Stories about local arts and culture events and profiles about local creatives.
The 2020 One Book, One Community Author event with Pam Houston will be virtual on Thursday, September 10 at 7 pm. One Book, One Community is a national program that encourages public libraries across the United States to choose a book their entire community can read together then meet and discuss. Summit County extended the program even further to invite the author to join us for a community lecture.
Read MoreIn summer of 2019, Salt Lake City artist Chuck Landvatter responded to a Request for Proposals from the Park City Public Art Board to paint the tunnel nearest the Park City Transit Center. Chuck pitched an idea that incorporated his traditional approach to murals, representational imagery, including historical and contemporary human figures from Park City, spray-painted over bold colors and nonobjective shapes.
Read MoreGeorge Beard was a multi talented artist, working in photography, painting, and watercolors who lived most of his life in Coalville, Utah. The mountains of Coalville and the surrounding area were a never-ending source of inspiration and stimulation for him as an artist.
Read MoreDon’t miss the experimental music ensemble, Red Desert, as they host an outdoor concert and covid19 benefit in the Summit Community Gardens. In order to properly social distance, tickets will be limited to 45 people, so it's best to act fast and reserve yours now: https://www.summitcommunitygardens.org/calendar/music-in-the-garden
Red Desert Ensemble will play live on September 10th at 5:30pm in an avant-garde concert featuring clarinet, percussion, and pieces for audience participation on percussion throughout the garden.
Read MoreIn this blog series we feature Park City Public Art Board Members favorite local art pieces. See public art through new eyes and experience what makes these pieces so special according to our Public Art Board members. Once you’ve read our blog, go experience these public art pieces for yourself! In this blog post we feature a favorite from Park City Public Art Board Member, Jennifer Gardner.
Read MoreArt on the Trails is a program that connects art and nature. In the past it has featured pop-up creative performances, such as hip-hop dance, ballet, Spanish guitar and more, along the McLeod Creek Trail between Copper Moose Farm Stand and Temple Har Shalom in Park City. However, this year due to the impacts and concerns of COVID-19, it’s going to look a little different.
Back by popular demand: Twilight Drive-In Movies at Utah Olympic Park! This weekend there are six new showings including Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, The Goonies, Once Upon a Time….In Hollywood, The Princess Bride, Whirlybird (presented by Sundance Institute) and Wet Hot American Summer (presented by Sundance Institute). A list of upcoming showtimes are found here: https://parkcityfilm.org/showtimes/upcoming/
Read MoreAs with art pieces themselves, a lot goes into the production of a magazine about the arts. The inaugural issue of Park City Arts & Culture is certainly no exception. So many people played pivotal roles in getting the publication off the ground.
Read MoreIn November of 2013, local author, Joel Zuckerman, wrote a letter of gratitude to a colleague and friend. He didn’t know he would sit down to write a second letter, not to mention a fifth or hundredth letter. In autumn 2020, Joel plans to release his book, Grateful, which is a compilation of 180 letters of gratitude he has written since.
Read MoreThe Kimball Arts Festival is live! This year, the festival has found a new, virtual home: check it out at parkcitykimballartsfestival.org. While Main Street is usually home to the Park City Kimball Arts Festival, where thousands of professional artists showcase and sell their work, the Kimball Arts Center has worked to honor that 50-year history and embrace the change brought by 2020.
Read MoreCreatePC, the Arts Council’s retail gallery recently moved down the street to 825 lower Main St. between Main St. Gallery and Flying Sumo! Come visit and shop local art, Tuesday through Sunday 12pm to 6pm at the new location.
Read MoreThe traveling Smithsonian Exhibit at Park City Museum teaches a lesson about immigration, prejudice, civil rights, heroism and what it means to be an American that is as relevant now as it was 79 years ago. The Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit will be at home in Park City Museum's Tozer Gallery from June 19 to October 4
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:
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