Utah Cultural Alliance

Spring Quinceanera @ Utah Cultural Celebration Center (SLC: March 12)

Posted on March 3, 2016

Soap Making with Tami Thornton of Beehive Soap @ Craft Lake City (SLC: April 7)

Posted on March 3, 2016 Updated on March 3, 2016

West Elm and Craft Lake City announce the June Soap Making Workshop with Tami Thornton of Beehive Soap & Body Care. The workshop will be held on Thursday, April 7, 2016 at West Elm City Creek from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tami Thornton started making soap while completing her bachelors degree in the summer of 2009. Finding resources from the internet and her local community, Thornton transformed her business, Beehive Soap & Body Care from a hobby into the thriving business it is now. Her skills and dedication have lead to her appointment to the Board of Directors of the Handcrafted Soap & Cosmetics Guild. At this workshop, participants will learn how to create their own glycerin soap. “The method of soap making is really fun,” Says Thornton. “You get to choose your color, fragrance and mold to use. The soaps will be ready to take home and use right away, or they make great gifts!” West Elm, a home furnishings retailer that helps and engages customers to shape their personal style in their homes, hosts the Craft Lake City DIY Workshop Series Presented By West Elm once a month at the West Elm Salt Lake City location at the City Creek shopping center. Craft Lake City and West Elm’s mutual goal is to compel participants of all skill sets to indulge in their creative sides and produce art and stylized home accoutrements. There is a $30 material fee. Pre-registration is required. Register here. Visit craftlakecity.com/workshops  or our Facebook for more information. West Elm is located at 51 S. Main St., Salt Lake City, Utah. About Craft Lake City: We are a 501-c3 charitable organization. Our mission is to educate, promote and inspire local artisans while elevating the creative culture of the Utah arts community through science, technology and art. In an effort to keep the community active, educated and aware of local DIY culture, Craft Lake City hosts monthly workshops, gallery shows, fundraisers and an annual festival to promote regional spending with independent artisans and businesses. The 2016 DIY Festival will be held at the Gallivan Center, 239 S. Main Street, on Friday, Aug. 12 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 13 from noon to 10 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 14 from noon to 6 p.m. About West Elm: Since it launched in Brooklyn, NY, in 2002, West Elm has been helping customers express their personal style at home. Their mission is three fold: 1) Offer choices in products and services to help customers create a home that tells their story, 2) build community with customers, collaborators and associates, connecting like-minded strangers through inspiration, conversation, events and activities, and 3) focus on consciousness and honest business practices in everything they do, from handcrafted and local products to supply-chain transparency and sustainability. West Elm has worked with 100+ independent designers. Their limited-edition collaborations help emerging and established artists and makers reach new markets while preserving the integrity of their designs. Workshop Attendance Policy: Participants are required to arrive and check in with the Craft Lake City Workshop Coordinator five minutes before the workshop begins, or their spot will be given to a participant on the waitlist. If you wish to be added to the waitlist, please arrive 15 minutes before the workshop begins and check in with our Workshop Coordinator. You will be added to the waitlist to take the place of an absent participant’s spot. Workshops are first- -come, first-served, and waitlisters are not guaranteed admittance.

NEWS: 2016 Annual Leadership Awards

Posted on March 3, 2016

Don’t forget to Submit Your Nomination(s) for the 2016 Annual Leadership Awards!

These national awards are presented each year in conjunction with Annual Convention and recognize the achievements of individuals, organizations, and programs at the local level for their exceptional leadership and unwavering commitment to enriching their communities through the arts.

Nominate yourself or a colleague today!

Categories include:

• Alene Valkanas State Arts Advocacy Award honors an individual at the state level whose arts advocacy efforts have dramatically affected the political landscape. See previous awardees.
• Arts Education Award recognizes transformational leadership in arts education through strategic planning, strong programming, and the engagement of partners to achieve community goals. See previous awardees.
• 2016 American Express Emerging Leaders Award recognizes visionary leadership by an individual who is a new and/or young arts leader who demonstrates an ability to engage and impact his or her community. See previous awardees.
• Michael Newton Award recognizes an individual, staff member, or volunteer for his or her innovation in developing private sector partnerships for the arts and/or long-term achievement in effective and creative fundraising techniques. See previous awardees.
• Public Art Network Award recognizes an individual or organization that demonstrates innovative and creative contributions and/or exemplary commitment and leadership in the field of public art. See previous awardees.
• Selina Roberts Ottum Award recognizes an individual working in arts management who has made a meaningful contribution to his or her local community and who exemplifies extraordinary leadership qualities. See previous awardees.

New This Year!

• Robert E. Gard Award celebrates exemplary work at the intersection of the arts and community life. It aims to raise up projects from the last year lead by individuals or organizations working to cross the arts into other aspects of community life in meaningful, measurable ways. Ten finalists will be selected then members of Americans for the Arts will vote on a winner. The winner will be announced at the 2016 Annual Convention in Boston.

Nominations close Wednesday, March 9^th at 11:59 p.m. (EST)

Be sure to read the award descriptions before submitting your nomination as each award has its own criteria and eligibility requirements. Nominees are not required to be members of Americans for the Arts.

