When was the last time you had a night out with your partner that looked like this: a semi-private, interpretive gallery tour, followed by dinner inside said gallery, capped off by a hands-on, art project? Yeah, I never have either. And after more than two months of cancelled fun, an evening like that sounds like […]
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Warm weather is finally upon us and I can’t remember a summer I’ve looked forward to more. While many of my most beloved summer events—i.e. concerts and festivals—have been cancelled due to COVID-19 (sigh), thankfully, art continues to thrive in downtown Salt Lake City. Case in point: the Main Street Kiosk Project. In late April, […]
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The last two months has meant getting more intimate with our at-home surroundings than we ever thought possible, both for better and for worse. (Case in point: My living room’s, 1990s-era oak fireplace surround has become the bane of my existence.) Thankfully, this week there’s an affordable, socially distanced opportunity to infuse much-needed new life […]
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Within just two weeks of the pandemic’s arrival on our doorstep, Plan-B Theatre Company made a nimble pivot and took presentation of its spring 2020 play, THE AUDACITY online. This week, Plan-B illustrates, once again, how artistic expression can thrive in the “new normal” with RADIO SLAM, four world-premiere plays hosted by Jay Perry on […]
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About Urban Plein Air at The Market THE BLOCKS in partnership with the Rio Grande Winter Market (Downtown SLC Farmers Market) were excited to bring back our Urban Plein Air event! During the month of March, five artists painted scenes of the Farmers Market at the historic Rio Grande Train Depot. Market-lovers and art-lovers alike got […]
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While THE BLOCKS is a fantastic place to immerse yourself in art, it’s also ripe with possibilities for those who create. And a silver lining of the next few weeks of closures due to coronavirus concerns is the space it will create for artists to further their craft. The following are five great opportunities in […]
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Simply put, plein air painting is the act of painting outside. But rather than merely an opportunity for an artist to get out of the studio, the genre allows a multi-sensory immersion into a landscape that, hopefully, yields a much richer piece of work than when painting from a photograph or memory. And while painters […]
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Playwright Jenifer Nii proudly calls Plan-B her creative home. She has previously premiered THE WEIRD PLAY, KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (created with Dave Evanoff), THE SCARLET LETTER, SUFFRAGE, RUFF!, WALLACE (created with Debora Threedy) and (IN)DIVISIBLE (a collaboration with 11 other local playwrights) at Plan-B. Her latest, THE AUDACITY, premieres ONLINE March 28-31st. Plan B will […]
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Fair warning to parents. After just one Tumbleweeds Film Festival screening, you may lose your tolerance for sitting through another Disney film ever again. Written by Melissa Fields
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You don’t have to look very hard to find artistic expression in THE BLOCKS. From vibrant building murals and multiple modern dance companies to edgy galleries and concerts galore, whatever you’re artistic itch is, you can scratch it—and then some—in THE BLOCKS. A burgeoning facet of downtown Salt Lake’s creative scene that may not immediately […]
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