Celebrating Mental Health Awareness Month with Images of Resilience
CONNECT Summit County, Park City Summit County Arts Council, and the Kimball Art Center have partnered to present Images of Resilience. This exhibit will showcase resilience - finding balance in the midst of chaos - through the medium of art. University of Utah’s Dr. Scott Langenecker will be at the event to share how resilience can be learned, cultivated and strengthened. The event will also include an area for adults and children to create art. This special exhibit will be held at the Community Room in the Park City Library on May 22nd from 6:30 - 8:30pm.
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Call for Artists // Summit Arts Showcase 2019
Calling all Summit County artists! The PCSC Arts Council is pleased to announce a Call for Artists for the 2019 Summit Arts Showcase, located at the Red Barn in Oakley, UT on July 12 & 13. This event, hosted by the PCSC Arts Council, is an annual juried summer art show, the only one of its kind on the Eastern side of the County.
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Mindful Cuisine: Bringing Culture and Culinary Together in Park City
Mindful Cuisine provides the Park City community with the opportunity to not only explore a variety of new foods, but also with new ways to prepare and cook food. The founder of Mindful Cuisine, Chef Linda Elbert, originally started her business in Laguna Beach, California and moved to Park City full time in 2015.
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Call For Artists // Tunnel Murals: Old Town Transit Center
Park City Municipal Corporation (PCMC) is currently requesting proposals for public art for a pedestrian and bicycle tunnel known as the Old Town Transit Center connector. Proposals will be accepted until 5 p.m. on Friday, March 10. “This is one of the final tunnels in City limits to be commissioned for public art,” states Jenny Diersen, PCMC Economic Development and Special Events Program Manager and staff to the Public Art Advisory Board. “We are excited to see what artists propose for the space, and to see this tunnel completed as it provides connectivity between Poison Creek Trail, Deer Valley Drive and the Old Town Transit Center.”
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Park City Follies: A Yearly Tradition
Park City Follies is a tradition of poking fun, making light, and laughing at ourselves and all the events, people, places and happenings that makes us "local." You'll be in on all the jokes. You might even BE one of the jokes. This year’s Park City Follies is a unique show for the Egyptian Theatre. All proceeds from this show will go towards their new expansion right across the street, a black box theatre specifically for Egyptian Theatre’s YouTheatre program.
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Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland
Park City Museum is thrilled to host the traveling exhibit of Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008. Coney Island has been described as “heaven at the end of a subway ride.” The island became famous for its many amusement parks, including the first enclosed amusement park in the United States.
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Local Author Profile // Gregor Eisenbarth
After years of working as a diversity recruiter and career coach, Greg Eisenbarth decided to write a book called, Careerismo, on what he has learned over the years, and to share it with those looking to advance their career.
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Local Artist Profile // Ida Yoked
“The therapeutic benefits of creating and using art in therapy to make positive changes and self discoveries in the life of my patients is fascinating.” Says Ida Yoked, co-founder of Expressive Therapies, an organization that has been around eleven years in Park City, and seventeen in New York City. Expressive Therapies provides individual, group and community based art and music therapy, specializing in hospice, mental health and recovery.
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Spike 150: “Chinaman’s Chance” on Promontory Summit
This year, the anniversary of the Golden Spike reaches its 150th year and Spike 150 has activities and events planned all throughout Utah to celebrate. One of the events is artist Zhi Lin’s exhibit “Chinaman’s Chance on Promontory Summit” that will be showcased at Kimball Arts Festival.
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Local Musician Profile // Alicia Stockman
Local musician, Alicia Stockman, recently made the monumental decision to leave Wyndham Vacation Rentals as Marketing Manager to concentrate on music. “Time was the most valuable thing I have and I couldn't divide time between marketing and music and do my best at either. I decided to give music the spotlight,” expresses Stockman “Now that I'm on the other side, I wish I'd done it sooner.”
