, will travel throughout different communities and schools in Utah where students will learn about mapping as a way to understand and express relationships between identity and place.
What is a "map" and who determines its definition? How are place and identity connected? What makes a community, and how has your environment influenced you? These, among many others, are the questions that García and Castillo ask community members to contemplate through their installation. By combining visual map characteristics and the voices and experiences of diverse communities, whereABOUTS is an exhibit that is more than a reflection of our location: it is a reflection of the relationships we have between each other and the places we live.
Students will explore their own communities through creative map-making of their neighborhoods. whereABOUTS aims to connect students from different communities all across Utah and will provide opportunities for visitors to learn about experiences outside their own. Student-generated art maps will remain in the Art Truck as part of the installation from school to school. These collected maps, along with Castillo and García's pieces, will make up an important part of this exhibit.
Utahns are also encouraged to contribute to the project by submitting digital artwork to thewhereABOUTS project all year long. Share photographs of your community on social media and tag #whereabouts #arttruck #utahmoca. These images will be digitally displayed throughout the year at storify.com/utahmoca/whereabouts, as well as being included in the culminating whereABOUTS exhibition, opening at UMOCA in the fall of 2017.
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About the Artists
 Born in El Paso but raised in Austin, Michael Anthony García earned his BFA at Austin College in 1996. A multi-disciplinary artist, García focuses predominantly on found-object nature, installation, and performance art. He has also worked extensively as an independent curator, helping found the powerhouse Austin-based curatorial collective Los Outsiders in 2007, alongside Jaime Castillo and Hector Hernandez. In 2012 and 2015, the collective was awarded Bes Group Show Curation by the Austin Critics' Table. García has also won multiple awards for both his curatorial and artistic work.
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 Jaime Salvador Castillo is an independent curator and the current Arts Commissioner of District 2 for the City of Austin. In 2005, he received his BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas, Austin. A committed arts professional, Castillo has sat on the City of Austin's Art in Public Places Panel since 2009 and served as Chair from 2014-15. He was Chair of the Curatorial Board for Generous Art from 2014-15, a founding member of Los Outsiders art collective until 2015, the portfolio advisor for "Young Artists @ Arthouse," and a contributing arts writer for The Austin Chronicle. His current project, Eyes Got It, is an open art competition offering critical reviews and exhibition opportunities.
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The Art Truck
The Art Truck is the only traveling educational art exhibit of its kind in Utah. The UMOCA Art Truck brings exciting and accessible contemporary art, created by leading local and national artists, directly to schools and community venues across the state. Each on-site visit by the Art Truck includes the expertise of a trained museum educator who leads students through a meaningful exploration of the current exhibition. Teachers are provided with structured lesson plans to supplement their tour and incorporate the Art Truck more deeply into their curriculum.
 Our Teacher Guides are available online atutahmoca.org/art-truck/ and provides insight on the exhibition, the artists and their work, the materials needed for class exercises, lesson plans, and more. Booking the Art Truck is available free-of-charge for
a wide variety of educational and charitable purposes. For more information or to request a visit by the Art Truck, contact Madeline Savarese at[email protected] or call801.328.4201 X 110.
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Art Truck Staff: Madeline Savarese
 Madeline is UMOCA's Art Educator and spends much of her time traveling from city to city in the Art Truck. She facilitates all the Art Truck events and visits as well as creating lesson plans and activities for teachers. UMOCA is very pleased to have Madeline on board our staff and appreciates all her hard work regarding the Art Truck, one of our most impressionable and educational programs for kids.
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7th Annual Touch-a-Truck Event
On Oct 1 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Art Truck was present at the 7th Annual Touch-a-Truck Event, located at the Valley Fair Mall. Hosted by the Junior League of Salt Lake City, this event allows families to see the inner workings of all kinds of trucks and offers kids of all ages hands on experience to explore large vehicles.
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About the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art has been an award-winning aesthetic force and community leader since it was established in 1931. Located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, UMOCA encourages exploration into what it means to exist in today's world through art that inspires imagination, stimulates thought, and transforms society. The Museum connects people around the contemporary art practice of Utah and beyond to shape an engaged and thoughtful global citizenry. UMOCA strives to be a place where all points of view, experiences, and ages feel welcome to explore the pressing issues of our time through socially relevant art exhibitions and programming.
UMOCA is a five-time recipient of funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and is a 2015 and 2016 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts' Art Works grant award.
UMOCA is a 501c3 institution that is supported by public, foundation, and corporate gifts. Your contribution in any amount is greatly appreciated, and admission is a suggested $5 donation.
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Craft Lake City and West Elm Present: Cake Decorating Workshop with Megan Whittaker of Noisette (November 5)
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