I love museums. I love art galleries. I love everything that has art in, on or around it. While living in New York City, I visited one museum or art gallery each week. When people asked me what I did for a living, I would tell them that I worked at a museum. I was surprised to hear that a lot of this people had never been to any of the city’s museums. All I would think was, “What the hell do you do for fun in the city then?”
As I mentioned in my previous post Let’s Talk About Art, museums and art spaces can be very intimidating. There is often a perception that arts institutions and the art they feature are inaccessible by those not already part of that world. However, particularly in the last few decades, many arts institutions and other arts organizations have been working to break down those barriers and allow art to be accessible to everyone.
The Art Haus SLC is an arts education organization that aims to create a welcoming space for everyone within our community to engage in a dialogue about contemporary arts. While our larger goal is to someday have an actual physical space where we can promote this dialogue among artists from around the globe and our local community, we are currently working to create temporary spaces around the city to meet our goals. This is what has led TAHSLC to rethink the types of spaces where are can exhibit art and invite supportive dialogue about the arts. Art in the Living Room is a program that turns peoples' homes into art spaces for one night by presenting the work of upcoming local artists.
In our first Art in the Living Room show on Friday, July 6th, local artists Michelle Christensen, Emily Bagley and Sarah May shared some of their work with the SLC community. The event was held at the home of artist Michelle Christensen and although it was our first event of this kind, the show was very well attended. It was so great to see the artists engage in conversation with members of the community, while others sat on the couch talking about the art or just visiting with each other.
With the success of our first show, we launched our second Art in the Living Room on Friday, August 10th with works by Phil Cannon, Adam Munoa and Salvador Medrano. That show had a very similar feel to the first show, except that this time we had twice as many people attend. In fact, the attendees were a very diverse group of people from all ages and backgrounds. This is precisely what Art in the Living Room is all about, bringing art to ALL people one home at a time. We are very excited about our success with two shows and want to encourage everyone to come to our third installment, which we are planning now. If you live in downtown SLC and would like for The Art Haus SLC to bring some awesome contemporary art into your living room, please email us at [email protected].
Jendar Marie Morales
Co-founder, The Art Haus SLC
As I mentioned in my previous post Let’s Talk About Art, museums and art spaces can be very intimidating. There is often a perception that arts institutions and the art they feature are inaccessible by those not already part of that world. However, particularly in the last few decades, many arts institutions and other arts organizations have been working to break down those barriers and allow art to be accessible to everyone.
The Art Haus SLC is an arts education organization that aims to create a welcoming space for everyone within our community to engage in a dialogue about contemporary arts. While our larger goal is to someday have an actual physical space where we can promote this dialogue among artists from around the globe and our local community, we are currently working to create temporary spaces around the city to meet our goals. This is what has led TAHSLC to rethink the types of spaces where are can exhibit art and invite supportive dialogue about the arts. Art in the Living Room is a program that turns peoples' homes into art spaces for one night by presenting the work of upcoming local artists.
In our first Art in the Living Room show on Friday, July 6th, local artists Michelle Christensen, Emily Bagley and Sarah May shared some of their work with the SLC community. The event was held at the home of artist Michelle Christensen and although it was our first event of this kind, the show was very well attended. It was so great to see the artists engage in conversation with members of the community, while others sat on the couch talking about the art or just visiting with each other.
With the success of our first show, we launched our second Art in the Living Room on Friday, August 10th with works by Phil Cannon, Adam Munoa and Salvador Medrano. That show had a very similar feel to the first show, except that this time we had twice as many people attend. In fact, the attendees were a very diverse group of people from all ages and backgrounds. This is precisely what Art in the Living Room is all about, bringing art to ALL people one home at a time. We are very excited about our success with two shows and want to encourage everyone to come to our third installment, which we are planning now. If you live in downtown SLC and would like for The Art Haus SLC to bring some awesome contemporary art into your living room, please email us at [email protected].
Jendar Marie Morales
Co-founder, The Art Haus SLC
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