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Expanding the Traditions of American Art

Presented by Brigham Young University Museum of Art at Brigham Young University Museum of Art

February 21-May 19, 2012

Organized by the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, this is the first major exhibition to collectively examine paintings by Robert Walter Weir, John Ferguson Weir, and Julian Alden Weir. It showcases important pieces from museum and private collections across the country, many of which have never been seen together. The exhibition explores how the transatlantic encounters of the Weir family of artists helped to ...More

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	Tell-a-friend Johnston's Army Adventure Camp Presented by Utah State Parks at Camp Floyd State Park and Stagecoach Inn Museum May 18-May 19, 2012 Johnston's Army Adventure Camp is designed for Boy Scouts and offers an authentic and unique hands-on adventure! Scouts travel back in time to 1858 ? 1861 and enter the world of a ...More
	Tell-a-friend Gordon Eddington Copper Art Exhibit Presented by Red Butte Garden and Arboretum at Red Butte Garden and Arboretum April 27-May 20, 2012 The Process of Art on Copper: Gordon takes an image, usually from his photography, and then creates a mosaic pattern from the design. He then transfers the pattern to a piece of copper ...More
	Tell-a-friend Civil War Encampment Presented by Utah State Parks at Camp Floyd State Park and Stagecoach Inn Museum May 26-May 28, 2012 Camp Floyd State Park in conjunction with the Utah Civil War Association are hosting a Civil War Encampment on Memorial Day Weekend. The event will allow visitors to experience camp ...More
	Tell-a-friend This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement Presented by The Leonardo at Library Square at The Leonardo at Library Square January 13-May 31, 2012 A new traveling exhibition presenting this historic struggle through the lenses of nine activist photographers. Free audio guide and docent tours. ...More
	Tell-a-friend Butterfly Presented by Brigham Young University Museum of Art at Brigham Young University Museum of Art February 21-May 31, 2012 Seoungho Cho's video artwork blends West and East by overlaying the pulsing drum solo from Iron Butterfly's famous 1960s rock song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" with a Buddhist drumming ritual. ...More
	Tell-a-friend Juniper Art Photography Exhibit Presented by Kanab Arts Council at Kanab Heritage Museum April 27-June 1, 2012 The exhibit will include traditional film and digital photography, as well as photo based digital art. ...More
	Tell-a-friend Late Night With Rex! Presented by Thanksgiving Point at Thanksgiving Point June 8, 2012 Join them for a Late Night With Rex! Explore the museum on a guided tour and test your Dino knowledge on their scavenger hunt, see a 3D Mammoth Screen Movie with drinks and popcorn, ...More

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Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts Presented by Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts at Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts June 28, 2011 - Ongoing The Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts houses the State Folk Arts Collection (exhibited free of charge) as well as the offices of the Utah Arts Council's Folk Arts Program. The Folk Arts Program offers a variety of services ranging from grants that are available to folk, traditional and ethnic artists and community groups to free public events that feature demonstrations and performances of Utah folk artists in exhibit, concert and festival settings. The Utah State Folklife Archive, a...	Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts	06/28/11- Ongoing	Salt Lake City
Into Africa Into Africa Presented by Brigham Young University at Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum August 1, 2011 - Ongoing Brigham Young University's Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum invites the public to explore Africa and celebrate the opening of the new exhibit, Into Africa: Exploring Nature's Interactions.	Brigham Young University	08/01/11- Ongoing	Provo
