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DIY Bolo Ties
May 22 | 6–9 PM

Inspired by Altered States in the Acid West, this drop-in workshop invites participants to create their own bolo ties using trinkets, fabric, yarn, beads, googly eyes, and other unexpected materials.

We’ll provide everything you need to make your own wearable creation, though you’re welcome to bring a small personal object to incorporate into your design.

Designed with adults in mind. Come make something strange, thoughtful, glamorous, sentimental, or all of the above.

All materials provided. Drop in, make something, and connect with other makers.

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, May 13, 6–9 PM for the opening of the 2026 Gala Art Auction Exhibition at UMOCA.

This exhibition brings together work donated by local artists whose support helps sustain UMOCA’s exhibitions, education, and Artist-in-Residence programs. It’s a collective effort rooted in care for Utah’s arts community and its future.

Come out to support the artists who make this work possible.

Free with RSVP (🔗 in bio). Cash bar. Open to the public.

Participating Artists:
Andrew Alba @andrew.alba
Trent Alvey @thursby
Henry Becker @henryjbecker
Kellie Bornhoft @kelliebornhoft
Collin Bradford @bradford_collin
Ian Burnley @
Maddison Colvin @maddisoncolvin
Nic Courdy @ncour
Paul Crow
Daniel Everett @dbeverett
Peter Everett @peterheverett
Nolan Flynn @flynnone
Jim Frazer @frazer.jim
Daniel George @danielgeorgephoto
Josh Graham
Emily Hawkins @ewhawkins
Robyn Hodess @robyn.hodess.studio
Russell Huiskamp @amusium
Janell James @janelljamesartist
Brooklynn Johnson @bwooklynn
Kathryn Knudsen @kathrynwknudsen
Lenka Konopasek @konopasek.lenka
Beth Krensky @bethkrensky
Jordan Layton @jordanlayton
Christopher Lynn @thechristopherlynn
Colour Maisch @colourmaisch
Nick Pedersen @nick_pedersen
James Perkins @jamesperkinsstudio
Alexis Rausch @alexisrausch
Andrew Rice @purplehat
Holly Rios @opossumboots
Jorge Rojas @keoqui
Madeline Rupard @madelinerupard
Mitsu Salmon @mitsusalmon
Laura Sharp-Wilson @laurasharpwilson
Sallie Shatz @sallieshatzphoto
Nakita Shelley @sweetnakeet
Casey Jex Smith @caseyjexsmith
Portia Snow @portiasnowstudio
John Sproul @johnsproulstudio
Jared Steffensen @jkorts
Kaybria Swenson @kaybria._true
James Talbot @jamestalbot
Gary Vlasic @v.projectdesign

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, May 13, 6–9 PM for the opening of the 2026 Gala Art Auction Exhibition at UMOCA.

This exhibition brings together work donated by local artists whose support helps sustain UMOCA’s exhibitions, education, and Artist-in-Residence programs. It’s a collective effort rooted in care for Utah’s arts community and its future.

Come out to support the artists who make this work possible.

Free with RSVP (🔗 in bio). Cash bar. Open to the public.

Participating Artists:
Andrew Alba @andrew.alba
Trent Alvey @thursby
Henry Becker @henryjbecker
Kellie Bornhoft @kelliebornhoft
Collin Bradford @bradford_collin
Ian Burnley @
Maddison Colvin @maddisoncolvin
Nic Courdy @ncour
Paul Crow
Daniel Everett @dbeverett
Peter Everett @peterheverett
Nolan Flynn @flynnone
Jim Frazer @frazer.jim
Daniel George @danielgeorgephoto
Josh Graham
Emily Hawkins @ewhawkins
Robyn Hodess @robyn.hodess.studio
Russell Huiskamp @amusium
Janell James @janelljamesartist
Brooklynn Johnson @bwooklynn
Kathryn Knudsen @kathrynwknudsen
Lenka Konopasek @konopasek.lenka
Beth Krensky @bethkrensky
Jordan Layton @jordanlayton
Christopher Lynn @thechristopherlynn
Colour Maisch @colourmaisch
Nick Pedersen @nick_pedersen
James Perkins @jamesperkinsstudio
Alexis Rausch @alexisrausch
Andrew Rice @purplehat
Holly Rios @opossumboots
Jorge Rojas @keoqui
Madeline Rupard @madelinerupard
Mitsu Salmon @mitsusalmon
Laura Sharp-Wilson @laurasharpwilson
Sallie Shatz @sallieshatzphoto
Nakita Shelley @sweetnakeet
Casey Jex Smith @caseyjexsmith
Portia Snow @portiasnowstudio
John Sproul @johnsproulstudio
Jared Steffensen @jkorts
Kaybria Swenson @kaybria._true
James Talbot @jamestalbot
Gary Vlasic @v.projectdesign

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, May 13, 6–9 PM for the opening of the 2026 Gala Art Auction Exhibition at UMOCA.

This exhibition brings together work donated by local artists whose support helps sustain UMOCA’s exhibitions, education, and Artist-in-Residence programs. It’s a collective effort rooted in care for Utah’s arts community and its future.

Come out to support the artists who make this work possible.

Free with RSVP (🔗 in bio). Cash bar. Open to the public.

