Tag: uaf2019
Cowboy poets, a unique tradition in the American West literary
scene, have a sizable presence at this year’s Wordfest literary arts program for
the Utah Arts Festival.
They include well-known veterans including C. R. Wood, from
Delta,...
This year’s Utah Short Film of the Year Competition is the
largest in Fear No Film history for the Utah Arts
Festival, as it has been split into two divisions: student, with six films;
and professional, with seven. Awards will...
This year’s record-setting
slate of 88 short films for the Utah Arts
Festival’s Fear No Film venue will be presented in 12 programs during the
event’s four days. All screenings will be in the City Library auditorium and are
free and...
This year’s Utah Arts Festival brings to the various stages a spectrum of musicians, many of whom are new to the event, and who do not identify necessarily with just one genre or style.
This year at the Utah Arts Festival, June 21 (Friday) is
dedicated to Women Who Rock!, with female musicians, poets, writers and spoken
word performers set on various stages along with a Fear No Film program and a coding
workshop...
Many artists have
succeeded at turning upcycled materials into wonderful art pieces.
Brian Hennesy (Booth 43), one of the record 177 artists at this year’s Artists Marketplace at the Utah Arts Festival, finds metal...
Ingra Draper, a Salt Lake City artist (Booth 129), works with contemporary
pressed botanicals using flower petals, like paint, to create designs. Draper,
who earned a fine arts degree at The University of Utah in lighting design for
theater and...
Many artists at the Utah Arts Festival‘s Artist Marketplace have unique stories to relate not only about their art but also about the creative and educational path they took toward becoming artists. Also, many now work full-time...
In 2016, Regan Reichert, then a senior at Lone Peak High
School won a juror’s choice award in the annual Utah All-State High School Art
Show, which champions the work of juniors and seniors, as selected by a
professional jury....
A newcomer to the Utah Arts Festival’s Artists Marketplace who
recently left a full-time teaching job to focus on her art, Lauri Dunn (Booth
46) of Denver transforms images of insect wings into meditative, modern
photographs and photo sculptures. Her...