FREE SUMMER FITNESS CLASSES
May 16-22, 2016
Eccles Student Life Center
Register today for our summer fitness classes.
Not sure what to take? Drop in for FREE classes May 16-22, 2016, and get a feel for what works for you.
View class descriptions here and register for classes here.
SUNSET WILDFLOWER WALK
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 | 7-8 p.m.
Natural History Museum of Utah
Join NHMU’s botanist Elizabeth Johnson and entomologist Christy Bills for an hour long tour of the wildflowers that grow in the Foothills. Enjoy the spectacular view and learn how to identify common flowers and their pollinators. Participants are strongly encouraged to bring sunscreen, a hat and water.
Please be aware the walk along the Bonneville Shoreline Trail is unpaved.
Admission to museum and wildflower tour is FREE for museum members, University of Utah students, staff and faculty with a valid UCard. The cost is included in museum admission for non members.
For more information, go here.
FREE LIBRARY 3-D PRINTING AND ARDUINO PROGRAMMING WORKSHOPS THIS SUMMER
Weekly through Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016
3-D Printing: Tuesdays | 2-3 p.m.
Marriott Library, level two
3-D Modeling: Wednesdays | 2-3 p.m.
For location and registration info, see the library’s classes and workshops page.
Arduino Programming: Thursdays | 2-3 p.m.
Marriott Library, level two at the open tables
WHITE RIVER CANOEING TRIP
Thursday, May 19-Sunday, May 22, 2016
Near Bonanza, UT
MANDATORY pre-trip meeting on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 | 5 p.m.
Outdoor Adventures, Eccles Student Life Center
Utah is known for its glorious and amazing whitewater, but there are numerous rivers that have minimal whitewater. This is a perfect flat water river trip for canoes that can reach class I rapids. This will be during prime snowmelt run off with great spring time temperatures. There are small time frames in the year to run this river so don’t miss out. The views, hikes, food and community will surely make this a great trip for you and your friends.
Trips are only open to University of Utah students, faculty and staff (including their guests).
Call 801-581-8516 or come to Outdoor Adventures to register.
Equipment provided: All group equipment, dry bags, tents, food, transportation and leadership.
Equipment available for rent: Headlamp, sleeping bag, sleeping pad, down jacket and pants.
Notes: Participants must be able to swim. No experience is necessary for this trip.
BIKE TO WORK DAY APPY HOUR
Friday, May 20, 2016 | 12-1 p.m.
Eccles Health Sciences Library, Garden level
Join us on Friday, May 20, 12-1 p.m. for Bike to Work Day Appy Hour.
May 16-20 is National Bike to Work Week. In honor of this week, Appy Hour will be about bike-related apps.
Join us as Bryan Hull, EHSL employee and SaltCycle- INTELITECHS team member, demos a few bike apps and reviews some mechanical fixes for your bike.
Also, bring your smiling face and your bike to the front west entrance of the Eccles Library at 9 a.m. each day of Bike to Work Week for fun pictures.
SCIENTIST IN THE SPOTLIGHT: DIET DETECTIVES
Friday, May 20, 2016 | 2-4 p.m.
Natural History Museum of Utah
Join NHMU Archaeologist Nicole Herzog to discover the mysterious diets of ancient peoples who once inhabited the Great Basin Region. Or listen in as Parasite Ecologist Andrew Bartlow talks about how parasites turn their hosts into zombies.
The price is included with museum admission. View pricing here.
Click here for more information.
GENOME: UNLOCKING LIFE’S CODE
Saturday, May 21-Monday, Sept. 5, 2016 | 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Natural History Museum of Utah
Do you have your mother’s dimples or your father’s hairline? Explore how your genome is a complete set of instructions that makes you, you. Learn how this road map can help you trace your ancestral past and help you take charge of your future health.
For more information, go here.
THIRD SATURDAY FOR FAMILIES: TORN PAPER LANDSCAPES
Saturday, May 21, 2016 | 1-4 p.m.
Sorenson Arts and Education Complex
Artists have incorporated paper in their art making for centuries. Using torn paper and colored chalk, let the natural environment around you inspire your own landscape creation.
This program is supported in part by the Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks (ZAP) program.
RELIEF PRINTING ON FABRIC: CLAIRE TAYLOR
Saturday, May 21, 2016 | 1-5 p.m.
Book Arts Studio, J. Willard Marriott Library, Level four
Just drop by. This event is free and no application necessary.