Eliza's Attic Eliza's Attic Presented by Brigham City Museum-Gallery at Brigham City Museum-Gallery April 1, 2011-December 31, 2029 Eliza's Attic is a history exhibit designed especially for kids. Young patrons can view an orchard suspended from the ceiling, open a chest-of-drawers of trials, provide the head for mannequins dressed in Sunday apparel, and watch a chicken and vegetables cooking in a fireplace. Behind a door at the top of two wooden stairs is a life-size photo of Blind Man Jones, one of the first mail carriers in Brigham City.	Brigham City Museum-Gallery	04/01/11- 12/31/29	Brigham City
Natural History Exhibit Natural History Exhibit Presented by Box Elder Museum at Box Elder Museum March 16, 2011-June 1, 2019 The Box Elder Museum is a new natural history museum in Brigham City, Utah. It opened in the King Building in 2009, and moved to a larger space in the Hervin Bunderson Center in 2010. Current displays include a variety of fossils and minerals from Box Elder County, throughout Utah, and the world.	Box Elder Museum	03/16/11- 06/01/19	Brigham City
Entwined Entwined Presented by Brigham Young University Museum of Peoples and Cultures at Brigham Young University Museum of Peoples and Cultures April 1, 2011-April 30, 2013 The ancient art of weaving is unraveled at Brigham Young University's Museum of Peoples and Cultures with its newest exhibit, Entwined: A Vibrant Heritage of the Modern Maya. The exhibit demonstrates how past traditions are still a part of the modern Mayan world. The exhibition aims to showcase modern Mayan textiles as an art, according to Anna McKean, promotions director for the museum.	Brigham Young University Museum of Peoples and Cultures	04/01/11- 04/30/13	Provo
Nancy Holt: Sightlines Nancy Holt: Sightlines Presented by Utah Museum of Fine Arts at Utah Museum of Fine Arts October 18, 2012-January 20, 2013 Nancy Holt: Sightlines will offer an in-depth look at the early projects of this important American artist whose pioneering work falls at the intersection of art, architecture, and time-based media. Since the late 1960s, Holt has created a far-reaching body of work, including Land Art, films, videos, site-specific installations, artist's books, concrete poetry, and major sculpture commissions.	Utah Museum of Fine Arts	10/18/12- 01/20/13	Salt Lake City
SALT LAKE 2002 VISITORS CENTER - ONGOING OLYMPIC EXHIBITS SALT LAKE 2002 VISITORS CENTER - ONGOING OLYMPIC EXHIBITS at Olympic Cauldron Park January 29-December 31, 2012  Olympic Cauldron Park, University of Utah		01/29/12- 12/31/12	Salt Lake City
9th International Art Competition Exhibit 9th International Art Competition Exhibit Presented by Church History Museum at Church History Museum March 16-October 14, 2012 The Church History Museum sponsors a worldwide art competition for Latter-day Saint artists every three years. This year's exhibition features over 200 works selected from 1,155 entries, representing a worldwide range of media, styles, and cultural traditions.	Church History Museum	03/16/12- 10/14/12	Salt Lake City
Colleen Reynolds Art Exhibit - Life in Bloom Colleen Reynolds Art Exhibit - Life in Bloom Presented by Red Butte Garden and Arboretum at Red Butte Garden and Arboretum September 14-October 7, 2012 Colleen Reynolds work celebrates the complexity of the living world, triggered by her interest in biology. She derives much of her inspiration from her husband's garden. Reynolds paints in acrylic, watercolor and oil. She creates textured and iridescent paintings where the surface shimmers, chameleon-like, in changing light. Her watercolor paintings depict rich, brilliant color applied in puddles or poured in random flows.	Red Butte Garden and Arboretum	09/14/12- 10/07/12	Salt Lake City
Beauty and Belief: Crossing Bridges with the Arts of Islamic Culture Beauty and Belief: Crossing Bridges with the Arts of Islamic Culture Presented by Brigham Young University Museum of Art at Brigham Young University Museum of Art February 24-September 29, 2012 Unique in its approach, this exhibition offers access to Islamic culture, providing 'a view from within' by project director, Dr. Sabiha Al Khemir. As an introduction to the arts of Islamic culture, this exhibition inspires both the general public and the specialist. Beauty and Belief poses the question "What makes Islamic Art Islamic?" To address this, Tunisian born Dr. Al Khemir creates a show that features historical and geographic background with succeeding sections of calligraphy,...	Brigham Young University Museum of Art	02/24/12- 09/29/12	Provo
Juniper Art Mixed Media and Multi-Dimensional Exhibit Juniper Art Mixed Media and Multi-Dimensional Exhibit Presented by Kanab Arts Council at Kanab Heritage Museum August 24-September 28, 2012 The exhibit will challenge local artists to create works using multiple mediums in each creation or to expand into creation of dimensional art.	Kanab Arts Council	08/24/12- 09/28/12	Kanab
