Located in the UMFA Emma Eccles Jones Education Center, ACME (Art. Community. Museum. Education.) Lab is an exhibition space for art experimentation and exploration. Visitors of all ages are encouraged to ask questions, make connections across disciplines, and engage with art in new ways. The Lab promotes collaboration between the Museum and the community through active participation, providing an avenue for mutual learning, discovery, and understanding.
This ACME Lab brings together works of art from the UMFA’s permanent collection that depict play – from a quiet match of backgammon to a lively pick-up game of neighborhood […]
Utilizing original artworks, poems, and audio recordings created in community workshops, Interwoven acknowledges inequities in our society, celebrates the richness of individual and collective identities, and encourages visitors to become active participants in collective social transformation.
Stanton Macdonald-Wright created images illustrating haikus from revered Japanese poets throughout history, connecting Eastern and Western cultural expressions and seeking pure forms of artistic truth. With this series of haiga, Macdonald-Wright offers a visually spectacular fusion of Modern art and Japanese poetry.
What happens when you place a hot dog, a rainbow, and some red rocks together? Find out as we explore a single work of art from the UMFA’s permanent collection: […]
David Rios Ferreira: Transcending Time and Space Featuring work and writing by artist Denae Shanidiin Merging science fiction with cultural and spiritual traditions, Transcending Time and Space asks you to […]
Where does water in Salt Lake Valley come from? Where does it end up? In Confluence the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, in collaboration with six local organizations, explores this […]
Utah Women Working for Better Days!, celebrates a number of voting rights anniversaries in 2020, including the 150th anniversary of Utah as the first place where women voted in the modern nation.
Ummah is a collaborative and community-focused installation dedicated to celebrating Utah’s Muslim community and educating the public about the Islamic way of life. Ummah, the Arabic word for community, refers […]
Marisa Morán Jahn: MIRROR | MASK MIRROR / MASK is a project by New York City-based artist Marisa Morán Jahn (Studio REV-) whose work uses mirrored masks to explore how […]
Step into the year 2039 and imagine our futures. Vote for the version you hope to see, explore futuristic objects, snap a souvenir photo, and consider your own role in […]
Join Las Hermanas Iglesias and the ACME Lab team to experience and collaborate on HERE, HERE—an interactive installation in which community members host actions, and participants contribute to a work in progress. At the core of the project is an invitation for creative experimentation.