Come by the Book Arts Studio to pull a sheet or make a print. This Drop-in & Print Session is an informal opportunity to get your hands dirty and experiment with some new techniques, ranging from alternative printing processes to paper decoration and much more. Bring a friend and come ready to try out these accessible and creative approaches to art-making.
Free to the public and no experience necessary.
Instructor is Claire Taylor. Must be 16+.
ALL SHOOK UP: TEXT AND IMAGE IN FLAG BOOKS
Thursday, July 7, 2016 | 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Application deadline is Tuesday, May 24, 2016. Apply here.
Book Arts Studio, J. Willard Marriott Library, level 4
Free Spots Available for All Shook Up: Text and Image in Flag Books with Karen Hanmer.
The foundation of Hedi Kyle’s deceptively small and simple book flag book structure is an accordion folded spine. Flaps attached to both sides of each of the spine’s mountain folds allow the artist to fragment and layer a number of complementary or contrasting images and narratives. When the flag book spine is pulled fully open, the fragmented images on the flaps come together to create a large, panoramic image.
Participants experiment with complementary and contrasting text and images and discuss the effects of different spine and page dimensions, direction of motion and which images are most successful. Students learn a tidy, non-adhesive method of covering boards and use a jig to facilitate quicker, more precise assembly.
While this is not a computer class, digital printing and setting up Photoshop templates for pages, covers and spines is demonstrated.
STREAMLINED STYLE FOR CONTEMPORARY LEATHER BINDINGS
Friday, July 8-Saturday, July 9, 2016 | 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Application deadline is Tuesday, May 24, 2016. Apply here.
Book Arts Studio, J. Willard Marriott Library, Level 4
Free spots are limited.
Learn a variety of decorative techniques for use on leather bindings from Karen Hanmer. These techniques require minimal equipment and modest leatherworking skill and some can also be applied to cloth or paper. Demonstrated methods include: backpared onlays, inlaid lines, stamping texture into leather, feathered onlays, Lacunose (abstract sanded leather collage), craquele, various inlay techniques, laminating a paper illustration for use as an inlay, various methods of creating sculptural boards, transfer of computer-printed onlay shapes from paper to leather and laser printing on leather. Students’ completed set of four goatskin plaquettes together with a detailed handout are valuable reference for future projects.
See examples of the techniques covered in this workshop here.
Note: This is not an entry-level leather-working course. Students should have some experience with edge-paring and forming leather corners.
HORTICULTURE CLASSES: PERENNIALS
Wednesdays, May 25-June 8, 2016 | 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Red Butte Garden
Walk the aisles of any garden center in spring, and you’ll find yourself in the midst of a cornucopia of scent and color. The sign says “perennials”, and you know which ones appeal to you, but what else do you know about them? Whether you are starting a new garden or refreshing an existing one, you’ll want to select plants suited to your individual landscape and to pick combinations that offer color and blooms from early spring until frost.
Perennials: Spring and summer bloomers at Red Butte Garden.
Class and workshop prices vary and registration is required.
Check the website for more information.
FREE YOGA CLASSES
Begins Wednesday, May 25-Wednesday, July 27 on Wednesdays | 12-1 p.m.
Eccles Health Sciences Library
Join us for free yoga on Wednesdays, 12-1p.m., in room 205 (History of Medicine Room), at the Eccles Health Sciences Library. Please bring your own mat.
This 10 week yoga series will begin on May 25 and end on July 27. Drop by for one event or attend all of the free yoga events.
This is a great opportunity to stretch and relax during the workday.
A student from Yoga Assets will lead us through yoga poses. Yoga Assets provides yoga teacher training in Salt Lake City. These events will enable a Yoga Assets student to fulfill their required volunteer hours for their yoga teacher certification.
Please send us feedback about this event. If well received, we plan to offer free drop-in yoga sessions on a regular basis.
WellU and WellnessNow credit may be available to participants.
UMFA’S PLEIN AIR PAINTING IN UTAH
Thursday, May 26, 2016 | 7 p.m.
J. Willard Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium
Michael Workman, Loafer, 2015, oil on panel
Contemporary artists painting en plein air (French: “in the open air”) will discuss their practice and quest for suitable motifs. A moderated panel with will consider the tradition and continued relevance of plein air painting in Utah and examine how this established method captures the singular beauty of our local terrain.
