UMFA Community Activity – Watercolor: Present and Future
In partnership with Crossroads: Change in Rural America
Silver Reef Museum in Leeds, Utah
Saturday, March 30 | 1-4 pm | FREE

Take a road trip south and meet the UMFA at the Silver Reef Museum in Leeds, Utah, to enjoy the Crossroads: Change in Rural America exhibition and to participate in a foresighted art-making experience. We will provide all the watercolor, brushes, and paper that you'll need, but you'll provide the vision! To begin we'll step outside and take in our surroundings. We'll paint a plein air landscape based on what we see. Next, we'll envision what we'd like the landscape to look like in the future and paint it again to reflect that vision.

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Crossroads: Change in Rural America is a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution's Museum on Main Street program that provokes fresh thinking and sparks conversations about the future and sustainability of rural communities. At a time when much of rural Utah is reinventing itself, Crossroads offers a chance to look at our own paths over the past century – to highlight changes that affected our fortunes, explore how we've adapted, and think about what's next. This project is presented by Utah Humanities and its statewide partners.

This program is made possible through collaboration with Utah Humanities, the Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition Crossroads: Change in Rural America, and the Silver Reef Museum. Crossroads: Change in Rural America is made possible in Utah by Utah Humanities. Crossroads is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and State Humanities Councils nationwide. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.