Participating Artists:
Andrew Alba @andrew.alba
Trent Alvey @thursby
Henry Becker @henryjbecker
Kellie Bornhoft @kelliebornhoft
Collin Bradford @bradford_collin
Ian Burnley @
Maddison Colvin @maddisoncolvin
Nic Courdy @ncour
Paul Crow
Daniel Everett @dbeverett
Peter Everett @peterheverett
Nolan Flynn @flynnone
Jim Frazer @frazer.jim
Daniel George @danielgeorgephoto
Josh Graham
Emily Hawkins @ewhawkins
Robyn Hodess @robyn.hodess.studio
Russell Huiskamp @amusium
Janell James @janelljamesartist
Brooklynn Johnson @bwooklynn
Kathryn Knudsen @kathrynwknudsen
Lenka Konopasek @konopasek.lenka
Beth Krensky @bethkrensky
Jordan Layton @jordanlayton
Christopher Lynn @thechristopherlynn
Colour Maisch @colourmaisch
Nick Pedersen @nick_pedersen
James Perkins @jamesperkinsstudio
Alexis Rausch @alexisrausch
Andrew Rice @purplehat
Holly Rios @opossumboots
Jorge Rojas @keoqui
Madeline Rupard @madelinerupard
Mitsu Salmon @mitsusalmon
Laura Sharp-Wilson @laurasharpwilson
Sallie Shatz @sallieshatzphoto
Nakita Shelley @sweetnakeet
Casey Jex Smith @caseyjexsmith
Portia Snow @portiasnowstudio
John Sproul @johnsproulstudio
Jared Steffensen @jkorts
Kaybria Swenson @kaybria._true
James Talbot @jamestalbot
Gary Vlasic @v.projectdesign

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, May 13, 6–9 PM for the opening of the 2026 Gala Art Auction Exhibition at UMOCA.

This exhibition brings together work donated by local artists whose support helps sustain UMOCA’s exhibitions, education, and Artist-in-Residence programs. It’s a collective effort rooted in care for Utah’s arts community and its future.

Come out to support the artists who make this work possible.

Free with RSVP (🔗 in bio). Cash bar. Open to the public.

Participating Artists:
Andrew Alba @andrew.alba
Trent Alvey @thursby
Henry Becker @henryjbecker
Kellie Bornhoft @kelliebornhoft
Collin Bradford @bradford_collin
Ian Burnley @
Maddison Colvin @maddisoncolvin
Nic Courdy @ncour
Paul Crow
Daniel Everett @dbeverett
Peter Everett @peterheverett
Nolan Flynn @flynnone
Jim Frazer @frazer.jim
Daniel George @danielgeorgephoto
Josh Graham
Emily Hawkins @ewhawkins
Robyn Hodess @robyn.hodess.studio
Russell Huiskamp @amusium
Janell James @janelljamesartist
Brooklynn Johnson @bwooklynn
Kathryn Knudsen @kathrynwknudsen
Lenka Konopasek @konopasek.lenka
Beth Krensky @bethkrensky
Jordan Layton @jordanlayton
Christopher Lynn @thechristopherlynn
Colour Maisch @colourmaisch
Nick Pedersen @nick_pedersen
James Perkins @jamesperkinsstudio
Alexis Rausch @alexisrausch
Andrew Rice @purplehat
Holly Rios @opossumboots
Jorge Rojas @keoqui
Madeline Rupard @madelinerupard
Mitsu Salmon @mitsusalmon
Laura Sharp-Wilson @laurasharpwilson
Sallie Shatz @sallieshatzphoto
Nakita Shelley @sweetnakeet
Casey Jex Smith @caseyjexsmith
Portia Snow @portiasnowstudio
John Sproul @johnsproulstudio
Jared Steffensen @jkorts
Kaybria Swenson @kaybria._true
James Talbot @jamestalbot
Gary Vlasic @v.projectdesign

YOU’RE INVITED!

Join us Friday, January 16, 6–9 PM for the opening reception of five new shows at UMOCA, including:

✨ Altered States in the Acid West – Twenty-three contemporary artists challenge the myths, symbols, and cinematic language of the American West, drawing from the 1970s countercultural “acid western” films. Experience the West as disorienting, visionary, and charged with meaning beyond the familiar.

🎬 Ragnar Kjartansson: Love and Squalor – Featuring the institutional premiere of Sunday Without Love, his mesmerizing new video work exploring longing, love, and quiet endurance.

🎨 Sara Serratos: Paisana featuring photographs, sculpture, and installation work examining recognition, mistranslation, and the politics of belonging through the lens of migration.

Also opening: Artist-in-Residence Jude Agboada: Hu m’ani so ma me and Gonzalo Silva & Susana Silva: Instrumentos de silencio.