Featured artists: Patricia Kimball, Hadley Rampton, and Michael Workman
This program is part of the UMFA’s ongoing series ARTLandish: Land Art, Landscape, and the Environment, sponsored by the S. J. and Jessie E. Quinney Foundation and presented in partnership with the College of Fine Arts and the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah and the Salt Lake City Public Library.
RED BUTTE GARDEN ART EXHIBITS: LUCY PETERSON WATKINS
Friday, May 27-Sunday, June 19, 2016
Red Butte Garden
Lucy Peterson Watkins began her career as an artist in 1993 when she began designing websites, shooting photography and quilting. Since then, these art forms have morphed into what she does now – Fiber Art, Mixed Media and Silk Painting.
She was the featured artist at Logan’s Summerfest in 2012 and one of her pieces was recently selected by Utah Public Radio (UPR) listeners as the art for UPR’s 60th Anniversary mug. Her art has been shown in Utah at the Thatcher House in Logan, the Quilt Shows in Springville and Brigham City, Red Butte Garden, the Finch Lane Gallery Holiday Market, as well as many other local shows and holiday art fairs.
“I enjoy creating art by doing something totally different. Most of my pieces depict the place I grew up in and love – Cache Valley and Utah.”
Watkins and her husband Cary Watkins are the hosts of Art On The Lawn, a one-day art festival held on their property in North Logan on the last Saturday of June for the last eleven years.
More on Watkins here and go here for other art exhibits.
Cost: Regular garden admission and garden members free.
TRAVERSE
Ongoing through Friday, May 13, 2016
The Department of Film & Media Arts, Department of Modern Dance and TWIG Media Lab are bubbling at the brim with excitement for their upcoming project, “TRAVERSE.” On May 9, six dancers and one choreographer will set off on a multi-day journey across Utah with four filmmakers, stopping at locations off-the-beaten path to choreograph pieces inspired by the landscape.
Selected modern dance students will work with Kevin Hanson, executive producer of the project and chair of the Department of Film & Media Arts, Connie Wilkerson, faculty member in the Department of Film & Media Arts and Eric Handman, faculty member in the Department of Modern Dance. “TRAVERSE” hopes to contribute to the conversation about the convergence and interdisciplinary nature of dance and new media as well as how the camera perspective and movement alters, enhances and shifts the impact of the dance.
This multifaceted experiment is set to take place in one of the most beautiful places on earth: the state of Utah. Its intense, varied and vivid landscapes offer the 3-D canvas on which the art-making will occur. The other unique aspects of this project are the suggested camera techniques. Aerial videography, once the domain of multimillion dollar epics, is now accomplished with lightweight, camera-carrying quad and octocoptors. These tools allow a choreographer to see the work in a 3-D plain and from the audience’s perspective; they see the dance in its specific placement in the natural landscape.
Follow the journey as it happens May 9-13 on Facebook and Instagram by searching the hashtag #TRAVERSEuofu, or go here for updates.
HOME IN THEIR EYES: IMAGES AND STORIES OF HOME BY RESIDENTS IN RURAL CHINA
Ongoing through June 2, 2016
Marriott Library
This exhibition illustrates the meanings of home in the eyes of the residents of Yanxia village in Zhejiang Province, China, a small lineage-based settlement in rural China. These photographs are extracted from Windy Zhao’s dissertation, which examines the ways in which traditions have affected the meaning of home for people living in Yanxia. During Zhao’s research, single-use cameras were distributed to the participants and the participants were asked to take photographs of meaningful aspects of their home. Zhao followed with semi-structured in-depth interviews on the content of the photographs. Twenty-two photographs taken by 18 participants are included in this exhibition. Each photograph is accompanied by a short biographic sketch of the photographer and the personal stories behind the photograph that constitute his or her understanding of home.
Park in the visitor parking lot, west of the library, next to the Campus Store.
TUNNEL VISION: A SELECTION OF BOOKS FROM RARE BOOKS COLLECTION
Ongoing through Friday, June 3, 2016
Marriott Library
Tunnel Vision: A Selection of Tunnel, Pop-up and Movable Books from the Rare Books Department
Tunnel Vision features a selection of pieces from the rare book collections produced using various paper manipulations to create the illusion of depth — framing and narrowing the viewers’ perspective. This exhibition is the result of a collaboration between the Book Arts Program, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, and the Rare Books Department. It coincides with two events (see below) inspired by Nancy Holt’s famous land art piece, Sun Tunnels, located in Utah’s west desert.
Park in the visitor parking lot, west of the library, next to the Campus Store.