Speed: The Art of the Performance Automobile Speed: The Art of the Performance Automobile Presented by Utah Museum of Fine Arts at Utah Museum of Fine Arts June 2-September 16, 2012 This special exhibition will explore the art of the automobile, featuring antique and vintage racing cars that exemplify the beauty of vehicles designed for speed. Artistry and engineering come together in these functional yet highly crafted works of art. Photo: 1938 Mormon Meteor III, ex-Ab Jenkins, Collection of the Price Museum of Speed, copyright Peter Harholdt.	Utah Museum of Fine Arts	06/02/12- 09/16/12	Salt Lake City
Hadley Anne Rampton Art Exhibit Hadley Anne Rampton Art Exhibit Presented by Red Butte Garden and Arboretum at Red Butte Garden and Arboretum August 17-September 9, 2012 Hadley Anne Rampton began painting outside, mainly in the mountains, due to her love of wilderness. The beauty, the peace, the energy of ever transitory life; it gave her a desire to create and express greater than any other experience she have known.	Red Butte Garden and Arboretum	08/17/12- 09/09/12	Salt Lake City
Photo Finish Photo Finish Presented by Utah Museum of Fine Arts at Utah Museum of Fine Arts June 2-September 9, 2012 Cars are a pervasive symbol in American art and pop culture. Symbolizing such dichotomous ideas as masculinity and femininity, speed and leisure, industry and nature, the individual and the collective, and the glamorous and the mundane, the automobile lends itself to many interpretations. Photographers have long been inspired by the automobile, attempting to capture and examine its multiple meanings through a lens. This group of photographs from the UMFA's collection showcases the diversity of...	Utah Museum of Fine Arts	06/02/12- 09/09/12	Salt Lake City
Bang! Thwack! Plop! Comics: An Influence on Contemporary Art Bang! Thwack! Plop! Comics: An Influence on Contemporary Art Presented by Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art June 14-August 31, 2012 This exhibition explores how comic books have influenced visual art either by appropriation or as a style. Through selections from the museum's permanent collection, the exhibition will look at how artists have used what seems to be a humorous image to address deeper political or social issues reflected in the art. The influence of cartoons in art encompasses the topics of storytelling, herosim, high art vs. low art, time and narrative relationships, and the use of space in a grid format.	Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art	06/14/12- 08/31/12	Logan
Tony Rasmussen: A Retrospective Tony Rasmussen: A Retrospective Presented by Springville Museum of Art at Springville Museum of Art July 13-August 29, 2012 Few artists have captured the Utah landscape in the way Anton Rasmussen have. A well-known presence in Utah painting for decades, Rasmussen is regarded for his abstract works and his masterful and powerful renderings of Utah's canyons and deserts.	Springville Museum of Art	07/13/12- 08/29/12	Springville
Juniper Art Regional Artists Juniper Art Regional Artists Presented by Kanab Arts Council at Kanab Heritage Museum July 20-August 18, 2012 Juniper Fine Arts Gallery presents works by artists in SW Utah and Northern Arizona based on people, places and things found in the Western or Southwestern landscape. This show is affiliated with Kanab's Western Legends celebration.	Kanab Arts Council	07/20/12- 08/18/12	Kanab
From the Ground Up From the Ground Up Presented by Natural History Museum of Utah - Rio Tinto Center at Natural History Museum of Utah - Rio Tinto Center April 21-August 12, 2012 The first exhibit to debut in the changing exhibit gallery of the Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center articulates the Museum's journey into its new home. From the Ground Up is an interactive exhibit about the behind-the-scene efforts that went into the the Rio Tinto Center.	Natural History Museum of Utah - Rio Tinto Center	04/21/12- 08/12/12	Salt Lake City
Salt 5: Daniel Everett Salt 5: Daniel Everett Presented by Utah Museum of Fine Arts at Utah Museum of Fine Arts March 30-July 29, 2012 salt 5: Daniel Everett is the fifth in the Museum's series of exhibitions featuring innovative art from around the world. In his work, Daniel Everett explores the pursuit of meaning through various media including photography, video, performance, and installation. Much of his art focuses on liminal spaces, points of transition, and personal meaning found in public areas.	Utah Museum of Fine Arts	03/30/12- 07/29/12	Salt Lake City
