Stories about local arts and culture events and profiles about local creatives.
Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter and the Park City Summit County Arts Council have teamed up with the Park City Professional Artists Association to present “Art Elevated”, an art and handcrafted gift market featuring local artists and artisans. The show will run November 3, 4, and 5th at the Swaner EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive, Park City.
Read MoreLocal apparel company Zenzee and the Park City Summit County Arts Council have teamed up to create a clothing line that celebrates the art lover/art maker in all of us. As a board member of the Arts Council, Sharon Backurz (owner of Zenzee) saw the opportunity to use her talents to benefit arts and culture in our community. She and PCSC Arts Executive Director Hadley Dynak created a collaborative capsule collection that helps the community express their love and support for the arts through locally produced apparel.
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Don Weller loves the west and finds a treasure trove of inspiration living in Utah. He admires the works of C.M. Russell, Will James and George Phippen but learned to loosen his drawing methods and brush strokes by studying the impressionists. By combining the two, his distinct paintings trigger the imagination and cultivate an appreciation for the beauty of the west and the ongoing traditions of its history.
Read MoreRick Kimball, the new theater teacher at Park City High School grew up in a Navy family, moving every three years -- elementary school in California, Middle School in Maine, and High School in Japan. Rick was 23 when his father retired in Utah, and he followed the family here. While a senior in High School, Kimball's English score wasn't up to par, so needing extra credit to graduate, he agreed to play the role of a super awkward student in a one act play and it changed the direction of his life.
Read MoreThe annual Summit County Fair brings the community together for a week of food, fun, exhibits, demonstrations, contests, and rides. In addition to the demolition derby (always a locals favorite), the livestock showings, the 4H displays, parade, pie baking contest, and the little buckeroo rodeo, the Fair hosts the Fine Arts Tent which gives local artists the opportunity to share their creative work with the public. Admission to all Fair events is free and a full schedule of activities is available on the Fair website.
Read MoreX MARKS THE SPOT! Park City Museum is home to a permanent collection dedicated to our silver mining heritage and is the perfect spot for a new traveling exhibit in the Tozer Gallery entitled THE HUNT FOR TREASURE.
Read MoreThe Cabaret Emcee must distract his patrons and let them forget about political and economic chaos outside. Joshua Robinson, in his first lead role succeeds as Emcee. As a kid, Joshua felt a powerful connection with Joel Grey's 1972 movie performance. He wanted to play this role not only due to its incredible message, dark humor, and openly queer themes, but also to be that representation for others like himself. “Very few roles embody a strong queer character who can be as feminine and wild as he pleases. Even fewer aren't the butt of a joke or a caricature of a LGBT individual. When I was young and out, I searched to find my place in a very conservative environment, tried to find other people like me.”
Read MoreThose attending Mountain Town Music's July 5th Wednesday concert at Deer Valley were treated to a real bonus. The opening act, ONE VOICE Children's Choir, originated from a group of children who sang at the 2002 Winter Olympics under the direction of Masa Fukuda and were so powerfully impacted by the experience they asked to continue to sing together.
Read MoreHistoric homes are part of Park City’s charm and culture. Eric Younger and wife Debi have been in Park City for about 27 years but the house they call home, has been here much longer. Built in the late 1880's, the house has been expanded, upgraded and renovated over the decades perched on its lot at 1027 Woodside Avenue.
Read MoreThe YouCreate Lab, at the Park City Library, is a collaborative community space with state of the art software and equipment. This new space encourages the development of 21st Century Skills, such as information, media, communications, and technology literacies, which are essential for today’s global economy. The Lab provides everyone in the community with opportunities to pursue their creative aspirations whether that is digitizing family slides, creating art, movies, apps, or animation. The Lab includes equipment that can be used in the library as well as borrowed.
Read MoreMain Street Park City is lined with galleries featuring art of every kind but during the Fourth of July parade.....the biggest and most interesting art projects will be cruising down the middle of the street. Keep an eye out for 'THE FROG PRINCE', designed and owned by local artist Zafod (pronounced Zay-Fahd) Beatlebrox and 'THE PILOT FISH', designed by Zafod and owned by Park City physician, Dr. Harry Adelson. “Another favorite entry from past years was 'THE DOUBLE COMFORT VAN', which was two 15 passenger vans welded together back to back to make a 'push-me pull-you'.” Zafod, well-known for his functional art, which creates a thing of beauty out of ordinary objects, has super-sized his creations by using his scientific and mechanical skills to create the fantastic cars which appear in our local parades and joined other unique creations at The Burning Man Festival, held annually in Nevada.
