Join us as we participate in Ephraim City’s Annual Electric Light Parade. Stop by and see us for a warm treat!
The parade will start at 200 South Main Street and continue north to College Avenue where it will turn east and end at 200 East College Avenue. We hope to see you there!
Granary Arts is excited to announce a new exhibition, "Our Place: Ephraim Children Responding to Community"
During our Workshop Wednesday series, a free art workshop for children and families, students created several artworks depicting their favorite places in Ephraim.
Now on view at Ephraim Public Library November 16, 2019 - May 29, 2020
Granary Arts is excited to announce a new exhibition, "Creating Community: Ephraim Children Responding to Landscape and Community".
Granary Arts and the children of Ephraim have collaborated to reflect on our community and the ways in which we connect to the surrounding landscape, a place we call home.
Now on view at Ephraim City Hall November 16, 2019 - May 29, 2020
Join Brian Laidlaw & Ashley Hanson from the touring folk group, The Family Trade for a concert and workshop exploring the music and poetry of place.
Granary Arts invites you to join us for the opening reception of Photosite Array a solo exhibition by artist Lisa McCarty.
Photosites are light collectors. They are at the heart of every digital camera, and the only light-sensitive element utilized in digital imaging. If photography is defined as writing with light, then photosites are at least partially scribe.
Granary Arts invites you to join us for the opening reception of Subversive Souvenirs a solo exhibition by artist Horacio Rodriguez.
Horacio Rodriguez makes work about the many borders he has crossed in his life. As a product of multiple cultures and identities, he uses his art as a vehicle to explore personal narrative through memory, and psychological and physical borders. He creates a hybrid conceptual framework using objects and symbols synonymous with pre-Hispanic and Mestizo culture, and the seductive visual language of Western dominant culture – thus mimicking his own layered identity.
Granary Arts invites you to join us for the opening reception of Temporary Configurations of Earth’s Matter a solo exhibition by artist Collin Bradford.
Bradford’s work explores the incompleteness of the various ways we can know and represent the land: first-person observation, photographs, surveying, walking, satellite imagery, 3D scans of the earth’s surface taken from space shuttles, etc. Having experimented with these different methods, Bradford is less concerned with images and the apparatuses that produce them. He addresses the land more directly, turning toward the dirt and rocks themselves, the stratified cliffs, the Gambel oaks, and investigates more deeply how everything we know is only a temporary configuration of the land’s matter.
Granary Arts invites you to join us to experience Work: An Audio-Visual Exploration of Effortful Lives, in the UMOCA Art Truck. Presented by Framework Arts, KRCL Community Radio, and the students and families of Escalante Elementary School.
The Art Truck will be in the east parking lot adjacent to Granary Arts. This event is free and open to the public.
Please join us for this unique opportunity to engage directly with the artist about her series, Heaving Into Mountains. Inspired by a trip to Yosemite National Park in the spring of 2017, Jackie Leishman created a series of studies delving into the paradox of holding two opposites – ideas embodied in the wilderness.
Join us for Film Feast, a screening of the award-winning film, El Desierto, along with sister film, La Sabana followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers Carly & Jared Jakins.
El Desierto, film, 19 minutes
Amid a formidable winter drought, a lone migrant worker struggles with his task of caring for thousands of sheep in the Great Basin desert. El Desierto poetically explores themes of isolation, climate change, and the Sisyphean plight of migrant workers in the United States. Winner of the Artistic Vision Award at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Jury Prize from RiverRun Film Festival, and Best of Show & Utah Short Film of the Year through the Utah Arts Festival, 2019.
La Sabana, film, 11 minutes
The promise of the American Dream is real to one rural Peruvian family as they attempt to send their son to The United States to provide for them. La Sabana meditates on the archetypal movement of people and their dreams of a better life. Nominated for Best Short Documentary at St. Louis International Film Festival 2017.
Join us for Film Feast, a screening of The Minors and S_15 followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Robert Machoian. The Minors received the Short Film Special Jury Award for Directing from Sundance and screens with the 2019 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour.
The Minors, film, 10 minutes
A slice of life film about a Grandpa and his Grandsons, the future and the past.
S_15, film, 6 minutes
This film explores the emotional aspects of filmmaking.
Please join us for a behind the scenes look at DE | MARCATION A Portfolio of Contemporary Photography in Utah with co-curators Amy Jorgensen and Edward Bateman and Red Butte Press Master Printer Marnie Powers-Torrey.
