Stories about local arts and culture events and profiles about local creatives.
Park City Museum's Tozer Gallery is hosting a powerful Smithsonian exhibit from November 10 to January 7. 'The Making of Americans' is based on the impact Jacob Riis (1849–1914) a Danish immigrant who was a pioneering newspaper reporter and social reformer had on the city of New York at the turn of the twentieth century.
Read MoreOn Veterans Day, we honor those who have served and continue to serve our nation. To pay tribute to our service members and their families this November 11th, the Arts Council in partnership with the National Ability Center and Park City Municipal is celebrating stories of veterans to honor those who have served in our nation’s armed forces through literary art.
Read MoreIn 1997, The Utah Conservatory was created and exists still to this day. It’s a studio, serving as a music school, that encourages students to express themselves through sound. Directors, Debra Cook and Aaron Mitchell, stress that the studio is a place where artists can come to gather, and is a place where love and effort are some of the most important values. The Utah Conservatory stands apart from other music schools because the Conservatory operates even though they experience virtually no financial gain.
Read MoreMusic is intricately woven into the fabric of Shannon Runyon’s life. Raised in Michigan to a “musical family,” Shannon grew up singing with her siblings and spent her high school years singing with a traveling youth choir and in school musicals. Falling asleep to the lull of her dad’s fingers on their piano is one of her favorite childhood memories.
Read MoreThis year's Park City Museum holiday ornament 'Mines to Moguls' is once again designed by local artist, Peg Bodell who was given the latitude to pick the location, image and title for the ornament. “I live near the town run so I see the parallel existence of the mine and ski towers daily. The preservation of the old mining heritage and embracing the new tourist industry is what defines our community and that story is the core of our 'Town Run Neighborhood'."
Read MoreOn Veterans Day, we honor those who have served and continue to serve our nation. To pay tribute to our service members and their families this November 11th, the Arts Council in partnership with the National Ability Center and Park City Municipal would like to celebrate stories of veterans to honor those who have served in our nation’s armed forces through literary art.
Read MoreLive Give has been a fundraising staple for local nonprofits in the Park City and Summit County communities for 10 years. And on its 10th anniversary, Live Give is going virtual. Don’t miss this opportunity to give back on November 6th, 2020.
Read MoreThe annual autumn Glenwood Cemetery Stroll has gone virtual this year. “The plan before Covid-19 was to have a tour in the Cemetery as we have had in the past,” explained Diane Knispel, Director of Education. “Due to restrictions by the Health Department and wanting to keep all guests, volunteers, and staff healthy, we opted for a virtual tour so people can enjoy the experience safely from their own homes.”
Read MoreThere's a lot to know about voting this month in Summit County. We’ve put together a quick guide so that you know your options, deadlines, and voting locations.
Read MoreA life-long athlete, Melanie Webb was born in Provo and grew up in Orem with epic views of Mount Timpanogos out her bedroom window. She graduated from BYU with a B.S. in Human Biology and Developmental Biology. “I left the area after college and lived in southern Utah for 5 years, Washington, D.C. for 7 years, and California for 2 years before returning home to the Wasatch Mountains.”
Read MoreWe have all been stuck at home more than we’d like this summer and fall so what better way to entertain yourself than with the Bartender’s Box, a Top Shelf experience delivered to your door!
Read MoreThis past Sunday October 18th, the Arts Council of Park City & Summit County partnered with the Utah Symphony Trombone Quartet, Mountain Town Music, and Ballet West to activate a live music pop-up performance and dance performance on Main Street.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreBack 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.
Read MorePark 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.
Read MoreBassist, 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.”
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreThe 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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