What is the Art Truck? UMOCA’s Art Truck community outreach program brings art to K-12 Students throughout Utah. The traveling exhibition gives schools a chance to incorporate art into their curriculum without worrying about the expense of taking a fieldtrip to the museum. The 2016-2017 Art Truck mobile exhibition whereABOUTS features the work of artists […]
2017 Out Loud’s Identities, Symbolism, and the Self Three years ago, Elly Baldwin (the Museum’s Curator of Public Engagement) noticed a gap in UMOCA’s community programming: programs for children and adults were offered, but nothing at the time existed for those in-between. After receiving funding from an education grant, Baldwin created a program for LGBTQ+ teens, […]
F E A T U R E D A R T W O R K DONNA CONLON AND JONATHAN HARKER Under the Rug STREET GALLERY: JAN 27 – MAY 13 Under the Rug addresses how important issues are swept under the rug, allowing nations to rise and build upon the blanket of silence and obscurity that society […]
ARTLESS Look around your home or workspace. Do you have art on your walls? Take it down and go ARTLESS for a week. How does it feel when you stare at the blank space? When you put the work back, you will understand the importance of art in your life. Art evokes emotions, speaks when […]
UMOCA prides itself on providing members of our community with interests in museums and the arts with door-opening opportunities. Our internship programs offer a variety of temporary work placements in numerous departments of the museum, from Front Desk and Marketing to Curatorial and Graphic Design, our interns get real-life, hands-on experience in their future fields. […]
Mary Toscano’s Art Truck exhibition, Dog Days, comes to a close this August after a full year of road trips along the Wasatch front. Toscano’s series of five drawings presented an opportunity for students and teachers alike to reflect on personal experiences that relate to contemporary culture. Participants of all ages explored narrative elements in […]
If you have spent time at UMOCA recently, you may have noticed a small but meaningful building update. Wander down the street level hall to use the restroom facilities, passing the newly unveiled 2 Out 2 Loud exhibition, and you will find the same two multi-stall spaces with new labels that read: “Gender Inclusive Restroom.” […]
A-I-R Space: MAR 13 – APR 4 UMOCA’s latest artist-in-residence featured in the A-I-R Space is Tatiana Svrckova Larsen and her art4ONE4all project. For Larsen, this series meant a step away from personal art toward works that would make a change—not for a general audience, but for one specific individual at a time. The inspiration […]
The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art was honored to present a performance by Salt Lake City’s newest contemporary dance company NOW-ID on September 19th as a significant enrichment to the exhibition Bikuben currently in the Main Gallery. Exploring the intersection of Utah and Danish heritage, UMOCA’s current major exhibition Bikuben brings together a variety of […]
UMOCA and the Downtown Alliance are seeking 15 artists to participate in their secretEVE project. secretEVE is a month long exhibition that coincides and culminates with the Downtown Alliance’s EVE events. Each accepted artist will be asked to create a single small scale site-specific installation/ art work that exists on a predetermined path from the […]