Stories about local arts and culture events and profiles about local creatives.
Each year the Arts Council releases a State of the Arts Report that assesses the impact of the arts in the previous year, this report goes along with the annual Arts Summit, which is an opportunity for the community to convene and celebrate progress in the arts and cultural sector.
Read MoreEATS Park City empowers our community to eat and cook with fun and nutrition advocacy in mind. Through partnerships with local schools to create gardens, cooking class offerings, and nutritious nature camps, EATS PC has become a mainstay of the health food scene in Park City.
Read MoreThe Summit Community Gardens is a place to experience the peace and tranquility that a garden holds, but this is not any ordinary garden. They host dinners in the Garden every other week accompanied with live, local, music performances.
Read MoreJuanita Marshall, a ceramics artist at CreatePC, sat down today in the gallery to make a “bodacious bowl of some sort” from a gritty dark clay. The gallery space is quiet this morning after a busy weekend of chalk murals on Main Street and live painting on the patio spaces. But after months of being at home, Juanita says, “it is such a joy to get my hands dirty again.”
Read MoreThe Sundance Film Festival is discussing expanding into 20 other cities cinemas for next years festival.
Read MoreThe Summit County Public Art Advisory Board, Mountain Town Music and the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera are excited to present Art Pianos for All Pop-Up Community Concerts featuring artists from Utah Symphony | Utah Opera. These performances will be in surprise locations around Summit County and will be recorded and available on Facebook Live. The goal of this concert series is to bring accessible, high caliber music to our community using the Art Pianos for All program in a safe way.
Read MoreThe Park City Library is supporting its community throughout the Covid19 pandemic with unique and creative virtual programming. Their team is finding inventive ways to engage the community and continue to bring their outstanding collection of books, e-books, periodicals, and audio-visual materials accessible to the community.
Read MorePhotographer Justin Lagman was hired to capture the artistic process of Park City’s Racial Equity Murals that were painted over the July 4th weekend. In addition to shooting photography, he also had the opportunity to interview each artist, asking them about their background, the stories behind their murals, and why art matters to them. Here is more from Justin:
Read MoreThe One Book One Community selection this year is 'Deep Creek; Finding Hope in the High Country' which recently won the 'Reading the West Advocacy Award. Author Pam Houston, once a resident of Park City, will be returning in September to talk about her latest book.
Read MoreOver the weekend, Park City Municipal worked with the Park City Summit County Arts Council on a temporary art mural project on Main Street that celebrates both diversity and the vibrant arts and culture in our community.
Read MoreNow accepting fine art submissions for the Summit County Fair Fine Art Exhibit Online. The annual Summit County Fair is always a local event that many look forward to, however this year due to the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fair will look a little different.
Read MoreAfter much thought and consideration, the Arts Council has decided to postpone the 2020 Summit Arts Showcase until Fall 2020 (exact date TBD), due to the current rise of COVID-19. The event was scheduled for Saturday, July 18 from 11-7pm and had planned to follow all yellow phase health guidelines set by the State of Utah and the Summit County Health Department. While postponing this annual event was a difficult decision to make, the Arts Council board and staff feel it's the right one as we all try our best to slow the spread of the virus and prioritize the health of our community.
Read MoreBig news! We are excited to announce the release of our new logo!! Isn’t it pretty? We believe the new look better matches what we’ve become since we were founded in 1986.
Read MoreThe PCSC Arts Council is pleased to announce a Call for Artists for the 2020 Summit Arts Showcase, located at the Red Barn in Oakley, UT on July 18th. This event, is an annual juried summer art show, the only one of its kind on the Eastern side of the County. The Arts Council produces the annual Summit Arts Showcase to support local artists and provide an opportunity for them to present their work.
Read MoreThere is a new restaurant open to Canyons Village at Park City Mountain, Kuchu Shabu. The newest edition to the community features fresh, premium ingredients, robust flavors, hand selected proteins, and rich homemade broths. The opening of Kuchu Shabu is another step forward in continuing the elevation of Canyons Village at Park City Mountain as a world-class destination.
Read MoreWe are thrilled to announce the reopening of Create PC, the Art Council’s pop-up retail gallery and studio, located at 660 Main Street in downtown Park City!
After Covid19 closures, Create PC will launch a reopening in June on Thursday-Sunday evenings from 12pm-6pm with its outdoor market. Most importantly, Create PC will adhere to social distancing guidelines and make use of the patio spaces and open layout to feature local artists. Create PC allows for a shared space where featured artists will both create and sell their art!
Read MoreTreat yourself to a Saturday outing only a short 30 minute drive from Park City but it will take you all the way back to pioneer days in Echo, Utah. The church has a new exhibit, “Scenes From Home On The Road” by Peter C. Marsted. Peter is honored to exhibit his photography at Echo Church. Over the years, taking photographs, especially in nature, has always brought peace and inspiration to him when there are so many unknowns during life’s trials and tribulations and during our current world pandemic.
Read MoreOur historic Egyptian Theatre has been dark since they turned off the spotlights and locked the doors. “We were the first to shut down,” says Theatre Manager/Director Randy Barton. “ We had three sold out nights for the band “Moe” and fans were flying in from everywhere to see them. We made the hard decision to close on 3/12. This was voluntary – not by order.” Like many businesses and nonprofits they've had to think outside the box to invent a new way to be 'Covid Cool' and keep guests safely entertained.
Read MoreThe Egyptian YouTheatre offers a varied menu of 2020 summer camps for ages 5-18. These camps will be held 'live and in person' in the newly built YouTheatre space. After so much isolation this spring local kids (and their parents) are hungry for this type of interaction. Will it be exciting or scary to harness that enthusiasm and energy? “Both, to be honest,” says YouTheatre Artistic and Managing Director, Jamie Wilcox.
Read MoreChallenging times call for innovation, new ideas, experimentation, and for the Arts Council, it means exploring creative projects that support our local creative sector while spreading a little bit of joy in our community.
In an effort to create new revenue streams for local artists and restaurants during this unprecedented time, Tasty Threads // Merch Aid is an initiative developed in collaboration by the Arts Council of Park City & Summit County and Zenzee, a local apparel brand to create limited edition creative merchandise to raise money for artists and restaurants who were impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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