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2008 Park City Kimball Arts Festival a Hit
August 6th, 2008
What a fantastic weekend for our Park City art community! Many thanks to our local artist Brooks Yates for coming by the gallery to paint here and delight our guests. This weekend was incredibly hot (both the temperature and the art!) and packed to gills every day with festival-goers. Friday night was the best night […]
Ginger Bowen’s Still Lifes with Personality
August 6th, 2008
Gallery MAR artist Ginger Bowen is offering an oil painting class this December 2008 at the prestigious Scottsdale Artists’ School. See the flier below for more information. Or, email info@gallerymar.com for more information.
“How to Fest” Your Guide to the Park City Arts Festival
July 28th, 2008
It’s hard to believe that this is the Kimball Art Center’s 39th year hosting the Park City Arts Festival. Congratulations! This is the largest art festival in Utah, with growth every year. As always, Main Street will close down on Friday afternoon to allow the artists and craftsmen to set up their booths. On this […]
Bridge Paintings- The Art of Construction
July 23rd, 2008
Scott Lloyd Anderson’s Paintings of the New I-35W Bridge Construction Project In June, Minnesota Public Radio, the Minneapolis StarTribune, WCCO News, Soutwest Journal, and other media highlighted Scott’s series of paintings of the construction of the new I-35W bridge. It’s not every day that a bridge is built over the Mississippi River. Scott Anderson says, […]
Artwork at Deer Valley’s Feist Concert
July 19th, 2008
“Sunny Side of the Street” by Jan Perkins, Oil. On Thursday night Park City was graced with the musical talents of Feist, an “indie” singer and songwriter whose voice is delicate, soothing and yet powerful all at once. Her concert was one of the many outdoor music events that the Park City Performing Arts Foundation […]
New Artists to Gallery MAR
July 14th, 2008
Since our opening nearly 6 weeks ago, we have added to our exhibiting artists list. Five new artists from all of the country have joined us. Allow me to make the introduction… Debbie Fowler grew up in Idaho and began her painting career 15 years ago. She has painted professionally and exhibited in galleries since […]
Young Benefactors
July 10th, 2008
Jessica Peterson, of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, is calling for new members to the Young Benefactors group. I am a member, and want to encourage all young and arts-interested readers to attend one of the recruitment events coming soon. Jessica writes, “We want to take advantage of this year’s blockbuster exhibition, ‘Monet to […]
Grand Opening Weekend
July 9th, 2008
We are off to a fantastic start. With five weeks and counting, Gallery MAR celebrated our Grand Opening this Independence Day weekend. Local artist demonstrators Rob Colvin and Shirley McKay shared their artistic prowess with our guests, and McKay even allowed a young fan to add her own brush stroke to a painting! We watched […]
Brad Stroman- Artist of Honor
July 6th, 2008
Gallery MAR just received this email from Brad Stroman, our Pennsylvania artist and environmentalist: “Often after an exhibition or show at a gallery or other venue I make an effort to donate to a worthy local environmental cause. After receiving your wonderful email about the sale of three of my paintings in one day at […]
The Randy Barton Show
July 5th, 2008
Thank you for Randy Barton for hosting me on his afternoon radio show. This past Thursday he gave me 30 minutes in which to chat about the gallery. Randy’s show live, weekdays from 4 to 7 pm and features local guests, enticing commentary, and provocative subjects. And the occasional gallery girl plugging her artists.