Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: Karen Horne’s ‘Night and Day’ exhibition is colorful love letter to Salt Lake City’s street life

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: Karen Horne’s ‘Night and Day’ exhibition is colorful love letter to Salt Lake City’s street life

ByLes RokaJun 21, 2014

The great French impressionist Claude Monet experimented extensively not only with light and shadow in his work but also with combinations and contrasts in color. In the Haystack Series, he painted the same scene repeatedly at different times of the day, almost in a scientific trial-and-error approach to observe how light and shadows fell upon and transformed the haystack, thus representing the ways in which the haystack absorbed and reflected the light.…

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: Australia’s Strange Fruit raises artistic experience to new heights on festival plaza

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: Australia’s Strange Fruit raises artistic experience to new heights on festival plaza

ByLes RokaJun 21, 20145 min read

Twice each evening during the Utah Arts Festival with a soundtrack that includes musical excerpts from Mozart to…

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: John McCutcheon’s master storytelling, folk musicianship highlights IAMA events

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: John McCutcheon’s master storytelling, folk musicianship highlights IAMA events

ByLes RokaJun 19, 20147 min read

Music sometimes builds the most emotionally appropriate bridges, as we contemplate the fragile nature of our humanity. In…

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: IAMA brings songwriter academy, songwriting competition to festival

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: IAMA brings songwriter academy, songwriting competition to festival

ByLes RokaJun 19, 20145 min read

Songwriters of every skill level, from beginner to professional, will have plenty of activities along with networking opportunities…

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: IAMA’s acoustic music events make grand entrance in festival collaboration

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: IAMA’s acoustic music events make grand entrance in festival collaboration

ByLes RokaJun 19, 20145 min read

For this year’s Utah Arts Festival, The Intermountain Acoustic Music Association (IAMA) is bringing a large contingent of…