🎶 Special musical performance by Chaz Prymek | DJ set | Cash bar

📍 Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
RSVP now → [link in bio]

Image 1: July Guzmanm @julyguzmn, Flying Over Muir Woods (detail), 2024, oil on canvas
Image 2: Martín Nuñez, Theshold of Secrecy (detail), 2025, Oil on canvas @@thelandinggallery
Image 3: Russel Albert Daniels @russelalbertdaniels, Mother Wound: Evaporation, Asarco copper mines, San Xavier District border, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona (detail), 2022, Aluminum print
Image 4: Jim Mangan (detail) @jimmangan
Image 5: Ragnar Kjartansson: Sunday Without Love, Installation view, November 1 – December 20, 2025, Luhring Augustine Tribeca, New York
Image 6: Sara Serratos @ser_a_ratossara, Fachadas de restaurantes mexicanos en Salt Lake (Salt Lake Mexican Restaurant Façades), 2025-26
Image 7: Jude Agboada @madeinedujway
Image 8: Gonzalo Silva @pichi_silva, Wandering Thread (detail), 2025. CD drive, etched plexiglass
Image 9: @chaz.prymek

YOU’RE INVITED!

Join us Friday, January 16, 6–9 PM for the opening reception of five new shows at UMOCA, including:

✨ Altered States in the Acid West – Twenty-three contemporary artists challenge the myths, symbols, and cinematic language of the American West, drawing from the 1970s countercultural “acid western” films. Experience the West as disorienting, visionary, and charged with meaning beyond the familiar.

🎬 Ragnar Kjartansson: Love and Squalor – Featuring the institutional premiere of Sunday Without Love, his mesmerizing new video work exploring longing, love, and quiet endurance.

🎨 Sara Serratos: Paisana featuring photographs, sculpture, and installation work examining recognition, mistranslation, and the politics of belonging through the lens of migration.

Also opening: Artist-in-Residence Jude Agboada: Hu m’ani so ma me and Gonzalo Silva & Susana Silva: Instrumentos de silencio.

🎶 Special musical performance by Chaz Prymek | DJ set | Cash bar

📍 Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
RSVP now → [link in bio]

Image 1: July Guzmanm @julyguzmn, Flying Over Muir Woods (detail), 2024, oil on canvas
Image 2: Martín Nuñez, Theshold of Secrecy (detail), 2025, Oil on canvas @@thelandinggallery
Image 3: Russel Albert Daniels @russelalbertdaniels, Mother Wound: Evaporation, Asarco copper mines, San Xavier District border, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona (detail), 2022, Aluminum print
Image 4: Jim Mangan (detail) @jimmangan
Image 5: Ragnar Kjartansson: Sunday Without Love, Installation view, November 1 – December 20, 2025, Luhring Augustine Tribeca, New York
Image 6: Sara Serratos @ser_a_ratossara, Fachadas de restaurantes mexicanos en Salt Lake (Salt Lake Mexican Restaurant Façades), 2025-26
Image 7: Jude Agboada @madeinedujway
Image 8: Gonzalo Silva @pichi_silva, Wandering Thread (detail), 2025. CD drive, etched plexiglass
Image 9: @chaz.prymek

YOU’RE INVITED!

Join us Friday, January 16, 6–9 PM for the opening reception of five new shows at UMOCA, including:

✨ Altered States in the Acid West – Twenty-three contemporary artists challenge the myths, symbols, and cinematic language of the American West, drawing from the 1970s countercultural “acid western” films. Experience the West as disorienting, visionary, and charged with meaning beyond the familiar.

🎬 Ragnar Kjartansson: Love and Squalor – Featuring the institutional premiere of Sunday Without Love, his mesmerizing new video work exploring longing, love, and quiet endurance.

🎨 Sara Serratos: Paisana featuring photographs, sculpture, and installation work examining recognition, mistranslation, and the politics of belonging through the lens of migration.

Also opening: Artist-in-Residence Jude Agboada: Hu m’ani so ma me and Gonzalo Silva & Susana Silva: Instrumentos de silencio.

🎶 Special musical performance by Chaz Prymek | DJ set | Cash bar

📍 Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
RSVP now → [link in bio]

Image 1: July Guzmanm @julyguzmn, Flying Over Muir Woods (detail), 2024, oil on canvas
Image 2: Martín Nuñez, Theshold of Secrecy (detail), 2025, Oil on canvas @@thelandinggallery
Image 3: Russel Albert Daniels @russelalbertdaniels, Mother Wound: Evaporation, Asarco copper mines, San Xavier District border, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona (detail), 2022, Aluminum print
Image 4: Jim Mangan (detail) @jimmangan
Image 5: Ragnar Kjartansson: Sunday Without Love, Installation view, November 1 – December 20, 2025, Luhring Augustine Tribeca, New York
Image 6: Sara Serratos @ser_a_ratossara, Fachadas de restaurantes mexicanos en Salt Lake (Salt Lake Mexican Restaurant Façades), 2025-26
Image 7: Jude Agboada @madeinedujway
Image 8: Gonzalo Silva @pichi_silva, Wandering Thread (detail), 2025. CD drive, etched plexiglass
Image 9: @chaz.prymek

YOU’RE INVITED!

Join us Friday, January 16, 6–9 PM for the opening reception of five new shows at UMOCA, including:

✨ Altered States in the Acid West – Twenty-three contemporary artists challenge the myths, symbols, and cinematic language of the American West, drawing from the 1970s countercultural “acid western” films. Experience the West as disorienting, visionary, and charged with meaning beyond the familiar.

🎬 Ragnar Kjartansson: Love and Squalor – Featuring the institutional premiere of Sunday Without Love, his mesmerizing new video work exploring longing, love, and quiet endurance.

