Date: Friday, July 8 Time: 6pm Location: Kimball Art Center Meet our next resident artist, Nancy Rivera when we celebrate the start of her Artist-in-Residence program at the Kimball Art Center. Nancy Rivera is a visual artist, curator, and arts administrator based in Salt Lake City, Utah. She will be working at the Kimball Art […]
Read MoreCongratulations ot the Class of 2022! We caught up with a few graduating seniors about their plans after graduation: Comstock has received a Development internship at Penland School of Craft, located in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Penland focuses on clay, bookarts, glass, metals, textiles, and printmaking, and serves as a hub of community for […]
Read MoreWork from our current University of Utah graduating BFA students in their group exhibition “Ah, Never to Escape”, which was on view at 150 S. Rio Grande St. in the Gateway over the Gallery Stroll weekend April 15-17, 2022.
Read MoreBig congratulations to MFA candidate Douglas Tolman, one of three winners of the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards! Tolman’s work, Last Gesture, uses wood sourced from a reclaimed pine pallet that carried consumer goods to Utah and salt from the evaporating Great Salt Lake, reflecting his dedication to sense of place and connection to community. Tolman is […]
Read MorePhotography & Digital Imaging Professor Jaclyn Wright opens a solo exhibition in the Projects Gallery Utah Museum of Contemporary Art on Friday, March 18, from 6-9pm! “In High Visibility (Blaze Orange), artist Jaclyn Wright uses debris collected from gun ranges on public lands to explore the intersections of photography, capitalism, and colonialism. Employing original images […]
Read MoreA few recent faculty accomplishments to be celebrated! Al Denyer (Painting & Drawing) is currently being shown in Compulsory Measures group exhibition at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, VA. Kim Martinez (Painting & Drawing) & Beth Krensky (Art Teaching) are in the group exhibition NEW DIRECTIONS at Novi Hram (The New Temple) at the […]
Read MoreUMOCA Artist-in-Residence Nick Pedersen’s exhibition Slow Apocalypse is currently on display in the museum’s Exit Gallery through January, 8, 2022. In Slow Apocalypse, Pedersen uses an intricate combination of photography, digital collage, and printmaking to explore environmental issues of the Anthropocene, an age of human impact on the natural world. With carbon emissions reaching levels […]
Read MoreProfessors Wendy Wischer, Jaclyn Wright, and Al Denyer show work in a group show opening at Ogden Contemporary Arts Center on December 10. LAND BODY explores connections between the human body and the landscape through the perspectives of eleven female identifying artists. Hailing from Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, the artists pay particular attention to […]
Read MoreOn Friday, September 17th, 2021, Nox Contemporary will host the opening for the exhibition Genetic Quilt by Lewis J. Crawford. There will be a public reception that evening, during the Salt Lake City Gallery Stroll, from 6-8 pm. “I am a genetic quilt. I am a body made of my ancestors’ genetic codes that have […]
Read MoreIt’s been a big year of recognition, accolades and awards for Photography/Digital Imaging Professor Edward Bateman! Earlier this month, Bateman was named a recipient of the University of Utah’s 2021 Presidential Scholar Award. These annual awards recognize the extraordinary academic accomplishments and scholarly potential of mid-career faculty. It was also just announced that Bateman’s work […]
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