Art Connection Calendar

Below you will find a list of community events with dates and locations or online experiences.

Art Connection Episode - Tradition

SUMA - Harry Bertoia: Master Modernist
This exhibition brings together objects that represent the diversity of Harry Bertoia's creative process. In addition to a multiplicity of sculptures and monotype prints that feature both abstract and organic designs, Bertoia’s so-called tonal or sonambient sculptures, which use sound as a sculptural material, transform the gallery into an ambient sonic environment.
SLCPLS - Marmalade Branch - Poetry Writing Group with SLCC Community Writing Center
Welcome to the new Poetry Writing Group! Together we'll learn about reading, writing, and publishing poetry. Beginners are welcome. Hosted by members of the SLCC Community Writing Center. This group aims to help you grow as a poet, no matter what level you're starting from. Feel free to bring a poem you've written so we can workshop it together, but no worries if you don't have material yet: we will spend part of each meeting doing poetry exercises to help everyone get comfortable.
County Library - Sandy - Crafty Science
Experiment and create in the space where science and art meet!

SLCPLS - Sprague Branch - Parade of Raptors
Kids and families can learn owl info and falcon facts in this presentation from HawkWatch International. Let your curiosity soar as you meet real-life raptors! After this 30-minute presentation, you will have an opportunity to take photos with the birds. This partnership made possible by the Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts, & Parks program (ZAP).
County Library - WVC - Adult Craft Night
Craft program for teens and adults. Supplies provided.!
SUMA - The Past is Present: Art in Times of Crisis
This exhibition features two bodies of work by two artists, Gonkar Gyatso (Lhasa, b. 1961) and Stewart Seidman (U.S., b. 1939), who have recorded and responded to the transformative, traumatic, and ongoing events of the last four years: the Covid-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter uprisings, the war in Ukraine, and the war in Gaza. These two distinct series present an archive of individual testimony, while offering viewers instruments of memory and invitations to consider the impact of the past on the present—what’s been lost and gained, how to look behind with deeper understanding and look ahead with greater hope.

County Library - Milcreek - Tiny Art Show Kits
Kits to participate in our Tiny Art Show will be June 10th. Two kits will be available per family per day, while supplies last. Be a part of our Tiny Art Show this summer. Pick up a 4"x4" canvas to create tiny art with the theme of “Adventure Begins at the Library.” Bring it back by June 22nd to be displayed through the summer. Artwork will be returned to the artists in August. Please only take a kit if you are interested in having your artwork displayed in the library throughout June & July.
SLCPLS - Creative Lab Workshops - Teens Create
Teens can get creative in the Creative Lab! This summer on the 2nd Friday of each month, the Creative Lab will have different maker activities for teens to try. No experience necessary. Activities range from making custom totebags to 3D printing. No experience necessary! Just a willingness to create and try new things. Registration preferred, but not required.
UMFA - Third Saturday for Families: Comic Books
Miné Okubo, one of the trailblazing artists featured in Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, documented her experiences during her incarceration at the Central Utah Relocation Center (also known as Topaz) through drawings. Later, these drawings became the graphic memoir Citizen 13660. Join us this third Saturday to see her work on display in the Pictures of Belonging exhibition, and then create a comic book about your own daily life.