Guide to Ogden’s First Friday Art Stroll Enjoy a beautiful August night of live music, art shows and more in these downtown hot spots. Ogden City’s Arts, Culture and Events presents DJ Space Bunny for this month’s Music Pop-Up from 6-8 p.m. in front of The Corner, the small white ...
Beets & Beats 2022 This Saturday, Farmers Market Ogden hosts its fifth annual Beets & Beats, an artist "paint-off" starting at 10 a.m. at the Ogden Municipal Gardens. Participating artists have two hours to paint their own visual representation of the market and unique ...
Ogden, with its unique history, incredible mountain and river landscapes, and a community that works to create the colorful town it is, celebrates this magical combination with the many murals that grace walls throughout the city. This summer, a few more murals have gone up at local ...
When artist Theresa Otteson began painting a new Western-themed series, she thought it would be difficult to find material. But she didn’t have to look far. “I found that traces of the ‘old West’ are all around us, in rodeos, ranches, ghost towns and people who love the feel of ...
Utah poet and published author Wynter Storm is bringing positive change to the Utah community through the power of words. In 2020, Storm co-founded the organization UBLAC, the Utah Black Artists Collective. According to its website, UBLAC has a mission to inspire the Black community “through ...
At Ogden Contemporary Arts (OCA), which just received the Utah Cultural Alliance's 2022 Utah Exceptional Cultural Contribution Award, "Survey: The West" is an exhibit composed of Ya La’ford’s signature geometric design and ethnography. La’ford is an internationally recognized painter, ...
Summer yArt Sale The biggest backyard art market is back! It’s at the residence of Audrey Christensen of Hey Be Fab, who started it in her South Ogden home in 2020 during the pandemic. Now backed by the city, this is expected to be the biggest one yet, with over 80 artisans and makers and ...
TRACES OF THE WEST COMPETITION EXHIBIT In celebration of Ogden Pioneer Days, Eccles Art Center presents the annual “Traces of the West” art competition, open to Western-themed works — Western landscapes, indigenous wildlife, Indigenous Americans, etc. — from Utah artists in a variety ...
Ogden City announced Angelika Brewer as the city’s new poet laureate last week. Her two-year tenure began on July 1 which included a live performance during "Van Sessions," a monthly live music podcast, during First Friday Art Stroll. Ogden City sought its first poet laureate in 2016 after ...
During this month’s First Friday Art Stroll, watercolor artist and gallery owner Cara Koolmees invites the community to visit her studio on 256 Historic 25th Street from 6-9 p.m. When you step inside Koolmees’s studio, you step inside the colorful world of Ogden. Her paintings of Ogden, ...