A series of conversations and brainstorms between visiting critics and artists, curators, writers, and other stakeholders from the region. CRITICAL SESSIONS are roving: they are studio visits, site visits, and formal and informal discussions. It is a space where strategic thinking meets creative action with the intention to shift the current framework of art critique hierarchy to highlight work outside metro-centered locales.
A series of conversations and brainstorms between visiting critics and artists, curators, writers, and other stakeholders from the region. CRITICAL SESSIONS are roving: they are studio visits, site visits, and formal and informal discussions. It is a space where strategic thinking meets creative action with the intention to shift the current framework of art critique hierarchy to highlight work outside metro-centered locales.
Granary Arts Intern, Ryan Simmons, invites you to join us for In Conjunction a collaborative community animation project.
Drawing on the rich heritage of the historic Relief Society Granary building both as a structure and as a place of communal gathering, In Conjunction uses elements of the structure as a medium to explore what it means to exist within a community, as well as the impact one can have upon their community. In Conjunction features a compilation of stop motion animation works created by individuals throughout the community using oolite sand, which is then and formatted by the artist to be projected onto the exterior of the Granary Arts building.
Projections will run after dark Friday, May 24 and Saturday, May 25, 2019 on Granary's northern exterior wall.
Granary Arts invites you to join us for the opening reception of DE | MARCATION A Survey of Contemporary Photography in Utah a group exhibition curated by Amy Jorgensen and Edward Bateman.
DE | MARCATION surveys the contemporary photographic landscape of creative practice by artists in the state of Utah as they navigate new territory in the global dialogue of imagemaking.
Granary Arts invites you to join us for the opening reception of Heaving Into Mountains a solo exhibition by artist Jackie Leishman.
Heaving Into Mountains is a series of studies delving into the paradox of holding two opposites – ideas embodied in the wilderness. Inspired by a trip to Yosemite National Park in the spring of 2017, Leishman was overwhelmed by the dichotomy of the landscape and the effects of time: the noise of the waterfalls, the size of the boulders, and the softness of the meadows. It is the push and pull between opposing ideas that motivates her work: animating tensions between destruction and creation, expansion and contraction, explosion and implosion.
Granary Arts invites you to join us for "Generations of Springs" a community-based project by artist Rachel Farmer.
This quilted map of Ephraim originated as a community-based project, conceived by artist Rachel Farmer, in conversation with Amy Jorgensen at Granary Arts. Rachel’s exhibition, Looking Forward, Looking Back, on view last summer in the C.C.A. Christensen Cabin Gallery, included a series of quilted landscapes. Exploring this idea further, she created a quilt top with her remaining green fabric (dyed to match her memory of Utah spring green) and held a day-long workshop at Granary Arts on September 27, 2018.
The pioneer story of this beautiful limestone building is rivaled only by the incredible fight for it’s restoration by dedicated and passionate preservation minded citizens. The Co-Op building is a masterpiece of early Sanpete architecture and its history is linked to the beginnings of the Ephraim economy, the history of Snow College, and the legacy of people who sacrificed so much for what we now enjoy.
The Heritage Conference will take place on Snow College campus, in the auditorium of the Karen H. Huntsman Library.
Although Women first got the vote in Utah, their voice was still faint in public affairs. But when Brigham Young became frustrated with half-hearted male efforts to store up food, he put the women in charge. Nowhere was the grain storage program more successful than in Ephraim, where the Relief Society stockpiled thousands of bushels of wheat. Their beautiful granary became a symbol of women’s affairs on Main Street and may have been the finest of any built in Zion. Today it is most important relic of the historic Relief Society grain program. This is a story of how much these women accomplished with so little.
The Heritage Conference will take place on Snow College campus, in the auditorium of the Karen H. Huntsman Library.
Granary Arts Intern, Ryan Simmons, invites you to join us for In Conjunction a collaborative community animation project.
Drawing on the rich heritage of the historic Relief Society Granary building both as a structure and as a place of communal gathering, In Conjunction uses elements of the structure as a medium to explore what it means to exist within a community, as well as the impact one can have upon their community. In Conjunction features a compilation of stop motion animation works created by individuals throughout the community using oolite sand, which is then and formatted by the artist to be projected onto the exterior of the Granary Arts building.
Granary Arts invites you to join us for the artist reception of the solo exhibition, “Anthology”, a retrospective of work created by Richard Gate between 1985 and 2019. Born in the lake country of northwestern Ontario and raised in the red rock country of southern Utah, Gate has spent a lifetime drawing migratory paths across the northern continent. Working seasonally in Sanpete, Utah from his rural studio, and traveling to remote areas of Canada to fish and Los Angeles to connect with the art scene – these repeated pilgrimages are evident in the evolution of his creative process.
