Events
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Organization |
Dates |
Location |
Life Aquatic
Presented by Art at the Main at Art at the Main January 16-February 11, 2012 Ceramic artist William James is inspired by the mysteries of the ocean in his new collection of pottery Life Aquatic at Art at the Main Gallery. The organic shapes and colors of squids, octopi, and jellyfish become more fantastical in the hands of James, who re-imagines them as lamps, jars, and other functional shapes. |
Art at the Main |
01/16/12 -
02/11/12 |
Art at the Main, Salt Lake City |
Return to the Mountains: New Watercolors by J. Hunter Stout
Presented by Art at the Main at Art at the Main February 13-March 10, 2012 As a field engineer for a mining machine company, John Stout lived and worked in many wild places around the world. Those wild places, and especially his beloved Rocky Mountains, figure prominently in his watercolor paintings. Though he often detours to new subject matter, he always returns to the mountains. |
Art at the Main |
02/13/12 -
03/10/12 |
Art at the Main, Salt Lake City |
Curious Science Investigators
Presented by Discovery Gateway at Discovery Gateway July 2, 2011-June 30, 2012 In this half-hour workshop, children will uncover mysteries of the world by finding evidence, conducting experiments and drawing conclusions. |
Discovery Gateway |
07/02/11 -
06/30/12 |
Discovery Gateway, Salt Lake City |
Creative Kids
Presented by Discovery Gateway at Discovery Gateway July 6, 2011-June 27, 2012 Children can explore their inner artist through creative work with a variety of materials, including paint, clay, and glue at Creative Kids, a half-hour class for children ages 2-5 years. |
Discovery Gateway |
07/06/11 -
06/27/12 |
Discovery Gateway, Salt Lake City |
Topaz: Artists in Internment
Presented by Utah Division of Arts and Museums at Rio Gallery February 2-February 10, 2012 Utah Arts & Museums presents the traveling exhibit Topaz: Artists in Internment, Their Visual Work and Words, at the Rio Gallery. The exhibit features artworks created during internment at the Topaz War Relocation Center near Delta, Utah, on loan from the Topaz Museum. Artwork by Chiura Obata, Setsu Nagata Kanehara, Charles Erabu Mikami, Mine Okubo, Thomas Ryosaku Matsuoka, Yajiro Okamoto, Kenji Utsumi and Kaneo Kido will be shown alongside the poetry of Lawson Inada. |
Utah Division of Arts and Museums |
02/02/12 -
02/10/12 |
Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City |
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This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement
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The Leonardo at Library Square |
01/13/12 -
05/31/12 |
The Leonardo at Library Square, Salt Lake City |
Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting: Kim Schoenstadt
Presented by Utah Museum of Contemporary Art at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art November 4, 2011-February 18, 2012 Ms. Schoenstadt embodies the spirit of the Doctorow Prize through her passionate dedication to a practice in contemporary painting. Her painterly, site-specific projects, which frequently include elements of audience participation, incorporate complex urban views, themes of modernist architecture, and historically informed explorations of image and society. |
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art |
11/04/11 -
02/18/12 |
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City |
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Family Art Saturday: Valentine Declarations
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Utah Museum of Contemporary Art |
02/11/12 |
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City |
Locals Only Gallery Round 2: Joshua Luther
Presented by Utah Museum of Contemporary Art at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art January 6-April 21, 2012 Luther received a BFA at Utah State University and then an MFA from University of Nebraska-Lincoln before returning to Utah. During the course of his graduate studies, Luther began to investigate the realms of epistemology and linguistics within his work. Pieces consisted of random letters and numbers signifying the arbitrary nature of language. Hidden imagery was used to illustrate the limitations of perception and the nihilistic situation of the human experience. Luther is currently working... |
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art |
01/06/12 -
04/21/12 |
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City |
2012 Sundance Film Festival New Frontier
Presented by Utah Museum of Contemporary Art at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art January 20-May 19, 2012 Utah Museum of Contemporary Art will again host Sundance Film Festival's "New Frontier" in Salt Lake City, Utah. New Frontier is curated by Sundance Film Festival Senior Programmer Shari Frilot. Highlighting work that pushes the boundaries of storytelling and the moving image, New Frontier celebrates its sixth anniversary as a convergence of film, art, and new media technologies and is a hotbed for cinematic innovation. |
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art |
01/20/12 -
05/19/12 |
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City |
Questions for My Father: Karl Haendel and Petter Ringbom
Presented by Utah Museum of Contemporary Art at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art January 31-February 25, 2012 Made in collaboration between Karl Haendel and New York-based filmmaker Petter Ringbom, Questions for My Father is a document of the inquiries, doubts and reservations of a generation of men who came of age in the late 20th century. |
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art |
01/31/12 -
02/25/12 |
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City |
Fax
Presented by Utah Museum of Contemporary Art at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art March 2-April 21, 2012 Fax invites a multigenerational group of artists, architects, designers, scientists, filmmakers and writers to reconceive of the fax machine as a thinking and drawing tool. Participants transmit their fax-based work via the venues' working fax lines through the duration of the exhibition's tour. |
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art |
03/02/12 -
04/21/12 |
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City |