🎨 Sara Serratos: Paisana featuring photographs, sculpture, and installation work examining recognition, mistranslation, and the politics of belonging through the lens of migration.

Also opening: Artist-in-Residence Jude Agboada: Hu m’ani so ma me and Gonzalo Silva & Susana Silva: Instrumentos de silencio.

🎶 Special musical performance by Chaz Prymek | DJ set | Cash bar

📍 Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
RSVP now → [link in bio]

Image 1: July Guzmanm @julyguzmn, Flying Over Muir Woods (detail), 2024, oil on canvas
Image 2: Martín Nuñez, Theshold of Secrecy (detail), 2025, Oil on canvas @@thelandinggallery
Image 3: Russel Albert Daniels @russelalbertdaniels, Mother Wound: Evaporation, Asarco copper mines, San Xavier District border, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona (detail), 2022, Aluminum print
Image 4: Jim Mangan (detail) @jimmangan
Image 5: Ragnar Kjartansson: Sunday Without Love, Installation view, November 1 – December 20, 2025, Luhring Augustine Tribeca, New York
Image 6: Sara Serratos @ser_a_ratossara, Fachadas de restaurantes mexicanos en Salt Lake (Salt Lake Mexican Restaurant Façades), 2025-26
Image 7: Jude Agboada @madeinedujway
Image 8: Gonzalo Silva @pichi_silva, Wandering Thread (detail), 2025. CD drive, etched plexiglass
Image 9: @chaz.prymek

YOU’RE INVITED!

Join us Friday, January 16, 6–9 PM for the opening reception of five new shows at UMOCA, including:

✨ Altered States in the Acid West – Twenty-three contemporary artists challenge the myths, symbols, and cinematic language of the American West, drawing from the 1970s countercultural “acid western” films. Experience the West as disorienting, visionary, and charged with meaning beyond the familiar.

🎬 Ragnar Kjartansson: Love and Squalor – Featuring the institutional premiere of Sunday Without Love, his mesmerizing new video work exploring longing, love, and quiet endurance.

🎨 Sara Serratos: Paisana featuring photographs, sculpture, and installation work examining recognition, mistranslation, and the politics of belonging through the lens of migration.

Also opening: Artist-in-Residence Jude Agboada: Hu m’ani so ma me and Gonzalo Silva & Susana Silva: Instrumentos de silencio.

🎶 Special musical performance by Chaz Prymek | DJ set | Cash bar

📍 Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
RSVP now → [link in bio]

Image 1: July Guzmanm @julyguzmn, Flying Over Muir Woods (detail), 2024, oil on canvas
Image 2: Martín Nuñez, Theshold of Secrecy (detail), 2025, Oil on canvas @@thelandinggallery
Image 3: Russel Albert Daniels @russelalbertdaniels, Mother Wound: Evaporation, Asarco copper mines, San Xavier District border, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona (detail), 2022, Aluminum print
Image 4: Jim Mangan (detail) @jimmangan
Image 5: Ragnar Kjartansson: Sunday Without Love, Installation view, November 1 – December 20, 2025, Luhring Augustine Tribeca, New York
Image 6: Sara Serratos @ser_a_ratossara, Fachadas de restaurantes mexicanos en Salt Lake (Salt Lake Mexican Restaurant Façades), 2025-26
Image 7: Jude Agboada @madeinedujway
Image 8: Gonzalo Silva @pichi_silva, Wandering Thread (detail), 2025. CD drive, etched plexiglass
Image 9: @chaz.prymek

YOU’RE INVITED!

Join us Friday, January 16, 6–9 PM for the opening reception of five new shows at UMOCA, including:

✨ Altered States in the Acid West – Twenty-three contemporary artists challenge the myths, symbols, and cinematic language of the American West, drawing from the 1970s countercultural “acid western” films. Experience the West as disorienting, visionary, and charged with meaning beyond the familiar.

🎬 Ragnar Kjartansson: Love and Squalor – Featuring the institutional premiere of Sunday Without Love, his mesmerizing new video work exploring longing, love, and quiet endurance.

🎨 Sara Serratos: Paisana featuring photographs, sculpture, and installation work examining recognition, mistranslation, and the politics of belonging through the lens of migration.

Also opening: Artist-in-Residence Jude Agboada: Hu m’ani so ma me and Gonzalo Silva & Susana Silva: Instrumentos de silencio.

🎶 Special musical performance by Chaz Prymek | DJ set | Cash bar

📍 Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
RSVP now → [link in bio]

Image 1: July Guzmanm @julyguzmn, Flying Over Muir Woods (detail), 2024, oil on canvas
Image 2: Martín Nuñez, Theshold of Secrecy (detail), 2025, Oil on canvas @@thelandinggallery
Image 3: Russel Albert Daniels @russelalbertdaniels, Mother Wound: Evaporation, Asarco copper mines, San Xavier District border, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona (detail), 2022, Aluminum print
Image 4: Jim Mangan (detail) @jimmangan
Image 5: Ragnar Kjartansson: Sunday Without Love, Installation view, November 1 – December 20, 2025, Luhring Augustine Tribeca, New York
Image 6: Sara Serratos @ser_a_ratossara, Fachadas de restaurantes mexicanos en Salt Lake (Salt Lake Mexican Restaurant Façades), 2025-26
Image 7: Jude Agboada @madeinedujway
Image 8: Gonzalo Silva @pichi_silva, Wandering Thread (detail), 2025. CD drive, etched plexiglass
Image 9: @chaz.prymek

YOU’RE INVITED!

