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Chocolate

Zoque Mexican Chocolate

Esmeralda Torres, alongside her mother and sisters, honors her Zoque indigenous heritage from Chiapas, Mexico, by preserving the ancient art of Zoque and Maya chocolate making. Through these authentic flavors, they pay homage to their rich history. Esmeralda actively shares her heritage through workshops and projects, dedicated to promoting indigenous culinary arts. Their compelling story and millennia-old recipes are also prominently featured in the cacao display within the UMFA’s Mexico, Central, and South American gallery. Her efforts ensure that her ancestral legacy not only thrives but also inspires future generations and enriches global culture.

Hopi Artwork

Jessica Wiarda

Jessica Wiarda is an illustrator of Hopi and white descent based in Salt Lake City. She is known to explore her experiences living in two worlds as a biracial American.

“I have never quite belonged entirely to either world. As an artist, I think this gives me a unique perspective on life, and I enjoy learning new things about both sides of my heritage.”

Wiarda explores color and shape in her work and simplifying things like food and people to their most basic forms but still keeping them identifiable.

“Some things we think are ‘Native America’ don’t have anything to do with any tribe at all, so I invite you to explore my Hopi artwork and learn about a tribe that doesn’t see a lot of representation in mainstream culture.”

Metal and Glass Artwork

Emily Hodgson-Soule

Emily Hodgson-Soule is a multimedia artist from the West Side of Salt Lake City who works primarily in materials that change in surprising and delightful ways when stressed under heat and pressure – mainly metal and glass. Her work is alchemical, driven by forge and fire, and found in subconscious flow. Each item is unique and carries elements of her within them, connecting her to others through the voice of each piece.

Crochet

Emily Aida-Aralar Roman

Emily Aida-Aralar Roman is a Filipino-American living in Utah, a proud first-generation student, and a recent graduate! She completed her degree in Film and Media Arts at the University of Utah in 2026 and has just launched her full-time freelance film editing career. In her spare time – especially on long train commutes – she loves to turn big balls of yarn into beautiful things that just make you feel happy when you wear them, touch them, or see them. She has been studying the art of crochet for many years and loves the patience, skill, and dexterity required.

Photography

Dan Tree

Dan Tree is a photographer in Salt Lake City, UT, and has been practicing photography and developing for decades.

“It usually starts on the edge of my vision. I notice a burst of color from somewhere unexpected. An old mylar balloon caught in a tree branch, forgotten and faded from red to dull pink. Patterns in the sand where water once stood. I give these moments my full attention and try to capture the beauty I find in scenes most people would overlook. I then give these moments their time to truly shine in light sensitive silver when I print them in my darkroom.”

We are thrilled to have Dan’s series, Shoreline Meditations, available in the Museum Store. This is a collection of abstractions he discovered on the shore of the Great Salt Lake. He has been exploring the Lake for a decade and frequently taking shots towards the horizon, but was moved by his young son’s fascination with the world at his feet to see the Lake in a new way.

Pottery

Dorian Rosen

Originally from Austin, Texas, and now a long-time Salt Lake City resident, home potter Dorian Rosen throws pottery and formulates glazes for pieces ranging from functional daily-use bowls to whimsical orbs and vases. Using his science background, Dorian formulates each of these glazes to suit his unique style and preferred mid-fire clays. Through his work, Dorian is working to keep one of the world’s oldest disciplines alive in our modern age.

Jewelry

Combs & Amann

Combs & Amann explore their unique skills as goldsmiths, blacksmiths, and silversmiths, and the elements of fire and earth to create this recycled, low-carbon steel jewelry line. It is forged by hand, heated, and customized using a proprietary process that combines the skills of both artists into a one-of-a-kind wearable art form.

“Our work pulls inspiration from the natural landscapes and textures of the earth, celebrating the raw materials and old-world skills used in the process. Forging the steel by flame and hand reconnects us to our human will to make something from nothing.”

No two pieces are the same, and the work will continue to evolve.

Glass Jewelry

Anthony Barbano

Anthony Barbano specializes in a contemporary glass blowing technique that involves 24K gold and pure silver into spectacular art designed with precision and intention. Following graduation in fine art at the University of Utah, Anthony traveled to Murano, Italy, to meet his Italian ancestors and Murano glass masters. He is now renowned for his luminescent color combinations and distinctive detail, with an awe inspiring collection available at select galleries internationally.

Hand-bound books

Jazmin Gallegos

Jazmin Gallegos works at the Books Arts Program at the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. She teaches the history of the book and basic bookmaking to K-12 classes across Utah, and has a degree in Art Teaching from the U. All of her books are hand-bound and meticulously crafted from an array of fine papers from around the world. Each book is unique and includes a detailed outline of its paper type, origins, and binding style. They are truly works of art ready to hold your own creative input!

