Stories about local arts and culture events and profiles about local creatives.
Art Elevated, an art and handcrafted gift market featuring local artists and artisans, returns the weekend of Nov. 3-5 at Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter in Park City’s Newpark Town Center. The three-day event kickoffs the holiday season with one-of-a-kind gifts and festivities including live performances, demos, and a special wine tasting event.
Read MoreIt’s essential for artists to have entrepreneurial skills to thrive in any creative community. Park City Foundry, a local nonprofit community organization, provides opportunities for makers to connect and learn entrepreneurial skills to further themselves and their projects.
Read MoreSummit County's Kimball Junction Transit Center has been busy with activity over the last several weeks as local artist Kylie Millward has been finishing up her work on the Kimball brand upright piano. Kylie has painted the old player piano with folksy scenes of Utah wildlife, including a skunk, elk, snake, beaver, and mountain goat, as well as a few hidden artistic surprises such as a bear catching a fish.
Read MoreThe Kimball Art Center has launched a new free Critique Night program as a resource for local artists on the last Wednesday of every month. The goal of the program is to create and foster a collaborative and open environment for feedback that is supportive and critical for practicing artists in our community.
Read MoreOn September 13th -16th aspiring Plein Air (outdoor) painters of all stripes will ascend to the beautiful Heber Valley to augment their craft with some of the top, nationally known Plein Air painters that Utah has to offer. This event is sponsored and hosted by the Midway Art Association in conjunction with the artists/instructors from the Plein Air Painters of Utah.
Read MoreSwaner Preserve and EcoCenter and the Park City Summit County Arts Council have teamed up with the Park City Professional Artists Association to present “Art Elevated”, an art and handcrafted gift market featuring local artists and artisans. The show will run November 3, 4, and 5th at the Swaner EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive, Park City.
Read MoreDon Weller loves the west and finds a treasure trove of inspiration living in Utah. He admires the works of C.M. Russell, Will James and George Phippen but learned to loosen his drawing methods and brush strokes by studying the impressionists. By combining the two, his distinct paintings trigger the imagination and cultivate an appreciation for the beauty of the west and the ongoing traditions of its history.
Read MoreMain Street Park City is lined with galleries featuring art of every kind but during the Fourth of July parade.....the biggest and most interesting art projects will be cruising down the middle of the street. Keep an eye out for 'THE FROG PRINCE', designed and owned by local artist Zafod (pronounced Zay-Fahd) Beatlebrox and 'THE PILOT FISH', designed by Zafod and owned by Park City physician, Dr. Harry Adelson. “Another favorite entry from past years was 'THE DOUBLE COMFORT VAN', which was two 15 passenger vans welded together back to back to make a 'push-me pull-you'.” Zafod, well-known for his functional art, which creates a thing of beauty out of ordinary objects, has super-sized his creations by using his scientific and mechanical skills to create the fantastic cars which appear in our local parades and joined other unique creations at The Burning Man Festival, held annually in Nevada.
Read MoreWhat’s the buzz at the PC Marc? It’s soon to be a new kinetic sculpture suspended from the rafters, with whirling balls, racquets, skis, gears, and gravity drops. When an RFP went out for artwork to add to the facility, the specifications were that it encapsulate Park City values promoting a sense of play, community, and discovery. Mike Wong is a PCCAPS (Park City Center for Advanced Professional Studies) volunteer mentor, a Park City High School graduate (’96), and an industrial engineer by profession. He submitted the winning design to the City, with a plan to engage and empower the PCCAPS students to create a tantalizing, community-based project.
Read MoreJordan Daines is a fine art painter who studied in Florence, Italy with the master Masri Haysaam. During her studies at Caine School of the Arts in Logan, Utah, Jordan connected to the Italian painter giving her the opportunity to enhance her knowledge of art and its discourse. Jordan graduated with a BFA at Caine expressing herself in a most individual way. Her current work with oil on wood panel and canvas is a thick painterly style showing a love of color. Her work is bold and overtly representational.
Read MoreGrowing up in Utah, artist Ruby Chacón saw few representations of her Chicana life and experiences in the art and history books that surrounded her. The stories she heard were about her father being segregated in the Monticello schools of his childhood, punished for speaking Spanish; or her mother, baptized at the old Guadalupe church in Salt Lake City or playing around the train tracks that separate downtown from Salt Lake’s west side. From now until June 4th, over a decade of Chacón’s work can be viewed at the Park City Library. The exhibit entitled Honoring My Community: A Collection from 2005-2016 provides a window into a rich part of Utah’s history told through the lens of a Utah native.
Read MoreWith its world-class ski resorts and miles of hiking and biking trails, Park City is widely known for its year-round outdoor activities. What’s perhaps less known, however, is the diversity of the Park City visual art scene. From contemporary to traditional, and from sculpture to oils and experimental mediums, the galleries in Park City offer the perfect cultural complement to the great outdoors. Of course, you can explore the many galleries on any given day, but The Last Friday Gallery Stroll is the perfect opportunity for locals and visitors alike to experience the arts as an organized event. This free community activity takes place all year long on the last Friday of each month and is presented by the Park City Gallery Association (PCGA) and its members.
Read MoreFine art painter, Maria Zielinska lives in Park City, Utah where she maintains an art studio. Her wonderful canvases are inspired by nature and the happenings she sees around her. She expresses herself in broad brush strokes and a compendium of wonderful colors which stimulates the viewer's imagination. Her sense of composition is impeccable. No matter if the subject is deftly defined or loosely interpreted, the observer’s emotion fills in and one experiences nature from Maria's point of view.
Read MoreWhat did Utah look like at the turn of the 20th century? While many historic buildings in town may provide a glimpse, the Early Utah Masterpieces art exhibit at the Park City Library (built in 1928, it was once Park City High School) showcases the majestic landscapes and everyday pioneer portraits of those that settled the Beehive State.
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