Join us Friday, January 16, 6–9 PM for the opening reception of five new shows at UMOCA, including:

✨ Altered States in the Acid West – Twenty-three contemporary artists challenge the myths, symbols, and cinematic language of the American West, drawing from the 1970s countercultural “acid western” films. Experience the West as disorienting, visionary, and charged with meaning beyond the familiar.

🎬 Ragnar Kjartansson: Love and Squalor – Featuring the institutional premiere of Sunday Without Love, his mesmerizing new video work exploring longing, love, and quiet endurance.

🎨 Sara Serratos: Paisana featuring photographs, sculpture, and installation work examining recognition, mistranslation, and the politics of belonging through the lens of migration.

Also opening: Artist-in-Residence Jude Agboada: Hu m’ani so ma me and Gonzalo Silva & Susana Silva: Instrumentos de silencio.

🎶 Special musical performance by Chaz Prymek | DJ set | Cash bar

📍 Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
RSVP now → [link in bio]

Image 1: July Guzmanm @julyguzmn, Flying Over Muir Woods (detail), 2024, oil on canvas
Image 2: Martín Nuñez, Theshold of Secrecy (detail), 2025, Oil on canvas @@thelandinggallery
Image 3: Russel Albert Daniels @russelalbertdaniels, Mother Wound: Evaporation, Asarco copper mines, San Xavier District border, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona (detail), 2022, Aluminum print
Image 4: Jim Mangan (detail) @jimmangan
Image 5: Ragnar Kjartansson: Sunday Without Love, Installation view, November 1 – December 20, 2025, Luhring Augustine Tribeca, New York
Image 6: Sara Serratos @ser_a_ratossara, Fachadas de restaurantes mexicanos en Salt Lake (Salt Lake Mexican Restaurant Façades), 2025-26
Image 7: Jude Agboada @madeinedujway
Image 8: Gonzalo Silva @pichi_silva, Wandering Thread (detail), 2025. CD drive, etched plexiglass
Image 9: @chaz.prymek

YOU’RE INVITED!

Join us Friday, January 16, 6–9 PM for the opening reception of five new shows at UMOCA, including:

✨ Altered States in the Acid West – Twenty-three contemporary artists challenge the myths, symbols, and cinematic language of the American West, drawing from the 1970s countercultural “acid western” films. Experience the West as disorienting, visionary, and charged with meaning beyond the familiar.

🎬 Ragnar Kjartansson: Love and Squalor – Featuring the institutional premiere of Sunday Without Love, his mesmerizing new video work exploring longing, love, and quiet endurance.

🎨 Sara Serratos: Paisana featuring photographs, sculpture, and installation work examining recognition, mistranslation, and the politics of belonging through the lens of migration.

Also opening: Artist-in-Residence Jude Agboada: Hu m’ani so ma me and Gonzalo Silva & Susana Silva: Instrumentos de silencio.

🎶 Special musical performance by Chaz Prymek | DJ set | Cash bar

📍 Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
RSVP now → [link in bio]

Image 1: July Guzmanm @julyguzmn, Flying Over Muir Woods (detail), 2024, oil on canvas
Image 2: Martín Nuñez, Theshold of Secrecy (detail), 2025, Oil on canvas @@thelandinggallery
Image 3: Russel Albert Daniels @russelalbertdaniels, Mother Wound: Evaporation, Asarco copper mines, San Xavier District border, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona (detail), 2022, Aluminum print
Image 4: Jim Mangan (detail) @jimmangan
Image 5: Ragnar Kjartansson: Sunday Without Love, Installation view, November 1 – December 20, 2025, Luhring Augustine Tribeca, New York
Image 6: Sara Serratos @ser_a_ratossara, Fachadas de restaurantes mexicanos en Salt Lake (Salt Lake Mexican Restaurant Façades), 2025-26
Image 7: Jude Agboada @madeinedujway
Image 8: Gonzalo Silva @pichi_silva, Wandering Thread (detail), 2025. CD drive, etched plexiglass
Image 9: @chaz.prymek

YOU’RE INVITED!

Join us Friday, January 16, 6–9 PM for the opening reception of five new shows at UMOCA, including:

✨ Altered States in the Acid West – Twenty-three contemporary artists challenge the myths, symbols, and cinematic language of the American West, drawing from the 1970s countercultural “acid western” films. Experience the West as disorienting, visionary, and charged with meaning beyond the familiar.

🎬 Ragnar Kjartansson: Love and Squalor – Featuring the institutional premiere of Sunday Without Love, his mesmerizing new video work exploring longing, love, and quiet endurance.

🎨 Sara Serratos: Paisana featuring photographs, sculpture, and installation work examining recognition, mistranslation, and the politics of belonging through the lens of migration.

Also opening: Artist-in-Residence Jude Agboada: Hu m’ani so ma me and Gonzalo Silva & Susana Silva: Instrumentos de silencio.