Richard Ansley Photography Exhibit Richard Ansley Photography Exhibit Presented by Red Butte Garden and Arboretum at Red Butte Garden and Arboretum June 22-July 15, 2012 Being born and spending his childhood in the cloudy suburbs of Atlanta Georgia, Richard Ansley never learned to appreciate open vistas and clear blue skis like those of the Western landscape until his first of many hitchhiking trips that cut through the never-ending cornfields of the plains across the desolate Nevadan sagebrush and finally to the Western shores of California in the early 70's.	Red Butte Garden and Arboretum	06/22/12- 07/15/12	Salt Lake City
Juniper Art Annual Member Exhibit Juniper Art Annual Member Exhibit Presented by Kanab Arts Council at Kanab Heritage Museum June 8-July 13, 2012 The Juniper Fine Arts Gallery presents its Annual Member Show.	Kanab Arts Council	06/08/12- 07/13/12	Kanab
Free Monday at the Natural Histroy Museum of Utah Free Monday at the Natural Histroy Museum of Utah Presented by Natural History Museum of Utah - Rio Tinto Center at Natural History Museum of Utah - Rio Tinto Center July 9, 2012 The Natural History Museum of Utah will offer a Free Day on Monday, July 9, in appreciation for the Zoo, Arts, and Parks funding. It is recommended that visitors reserve advance tickets for Free Days on a while-supplies-last basis.	Natural History Museum of Utah - Rio Tinto Center	07/09/12	Salt Lake City
88th Annual Spring Salon 88th Annual Spring Salon Presented by Springville Museum of Art at Springville Museum of Art April 20-July 1, 2012 In its 88th year, the Annual Spring Salon is Utah's premiere fine art exhibition. The Salon is open to all styles of artistic expression. It encourages diverse applications of style, content and technique and seeks to promote varied conceptual and formal directions in art. The exhibition will attempt to balance various areas of artistic concern, including Traditional, Realism, Impressionism, Modernism, Visionary, Conceptual and Western/Americana. Selected by jury, this exhibition strives for a...	Springville Museum of Art	04/20/12- 07/01/12	Springville
Michelle Condrat Art Exhibit Michelle Condrat Art Exhibit Presented by Red Butte Garden and Arboretum at Red Butte Garden and Arboretum May 25-June 17, 2012 Michelle Condrat was born and raised in Salt Lake City Utah, and is an active participant in the art community. She graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelor degree in Painting/Drawing and Printmaking and a minor in Art History in 2007. She has had her artwork shown in many different art shows including the Springville Museum of Art Spring Salon in 2010, the Utah and Park City Arts Festivals, and the Salt Lake City Deseret News Landscape Art Show.	Red Butte Garden and Arboretum	05/25/12- 06/17/12	Salt Lake City
South Jordan City art show South Jordan City art show Presented by South Jordan Public Art and Cultural Development Board at Gale Center of History and Culture May 15-June 15, 2012 South Jordan Public Art and Cultural Development Board presents its 5th annual South Jordan City Art Show at Gale Center of History and Culture.	South Jordan Public Art and Cultural Development Board	05/15/12- 06/15/12	South Jordan
Spring Exhibition Spring Exhibition Presented by Alpine Art at Alpine Art May 18-June 11, 2012 Spring Exhibition works from local artists that evoke the colors, scenery, and emotion of springtime in the Mountain-West. This show aims to capture the joy of returning to our outdoor lives, and how natural vibrance catalyses new artistic creation.	Alpine Art	05/18/12- 06/11/12	Salt Lake City
Claudia Sisemore and Friends: Teacher, Painter, Filmmaker Claudia Sisemore and Friends: Teacher, Painter, Filmmaker Presented by Utah Division of Arts and Museums at Rio Gallery May 11-June 8, 2012 Utah Arts and Museums announces Claudia Sisemore and Friends: Teacher, Painter, Filmmaker opening. at the Rio Gallery. A public reception will be held during the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll The exhibition will continue through June. The Rio Gallery is located at 300 S. Rio Grande Street (455 West) in Salt Lake City.	Utah Division of Arts and Museums	05/11/12- 06/08/12	Salt Lake City