From Harlem to Utah: Stories of Blackness | Matthew Sketch
Hi, my name is Matthew Sketch and I’m an artist from Houston, Texas. As I gaze at Kehinde Wiley’s Conspicuous […]
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Dive deeper into the history of the art on view, explore the behind-the-scenes workings of the Museum, and get down to the heart of it all with this monthly blog from the Utah Museum of Fine Arts! Explore topics like:
Diaspora Blues in the Arts of the Pacific
Monique Ho Ching—advocate, future curator, community activist, lover of shoes, and proud Art Ambassador at the UMFA From a young […]
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Art in a Time of Angst: The Antidote of Looking
by Alana Wolf, collections research curator The evidence that humans are hopelessly divided seems to be everywhere we look. Any […]
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Women’s Work in the American West: Teaching with Primary Sources (Work-in-Progress)
By Julia Huddleston, graduate student, Department of History, College of Humanities The Fellowship in Collections Engagement in part of “Landscape, […]
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Utah’s Women Artists and the American West, c. 1890-1950 (Work-in-Progress)
By Emily Larsen, graduate student, Department of History, College of Humanities The Fellowship in Collections Engagement in part of “Landscape, […]
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Learning Art: What Makes Art Western? (Work-in-Progress)
By Cody Fitzgerald, China Mauck, Rebecca Hardenbrook, graduate students in the Department of Math, College of Science, and Kiki Karahalios, […]
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The Great Salt Lake: Myths, Birds, Salt (Work-in-Progress)
By Samyak Shertok, PhD student in Creative Writing, Department of English, College of Humanities The Fellowship in Collections Engagement in […]
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Papermaking the Great Salt Lake (Work-in-Progress)
By Emily Tipps, Book Arts Faculty, J. Willard Marriott Library The Fellowship in Collections Engagement in part of “Landscape, Land […]
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Voices From the Past: Public History, Narrative, and the Making of Utah Women Working for Better Days!
By Jessica Breiman, art and archives metadata librarian As a librarian and archivist, most of my time is spent preserving, […]
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WANTED: hard-working, community-minded Utah women. Act now for a brighter tomorrow!
By Alana Wolf, collections research curator This blog post originated in a moment of frustration—as writing so often does—while completing […]
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