🎶 Special musical performance by Chaz Prymek | DJ set | Cash bar

📍 Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
RSVP now → [link in bio]

Image 1: July Guzmanm @julyguzmn, Flying Over Muir Woods (detail), 2024, oil on canvas
Image 2: Martín Nuñez, Theshold of Secrecy (detail), 2025, Oil on canvas @@thelandinggallery
Image 3: Russel Albert Daniels @russelalbertdaniels, Mother Wound: Evaporation, Asarco copper mines, San Xavier District border, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona (detail), 2022, Aluminum print
Image 4: Jim Mangan (detail) @jimmangan
Image 5: Ragnar Kjartansson: Sunday Without Love, Installation view, November 1 – December 20, 2025, Luhring Augustine Tribeca, New York
Image 6: Sara Serratos @ser_a_ratossara, Fachadas de restaurantes mexicanos en Salt Lake (Salt Lake Mexican Restaurant Façades), 2025-26
Image 7: Jude Agboada @madeinedujway
Image 8: Gonzalo Silva @pichi_silva, Wandering Thread (detail), 2025. CD drive, etched plexiglass
Image 9: @chaz.prymek

🤠 Reminder: DIY Bolo Ties tomorrow, Friday, from 6-9 pm!

Join us for a drop-in workshop inspired by Altered States in the Acid West, where participants will create their own bolo ties using fabric, beads, yarn, trinkets, googly eyes, and other unexpected materials.

Bring a small personal object to incorporate into your piece, or just show up and make something strange, glamorous, sentimental, or all of the above.

Friday, May 22, 6–9 PM
All materials provided.
RSVP at link in bio for supply count.

UMOCA’s Annual Gala Art Auction Exhibition is now open!

Featuring work donated by over 40 local artists, the exhibition offers a chance to experience an incredible range of contemporary Utah art while directly supporting UMOCA’s exhibitions, education, and Artist-in-Residence programs.

Whether you’re a longtime collector or just getting familiar with artists working in Utah, anyone can bid on the work and participate in the auction. Bid now at 🔗 in bio.

The exhibition is free and open to the public through the gala—come spend time with the work.

Big thanks to all of the amazing artists who donated their work this year:
Participating Artists:
Andrew Alba @andrew.alba
Trent Alvey @thursby
Henry Becker @henryjbecker
Kellie Bornhoft @kelliebornhoft
Collin Bradford @bradford_collin
Ian Burnley @
Maddison Colvin @maddisoncolvin
Nic Courdy @ncour
Paul Crow
Daniel Everett @dbeverett
Peter Everett @peterheverett
Nolan Flynn @flynnone
Jim Frazer @frazer.jim
Daniel George @danielgeorgephoto
Josh Graham
Emily Hawkins @ewhawkins
Robyn Hodess @robyn.hodess.studio
Russell Huiskamp @amusium
Janell James @janelljamesartist
Brooklynn Johnson @bwooklynn
Kathryn Knudsen @kathrynwknudsen
Lenka Konopasek @konopasek.lenka
Beth Krensky @bethkrensky
Jordan Layton @jordanlayton
Christopher Lynn @thechristopherlynn
Colour Maisch @colourmaisch
Nick Pedersen @nick_pedersen
James Perkins @jamesperkinsstudio
Alexis Rausch @alexisrausch
Andrew Rice @purplehat
Holly Rios @opossumboots
Jorge Rojas @keoqui
Madeline Rupard @madelinerupard
Mitsu Salmon @mitsusalmon
Laura Sharp-Wilson @laurasharpwilson
Sallie Shatz @sallieshatzphoto
Nakita Shelley @sweetnakeet
Casey Jex Smith @caseyjexsmith
Portia Snow @portiasnowstudio
John Sproul @johnsproulstudio
Jared Steffensen @jkorts
Kaybria Swenson @kaybria._true
James Talbot @jamestalbot
Gary Vlasic @v.projectdesign

Thank you to everyone who joined us for The Sacred West—both at the symposium and out on the trail. From presentations and performances to workshops, conversation, and shared time in the landscape, the gathering opened space for thoughtful exchange around land, perception, ecology, ritual, and place.

We’re especially grateful to Dr. Benjamin Lewis, Stephen Rodgers @stephenrodgersmusic, Blanca Stacey Villalobos @b.s.villalobos, and Kat Nix @ritualinbloom for sharing their work and practices with such generosity, and to everyone who joined us for Canyon Songs and carried these conversations into the foothills.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for The Sacred West—both at the symposium and out on the trail. From presentations and performances to workshops, conversation, and shared time in the landscape, the gathering opened space for thoughtful exchange around land, perception, ecology, ritual, and place.

We’re especially grateful to Dr. Benjamin Lewis, Stephen Rodgers @stephenrodgersmusic, Blanca Stacey Villalobos @b.s.villalobos, and Kat Nix @ritualinbloom for sharing their work and practices with such generosity, and to everyone who joined us for Canyon Songs and carried these conversations into the foothills.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for The Sacred West—both at the symposium and out on the trail. From presentations and performances to workshops, conversation, and shared time in the landscape, the gathering opened space for thoughtful exchange around land, perception, ecology, ritual, and place.

