Stories about local arts and culture events and profiles about local creatives.
For the month of July, BalletNEXT is in residence at the Rockwell Listening Room on Main Street, Park City. Each performance will feature dancers alongside instrumentalists on the piano, violin, and Spanish guitar. Between morning and evening performances, there’s sure to be a performance that piques your interest and fits within your schedule. Tickets can be purchased here for the following performances:
Read MoreThe Summit County Public Art Advisory Board and the Deer Valley Music Festival are excited to present an Art Piano for All Pop-Up Community Concert featuring artists from Utah Symphony | Utah Opera on Saturday, July 31st from 4-4:30pm at Trailside Park, 5715 Trailside Dr, Park City, UT. The performance will be free and open to the public featuring Summit County’s newest Art Piano for All, Abloom, by local artist Anna Leigh Moore. The goal of this concert series is to bring accessible, high caliber music to our community using the Art Pianos for All program as the vehicle.
Read MoreThe annual Summit County Fair brings the community together for a week of food, fun, exhibits, demonstrations, contests, and rides. In addition to the demolition derby (always a locals favorite), the livestock showings, the 4H displays, parade, pie baking contest, and the little buckeroo rodeo, the Fair hosts the Fine Arts Show at the Ledges Event Center at the Coalville Fairgrounds which gives local artists the opportunity to share their creative work with the public. Admission to all Fair events is free and a full schedule of activities is available on the Fair website.
Read MoreAs we near the end of June, we’d like to take a moment to introduce an artist who has been instrumental in helping our community celebrate Pride Month, and who more generally creates diverse design projects for us all to enjoy. Eric Warner is the founder and creator of Mountain Aesthete, where he designs event decor, interiors, retail design and special projects for corporate and private clients here in Utah, including Sundance, Backcountry and Equality Utah. He’s also a featured artist at CreatePC.
Read MorePark City’s local farm and CSA, Copper Moose, is open for the spring, summer, and fall! There are several ways to incorporate local, organically grown produce into your routine in the coming months.
Read MoreIn this blog series we feature Summit County Public Art Board Member’s favorite local art pieces. See Summit County public art through new eyes and experience what makes these pieces so special according to our Summit County 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 Summit County Public Art Board member, Lisa Bedell.
Read MorePark City Library is combining the joy of reading, the power of literacy and social engagement with their new Action Book Club. It’s a win, win, win situation! “Action Book Club is a great way for all ages to read about a particular topic and then take action around that topic,” explains Adult Services Librarian, Kate Mapp. “This is meant to drive conversation at home and amongst your neighbors, friends and family.” The summer theme of “Come Together” begins in June and will focus on unity, equity and understanding.
Read MorePark City is home to a wonderful Latinx population and this summer, Mountain Town Music is celebrating their culture and arts. Starting on June 7th, and continuing on the 14th, 21st, 28th and July 5th, Noches de Verano will feature different instrumentalists, bands, dancers, and singers. Head to City Park each Monday from 6:30pm–8pm to catch the live music and festivities.
Read MoreEncore! Encore! Park City Film’s Twilight Drive In Theatre returns this summer! During summer 2020, Park City Film, like so many nonprofits, invented ways to make up for lost income and engage their film-loving fans. The Twilight Drive-In was launched without a clue for how well it would do. They felt confident it would be possible to pull off a few weekends and provide a space to engage and entertain our community in a COVID safe way during an unprecedented time with our partners Dragonfli Media Technologies.
Read MoreSpend some time relaxing in the mountains at the annual Summit Arts Showcase Friday, June 18th from 4-8pm and Saturday, June 19th from 10am-5pm. Oakley’s Red Barn, set against the Uintas, is a gorgeous setting for artists to exhibit their work and for arts enthusiasts to come and grow their collections.
Read MoreAfter half a century of working as a lawyer in Washington D.C. and as an international business consultant in countries around the world, Arthur Quinn has now settled in Park City and with the publishing of his first children’s book, The Rarie, has officially become an author.
Read MoreThe hills will be alive with music at Park City Library’s patio throughout the summer. The Friends of Park City Library are sponsoring Music in the Hills on Wednesdays from 10 am to 1 pm on Wednesdays.
Read MoreIn this blog series we feature Summit County Public Art Board Member’s favorite local art pieces. See Summit County public art through new eyes and experience what makes these pieces so special according to our Summit County 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 Summit County Public Art Board member, Maureen Lahey.
Read MoreThe latest Summit County art piano has just been completed! Artist Anna Leigh Moore has just finished work on the latest addition to the Summit County Art Pianos For All piano managed by the Summit County Public Art Advisory Board, a Schilling & Sons Cabinet Grand piano located at Trailside Park!
Read MoreYou may remember reading our blog post a few weeks ago about the new Kamas Valley History Mobile Museum. If you missed it, no worries. You can check it out here. Long story short, the article covered exciting news about the Kamas Valley History Group's new undertaking led by Kate Wynn. The group purchased, renovated, and converted a vintage trailer into a museum on wheels!
Read MoreThe Arts Council of Park City & Summit County and Kimball Art Center will once again team up to host this year’s 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 outside on July 10th at Kimball Art Center’s new location at the YARD, 1251 Kearns Blvd.
Read MoreJanuary 21, 2017 was the day of the worldwide Women’s March. Legendary civil rights leader and co-founder of the United Farm Workers’ Union, Dolores Huerta was invited to be one of the featured speakers to the half million marchers gathered in Washington D.C. She chose not to go. Instead, the thousands of marchers who paraded down Park City’s Main Street were honored to have Huerta, right here, to speak to our crowd and inspire everyone to stay strong and stand up.
Read MoreWe are pleased to introduce Trove Gallery as our May gallery feature! Our monthly blog series showcases all of our wonderful Park City galleries on a rotating basis. Every month we tell the story of a local gallery and the gallerists and artists behind them. For this month’s spotlight we spoke with Jen Schumacher, owner of Trove Gallery at 804 Main St. in Park City. Trove Gallery is proud to represent a variety of talent with an emphasis on Utah artists. They strive to stay current and maintain an environment that is comfortable and inviting to all.
Egyptian YouTheatre has announced a full slate of summer programs for kids and teens. Beginning in June, campers can choose from a wide variety of creative camps.
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