Join artist Samantha da Silva for a transformative workshop designed to unleash your creativity! Embrace innovative techniques using rollers, unconventional surfaces, and a variety of materials—like paint, plaster, and sand—to create stunning, textured abstracts.
Stone on Boundary features 5,000 copper foils molded from river rocks in Osaka, Japan and Salt Lake City, Utah. The installation reflects Utah’s vast and varied landscape – from river stones in deep canyons to the towering peaks of the Wasatch and Oquirrh Mountains and the dynamic red rock formations in southern parts of the state.
The evening will include a presentation by Senior Curator at the UMFA, Alisa McCusker, and special access to a new portrait hall at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Wine Educator Sheral Schowe of Wasatch Academy of Wine, LLC will guide a parallel exploration by deciphering the influences and flavors of European wine.
Supporting Artists at Every Age and Stage
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is an incredible source for accessible educational and art-making opportunities. Some of the work the UMFA does can be easily seen on the event calendar or inside the Museum itself, but some of the Museum’s work is less visible. From the work of the curatorial team, to the collections team, to the learning and engagement team, and beyond the Museum’s work helps bring art to everyone and supports artists at every age and stage.
Mining the West, a collaboration between J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, brings together art, archival documents, and other primary source material from the nineteenth century through today to illustrate the technological, economic, social, and environmental implications mining has had, and continues to have, on the American West and its people.
