Stories about local arts and culture events and profiles about local creatives.
In this blog series we feature Park City Public Art Board Members favorite local art pieces. See public art through new eyes and experience what makes these pieces so special according to our Public Art Board members. Once you’ve read our blog, go experience these public art pieces for yourself! In this blog post we feature a favorite from Park City Public Art Board Member, Jennifer Gardner.
Read MoreArt on the Trails is a program that connects art and nature. In the past it has featured pop-up creative performances, such as hip-hop dance, ballet, Spanish guitar and more, along the McLeod Creek Trail between Copper Moose Farm Stand and Temple Har Shalom in Park City. However, this year due to the impacts and concerns of COVID-19, it’s going to look a little different.
Back by popular demand: Twilight Drive-In Movies at Utah Olympic Park! This weekend there are six new showings including Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, The Goonies, Once Upon a Time….In Hollywood, The Princess Bride, Whirlybird (presented by Sundance Institute) and Wet Hot American Summer (presented by Sundance Institute). A list of upcoming showtimes are found here: https://parkcityfilm.org/showtimes/upcoming/
Read MoreAs with art pieces themselves, a lot goes into the production of a magazine about the arts. The inaugural issue of Park City Arts & Culture is certainly no exception. So many people played pivotal roles in getting the publication off the ground.
Read MoreIn November of 2013, local author, Joel Zuckerman, wrote a letter of gratitude to a colleague and friend. He didn’t know he would sit down to write a second letter, not to mention a fifth or hundredth letter. In autumn 2020, Joel plans to release his book, Grateful, which is a compilation of 180 letters of gratitude he has written since.
Read MoreThe Kimball Arts Festival is live! This year, the festival has found a new, virtual home: check it out at parkcitykimballartsfestival.org. While Main Street is usually home to the Park City Kimball Arts Festival, where thousands of professional artists showcase and sell their work, the Kimball Arts Center has worked to honor that 50-year history and embrace the change brought by 2020.
Read MoreCreatePC, the Arts Council’s retail gallery recently moved down the street to 825 lower Main St. between Main St. Gallery and Flying Sumo! Come visit and shop local art, Tuesday through Sunday 12pm to 6pm at the new location.
Read MoreThe traveling Smithsonian Exhibit at Park City Museum teaches a lesson about immigration, prejudice, civil rights, heroism and what it means to be an American that is as relevant now as it was 79 years ago. The Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit will be at home in Park City Museum's Tozer Gallery from June 19 to October 4
Each year the Arts Council releases a State of the Arts Report that assesses the impact of the arts in the previous year, this report goes along with the annual Arts Summit, which is an opportunity for the community to convene and celebrate progress in the arts and cultural sector.
Read MoreEATS Park City empowers our community to eat and cook with fun and nutrition advocacy in mind. Through partnerships with local schools to create gardens, cooking class offerings, and nutritious nature camps, EATS PC has become a mainstay of the health food scene in Park City.
Read MoreThe Summit Community Gardens is a place to experience the peace and tranquility that a garden holds, but this is not any ordinary garden. They host dinners in the Garden every other week accompanied with live, local, music performances.
Read MoreJuanita Marshall, a ceramics artist at CreatePC, sat down today in the gallery to make a “bodacious bowl of some sort” from a gritty dark clay. The gallery space is quiet this morning after a busy weekend of chalk murals on Main Street and live painting on the patio spaces. But after months of being at home, Juanita says, “it is such a joy to get my hands dirty again.”
Read MoreThe Sundance Film Festival is discussing expanding into 20 other cities cinemas for next years festival.
Read MoreThe Summit County Public Art Advisory Board, Mountain Town Music and the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera are excited to present Art Pianos for All Pop-Up Community Concerts featuring artists from Utah Symphony | Utah Opera. These performances will be in surprise locations around Summit County and will be recorded and available on Facebook Live. The goal of this concert series is to bring accessible, high caliber music to our community using the Art Pianos for All program in a safe way.
Read MoreThe Park City Library is supporting its community throughout the Covid19 pandemic with unique and creative virtual programming. Their team is finding inventive ways to engage the community and continue to bring their outstanding collection of books, e-books, periodicals, and audio-visual materials accessible to the community.
Read MorePhotographer Justin Lagman was hired to capture the artistic process of Park City’s Racial Equity Murals that were painted over the July 4th weekend. In addition to shooting photography, he also had the opportunity to interview each artist, asking them about their background, the stories behind their murals, and why art matters to them. Here is more from Justin:
Read MoreThe One Book One Community selection this year is 'Deep Creek; Finding Hope in the High Country' which recently won the 'Reading the West Advocacy Award. Author Pam Houston, once a resident of Park City, will be returning in September to talk about her latest book.
Read MoreOver the weekend, Park City Municipal worked with the Park City Summit County Arts Council on a temporary art mural project on Main Street that celebrates both diversity and the vibrant arts and culture in our community.
Read MoreNow accepting fine art submissions for the Summit County Fair Fine Art Exhibit Online. The annual Summit County Fair is always a local event that many look forward to, however this year due to the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fair will look a little different.
Read MoreAfter much thought and consideration, the Arts Council has decided to postpone the 2020 Summit Arts Showcase until Fall 2020 (exact date TBD), due to the current rise of COVID-19. The event was scheduled for Saturday, July 18 from 11-7pm and had planned to follow all yellow phase health guidelines set by the State of Utah and the Summit County Health Department. While postponing this annual event was a difficult decision to make, the Arts Council board and staff feel it's the right one as we all try our best to slow the spread of the virus and prioritize the health of our community.
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