You must login to your account at www.artsusa.org to submit a nomination.

Questions email membership@artsusa.org.

Good Luck!

Ashley

Acrylic Painting @ Kimball Art Center (Park City: March 8)

Posted on March 3, 2016

Students will use their imagination and creativity in creating beautiful pieces of art! Kids will practice their drawing and painting skills with Ali as she leads fun projects, and plays games with students as they learn about color theory, art history, and their own artistic expression. Registration deadline: Friday, March 4 REGISTER

Together: Abstract Art for Families @ Kimball Art Center (Park City: March 5)

Posted on March 3, 2016

Come paint and create collaboratively with Ali! Each family will receive one 22″ x 30″ canvas to work on to paint an abstract mural! Students will be inspired by famous abstract expressionist artists such as Pollack, De Kooning, and Kandinsky as kids and adults alike have fun painting and creating vibrant, colorful, abstract shapes on the canvas. Optional: bring paper prints of family photos or other collage materials to include in your mural! You will cherish this experience and the collaborative mural for years to come! Registration deadline:  Wednesday, March 2 REGISTER

Intro to Airbrush Illustration @ Kimball Art Center (Park City: March 9)

Posted on March 3, 2016

Come learn and explore different techniques in how an airbrush can be used.  Begin with blending tones and freehand lines, then on to simple forms using masking.  Progress at your own pace into applications that can be used including those in illustration, T-shirts, body painting, custom lettering, vehicle detailing, etc.  Students will be free to choose from subject matter Roger provides, or explore your own personal projects with a teacher that’s used the tool for over 30 years and is happy to assist in bringing your own ideas into reality. Registration deadline:  Sunday, February 28 REGISTER

Toys & Figures: Sculpt Your Own Characters for Kids @ Kimball Art Center (Park City: March 3)

Posted on March 3, 2016

Want to learn how to make your own characters, or make your favorite existing character? Come join this fun class where you will learn the basics in character design, how to use references for creating characters, and learn some of the techniques used in making toys. Students will learn basic armature and beginning sculptural techniques by making basic shapes, and putting them together to create their characters. They will also learn how to create a basic wire skeleton for making a figurine sturdy and ready for play! Registration deadline: Monday, February 29 REGISTER

Butterflies: Sumi-e East Asian Brush Painting @ Kimball Art Center (Park City: March 5)

Posted on March 3, 2016

Learn how to create simple forms in the animal and insect world.  In two or three strokes, you’ll have a sweet songbird or a butterfly, dragonfly, or bee. We’ll create several compositions where we can add a beautiful accent piece to complete our painting. Find out how fun it is to draw, with just a few brush strokes, to create these lively creatures! Then, you can transfer these skills to other compositions and mediums. Registration deadline: Tuesday, March 1 REGISTER

ACME Session I | Museums: What Are They Good For? @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts (SLC: March 9)

Posted on March 3, 2016

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) is launching a new outreach initiative dedicated to rethinking the public role of museums. The ACME Sessions—ACME stands for Art, Community, Museum, Education—are abimonthly series of roundtable public exchanges where participants can dream and articulate new models of education and community engagement through art. The series is presented in partnership with the Salt Lake City Public Library.

The first ACME Session, Museums: What Are They Good For?, will be held in The City Library’s Level 4 Conference Room on Wednesday, March 9 at 7 pm (arrive early for refreshments at 6:45 pm). Local museum directors will share candid insights about their institution’s goals, challenges and efforts to be more inclusive. Discussion leaders are Gretchen Dietrich, UMFA; Sarah B. George, Natural History Museum of Utah (NHMU); Alexandra Hesse, The Leonardo; and Kristian Anderson, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA).

“ACME Sessions are co-learning experiences,” says Jorge Rojas, UMFA director of education and engagement. “Our goal is to transform communities by exchanging information and knowledge contributed by all participants for the enhancement of everyone involved.”

The ACME Sessions will bring together Salt Lake City’s most creative, inventive and cross-disciplinary minds—educators, artists, museum professionals, university faculty and students, engineers, scientists, technologists, activists, researchers and others. Sessions are designed in collaboration with contributing community organizations and individuals, and will explore topics such as the role of hip-hop in education, the best ways to build creative community, art and identity and more. Future sessions will be held at various library branches.

For additional information, please visit umfa.utah.edu/acme.

The ACME Sessions are part of the UMFA’s new ACME Initiative, which also includes an ACME Lab—a flexible physical space for research, creative exploration and exhibitions—expected to launch within the UMFA when the Museum reopens in spring 2017. The UMFA Marcia and John Price Museum Building is temporarily closed for remodeling and reinstallation, but the Museum is hosting educational programs throughout the closure period. For additional information, please visit umfa.utah.edu.

Ivory Tour @ Utah Film Center (SLC: March 16)

Posted on March 3, 2016

A fascinating film that explores how colleges in the USA, long regarded as leaders in higher education, have come to embrace a business model that often promotes expansion over quality learning.

Official Selection: 2014 Sundance Film Festival, 2014 Miami Film Festival