Sight & Sound is a free, ongoing series that pairs musical talents with both museum programming and artwork on display for a multisensory experience. Audience members are invited to sit and listen or explore the galleries, resonating with sound. Let the music inform your viewing; let the artwork inform your listening, and let the unexpected connections change your perspective. Past performances have included music ranging from traditional or classical to more experimental and minimalist works.
View upcoming Sight & Sound events here.
In this Sight & Sound, we invite you to explore Many Wests: Artists Shape An American Idea, while the galleries reverberate with music, storytelling, and dance from Rhonda “Honey” Duvall. Honey, an Indigenous musician, motivational speaker, pow wow dancer, and the community and cultural specialist at the Urban Indian Center, is a leader in Salt Lake City’s Navajo community.
We invite you to take a deep breath at our next Sight & Sound: Breath of Air, celebrating artwork in our latest exhibition Air, which closes December 11. Special guided tours of Air (and other atmospheric works in the UMFA’s collection!) start at 6 pm, where we’ll explore artwork that addresses themes of collective breath and collective responsibility.
Join us in celebrating the beauty and power of murals in our community! At this FREE all-day-long event, we’ll make our own mural from chalk at the Third Saturday event and engage local muralists in an Art Talk. Let’s listen to some good tunes with DJ Fonz, eat some good food from Papito Moe’s and Franco’s Churros & Crepes, and celebrate our mural installation 2020: From here on out.
The UMFA and the University of Utah School of Music are proud to present a collaborative virtual Sight & Sound program. The online program pairs ten original musical compositions by undergraduate, master, and PhD students with works of art in the Museum’s permanent collection.
Let the music inform your viewing, let the artwork inform your listening. Join us for this spring’s multi-sensory series of art and music curated by local DJ Amir Jackson from Ogden, Utah, melding soul, jazz, and melodies old and new with the themes of Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Join the UMFA and community partners for an evening of reflection, resources, art, and music to commemorate the ongoing impact of the AIDS epidemic on artists’ lives and our world today. The event will include making textile art— inspired by AIDS Quilt—experimental live music by it foot, it ears, guided gallery exploration, resource tables, refreshments, and more.
University of Utah faculty member Devin Maxwell presents an evening of provocative works for percussion and electronics featuring music by Johannes Kreidler, Phill Niblock, Michael Pisaro, Iannis Xenakis, and Devin Maxwell. He will be joined by percussionist Indigo Cook, who will perform Aphasia by Mark Applebaum.