Drawn in Dust: Museums Across Utah Showcase Art Made in Japanese American Incarceration Camp
While incarcerated in the Utah desert, a circle of World War II-era Japanese American artists founded an art school.
June 07, 2024
Utah
The Other Side of the Tracks Begins its Journey at Ogden Contemporary Arts
The Other Side of the Tracks, a group exhibition that explores the history of the Western railroad, is on view at Ogden Contemporary Arts through July 14, and then travels to RedLine Contemporary Art Center and 516 Arts.
May 22, 2024
Oracle Bones: High Desert Divination with Terry Tempest Williams and Gaylord Schanilec
In Oracle Bones from Red Butte Press, a writer and an artist wander the Utah wilderness to discern the future. Then it comes true.
May 15, 2024
From Utah’s Geographical Center, an Argument for Decentralizing Arts Discourse
Granary Arts's Critical Ground advances a bold idea: in the Southwest arts community, the center shouldn't hold.
May 14, 2024
Artists Ride, and Reframe, the U.S. Railroad in The Other Side of the Tracks
Carried by the rails that their ancestors laid, rode, or resisted, nine artists challenge dominant histories of the Transcontinental Railroad in this multi-venue exhibition.
April 30, 2024
The Desert’s Living Skin: A Collaborative Effort to Bring Biocrust Into the Museum
The Biocrust Project reveals the importance of protecting the desert’s biocrust in the face of climate change in an immersive collaboration between art and science.
April 25, 2024
Andrew Alba’s New Works at Material Expose the Pain We Inherit
In a world replete with ecological catastrophe and political turmoil, the customarily inward Andrew Alba channels calamities into catharsis for his exhibition of new works at Material.
April 09, 2024
How Commemorations to the Disenfranchised Have Forced a Reckoning with Utah’s History and Present
The narratives of the many racial and ethnic minorities whose experiences have indelibly shaped both Utah and American history deserve recognition and reckoning.
March 29, 2024
Ogden Contemporary Arts Presents The Healing Palette of Mystical Mestizaje
Experience Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño's solo exhibition in Ogden, Utah. On view through April 21, 2024.
March 06, 2024
EssayUtahVol. 9 Living Histories
A Fluid History Set in Stones, Springs, and Rivers
In this essay, nicholas b jacobsen braids together ongoing histories of Mormon and U.S. settler colonialism and genocide against Nuwu and Diné peoples at Pipe Spring National Monument and Lake Powell.
March 01, 2024
InterviewUtahVol. 9 Living Histories
Paisley Rekdal Reimagines History in West: A Translation
Salt Lake City-based writer Paisley Rekdal discusses poetry as an archive and cultural connecter in the history of the transcontinental railroad.
March 01, 2024
FeatureUtahVol. 9 Living Histories
Living at the Home of Truth: Emma Kemp Blends History with Memoir in Marie’s Place
After living at an abandoned commune in rural Utah for eight years, author Emma Kemp blends history with memoir in her forthcoming book.
March 01, 2024
ReviewUtahVol. 9 Living Histories
Shaping Landscapes: 150 Years of Photography in Utah
Shaping Landscapes illuminates the state's history, using photography as a platform for exploring technology, identity, and activism.
March 01, 2024
…and there is this lingering thought.: Gail Grinnell at Weber State
Gail Grinnell's ...and there is this lingering thought. sparks reflection on the world we live in and ourselves at the Shaw Gallery at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah.
January 24, 2024
Work in Progress with Stephanie Leitch
Salt Lake City-based Stephanie Leitch, known for her labor-intensive and mesmerizing installations, continues honing her craft in recent exhibitions that comment on life’s murky truths.
November 13, 2023
Ogden Contemporary Arts Announces Two Fall Exhibitions
MyLoan Dinh: Unsettled Provisions and Nancy Rivera: No Present to Remember open Friday, November 3, 2023, and run through January 14, 2024.
October 31, 2023
Moab Officials Reject Message of Equality in Mural by Black Artist Chip Thomas
Grand County, Utah commissioners censored a quote by a historic Black cowboy about racial and class equality in a mural proposed by artist Chip Thomas.
October 31, 2023
Experience Coincidences at Dumke Arts Plaza, Ogden, Utah
The Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery at Weber State University presents Coincidences, a multimedia project and contemporary movement experience exploring shared isolation.
October 18, 2023
Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts Unveils New Gallery in a Celebration that Commemorates Past, Present, and Future
The Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts, a Salt Lake City organization that promotes marginalized artists, aims to revitalize its mission with a new exhibition space centered on community-based programming.
October 16, 2023
Rat Fink Museum Inspires Rural Utah and Beyond to “Fink” Differently
Rat Fink Museum, curiously located in rural and religious Utah, celebrates Ed "Big Daddy" Roth’s inventive style that continues to influence present-day contemporary art.
October 11, 2023
Russel Albert Daniels Exposes Native Enslavement and Genocide in the Southwest
Photojournalist Russel Albert Daniels posits his family history as a bridge to larger investigations into Indigenous histories and the legacy of colonial violence and displacement in the American Southwest.
October 02, 2023
A Greater Utah Surveys the Artistic Output of an Entire State
While many of the figures in UMOCA’s A Greater Utah are familiar, the ambitious scope of the project allows for new perspectives outside of the state’s metropolitan center.
September 28, 2023
Jared Steffensen: Nosey Taily and the Leftover Review Features Sculptural Transformations from Busted Skateboards
Jared Steffensen, a Salt Lake City-based artist and curator, repurposes broken skateboard decks into enigmatic, nearly inexplicable sculptural artworks in the Current Work exhibition Nosey Taily and the Leftover Review.
September 25, 2023
Torrey House Press, the “Intermountain West’s Only Nonprofit Environmental Publisher,” Reworks Western Identity
Torrey House Press, an Intermountain West nonprofit environmental book publisher founded in 2010, renews its commitment to Western voices with a new focus on diverse perspectives.
September 21, 2023
Kimball Art Center’s Three-Part Exhibition Examines the Human Impact on Land
Kimball Art Center completes the year-long exhibition project Between Life and Land with the closing chapter entitled Crisis.
September 20, 2023
Moab’s Mid-Century Cave Dwelling is an Ode to Bad Taxidermy and Jesus Christ
Hole N” The Rock—a 1930s excavated cave that honors Jesus Christ and Franklin Delano Roosevelt—is a feat of do-it-yourself architecture just off Highway 191 near Moab, Utah.
September 13, 2023
FeatureUtahVol. 8 Medium + Support
Talking Trash at Building Man, Utah’s Festival of Junk
Building Man, an annual, week-long desert rave and art festival in Green River, Utah, celebrates artists who work with found and reclaimed materials.
September 01, 2023
Studio VisitUtahVol. 8 Medium + Support
Lenka Konopasek: Paper Tendrils, Threatening
Salt Lake City–based artist Lenka Konopasek disrupts and decenters anthropocentrism with her three-dimensional paper sculptures, whose prickly paper strips instill aversion and attraction, as if growing out of the wall.
September 01, 2023
Kheng Lim and Colour Maisch Team Up at Bountiful Davis Art Center
Although the thematic connection feels strained, the pairing of works by Kheng Lim and Colour Maisch creates a visually rich and compelling exhibition that invites us to relish process and material.
August 30, 2023
An Ode to Trees: Southern Utah Museum of Art Presents Reaching for the Sky
Experience works exploring the juxtaposition between trees and the well-known red rocks of southern Utah landscapes in Reaching for the Sky, on view through September 23 in Cedar City.
August 22, 2023
