Enjoy Drawing on Location? Urban Sketchers SLC is a public group that meets once a month in a different location around the city. Join us as we document our firsthand experiences and surroundings through our sketchbooks. All ages and skill levels welcome. Join our Facebook group for event schedule. Questions? Contact m.hirshon@utah.edu
Read MoreProfessor Michael Hirshon was just featured in Magnifying, a series dedicated to showcasing the talent of our students, faculty, and staff to help you learn more about the remarkable individuals within our creative community here at the College of Fine Arts. Read the feature below: Michael Hirshon is a freelance illustrator and assistant professor of Illustration in…
Read MoreXi Zhang: Dream Dust Milkshake February 14 - April 12 Exhibition Community Reception | February 28 | 6pm-8pmKimball Art Center 1401 Kearns Blvd, Park City, UT Xi Zhang’s recent paintings explore what it is to be human—to grow and evolve, to navigate relationships, and, often, to struggle. Placing his protagonists amid dream-like landscapes, reality becomes…
Read MoreMFA alum Nolan Flynn opens his new exhibition Vertical Obedience at Finch Lane Gallery this Friday! Through the combination of inquisitive mark-making and active painting techniques, Nolan Flynn’s exhibition Vertical Obedience lives as a visual record of the excitement and emotions he experiences when making art. The work contains literal, visual, and codified vernacular as a way to…
Read MoreBFA Painting & Drawing alumni Mitchell Lee and Nathanael Read open their exhibition R◽️ght ◽️n th◽️ F◽️◽️ls at Finch Lane Gallery on Friday, January 17. Exhibition runs January 17 - February 28, 2020. Nathanael Read and Mitchell Lee showcase their separate quests for meaning in their exhibition R◽️ght ◽️n th◽️ F◽️◽️ls. While the search for meaning is…
Read MorePainting Residency at the Taft-Nicholson Center July 8 - 18, 2020 ART 4180 Painting Special Topics Residency at the Taft-Nicholson Center will incorporate intellectual growth and experimental painting techniques to develop unexpected ways of interacting with the rugged landscape of the greater Yellowstone ecosystem. This residency experience in Montana is ideal for artists to learn,…
Read MoreThe Charli Condominiums Mural Call for Artists Private art project at 828 South Richards Street, Salt Lake City, Utah Letter of intent due: November 1, 2019 Proposals due: November 29, 2019 Award of contract: by January 15, 2020 Commission award: $50,000 More information at Artists of Utah – 15 Bytes
Read MoreHone your drawing skills at the DRAW Inc Gallery live figure session. Bring a sketchbook and your favorite drawing tools. Timed poses both short and long, smaller group sessions with no more then 16 attendees, and a professional organizer to facilitate the session at all times. Walk ins welcome. More information at Draw Inc.
Read MoreCongratulations to Kim Martinez's Taft-Nicholson Painting Residency class for putting together an amazing exhibition in Gittins Gallery! In this class, held at the University of Utah's Taft Nicholson Center in Montana, artists were given the opportunity to spend a week learning to paint the landscape while being fully immersed in it. The intensive residency included…
Read MoreThank you everyone who came out for the Howard Clark Exhibition reception last week, and a very special thanks to Howard Clark for his continued support of our Painting and Drawing students! Emeri Fetzer, communications specialist for the College of Fine Arts, penned a feature on the exhibition and artists for the The Finer Points…
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