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UMOCA AWARDED LARGEST TWO-YEAR SUPPORT GRANT IN THE COUNTRY BY THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION
City Weekly reports that the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art has received "the largest support grant given by the Warhol Foundation to any arts organization in the country" in 2011.
In making its award, the Warhol Foundation praised recent changes at the museum, noting that "UMOCA is at an exciting moment in its history; its new leaders are ambitious in their vision for its programs and exhibitions and committed to deepening connections with the local, national and international contemporary art community."
To read the full article, click here.
To join the Andy Warhol Foundation in supporting nationally-recognized contemporary art right in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, give here. Please take a moment to show that a vibrant contemporary art museum in Utah is important to you! |
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FIRST FRIDAY
FRI, MAY 4, 2012, 8-10 PM
  Join us for the next First Friday on May 4. Our monthly celebration of the contemporary art world features five exhibitions, food, cash bar and, for the month of May, DJ TiDY.
Also, experience the opening of Mark Hedengren's The Invincibility Fable--a survey of over 30 color photographs that depict the exuberant youth culture found at swimming holes across the American South and Mountain West. More |
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SPECIAL 5TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING OF AFTERIMAGE: THE ART OF 337
FRI, MAY 18, 2012, 7 PM
  An abandoned building. 150 Utah artists. 10,000 visitors.
There are very few events that can truly be called "historic," but there is no other way to describe the 337 Project. Bursting onto the Salt Lake art scene in May 2007, the 337 Project changed the relationship between Utah artists, their art, and the viewing public forever.
Whether you arrived in Utah too late to experience the 337 Project, or whether you just want to relive the magic of those brief six days, now you can see it all in this special Fifth Anniversary screening of Afterimage: The Art of 337. Brimming with stunning high-definition footage of the artwork, as well as interviews with artists, project organizers, and visitors, Afterimage will take you through the entire life of the event--from the fateful first meeting until the building's last breath.
A film by Alex Haworth and Davey Davis.
Please join us at UMOCA for a special Fifth Anniversary screening on May 18, 2012, at 7 PM exactly five years after the 337 Project first opened to the public.
"337's legacy remains in our hearts."--City Weekly
Utah's "coolest public art phenomenon . . . an art
utopia."--Salt Lake Tribune
"It's the Woodstock of Salt Lake City. Your grandchildren will ask you, 'Were you at 337?'"--Shawn Rossiter, 15 Bytes
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MARK HEDENGREN: THE INVINCIBILITY FABLE
MAY 4- AUG 18, 2012
 The Invincibility Fable is a survey of over 30 color photographs taken from his series Cliff Jumpers, a project that spanned nearly two years while Hedengren traveled across the nation. His images depict the exuberant youth culture found at swimming holes across the American South and Mountain West, oblivious to the dangers posed by rocks and water.
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FAX
MAR 2 - JUN 23, 2012
 FAX invites a multigenerational group of artists, architects, designers, scientists, filmmakers and writers to reconceive of the fax machine as a thinking and drawing tool.
Participants transmit their fax-based work via the venues' working fax lines through the duration of the exhibition's tour. The accumulation of information--received in real time in the exhibition space--includes drawings and texts, and the inevitable junk faxes and errors of transmission, creating an ongoing cumulative project. More
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CONSTANT DULLAART: ONOMATOPOEIA
LAST CHANCE: CLOSES MAY 12, 2012
 Dutch artist Constant Dullaart wrestles within the delicate space between analog and digital. He makes works that reconcile ways to demystify technology by trying to physically enter it.
Onomatopoeia is an exhibition of video works where form mimics function and meaning becomes the action itself. It is being screened as part of the UMOCA ongoing video series, Looped.
SPECIAL EVENT - one-night-only: May 11, 7-9 PM
Found By: an evening of analogital Utah curated by artist Constant Dullaart.
Featuring: Impersonations of Olivia Newton John echoed through cult classics of today and yesterday, cacophonic piano pressure, Salt Lake's "King Kong", a teenage travelogue, the grandparents of a boogeyman, and more... More
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ELIZABETH TOBIAS: LET THEM EAT CUPCAKES (AKA THE CUPCAKE PROJECT)
LAST CHANCE: CLOSES SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012
 Let Them Eat Cupcakes (aka The Cupcake Project) by Elizabeth Tobias combines performance, community outreach and installation art to create a sobering commentary about the scale of hunger in the United States.
