Land Art Week
October 1-3, 2026
Join us for Land Art Week — three days of talks, tours, and site visits celebrating Utah’s landscape and its legacy of Land art. The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is thrilled to partner with Powder Art Foundation to launch the very first Land Art Week, October 1–3, 2026.
Presented by the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and Powder Art Foundation, Land Art Week invites you to explore iconic artworks, meet the artists shaping the field today, and experience art in dialogue with place.
What to Expect: Conversations with artists and scholars, guided exploration of Land art sites, and hands-on experiences across Utah’s landscape.
Artists have been inspired by the landscapes of Utah and the American West for millennia. From ancient petroglyphs carved into rock to early photography documenting expansive vistas, this region has shaped artistic responses to place for generations. Utah is home to two monumental works of Land art from the 1970s—Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels—which continue to inspire artists today.
The legacy of Land art in Utah continues to grow at Powder Mountain, where the Powder Art Foundation is building an open-air museum of incredible artworks in dialogue with the landscape in Eden, Utah. Site-specific artworks are situated across 8,000 acres of alpine terrain, and can be encountered on snow during ski season or along hiking trails in the warmer months.
Stay tuned for more information and mark your calendars for an inspiring program of conversations, exploration, and amazing art experiences!
Land Art Week Events
Land Art Week Artist Talk: Lita Albuquerque
Thursday, October 1, 2026, 6 pm
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is thrilled to inaugurate the first Land Art Week with an artist talk featuring Lita Albuquerque. With a practice encompassing sculpture, site-specific installation, and ephemeral projects, Albuquerque made important contributions to the Light and Space and Land art movements in the 1970s.
Spiral Jetty Community Meet-up
Saturday, October 3, 2026, 1 pm–4 pm
Join the UMFA for a fun day of art and science at the Great Salt Lake. Explore Robert Smithson’s monumental earthwork, Spiral Jetty.
Explore More Land Art Week Events:
Land Art Week: UMOCA Tour
Thursday, October 1, 2026, 3 pm–4 pm
Tour Time, Truth and Other Immeasurables at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art!
Land Art Week: Ogden Contemporary Art
Friday, October 2, 2026, 12 pm
Ogden Contemporary Arts (OCA) is thrilled to participate in Land Art Week through artist engagement, community artmaking, and the opening of OCA’s 2026 Artist in Residence exhibition featuring Zachary Fabri.
Land Art Week: Kimball Arts
October 3–4, 2026
The Kimball Arts Center invites Land Art Week visitors to attend an Art Talk Saturday, October 3 at 6 pm, and to learn the art of Mark-Making in a Cochineal Ink Workshop Sunday, October 4 at 10 am– 4 pm.
Powder Art Foundation
Powder Art Foundation is a place where art, landscape, and movement converge. Situated across 8,000 acres of alpine terrain in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains, PAF is an open-air museum presenting site-specific works throughout every season. Here, art is not simply viewed but encountered; on snow, on trail, and through direct engagement with the mountain environment.
Plan Your Own Adventure
There’s no Wi-Fi out there! Access the Spiral Jetty and Sun Tunnels Self-Guides through the STQRY Guide app.
STQRY Guide App Instructions
- Download the STQRY Guide app on your smartphone in the Apple Store or in the Google Play Store.
- Select your preferred language.
- Search “Utah Museum of Fine Arts”
- Take the Spiral Jetty Self-Guide and the Sun Tunnels Self-Guide with you on your adventure.
Family Backpacks
Enhance your adventure with a Family Backpack, available for check out from the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, the Salt Lake City Library, or the Brigham City Museum.
Each backpack contains hands-on and close-looking activities focused on individual art objects and the cultures they represent. Family backpacks provide a more compelling array of hands-on materials and multisensory activities than traditional paper and pencil family guides.
The packs are designed for families with children ages 4–12 and can be checked out at the UMFA welcome desk free of charge. See different backpack themes and their contents below.
Above: Robert Smithson (American, 1938–1973), Spiral Jetty, 1970, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah, black basalt rock, salt crystals, earth, and water, 1,500 ft. long and approximately 15 ft. wide. © Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation, licensed by VAGA, New York | Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels (1973-76), Great Basin Desert, Utah, Concrete, steel, earth, Overall dimensions: 9 ft. 2-1/2 in. x 68 ft. 6in. x 53 ft. (2.8 x 20.9 x 16.2 m); length on the diagonal: 86 ft. (26.2 m), Photograph: Nancy Holt, Collection Dia Art Foundation with support from Holt/Smithson Foundation © Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
