Responses to Belonging in the American West Collaborative Statement Our research as a group parses out the complexities of Identity embedded in Place. The internal awareness of the struggle and vulnerability it takes to share our relationship to “the west” led to the creation of works exploring these boundaries. Not surprisingly, identity of place in […]
Read MorePainting & Drawing Professor Al Denyer, and alumni Joshua Graham (MFA Community Based Art Teaching, 2019) and Claire Taylor (BFA Printmaking, 2017), were among twenty artists whose designs were selected for a pedestrian bridge at Salt Lake City’s new Three Confluences Park, in the Glendale neighborhood. “Three Creeks Confluence Park is the site where Red […]
Read More[in]land | Finch Lane Gallery | 6.25.21 – 8.6.21 BFA Alumni Alec Bang and Douglas Tolman open their exhibition [in]land at Finch lane this Friday, with a reception from 6-9pm. Their work explores issues of land-use in the West, whiteness, and seeking how to be responsible visitors in a land colonized by their ancestors. To address […]
Read MoreArtivism for Earth: Expressions of Loss and Hope is an interdisciplinary collaboration out of the University of Utah to find compassionate and creative solutions to climate crisis. Online content of these artistic collaborations begin on Earth Day, Thursday, April 22, 2021. Transitions is a collaboration between Artist Wendy Wischer and Poet Katharine Coles that creates transitions in […]
Read MoreAlum Nancy Rivera (MFA 2016) opened a new exhibition with Denae Shanidiin last month at Granary Arts: “Facing Home” brings work by artists Nancy Rivera and Denae Shanidiin into dialogue, and considers notions of home, displacement, and memory as they relate to a multicultural identity. Through soft-sculpture installation and photography-based works, both artists reveal complex […]
Read MoreOver the circuit breaker, ceramics students met with visiting artist and alum Brad Taylor to tour his exhibition that just opened at the Utah Museum of Contmeporary Art. Taylor talked with students at length about his artwork and career as a ceramics artist and professor at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa. In speaking to his […]
Read MoreThe Remains of a Dream The American dream of “self-evident truths” and “unalienable rights,” is no longer a new concept that inspires pride in those living in a fledgling nation. Instead, it is a bedrock of the United States’ identity, an appealing idea, and facade that never existed in truth. The collapse of this dreamscape […]
Read MoreWe’re pleased to present Kylie Millward’s MFA Exhibition Scribbling Outside the Margins Visit the Exhibition Millward’s Artist’s Talk took place Friday, May 15, at 6pm via Zoom. Please watch the event via YouTube. “Because of gender inequality, women grow up with toxic ideas about themselves. Our culture forces women to fit within narrow categories, and […]
Read MoreWe’re pleased to present Dana Hansen’s MFA Exhibition Perception is Reality. View the exhibition here! Hansen’s Artist’s Talk took place Wednesday May 13, 2020 via Zoom. View it below: Dana Hansen is from Northern California and has been in Utah for 4 years. He is a Master of Fine Arts candidate at the University of […]
Read MoreDue to precautions being taken to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in our community, our student exhibitions are taking place online this semester. Click the links below to view them! 2020 Juried Student Art Exhibition Social Distance BFA Show Interspace Arts Technology Capstone Photo Capstone: Natalie Hopes Photo Capstone: Carson Melrose Photo Capstone: Araceli Haslam […]
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