Bank of America award will support conservation of Chiura Obata screen For Release June 30, 2022 Kimi Hill, granddaughter of Japanese-American artist Chiura Obata, with Two Running Horses, a 1932 four-panel […]

UMFA Executive Director Gretchen Dietrich was honored with an Informed Decision Maker Award from the University of Utah’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute on April 22. The award recognizes individuals […]

Katie Seastrand, manager of school and teacher programs at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) at the University of Utah, has been named Utah Museum Educator of the Year. Seastrand received the award Saturday, March 26, at the Utah Art Education Association (UAEA)’s Spring Conference held online.

$400,000 endowment will bolster UMFA operations for generations to come For Release February 17, 2022 Contact: Mindy Wilson, 801.581.7328, mindy.wilson@umfa.utah.edu The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) at the University of […]

Thirty-five works by Chiura Obata, one of the most significant Japanese American artists of the twentieth century, are now in the permanent collection of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) at the University of Utah—thanks to a generous gift from the Obata estate.

Explore the tensions, histories, and myths that shape our experiences of the world in Space Maker, a new exhibition of contemporary art made by University of Utah faculty artists. The exhibition opens Saturday, August 21, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) on the U campus. On Friday, August 20, the UMFA will be open to members only for a special exhibition preview.

What does a painting sound like? For PhD music composition student Zheng Zhou, it sounds like the Grand Canyon. Zheng is one of the ten students in the U’s School […]

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) has been awarded an $80,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to support a pathbreaking art exhibition focused on air and air quality.

Gretchen Dietrich, executive director of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) at the University of Utah, has been invited to join the inaugural board of directors for Art Bridges, an exciting new foundation dedicated to expanding access to American art across the country.

What was once old is new again—how shin hanga brought ukiyo-e woodblock prints into the modern age.