Nov 02 2023
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Jan 11 2024
Bicentennial Art: A 1976 Historical Exhibit Redux

Bicentennial Art: A 1976 Historical Exhibit Redux

Presented by Kaysville - Fruit Heights Museum of History and Art at Kaysville- Fruit Heights Museum

Art enriches community and northern Utah's community is connected through historical events that continue to impact citizens in the present. By reviving historical art first shown almost 50 years ago, the Kaysville - Fruit Heights Museum opens new conversations about how the interpretation of history can change over time while the works of those skilled artists continues to inspire anew.

The public is invited to view selected paintings from a revival of an exhibit first commissioned for the National Bicentennial of 1976. On display are 28 pieces created by sixteen artists. The 2023 exhibit is shown in collaboration with Weber State Storytelling Festival and supported by a grant awarded by Utah Arts and Museums. The artwork is comprised of  reproductions of oil, acrylic and water color paintings showcasing some of the works created by well-known Utah artists active during the mid 20th to early 21st Centuries. Brief biographies of the selected artists are available online. See the associated artist list for this event as well as information for Fred Hunger, Farrell Collett, Mary R. Warnock, Franz Johansen and Lee Parkinson.

The redux exhibit is also intended to demonstrate how art can open the past to new interpretations for later generations. The artwork shown includes paintings of groups of people who were integral to the development of northern Utah such as trappers and mountain men, Native Americans, pioneers and other settlers as they participated in some well-known, but many poorly understood events from the past.

Admission Info

Art show is free to the public.

Dates & Times

2023/11/02 - 2024/01/11

Additional time info:

After the November 2nd opening reception, the art will be exhibited intact until January 11, 2024 when pieces will be rotated to the Fruit Heights City Administrations Building and then back to Kaysville. The art will be shown through 2024 in both cities.

For many of the paintings, connections to Kaysville area history is available on the Kaysville - Fruit Heights Museum's website at https://www.kfhmuseum.org/bicentennial-art/. Both the 1976 exhibit descriptions and those updated for the 2023-2024 showings are available online.

A student art contest will be advertised to high school teachers at Davis, Farmington and Layton High Schools and posted on the museum's social media sites. High school students in the geographical areas feeding into those schools are invited to submit. Contest rules apply.

Location Info

Kaysville- Fruit Heights Museum

23 E Center Street, Kaysville, UT 84037

Accessibility Info

Enter by north entrance. Parking is available in the center of the Old Town block on Main Street in Kaysville.