Stories about local arts and culture events and profiles about local creatives.
With the crisp and colorful fall leaves that are reappearing to Park City, old throwback films like ‘Aspen Extreme’ and ‘Beetle Juice” return as well. Some films are old, but most are new this year. If you are antsy to put your ski boots on, we’ve got some new Ski Premieres that you are not going to want to miss.
Read MoreThe Tozer Gallery in Park City’s History Museum is hosting a temporary exhibit entitled “Gold Fever! The Untold Stories of the California Gold Rush” from September 12 until November 7.
Read MoreThe Ziegfeld Theatre’s production of ‘9 to 5-The Musical’ brings Violet, Judy and Doralee, three beloved and empowered female characters who emerged from the 1980’s silver screen, to The Egyptian Theatre stage. Meet this terrific and sometimes terrifying trio from September 10 to 19.
Read MoreThis year’s One Book One Community selection, The Book of Delights by Ross Gay, was selected by librarians from the Park City Library and Summit County Library in partnership with Dolly’s Bookstore and Utah Humanities.
Read MoreLocal photographer and adventurer, Bill Silliman grew up on a wheat and cattle farm in North Dakota and attended NDSU in pharmacy. Throughout his career he took photography classes and practiced his craft. “I have walked with gorillas in Rwanda, spent 12 days in The Serengeti, photographed brown bears at Katmai National Park in Alaska and stayed on Barter Island off Alaska for five days photographing polar bears from a 30 foot fishing boat. Recently, I have been taking many astro photography photos.”
Read MoreArt on the Trails is coming up Saturday August 28th from 2-6pm, and you can still RSVP in advance for your preferred tour time here. This free program takes guests on a walking tour of pop-up creative performances presented by local and regional performing and visual artists along the McLeod Creek Trail.
Read MorePark City Library is once again hosting the ‘Wasatch Back Author Celebration” involving authors who either live in or have written about the Wasatch Back. It will be held on Saturday, August 28 from 10 am to noon outside, on the patio. Overflow guests might want to bring camp chairs or blankets.
Read MoreCelebrating connection, art, culture, and community in Park City, UT. The Arts Council of Park City & Summit County (‘Arts Council’) in partnership with Park City Municipal Corporation (‘Park City’) invites Summit County artists and/or artist teams to apply for the Bonanza Park Paint Out to create a series of temporary outdoor art projects with a range of budgets, surfaces, and materials for the temporary Bonanza Art Park site at 1635 Bonanza Drive, Park City, UT 84060.
Read MoreCovid restrictions forced the cancellation of the 2020 edition as well as The Egyptian Theatre to go dark. Park City Follies 2021 will be the first live performance when the theatre reopens in August.
Read MoreArt on the Trails is a program that connects art and nature, and celebrates our local performing arts sector. It’s designed to promote local performing artists, visual artists, and musicians, making their work more visible to our community, as well as provide an accessible platform for our community to connect with high caliber performances that are integrated into our natural surroundings.
Read MoreThe Kimball Art Center’s new home at the YARD in Park City is already being put to good use with their current exhibition titled, People of Corn / Gente de Maiz with Artist in Residence, Jorge Rojas. During his two month residency, Rojas has built upon his decade-long work of creating art that celebrates the spiritual significance of corn in cultures throughout the Americas. His exhibition is on display this summer from June 23rd to September 19th with free admission.
Read MoreMark your calendars for August 6-8th, because the Park City Kimball Arts Festival is making a much anticipated return to in-person events! The festival, which will take place on Friday, August 5th from 5pm-9pm, Saturday, August 7th from 10am-8pm, and Sunday, August 8th from 10am-6pm in downtown Park City, will feature hundreds of artists, food, and live music.
Read MoreIn this blog series we feature Summit County Public Art Board Member’s favorite local art pieces. See Summit County public art through new eyes and experience what makes these pieces so special according to our Summit County 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 Summit County Public Art Board member, Pete Van Stee.
Read MoreDr. Alison Delgado is a pediatrician who has been on staff at Summit Pediatrics in Park City since 2013. She is also a runner with an amazing story to tell and now a local author. After experiencing a near-fatal accident with dim prospects for recovery Alison beat the odds and wanted to share her story of hope, prayer and love.
Read MoreLocal artist, Kelly Franklin recently retired from a 38 year career as a mechanical engineer in aerospace, specializing in composite structures. “I retired as a senior program manager at Northrop Grumman, based in Clearfield. Who knew engineers could grow up to become artists?”
Read MorePark City Institute’s August line up is all about variety. Check out the musical and literary programming for August.
Read MoreFor the month of July, BalletNEXT is in residence at the Rockwell Listening Room on Main Street, Park City. Each performance will feature dancers alongside instrumentalists on the piano, violin, and Spanish guitar. Between morning and evening performances, there’s sure to be a performance that piques your interest and fits within your schedule. Tickets can be purchased here for the following performances:
Read MoreThe Summit County Public Art Advisory Board and the Deer Valley Music Festival are excited to present an Art Piano for All Pop-Up Community Concert featuring artists from Utah Symphony | Utah Opera on Saturday, July 31st from 4-4:30pm at Trailside Park, 5715 Trailside Dr, Park City, UT. The performance will be free and open to the public featuring Summit County’s newest Art Piano for All, Abloom, by local artist Anna Leigh Moore. The goal of this concert series is to bring accessible, high caliber music to our community using the Art Pianos for All program as the vehicle.
Read MoreThe annual Summit County Fair brings the community together for a week of food, fun, exhibits, demonstrations, contests, and rides. In addition to the demolition derby (always a locals favorite), the livestock showings, the 4H displays, parade, pie baking contest, and the little buckeroo rodeo, the Fair hosts the Fine Arts Show at the Ledges Event Center at the Coalville Fairgrounds which gives local artists the opportunity to share their creative work with the public. Admission to all Fair events is free and a full schedule of activities is available on the Fair website.
Read MoreAs we near the end of June, we’d like to take a moment to introduce an artist who has been instrumental in helping our community celebrate Pride Month, and who more generally creates diverse design projects for us all to enjoy. Eric Warner is the founder and creator of Mountain Aesthete, where he designs event decor, interiors, retail design and special projects for corporate and private clients here in Utah, including Sundance, Backcountry and Equality Utah. He’s also a featured artist at CreatePC.
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