Read MoreGet out your summer calendars and take some notes. Entertainment opportunities abound....not only in Park City but also on the east side of our county. From the rodeo to live music and the County Fair, check out what the Eastside has to offer.
Read MoreCommunity Created Public Art
May 19-July 21
Closing Party, July 25, 6-7:30pm
Visitor's Information Center
1794 Olympic Parkway
Park City, UT
The View From My Door produced by the Summit County Public Art Advisory Board engaged Summit County locals in the creation of the exhibit, featuring photography submitted by residents, artists and non-artists alike.
Read MoreThe remodel of the Park City Library, created a wonderful new indoor facility and an awesome outdoor patio used for a multitude of activities including the newest venue for music in our community. Kate Mapp, Adult Services Librarian explains, “The 'Music on the Patio' series is a partnership between Park City Library and Mountain Town Music. It's funded by the Friends of the Park City Library and Park City Coffee Roaster (who operates our coffee shop in the library). Our vision is for the library to become the community’s living room of knowledge, opportunity, and innovation. Just as we are incorporating the visual arts into our library space we wanted to include the musical arts and the patio seemed like the perfect space.” The concerts occur on Wednesdays from 10:30 am to 1 pm and will be a great spot for a picnic or a brown bag lunch!
Read MoreIf you’ve spent much time in Park City, you know that the excitement doesn’t stop just because the slopes are closed for the season. In fact, summer brings an abundance of fun, family-friendly arts and culture activities from festivals and markets to special events like Savor the Summit and 4th of July to fill up your calendar.
Read MoreLocal author, Dr. Beverly Hurwitz, discovered Park City as a skier in the early 70's and visited many times before moving here in 1990 from Syracuse, New York for the Park City lifestyle. To stimulate locals and tourists to embrace walking as exercise, recreation and transportation and to promote walkability in Park City, Dr. Hurwitz has written A WALKER'S GUIDE TO PARK CITY. The paperback provides maps and directions for 30 local routes through urban and wild landscapes, along with photos and pearls about local history and ecology. Dr. Beverly Hurwitz will be at Dolly's Bookstore on Sunday, June 11 from 1 to 3 pm to sign copies of her just published book, A WALKER'S GUIDE TO PARK CITY.
Read MoreYou don’t have to be in Park City for long before you hear about Mountain Town Music, the nonprofit organization that programs live music performances at several venues throughout, not only Park City, but all of Summit County. Their latest creation is Noches de Verano En Parque De La Ciudad, a Monday night series of Latino music, art, and food, designed to share this unique culture as part of the Park City community.
Read MoreOpen Air Art Space provides rentable studio space to artists, a supportive and collaborative environment for artistic growth, and classes and workshops for artists to get direct, one-on-one instruction improving their knowledge and skills. After experiencing teaching methods offered by private art schools, universities, Italian classical academics, direct mentorship, and workshops by some of today’s top artists, David Riley, launched the Open Air Art Space instructional program using a unique blend of teaching methods that allows students to grow as artists while creating the artwork that they are interested in.
Read MorePark City summers bring more hours of daylight and plenty of reasons to be outdoors, so you might be reluctant to sit inside a dark theatre to watch a film. But what if you could combine great film with the outdoors? Sundance Institute’s Summer Film Series is a chance to do just that. This summer marks the 20th consecutive year of free outdoor film screenings curated and presented by Sundance Institute.
Read MoreIf someone asked you where to go to experience world-class theatre, you might suggest London’s West End, Broadway, or even San Francisco or Chicago. But what if you could stay in your own community and, for a fraction of the price, always be assured of the best seat in the house? With National Theatre Live that’s exactly what you can do! Katharine Wang, Executive Director for the Park City Film Series since 2012, says that National Theatre Live is a way of capturing award-winning theatrical productions from the West End of London and making them accessible to a global community. In partnership with the Park City Library, the Park City Film Series has made a yearly commitment to bringing several National Theatre Live productions to town, and in June it’s the family favorite Peter Pan.
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