Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: Artists Marketplace represents tremendous passion, ingenuity in countless forms, art media

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: Artists Marketplace represents tremendous passion, ingenuity in countless forms, art media

ByLes RokaJun 23, 2014

This year’s Utah Arts Festival’s Artist Marketplace provides a great overview of how 21st century artists have come into their own careers. While many whose creative passion was evident from their childhood years fortified it with formal training and university art programs, others capitalized on their intensely personal motivations by teaching and training themselves, unfazed by the experimental nature of their trial-and-error approach. And, there are others who had decided about…

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: A grand preview to show why this is not your grandparents’ art festival

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: A grand preview to show why this is not your grandparents’ art festival

ByLes RokaJun 22, 201419 min read

When the gates open on June 26 to Utah’s largest arts and cultural gathering in its central downtown…

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: Karen Horne’s ‘Night and Day’ exhibition is colorful love letter to Salt Lake City’s street life

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: Karen Horne’s ‘Night and Day’ exhibition is colorful love letter to Salt Lake City’s street life

ByLes RokaJun 21, 20146 min read

The great French impressionist Claude Monet experimented extensively not only with light and shadow in his work but also…

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: Australia’s Strange Fruit raises artistic experience to new heights on festival plaza

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: Australia’s Strange Fruit raises artistic experience to new heights on festival plaza

ByLes RokaJun 21, 20145 min read

Twice each evening during the Utah Arts Festival with a soundtrack that includes musical excerpts from Mozart to…

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Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: John McCutcheon’s master storytelling, folk musicianship highlights IAMA events

ByLes RokaJun 19, 20147 min read

Music sometimes builds the most emotionally appropriate bridges, as we contemplate the fragile nature of our humanity. In…