During her one-night-only appearance on April 6, Tobias bartered homemade cupcakes to UMOCA visitors willing to share an idea or memory about hunger on an index card. The hunger index cards from the evening, along with cards from earlier iterations of the performance in Los Angeles, Boston and other American cities,are arranged inside a colorfully lit emergency-relief tent surrounded by images of confectionary sprinkles.
The residue of the April 6 performance, including tent, lanterns, index cards and images of sprinkles-but not cupcakes-is on view at UMOCA through May 19, 2012.
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2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL NEW FRONTIER
LAST CHANCE: CLOSES SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012
 Highlighting work that pushes the boundaries and the moving image, New Frontier at UMOCA celebrates the convergence of film, art, and new media technologies as a hotbed for cinematic innovation. As part of Sundance Film Festival, New Frontier at UMOCA presents ongoing media installations as well as multimedia performances, transmedia experiences, artist lectures, and more. More
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KARL HAENDEL AND PETTER RINGBOM: QUESTIONS FOR MY FATHER
LAST CHANCE: CLOSES SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012
 Made in collaboration between Karl Haendel and New York-based filmmaker Petter Ringbom, Questions for My Father is a document of the inquiries, doubts and reservations of a generation of men who came of age in the late 20th century.
Arranged like a series of portraits on a black studio backdrop, the subjects of the film face the camera and ask things they always wanted to know about their fathers but never voiced with a direct and even delivery that belies the emotional topics. Some of the men have already lost their fathers; others rarely, if ever, knew them; and for many, their questions were just too hard to ask. More
Haendel and Ringbom, Questions for My Father, 2011, 11:17 minutes, Still from video. Courtesy Harris Lieberman Gallery |
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 UMOCA GALA TICKETS ON SALE NOW! Join us for the UMOCA Annual Gala on June 2, 2012. Featuring a sneak peek at two new exhibitions, an unbelievable dinner, refreshing drinks, the best silent and live auctions this side of the Mississippi, a live performance by SB Dance, and the opportunity to dance the night away to the stylings of DJ Jesse Walker, this is a not-to-be-missed event. Plus, your ticket purchase supports the best exhibitions of contemporary art around. Please consider joining us for our Annual Gala--we'd love to have you! |
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DOCUMENTARIES
SAT, MAY 26, 1-4 PM
UMOCA and Utah Lawyers for the Arts welcome Thomas Leavens, Esq. of Leavens, Strand, Glover & Adler, LLC.
Get the inside scoop on legal issues you may encounter in producing documentary films, including relevant considerations in organizing a production entity, fundamental models of financing for independent films, copyrights and clearances, fair use, basic personnel contracts, and concepts of privacy, publicity and defamation. More |
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GRANITO: HOW TO NAIL A DICTATOR
WED, MAY 9 7 PM
Part political thriller, part memoir, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator shadows a haunting crime across four decades.
As activists, experts and lawyers build an international human rights case against a Guatemalan military dictator, Pamela Yates's 1982 film When the Mountains Tremble emerges as forensic evidence - a witness to the genocide it documented.
Sundance Film Festival Official Selection.
This event is free and open to the public.
KUED's Woman and Girls Lead Film Series is part of a comprehensive outreach engagement project highlighting the obstacles and opportunities women face as they step forward to make a difference. The series runs the second Wednesday of each month at UMOCA.
For more information visit www.kued.org/diversevoices
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FAMILY ART SATURDAY: Rock, Roll & Replicate
MAY 12, 2 - 4 PM
It's printmaking time, an extension of the concepts contained in the exhibit FAX. Come roll the ink and rock out the prints!
Family Art Saturday is free and provides a great opportunity for kids and adults to make an innovative piece of art while learning about the exhibitions at UMOCA. More |
THE ART SHOP ARTIST OF THE MONTH UMOCA's May artist of the Month features local artist Daniel Southerland.
Southerland's hand thrown raku fired ceramic sculptures breath an organic vitality that is expressed in details of feathers or natural stone coloring and carried out in the sculptures' basic rounded shapes structure. Check out Southerland and other inspiring artists in our Art Shop! More |
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Mary Reid Kelley, whose work appeared at UMOCA as part of the Doublespeak exhibition (Oct. 7, 2011 - Jan. 7, 2012) will be featured in the current season of Art21 on PBS.
Kelley will be featured alongside Glenn Ligon and Ai Wei Wei whose works critically investigate past historical events.
Art21 is a documentary series that takes a look at artists working in the twenty-first century.
The episode premiers on April 27 on KUED (Check your local listings). More |
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MUSEUM LAB
FOR TEENS
Museum Lab for Teens has been postponed indefinitely. If you have questions concerning Museum Lab please contact Laura, laura.hurtado@utahmoca.org. |
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