We’re especially grateful to Dr. Benjamin Lewis, Stephen Rodgers @stephenrodgersmusic, Blanca Stacey Villalobos @b.s.villalobos, and Kat Nix @ritualinbloom for sharing their work and practices with such generosity, and to everyone who joined us for Canyon Songs and carried these conversations into the foothills.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for The Sacred West—both at the symposium and out on the trail. From presentations and performances to workshops, conversation, and shared time in the landscape, the gathering opened space for thoughtful exchange around land, perception, ecology, ritual, and place.

We’re especially grateful to Dr. Benjamin Lewis, Stephen Rodgers @stephenrodgersmusic, Blanca Stacey Villalobos @b.s.villalobos, and Kat Nix @ritualinbloom for sharing their work and practices with such generosity, and to everyone who joined us for Canyon Songs and carried these conversations into the foothills.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for The Sacred West—both at the symposium and out on the trail. From presentations and performances to workshops, conversation, and shared time in the landscape, the gathering opened space for thoughtful exchange around land, perception, ecology, ritual, and place.

We’re especially grateful to Dr. Benjamin Lewis, Stephen Rodgers @stephenrodgersmusic, Blanca Stacey Villalobos @b.s.villalobos, and Kat Nix @ritualinbloom for sharing their work and practices with such generosity, and to everyone who joined us for Canyon Songs and carried these conversations into the foothills.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for The Sacred West—both at the symposium and out on the trail. From presentations and performances to workshops, conversation, and shared time in the landscape, the gathering opened space for thoughtful exchange around land, perception, ecology, ritual, and place.

We’re especially grateful to Dr. Benjamin Lewis, Stephen Rodgers @stephenrodgersmusic, Blanca Stacey Villalobos @b.s.villalobos, and Kat Nix @ritualinbloom for sharing their work and practices with such generosity, and to everyone who joined us for Canyon Songs and carried these conversations into the foothills.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for The Sacred West—both at the symposium and out on the trail. From presentations and performances to workshops, conversation, and shared time in the landscape, the gathering opened space for thoughtful exchange around land, perception, ecology, ritual, and place.

We’re especially grateful to Dr. Benjamin Lewis, Stephen Rodgers @stephenrodgersmusic, Blanca Stacey Villalobos @b.s.villalobos, and Kat Nix @ritualinbloom for sharing their work and practices with such generosity, and to everyone who joined us for Canyon Songs and carried these conversations into the foothills.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for The Sacred West—both at the symposium and out on the trail. From presentations and performances to workshops, conversation, and shared time in the landscape, the gathering opened space for thoughtful exchange around land, perception, ecology, ritual, and place.

We’re especially grateful to Dr. Benjamin Lewis, Stephen Rodgers @stephenrodgersmusic, Blanca Stacey Villalobos @b.s.villalobos, and Kat Nix @ritualinbloom for sharing their work and practices with such generosity, and to everyone who joined us for Canyon Songs and carried these conversations into the foothills.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for The Sacred West—both at the symposium and out on the trail. From presentations and performances to workshops, conversation, and shared time in the landscape, the gathering opened space for thoughtful exchange around land, perception, ecology, ritual, and place.

We’re especially grateful to Dr. Benjamin Lewis, Stephen Rodgers @stephenrodgersmusic, Blanca Stacey Villalobos @b.s.villalobos, and Kat Nix @ritualinbloom for sharing their work and practices with such generosity, and to everyone who joined us for Canyon Songs and carried these conversations into the foothills.

A little analog record of the 2026 Gala art trip to New Orleans.

We partnered with @essentialphotosupply to document this year’s trip on disposable cameras—picking up the cameras from their shop and later processing the film at Essential’s lab.

This year’s Annual Gala, Acid West, takes place June 13. Don’t miss your chance to bid on future art trips led by UMOCA Executive Director Laura Allred Hurtado and Curator of Exhibitions Jared Steffensen.

Join us tomorrow for Living in Time with Light, a panel discussion moderated by artists Ariel C. Wilson and Matt Kowal.

The panel brings together perspectives from art, ecology, atmospheric science, and aviation, featuring:

Edward Bateman @edward_bateman_art— artist and professor at the University of Utah
Georgie Corkery — ecologist and Coordinator of Great Salt Lake Institute
Dr. Daniel Mendoza — atmospheric scientist and Dark Sky Studies Program Coordinator, University of Utah
First Officer Fiona Morrison — airline transport pilot and flight instructor

May 14, 2026
7–8:30 PM
Free and open to the public | RSVP at 🔗 in bio

Final days: Ragnar Kjartansson: Love and Squalor closes May 9.

Pairing two video works made ten years apart, the exhibition moves between pastoral beauty and disruption—fire, repetition, and song unfolding in hypnotic loops.

Experience Kjartansson’s immersive installation before it closes.

Final days: Ragnar Kjartansson: Love and Squalor closes May 9.

Pairing two video works made ten years apart, the exhibition moves between pastoral beauty and disruption—fire, repetition, and song unfolding in hypnotic loops.

Experience Kjartansson’s immersive installation before it closes.

Join artists Ariel C. Wilson and Matt Kowal as they moderate Living in Time with Light, a public panel in conversation with their exhibition from where the sun is, to wherever you are.

