June Events @ UMFA

Enjoy intriguing exhibitions and exciting events at the UMFA this June!
SPECIAL FREE EVENTS:

Highlights of the Collection Tour
First Wednesday of the month at 6:30pm and all Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30pm
Let a UMFA docent take you on a 30-minute tour of the world’s art and cultures. No pre-registration necessary.

Highlights of Las Artes de México Tour
Tuesday–Sunday • 12:30pm
Let a UMFA docent take you on a tour of Las Artes de México! This free, thirty-minute tour explores the art and culture of Mexico, focusing on a few highlight objects. No registration necessary.
**Please check the website for Spanish tours and family tours.

Free Admission Day
Wednesday, June 2 • 10am-8pm
Saturday, June 19 • 11am-5pm
Thanks to the Zoo, Arts, and Parks Fund, the UMFA is able to open its doors free to families on the first Wednesday and third Saturday of every month.

How-to Workshop for Families
Saturday, June 12 • 2–4pm
Salt Lake City Main Library
How do you experience art as a family? Join UMFA Tour Coordinator Annie Burbidge-Ream for a free seminar at your local public library. This class will teach you and your kids how to love and learn about art and culture of the world, with a special emphasis on Las Artes de México.

Third Saturday: Yarn Painting Saturday, June 19 • 2-4pm Explore the use of yarn and cloth as art materials in Las Artes de México and then create a one-of-a-kind wall hanging that tells the story of you.

Making Art with the UMFA Saturday, June 26 • 2-4pm
Day-Riverside Library
Join UMFA staff members at your local library to learn all about Las Artes de México and then create a work of art to take home.


SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS:

The Continuing Allure: Painters of Utah's Red Rock
On view through June 27, 2010
To love the western landscape is to embrace the subtlety of a vast and mysterious desert terrain. Among the artists who conquered the obstacles of painting Utah's red rock country were Maynard Dixon, Edgar Payne, and Conrad Buff, just a few of the notable painters represented in this exhibition.

Pablo O'Higgins: Works on Paper
On view through September 19, 2010
This exhibition presents a selection of lithographs by Pablo O’Higgins, focusing on the artist’s heroic depictions of the working class in revolutionary Mexico. Although he is virtually unknown in his home state of Utah, O’Higgins is remembered and celebrated in Mexico as a true artist “of the people.” Born Paul Higgins in 1904, he attended East High School, where he took art classes from painter LeConte Stewart. The young artist was attracted to the vibrant art scene in Mexico and eventually became one of the few Anglo artists welcomed into the Mexican muralist movement.

Las Artes de México
From the Gilcrease Museum
On view through September 26, 2010
Celebrate the richness of Mexican art and culture at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts this summer. On loan from the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Las Artes de México features a broad array of artifacts such as woven fabrics, masks, and religious objects from Mesoamerica, as well as groundbreaking paintings by modernist masters like Rufino Tamayo, Jose Clemente Orozco, and Diego Rivera. All label text is available in English and Spanish.

salt 1: Adriana Lara
On view through September 26, 2010
Concurrent with Las Artes de México, the UMFA is launching an ongoing series of semiannual exhibitions entitled salt, which showcases work by emerging artists from around the world. The inaugural salt exhibition features the work of Mexico City-based artist Adriana Lara (b. 1978), whose work explores the relationship between art-making and other more commonplace forms of production. Working in a range of formats and disciplines, Lara playfully questions the boundaries that separate fine art from everyday objects.

Community: Eat, Work, Play
On view through January 9, 2011
Big canvases, bold colors, and intriguing ideas are on offer in Community: Eat, Work, Play. With the help of UMFA educators, first- and sixth-graders from Lincoln Elementary School created large-scale murals that visually represent the various aspects of the title: eat, work, and play.

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