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 […]
Interwoven: Social Transformation Through Art and Community To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it. – Paulo Freire Last fall, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts invited […]
The Sound of Water: Woodcuts by Stanton Macdonald-Wright Whatever enriches us and whatever colors our lives is romance. -Stanton Macdonald-Wright What emotions do certain images or words stir within you? […]
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! is now a digital exhibition, see it here. The UMFA’s new ACME Lab, Utah Women Working for Better Days!, celebrates a number of voting […]
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 […]
The International Tolerance Project: Promoting Dialogue Through Design The UMFA’s fourth ACME Lab, The International Tolerance Project: Promoting Dialogue Through Design, features select works from a larger traveling poster exhibition, […]
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 […]
Las Hermanas Iglesias: HERE, HERE “Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.” —Diane Ackerman Join Las Hermanas Iglesias and the ACME Lab team to experience and collaborate on HERE, […]