The panel brings together perspectives from art, ecology, atmospheric science, and aviation, featuring:

Edward Bateman @edward_bateman_art— artist and professor at the University of Utah
Georgie Corkery — ecologist and Coordinator of Great Salt Lake Institute
Dr. Daniel Mendoza — atmospheric scientist and Dark Sky Studies Program Coordinator, University of Utah
First Officer Fiona Morrison — airline transport pilot and flight instructor

May 14, 2026
7–8:30 PM
Free and open to the public | RSVP at 🔗 in bio

Join artists Ariel C. Wilson and Matt Kowal as they moderate Living in Time with Light, a public panel in conversation with their exhibition from where the sun is, to wherever you are.

The panel brings together perspectives from art, ecology, atmospheric science, and aviation, featuring:

Edward Bateman @edward_bateman_art— artist and professor at the University of Utah
Georgie Corkery — ecologist and Coordinator of Great Salt Lake Institute
Dr. Daniel Mendoza — atmospheric scientist and Dark Sky Studies Program Coordinator, University of Utah
First Officer Fiona Morrison — airline transport pilot and flight instructor

May 14, 2026
7–8:30 PM
Free and open to the public | RSVP at 🔗 in bio

Join artists Ariel C. Wilson and Matt Kowal as they moderate Living in Time with Light, a public panel in conversation with their exhibition from where the sun is, to wherever you are.

The panel brings together perspectives from art, ecology, atmospheric science, and aviation, featuring:

Edward Bateman @edward_bateman_art— artist and professor at the University of Utah
Georgie Corkery — ecologist and Coordinator of Great Salt Lake Institute
Dr. Daniel Mendoza — atmospheric scientist and Dark Sky Studies Program Coordinator, University of Utah
First Officer Fiona Morrison — airline transport pilot and flight instructor

May 14, 2026
7–8:30 PM
Free and open to the public | RSVP at 🔗 in bio

Join artists Ariel C. Wilson and Matt Kowal as they moderate Living in Time with Light, a public panel in conversation with their exhibition from where the sun is, to wherever you are.

The panel brings together perspectives from art, ecology, atmospheric science, and aviation, featuring:

Edward Bateman @edward_bateman_art— artist and professor at the University of Utah
Georgie Corkery — ecologist and Coordinator of Great Salt Lake Institute
Dr. Daniel Mendoza — atmospheric scientist and Dark Sky Studies Program Coordinator, University of Utah
First Officer Fiona Morrison — airline transport pilot and flight instructor

May 14, 2026
7–8:30 PM
Free and open to the public | RSVP at 🔗 in bio

Join artists Ariel C. Wilson and Matt Kowal as they moderate Living in Time with Light, a public panel in conversation with their exhibition from where the sun is, to wherever you are.

The panel brings together perspectives from art, ecology, atmospheric science, and aviation, featuring:

Edward Bateman @edward_bateman_art— artist and professor at the University of Utah
Georgie Corkery — ecologist and Coordinator of Great Salt Lake Institute
Dr. Daniel Mendoza — atmospheric scientist and Dark Sky Studies Program Coordinator, University of Utah
First Officer Fiona Morrison — airline transport pilot and flight instructor

May 14, 2026
7–8:30 PM
Free and open to the public | RSVP at 🔗 in bio

Join artists Ariel C. Wilson and Matt Kowal as they moderate Living in Time with Light, a public panel in conversation with their exhibition from where the sun is, to wherever you are.

The panel brings together perspectives from art, ecology, atmospheric science, and aviation, featuring:

Edward Bateman @edward_bateman_art— artist and professor at the University of Utah
Georgie Corkery — ecologist and Coordinator of Great Salt Lake Institute
Dr. Daniel Mendoza — atmospheric scientist and Dark Sky Studies Program Coordinator, University of Utah
First Officer Fiona Morrison — airline transport pilot and flight instructor

May 14, 2026
7–8:30 PM
Free and open to the public | RSVP at 🔗 in bio

Final week: Ragnar Kjartansson: Love and Squalor closes May 9.

Featuring Scenes from Western Culture: Burning House (2015) and the U.S. institutional debut of Sunday without Love (2025), the exhibition brings together two immersive video works shaped by performance, painting, music, and repetition.

Catch it before it closes.

Ragnar Kjartansson, Sunday Without Love (clip), 2025, Single-channel video, Duration: 19 minutes 14 seconds, Music by Davíð Þór Jónsson and Ragnar Kjartansson, based on lyrics and music by Rocko Schamoni, Video commissioned by Sigurður Gísli Pálmason, and original performance commissioned by TRANSART25., © Ragnar Kjartansson; Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik

Because we all could use a cheap activity these days 👀

📍Utah Museum of contemporary Art | 20 S W Temple Salt Lake City Utah

Located right in the heart of downtown, the Utah MOCA features rotating exhibits of both local and worldwide artists. Admission is a pay what you can model (suggested $10pp) and offers free classes for adults and kids throughout the month!

Their newest installation Art in the Acid West will be here until August 9th!

Parking is free for 2 hours at the city creek underground garage to sweeten the deal! Support the arts and enjoy!!