Tag: utah arts festival 2019
Thirteen awards were announced today in the 17th annual Fear No Film portion of the Utah Arts Festival, including a Grand Jury Prize, two Utah Short Film of The Year honors, Fear No Filmmaker Award, three honorable...
The 43rd Utah Arts Festival has announced various awards for visual arts and the Wordfest literary arts programs. Nine awards were presented for the Artists Marketplace. All of the visual artist award winners are eligible for invitation to the...
JONI BALLIF, BOHO CHIC SKULLS
The great artist Georgia O’Keeffe never completed a trip in the New Mexico desert without collecting the skulls of animals – horse, mule, deer and steer – that had...
EDITOR’S
NOTE: Links embedded in this
Utah Arts Festival preview direct readers to the various festival features that
have been published in The Utah Review since June 6.
Pleasant temperatures and sunny days will mark the 43rd
Utah
Arts...
In recent years at the Utah Arts Festival, the Urban Arts venue has been growing not just in breadth and depth of artistic experiences but also in its audience draw. Venue coordinators Pablo Pinet and Derek Wheeler...
Dance is the empress jewel in the crown of Utah’s performing
arts history. Accordingly, dance is represented in numerous ways at this year’s
Utah Arts Festival. There are two world
premiere dance commissions by Ballet West artists Katlyn Addison and...
Upcycling continues to deepen its impact in the visual arts. In late 2018, artist and educator Kyle Browne recalled how living and working in a remote New Zealand town changed his perspective:
“Art supplies...
EDITOR’S NOTE: To read more about some highlights of this year’s Wordfest literary arts program, see the feature about Darius Atefat-Peckham here, Thatcher Elmer here and poetry slams here.
For the 25th year...
The state of poetry as an oral art form in Utah is thriving.
Last year, at national competition, the Salt Lake City Unified team, which took
first prize at the Utah Arts Festival’s slam
contest, finished in fourth place among...
When he was 12, Darius Atefat-Peckham started writing poetry. “I
grew up in poetry and it felt like it had to happen, whether I liked it or not,”
he says in an interview with The Utah Review.