Park City Public Art Board's Favorite Local Pieces // A Sacred Community
In our ongoing 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 from the Park City Public Art Board member’s perspective. Once you’ve read our blog, go experience these public art pieces for yourself! In this blog post we feature a favorite from new Park City Public Art Board Member, Hillary Gilson. Not only does she serve on the Park City Public Art Board, but Hillary also is the Artist and Special Event Manager at Kimball Art Center Her favorite Park City Public Art piece is A Sacred Community, the Poison Creek Tunnel Mural, by Danny Stephens, Jessika Jeppson, Rosi Hayes, Lindsey Larsen, and Miguel Galex.
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Trunk or Treat at the Dejoria Center
The Dejoria Center is happy to announce that on Saturday, October 31st, they will be hosting their annual Trunk Or Treat event. The event will take place from 4-6pm in the Dejoria Center parking lot.
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Curbside Theater // Bringing the Performance to You!
Back in March, when live performance was cancelled, Stephen Brown imagined, wrote, and took his show on the road. He says, “everything was coming to a halt, so I had this idea that I could make a high quality production in a very mobile, small stage setting, with the same caliber of artistry.” Fast forward six months, and Curbside Theater at SB Dance has performed almost 100 shows in Utah’s Salt Lake and Summit Counties.
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A Virtual Evening with Authors Amy Irvine and Pam Houston
Park City Library is hosting a free Virtual Evening with Authors Amy Irvine and Pam Houston on Tuesday, October 6 from 7-9 pm. As part of Utah Humanities Book Festival, Kate Mapp, Adult Services Librarian will be moderating a discussion with the authors on their new book Airmail: Letter of Politics, Pandemics, and Place.
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Local Musician Spotlight // Bassist, Derek Frank
Bassist, Derek Frank, is new to Park City and just dropped an album on September 18th. Here’s why you should listen. It’s not his first solo album, but it is his first release in 11 years! It's called “Eleven Years Later” and the idea is not a new one, but Derek usually spends most of his year traveling and touring with other artists. He said, “When all my live shows got cancelled back in March due to the pandemic, it became apparent that writing and recording another solo album would be the best use of my time. As for genre and style, I can best describe it as ‘eclectic instrumental groove music’. It has elements of Funk, Jazz, Blues, Southern Rock, and seventies soundtrack music. Production-wise, it’s very organic and vintage-sounding… It has an overall seventies vibe to it, which is exactly what I had in mind when I was writing the songs.”
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Call for Artists // Art Fencing Design for the Arts and Culture District
The theme for the project Imagine Park City envisions the past, present and future of creativity in the Park City community. It considers the evolution of the arts in Park City and captures the unique spirit of local artistic expression involving Park City’s values – Historic Character, Small Town, Sense of Community, Natural Setting. The goals of the project are to beautify construction infrastructure around the future site of the Park City Arts + Culture District in a way that will work in any season and makes sense for the location, engage the community by soliciting art from local community members and artists, engage the community in City Council’s top priority of arts and culture, and the development of the Park City Arts + Culture District, and integrate the theme of the project with the scale and physical space of the fencing.
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VOTE YES on Prop 21 Reauthorize RAP Sales Tax this November!
As Summit County residents, we take pride in our sense of place and local identity built on history, culture, and our natural surroundings. Many of us choose to live in Summit County due to the exceptional quality of life we enjoy here. A priority for Summit County is to support the infrastructures that support that lifestyle. This support comes in providing resources through RAP Tax to build, maintain and support recreational facilities, cultural organizations and trail systems.
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Summit County Public Art Board & Utah Symphony’s Deer Valley Music Festival Unite to Present Art Piano Pop-Up Community Concerts with the Utah Symphony Youth Guild
The Summit County Public Art Advisory Board (“SCPAAB”) and Utah Symphony’s Deer Valley Music Festival are excited to present Art Pianos for All Pop-Up Community Concerts featuring an artist from Utah Symphony Youth Guild. These concerts will be held in multiple locations throughout Eastern Summit County on the afternoon of September 18th and will be free and open to the public! Masks must be worn and social distancing rules must be followed. These concerts will also be available to view on the Arts Council’s Facebook Live and recorded by a professional videographer. The goal of this concert series is to bring accessible, high caliber music to our community in a safe way using the Art Pianos for All program as the vehicle.
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2020 One Book One Community Virtual Author Event
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.
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Park City’s Newest Mural, Yesterday and Today, By Chuck Landvatter
In 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.
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George Beard Photography Exhibit
George 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.
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Red Desert Ensemble Plays Summit County Community Gardens
Don’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.
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Park City Public Art Board's Favorite Local Pieces // Sound Garden
In 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.
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Art on the Trails // Get Out on the Trail & Create, Sept. 5 - 13
Art 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.
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Park City Film Presents:Twilight Drive-In Movies at Utah Olympic Park
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/
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Behind the Scenes of the Inaugural Issue of Park City Arts & Culture Magazine with Photographer Claire Wiley
As 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.
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Local Author Spotlight // Joel Zuckerman
In 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.
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The 51st Annual Kimball Arts Festival Goes Virtual
The 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.
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Visit CreatePC at its NEW location, 825 Main St.
CreatePC, 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.
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Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II // The Traveling Smithsonian Exhibit at Park City Museum
The 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
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