What’s Hip-Hop Got to Do with Education?

August 29, 2016 by umfablog

Guest blogger: Courtney-Rae Reinecke, UMFA ACME Intern Outside the Glendale Branch of the Salt Lake City Public Library, break dancing erupted when DJ Dynamic started busting out the beats. Onlookers ate pizza and enjoyed the dancing and music, while artist Zach Franzoni from Mestizo Institute of Culture and Arts prepped canvases for a collaborative graffiti session. As the crowd swelled (ultimately to some 200 people), so did the excitement for what this May 11 ACME Session hosted by the Utah Museum of […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: art, benefits of museums, community, education, family, hip-hop, museum events, museums, umfa, uofu

UMFA Re-Envisioning Elevates Respected Arts Administrator

August 10, 2016 by umfablog

Sonja Lunde, respected state arts leader and administrator at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA), has been promoted to a top leadership position within the Museum. Lunde’s promotion is part of a strategic reorganization that comes as staff re-envision the UMFA for next year’s reopening. In her new position as deputy director of planning and program, Lunde will have greater responsibility for managing cross-departmental work and collaboration among the curatorial, collections, design, and education and engagement staff, who will […]

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A Not-So-Sunny Excursion to Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels

June 30, 2016 by umfablog

Guest blogger: Ali Mitchell, UMFA intern, U of U senior art history major In April, the UMFA led an adventure that demonstrated exactly what makes our new ARTLandish: Land Art, Landscape, and the Environment program so unique and engaging. What we envisioned as a fun-filled day of art activities and desert lounging at Nancy’s Holt’s Sun Tunnels (located far from any paved road in Utah’s West desert) became a more adventurous undertaking than anyone foresaw. It was a totally different […]

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UMFA-U Med School Partners Invited to MOMA Forum

June 13, 2016 by umfablog

Two Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) staffers and an assistant professor in the University of Utah School of Medicine participated in an invitation-only forum about museum-medical school partnerships this month at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. On June 8 and 9, UMFA executive director Gretchen Dietrich, education and engagement director Jorge Rojas, and assistant professor Gretchen Case joined 135 select museum and medical professionals at “The Art of Examination: Art Museums with Medical Schools Partnerships.” Attendees shared […]

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UMFA Educator Wins State and National Awards

March 14, 2016 by umfablog

Annie Burbidge Ream, assistant curator of education and public school programs at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA), has won two major awards from the state and national art education associations.

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LONG LIVE ART!

December 17, 2015 by umfablog

In case you haven’t heard, the UMFA will be temporarily closing for renovations and re-installation starting January 18. Since we won’t be seeing you all in the Museum again until spring 2017, we figured it was necessary to throw a huge weekend-long party full of everything you love about the UMFA. Oh, and did I mention it will be completely free?! Free admission to the galleries, free yoga, free art-making, free film screenings, free chamber music… The list goes on and […]

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Findings, fun facts, and fly specks: Results from the paintings survey!

November 18, 2015 by umfablog

Guest Blogger: Stephanie Hufford Hey everyone! I’m back one last time to talk about the final results of our survey of the UMFA’s European paintings collection. It’s been a while since you’ve heard from me, so I’ll catch you up a little first. The UMFA received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to perform a comprehensive survey of the European painting collection. We (Robyn, the UMFA conservator, Leslie Anderson-Perkins, UMFA’s curator of European, American and Regional […]

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Constructing the Utah Landscape

November 5, 2015 by umfablog

Constructing the Utah Landscape, an interactive companion exhibition to The British Passion for Landscape: Masterpieces from National Museum Wales, on view now at the UMFA, exposes the many tools artists use as they approach the genre. Through a variety of hands-on activities, visitors can experiment with artistic techniques on replicas of the Utah scenes on view in the gallery. From shifting the horizon line to using colored filters, visitors can manipulate the key elements of a landscape—assigning the meaning and mood […]

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UMFA Awarded Grant for Metals Conservation Project

October 28, 2015 by umfablog

We have been awarded a major grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in support of a two-year project to evaluate and rehabilitate objects in our diverse metals collection. The nearly $100,000 grant will allow Museum staff to ensure the longevity of 798 of the metal objects in our Asian and African collections, some of which are in critical need of remediation. “This project is an important development in the UMFA’s continuing effort to raise standards of care for […]

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