Many Wests: The Artists Challenging An American Mythology

Many Wests: The Artists Challenging An American Mythology
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The Many Wests exhibition at UMFA challenges the mythology of the American west by centering overlooked and marginalized perspectives. … read more

Transcending Time and Space Combines Eclectic Imagery to Bring Awareness to Indigenous Issues

Transcending Time and Space Combines Eclectic Imagery to Bring Awareness...
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The UMFA’s newest exhibition, Transcending Time and Space, mixes ideas, philosophies, mediums and concepts together to create a series of “portals.” … read more

A Space in Time: Space Maker Reflects the Ties Between Place and Identity

A Space in Time: Space Maker Reflects the Ties Between...
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Using a variety of mediums and themes, UMFA’s Space Maker addresses how humans share space with each other and the environment. … read more

Using Storytelling to Protect Salt Lake Valley’s Waterways: The Confluence Exhibit at UMFA

Using Storytelling to Protect Salt Lake Valley’s Waterways: The Confluence...
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Through audio and visual storytelling at Confluence, UMFA invites others to deeply consider the power water has on the Salt Lake Valley. … read more

The Angle of Light: Black Refractions

The Angle of Light: Black Refractions
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Black Refractions speaks to the wide range of experiences that constitute how Blackness exists in our country. … read more

UMFA Puts a Positive Spin on Women’s Suffrage in Utah Women Working for Better Days!

UMFA Puts a Positive Spin on Women’s Suffrage in Utah...
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Utah Women Working for Better Days! is a family-friendly and upbeat effort to focus on progress and a rosy view of the future of women’s rights in Utah. … read more

Seven Masters: From Ukiyo-e to Shin-hanga

Seven Masters: From Ukiyo-e to Shin-hanga
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Utah Museum of Fine Art’s Seven Masters exhibit puts the new prints in context of the seven artists who defined the resurgence of Japanese woodblock art. … read more

Utahns Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Spiral Jetty

Utahns Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Spiral Jetty
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Located along the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake, Spiral Jetty is one of the most recognizable sites of public art in the country. … read more

A Cover by its Book: Ummah and Understanding Islam

A Cover by its Book: Ummah and Understanding Islam
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Ummah, an exhibition put on by the Emerald Project, is a fight against the unique group bias that has grown around the Muslim community in the U.S. … read more

Two for All – Power Couples: The Pendant Format in Art

Two for All – Power Couples: The Pendant Format in...
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Power Couples shows the historical roots of pendants, then deconstructs them through contemporary and historically uncharacteristic examples of the form. … read more