STAFF
Amy Jorgensen is the Executive Director, Chief Curator, and cofounder of Granary Arts. With the vision of supporting long-term engagement between artists and communities, she has curated over ninety exhibitions of artists working in contemporary art. In addition to developing a spectrum of cultural and educational programming, she launched the Granary Arts Fellows program, Film Feast, Curatorial Workshop, and the initiative Critical Ground which explores the impact of art criticism hierarchies and the democratization of art critique. Dedicated to the arts as a maker, facilitator and educator, Jorgensen was honored as one of Utah’s Most Influential Artists.
She is an Associate Professor and Chair of Visual Arts at Snow College where she is head of Photography, a member of the Board of Directors for the Utah Arts Council, and a member of the Acquisition Committee for the State of Utah Alice Merrill Horne Art Collection. Born in Milan, Italy, she received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University, and an MFA from the University of California San Diego. Jorgensen lives and works remotely in the high plains desert of Utah, and wholeheartedly embraces the practice of building the community you want to be a part of.
Kamilla Earlywine is the Manager of Programs and Marketing at Granary Arts and a Utah native with generational history in the Sanpete Valley. Earlywine received an AFA from Snow College where she graduated cum laude, was the curator of Lumlux Gallery and worked in the visual arts department as the photography Teaching Assistant. As a practicing artist, she is interested in personal narrative and identity. Her work explores the correlations between memories, objects, places and energy as she aims to discover and preserve the stories within those connections. Earlywine’s selected exhibitions include Bountiful Davis Art Center, Writ & Vision, Lenscratch, UMOCA + Granary Arts (Lawn Gnomes 2020), Snow Art Gallery, Eccles Art Gallery, and The Curated Fridge. In 2017 Earlywine received the Best-In-Show award for Maternal Identity I at Snow College’s Artists in Residence, Works in Progress group exhibition. Her work has been published in Exponent II, Weeds Literary Journal, and she has self-published several books. She lives with her husband and three sons in Provo, UT where she works as a freelance photographer specializing in the documentation of art and enjoys practicing yoga, collecting houseplants, and gardening.
COLLABORATORS
Kelly Brooks
Co-founder
Board Member
Kelly Brooks is a co-founder of Granary Arts and serves on the Board of Directors. She is the former co-director of Granary Arts and she directed the Museum School at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. Brooks teaches in the Department of Visual Arts at Snow College, where she is the head of time-based media. In her own work, her interests span several media but focus most on drawing, painting, video art, and animation. Selected exhibitions include the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Rio Gallery, Finch Lane Gallery, Springville Art Museum, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Utah Cultural Celebration Center, Writ & Vision, Alice Gallery, Kimball Visual Arts Center, CUAC, and SMartspace. Brooks grew up in the Salt Lake Valley near the Cottonwood Canyons. She received a BFA from Brigham Young University, a certificate in Art Teaching from Weber State University, and a Master's of Arts Teaching—Fine Arts from the University of Utah. She lives and works in central Utah with her husband and three children, where she collaborates on creative projects with her local and larger communities.
SCOTTI HILL
Board Chair
Scotti Hill (she/her) serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at Granary Arts, and is a Utah-based arts journalist, critic, and lawyer. She is a former staff writer for 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine and has contributed to Hyperallergic, Deseret News, New Art Examiner, and the Center for Art Law.
JARED JAKINS
Curator Film Feast
Jared Jakins, collaborative Film Feast Curator at Granary Arts, is a South African-born documentarian. His feature directoral debut, Scenes from the Glittering World, was featured on Independent Lens (PBS, 2022). His work has screened in major film festivals around the world and has been curated in The Atlantic. Jared is interested in stories of cultural intersection, and seeks to document images of community and identity emerging from those collisions.
CARLY JAKINS
Curator Film Feast
Carly Jakins is a collaborative Film Feast Curator at Granary Arts and documentary filmmaker whose work has been curated by The Atlantic and ITVS’s Independent Lens. Her debut, Ghosts on the Mountain, was the short documentary award winner at the American Society for Visual Anthropology and Heartland Film Festival in 2014. Carly has produced and co-directed several other award-winning short documentaries, including producing the feature documentary, Scenes From the Glittering World (PBS, 2022). She is currently engaged in exploring the experiences of rural women in the western United States.
JANIce timothy
Workshop Instructor
Janice Timothy is the Workshop Wednesday instructor at Granary Arts and a former art teacher in the public-school system. She received a BA from Boise State University in Advertising Design and an MA in Art Education from Brigham Young University. Timothy has years of experience teaching art classes to middle and high school students where she taught the basics of both 2-D and 3-D mediums. She has a deep love for art and is experienced in drawing, painting, watercolor, pottery, paper-mache, wire sculpture, jewelry, photography, and book making. She currently lives in Manti, Utah where she enjoys spending time at home with her family, numerous animals, and especially her grandchildren.