Granary Arts invites you to the opening reception of a Community Project, “Life Stages”, a collaborative project organized by Youth Care Arts. It is an installation consisting of two quarter-size stages, conceptualized and crafted by various youth-in-custody throughout the state of Utah, and represents personal interpretations of their life experiences. Upon the two stages, “The Forest” and “The Sea”, are various spirit dolls, leaves, bark, water, a boat, life preservers, as well as written responses from participants to specific therapeutic prompts. While moving physically around the two stages, viewers are encouraged to question possible meanings implied by proximity: whether they stand in front of or behind the stage, who is doing the viewing, and does the role of audience and subject change? Like the youth in the scenes, viewers must individually decide upon which stage and where the onus is placed.
Thursday February 21, 2019 / 12pm-3pm & Saturday February 23 / 5pm-8pm
Granary Arts Fellow, Marnie Powers-Torrey, invites you to participate in a collaborative multimedia assemblage artwork, Makerspace and Time, in the CCA Christensen Cabin. Please bring your small, everyday objects to incorporate into the work. The art will become a visual narrative, emblematic of those who assembled it and the place from where they came. Objects with an interesting texture or silhouette with a flat surface can be documented with a monoprint. Other small pieces might be sewn or placed in pockets. Please only bring items that you are willing to commit to the project permanently. Most importantly, remember that any object bears a significance, particularly if you find it interesting. Roadside detritus, attic and basement leavings, remanence of daily doings, and otherwise random but somehow beautiful and engaging items will all become part of the vocabulary we use to tell a story of time and place.
The collaborative artwork will be on exhibition in the CCA Christensen Cabin alongside the work of Marnie Powers-Torrey through March 8, 2019. This project is co-sponsored by the Book Arts Program as part of the J. Willard Marriot Library at the University of Utah.
Granary Arts Fellow, and professional biographer, Rhonda Lauritzen, invites you to participate in a workshop, Telling Your Life Story: Oral History, Audio and Transcribing Techniques. This workshop will offer practical insights into telling your story and will feature the most timeless and intimate format - voice. Lauritzen will show why audio is so powerful, and how oral history may be the most practical way to record one’s life story. She will be sharing her favorite questions gleaned from years of professional interviewing and will address potential issues with technology and discuss how they can be avoided. Lauritzen’s ideas and approach on the collection and preservation of oral history is highly regarded by many family history writers and has been credited as a breakthrough in their own storytelling processes. Lauritzen is currently working on the nomination to include the historic Relief Society Granary, home to Granary Arts, in the National Registry of Historic Places.
This workshop will be held on Snow College Campus at the Karen H. Hunstman Library, room #307
Granary Arts Fellow, Rhonda Lauritzen, is compiling a local history of the Ephraim Relief Society Granary and the grain program, and she needs your help to complete it. This is an open call for local history! If you have family members who were early settlers of Ephraim, worked at the Roller Mills, or participated in the early Relief Society, please bring your stories, photographs, and documents to the CCA Christensen Cabin at Granary Arts during her office hours. The documents will be digitized and contribute to the nomination of the Relief Society Granary to the National Registry of Historic Places.
Granary Arts Fellow, Micol Hebron, invites you to participate in a project titled 1 IMAGE 1 MINUTE. The project will bring together people from the Sanpete Valley and Utah community in a unique and collaborative live event. For this event we are inviting 60 community members to select and discuss – for exactly and only 1 minute – a photographic image that is significant to them in some way. It can be a personal image, a historical image, a viral image from the internet – anything! – as long as it is a photographic image. You will give a one minute presentation about why you find this image compelling. Your presentation can take whatever form you like – prose, spoken word, poem, performance. We hope you will join us!
Deadline for Participation: Thursday, January 10
Granary Arts Fellow, Micol Hebron, invites you to participate in Feminist Friday, a public community event designed to provide a platform for discussion of contemporary feminist issues. Feminist Friday encourages a pervasive and ongoing dialogue. The purpose is twofold: to de-stigmatize Feminism as something that is too academic, theoretical, inaccessible, classist, racist, angry, outdated or unnecessary; and to build networks of people and resources for encouraging feminist discourse and ideologies.
Granary Arts Fellow, Micol Hebron, will be holding Feminist Office Hours on Wednesdays January 2-January 16 / 3-6pm in the CCA Christensen Cabin.
Granary Arts is excited to announce a new exhibition, "Our Place: Ephraim Children Responding to Community"
Now on view at Ephraim City Hall December 10, 2018 - May 3, 2019