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PCSC Arts Council to Host Arts Summit ‘19
The Park City Summit County Arts Council will hold its Arts Summit ‘19 on Friday April 5th from 9am-noon at the Blair Education Center. This free event is an opportunity for the community to convene and celebrate progress in the arts and cultural sector. The Park City Summit County Arts Council along with community partners will present about many of the existing projects happening in our community as a result of Project ABC, as well as outline the broad impact of Arts and Culture in Summit County.
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Silver and Snow: The Park City Story
On Thursday, April, 24 at 5 pm, in the Jim Santy Auditorium, Friends of Ski Mountain Mining History invite the public to a free screening of Silver and Snow: The Park City Story. In conjunction with Park City Historical Society and Salt Lake Public Broadcasting TV station KUED, Larry Warren, former TV reporter expanded his resume by writing, producing and making this entertaining and informative documentary just in time to share with visitors at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. This will be it’s first public screening since then.
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Experience the Escape: The 2019 Deer Valley Music Festival
Utah Symphony | Utah Opera has been hosting the Deer Valley Music Festival for more than 15 years. The Deer Valley Music Festival strives to consistently deliver a high quality and musically diverse experience in casual settings of unparalleled natural beauty.
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Call to Artists // Third Annual Monster Drawing Rally
The Park City Summit County Arts Council will once again team up with the Kimball Art Center to host this year’s third-annual Monster Drawing Rally, an event that allows artists to interact with spectators, collectors, and other local artists. The organizations are now accepting artist applications for the event, which will be held June 6th at Kimball Art Center. Artists applications are due by Apr. 15, 2019.
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Egyptian Theatre Brings Mamma Mia! A Story of Love, Friendship and Laughter to Park City
ABBA’s music comes to life in the feel-good story of Mamma Mia! Their catchy tunes and upbeat blend of disco and pop tells the story of love, friendship and laughter in this hit broadway production. Just recently, licensing rights became available to theatres across North America to produce and perform this musical. The Egyptian Theatre jumped right on the opportunity to bring this musical to Park City.
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Local Profile // Editor Leslie Miller on "Reimagining a Place for the Wild"
Leslie Miller's relocation to Park City happened accidentally and long ago. She'd heard tales from friends of deep, powder skiing with snorkels. In 1973, Leslie, her college sweetheart and her dog were turned away from living in Little Cottonwood Canyon due to it being a watershed and directed up to an unknown place called Park City. Leslie's activism accomplishments are endless and on-going. She worked for the “Park Record”, was a contributing writer for “Park City Magazine”, and published the “Wasatch Mountain Times”. In 1991 she was elected to the Park City Council as an open space advocate.
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An Open Call to Project Your Voice in Summit County!
Share your Summit County story! An open call for all voices in Summit County to promote and celebrate community connection through public art. The Summit County Public Art Advisory Board (‘SCPAAB’) has released this open call for a literary art projection project called Project Your Voice. The purpose is to create spaces for self-expression for our community through transforming literary arts into visual installations.
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New Public Art Mural Wild City Connects Community and Park City Culture
Last September, the China Bridge parking structure became a canvas for a four-wall mural entitled Wild City.
Emily Herr, from Richmond, Virginia, was awarded the project after submitting a proposed schedule, budget, concept design and mockup. “Putting together an application for a project of this scale is pretty involved, requiring research about the context for the piece (environmental, social, historical, etc) as well as logistics research.”
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Park City Museum Shares Rich History through Lecture Series
Utah has a rich history beyond the pioneers establishing the state. The mission of the Park City Museum is to preserve, protect and promote Park City’s history and heritage. One of the many ways the museum does this is through educational lectures surrounding untold stories Park City and state history.
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Kimball Art Center Explores the World of Glass
Starting in March, the Kimball Art Center will be hosting new classes and artful afternoons for students to explore the art of glass fusion. Adults, teens and children will have the chance to experience glass as a unique medium. Each class explores specific types of glass creation such as mosaics, glass wall art, glass shadow boxes, and glass night lights!
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