Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

Join local tarot reader and artist Inez Garcia for our February Workshop Walk-In during Friday's closing reception event for In Memory, Atis Rezistans | Ghetto Biennale, Milad Mozari, and Antra Sinha. What to Expect: 🃏 Learn how to perform a basic three-card reading 🔮 Explore the symbolism of the Rider-Waite tarot deck 🎨 Create your […]

Drop in this Saturday, March 8, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to create your own Great Salt Lake species banner with UMOCA Artist-in-Residence Kellie Bornhoft! Using unhemmed fabric to reflect the lake’s fragility, this hands-on workshop invites you to learn about and celebrate the many species that make our inland sea so vibrant.

Get creative at this hands-on collage workshop at UMOCA on March 21, 2025, starting at 6 p.m. Using vintage paper ephemera, stickers, and glue, you’ll design a unique miniature artwork to display inside a retro cassette tape case. Whether you’re layering nostalgic imagery or crafting something entirely abstract, this walk-in workshop is a chance to […]

Join us for the opening reception for four new exhibitions at UMOCA, including NCECA Annual: True and Real, NCECA Multicultural Fellowship Exhibition, NCECA Juried Student Exhibition, and new work by Amanda Smith in the Projects Gallery. Featuring works by invited artists Syd Carpenter, Simone Leigh, Roberto Lugo, Tip Toland, and Steven Young Lee, alongside 35 […]

Join us at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art this Thursday from 6–8 PM for a screening of Calls From Home (2023, dir. Sylvia Ryerson), organized by the Utah Prison Education Project and Study and Struggle. Calls From Home is an intimate documentary on rural prison expansion and WMMT-FM’s radio show, which connects incarcerated people […]

Join us for an artist talk with UMOCA artist-in-residence Holly Rios, whose exhibition "I’d like to Return this Body" examines the intersections of media, beauty standards and technology. Trained as a printmaker, Rios employs methods of erasure and image appropriation to investigate the Playboy empire as a cultural data set that began shaping and reinforcing […]

Join us at UMOCA on Saturday, April 12, from 11 AM to 2 PM for Family Art Saturday: Clay Fairy Tales. We’ll create our own fairy tale scenes using model magic and markers inspired by Amanda Smith’s work in Trust Issues, currently on view in the Projects gallery. Drop-in, no RSVP required.

Carlos Rosales-Silva, Semilla, Glass Bead and crushed stone in acrylic paint with dyed stones and acrylic plastic on custom shaped panel, 2022, Courtesy of the artist Join us at UMOCA for the opening of four new exhibitions, including Something from Everything, a group show exploring the creative possibilities of everyday materials; Mariposa, an exhibition of […]

Inspired by Oscar Tuazon’s Salt Lake Water School, this drop-in workshop invites you to create an accordion-style artist book. Led by Nakita Shelley, participants will use saltwater-based pigments to dye paper in wave-like patterns, add translucent covers, and work with imagery of The Great Salt Lake. Each book will be a personal exploration—shaped by your […]