Pottery

Mira Loyborg

Mira Loyborg (Salt Lake City, UT) is a full-time artist and self-described experimenter in ceramics who likes to play with form, decoration, and color within functional pieces. She loves bold colors and fun miniatures. Her favorite ceramic technique is “sgraffito“, in which a piece is covered in a colored slip and then scratched away to produce a two-toned design. Mira has been creating since 1999, and studied ceramics at Westminster College and the University of Utah.

Jewelry

Ronda Nielson

Ronda Neilson declares she’s “mad for earrings, whether wearing or creating them.”

Earrings allow the wearer to feel beautiful, unique, and stunning, so Ronda produces wearable, affordable, and striking pairs. Her pendants are created from semi-precious stones such as turquoise, jade, jasper, and carnelian, which are inlaid in one-of-a-kind patterns of contrasting or complementary colors and textures. 

Hand-woven Textiles

Maria Elena Lowe (Tzeltal, Mayan) 

Maria Elena Lowe (Tzeltal, Mayan) is our local cultural connector to the absolutely stunning hand-woven textiles from Tzeltal weavers in Chiapas, Mexico. You can find her hand-selected wares throughout the store, from small, embroidered bags to woolly animal coin purses to the most elevated, bold, and luxurious woven textiles you’ll find in the United States. At all price points, Maria is supporting individual makers in the Tzeltal and Mayan communities and making rare and unique items available to Museum visitors. She also works with Mujeres de Maiz en Resistencia, an organization that has supported and protected Latina female artisans in Mexico and the US for 27 years.  

Jewelry

Lisa Ord

Lisa found her creative outlet at age eight in a bag of broken and leftover costume jewelry from her grandfather—a treasure-trove of beads and sparkles for her to transform. Now she mostly uses sterling or fine silver and precious and semi-precious stones, with occasional touches of leather and pewter.

Her motto is “One can never have enough jewelry!” 

Polymer Clay Jewelry

Jana Roberts Benzon

Jana is inspired by polymer clay’s limitless creative potential as well as the natural world. She uses her SLC studio to explore her artistic bounds and discover new techniques, which she teaches in workshops internationally. You can find her work at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the UMFA, and featured in numerous print and online publications. When she’s not experimenting with clay, she enjoys hiking and exploring Utah’s mountainous backdrop.

Glass Art

Lori Scharf

Lori Scharf (Salt Lake City, UT) is a kiln-formed glass artist with a unique background: She has a degree in structural and architectural engineering, and a long career in the Federal Aviation Administration. Lori sees glass as a structural element, and this insight is clear in her designs. Kiln forming (also known as fused glass or warm glass) joins carefully laid out shards at temperatures between 1100-1700 degrees. Using techniques from many disciplines, Lori exploits the properties of glass to create unique ideas of line and shape in sculptural and functional items.

Korean Ink Painting

Joon Bae

Joon Bae (Salt Lake City, UT) is an artist of traditional Korean Brush Art, and her work often includes wildlife, plants, landscapes, and the natural world in watercolor and ink on paper. Joon wants to give insight into Eastern Philosophy through her painting, which she hopes brings meaning to all those who see her work. She teaches courses in Korean Ink Art for children and adults at the UMFA, for Osher Lifelong Learning, and for the Kimball Arts Center in Park City.

Jewelry

Jamie Amann

As a little girl, Jamie Amann was enthralled with sparkling rocks and the mystique of adornment. She trained in California as a traditional Goldsmith and worked for many years doing repair and production work before deciding it was time to express her own aesthetic in a namesake line. Vibrant colored gemstones and the organic casting of plants are signature staples in her work. Inspired by the details of the natural world, she attempts to capture the texture or pattern of complex organisms and streamline them into a delicate talisman to wear every day. 

Jewelry

Ken Sanders Rare Books

The UMFA is thrilled to partner with community legend, Ken Sanders Rare Books. They are a full-service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City that’s been in operation since 1997. They specialize in Utah, Mormon history and scholarship, and Western Americana. They offer rare and collectible books on many subjects, and have graciously curated an exceptional collection for the UMFA that cover some of their iconic sections along with an exceptional supply of art books you won’t find anywhere else.

Ken Sanders has been buying, selling, and collecting books since childhood; he co-owned and ran the legendary Cosmic Aeroplane Bookstore in the 1970s and founded Dream Garden Press in 1980. He is also well known as the resident expert on antiquarian books on PBS’s acclaimed Antiques Roadshow. Browse our incredible selection at the UMFA Museum Store and then get the full experience at KSRB’s three floors of books located at 209 E 500 S in Salt Lake.