Architect Magazine
February 25, 2013
Kimball Art Center receives 2013 P/A (Progressive Architecture) Award for new building design. At the center of Park City, Utah, adjacent to the existing Kimball Art Center, where Main Street intersects Heber Avenue, a gateway to the city...(read more)
February 28, 2013
Kimball Art Center receives 2013 P/A (Progressive Architecture) Award for new building design
The Park Record
December 29, 2012
On behalf of the Kimball Art Center, we would like to address concerns about renovation and expansion plans for our building. We hope this letter will reinforce our efforts to remain collaborative and transparent, and will indicate our receptiveness to negotiate details of the final design with the community, Planning Commission and City,...(read more)
January 2, 2013
The New Yorker
September 10, 2012
At thirty-seven, Bjarke Ingels—who recently moved from Denmark to New York, in part, so that he could oversee construction of a giant white wedge of an apartment building that will fill most of an empty block on West Fifty-seventh—is in the first rank of international architects,...(read more)
September 5, 2012
Park Record
August 7, 2012
Fine art from across the country, food and entertainment were the draws on Main Street last weekend. It appears the Park City Kimball Arts Festival, held last Friday, Saturday and Sunday, enjoyed strong numbers, the organizers said early in the week. The Kimball Art Center will not finalize attendance numbers for a few weeks...(read more)
August 9, 2012
Park Record
August 3, 2012
In February, after a highly publicized contest to select an architect, a specially convened jury selected the 80-foot-high railroad trestle tower concept submitted by Bjarke Ingels' firm BIG. The bold design garnered international attention and stirred some controversy among local residents....(read more)
Deseret News
August 1, 2012
Featuring 214 artists from more than 28 states showcasing their work in 12 categories, the Part City Kimball Arts Festival, one of the oldest and largest arts festivals in the West, will be held Aug. 3-5 on Park City's historic Main Street...(read more)
Sunday In The Park
July 27, 2012
When new artists embark on their careers, they are armed with knowledge they learned in school, which usually covers how to create their art, but doesn't tell them how to establish themselves and find gallery representation. That's why the Kimball Art Center conceived its Relevant Artist program two years ago as part of the Park City Kimball Art Festival, said Chris Brady, director of multimedia and special projects for the KAC...(read more)
July 28, 2012
Utah Boomer's Magazine
July 20, 2012
The 43rd Annual Park City Kimball Arts Festival is highlighting new and returning culinary programs to this year’s event. New this year is the Utah Artisan Tasting, featuring carefully selected local food purveyors who use fresh, organic and local ingredients...(read more)
July 20, 2012
Fox 13 Now
July 5, 2012
President of Services for Xerox Corporation and Utah resident, Lynn Blodgett, will speak at the Kimball Art Center’s July Art Talk on Thursday, July 12th, at 6:00 pm. The event is free to the public and will highlight his publication, “Finding Grace: The Face of America’s Homeless....(read more)
July 12, 2012
Salt Lake Tribune
June 11, 2012
The annual Park City historic home tour, a fundraiser for the Park City Museum, is Saturday, June 16, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. T his year’s tour features not only homes but churches and a former school that has been renovated into a hotel, the Washington School House Hotel. Also included in the tour is the National Garage (now High West Distillery) and the Kimball Garage (now the Kimball Art Center). The self-guided tour ends at Zoom Restaurant for a reception and Preservation Awards Ceremony between 3 and 5 p.m...(read more)
June 14, 2012
Outdoor Industry Association
June 1, 2012
Horny Toad is pleased to announce the opening of brand ambassador R.Nelson Parrish’s art exhibit at the Kimball Art Center in Park City, UT. Parrish, a former ski racer, combines his love of both sport and art in this installation, entitled COLOR/FAST, that will run from June 2, 2012 to July 29th, 2012....(read more)
Salt Lake Tribune
June 8th, 2012
Marilyn E. Modling passed away on May 28, 2012. Marilyn was born on June 27, 1919 in Ogden, Utah to Ellen Scowcroft and Joseph Merrill Eccles. She spent most of her life in Ogden...(read more)
June 8, 2012
Capturing the Speed of Color
May 25, 2012
Parrish will celebrate his career in art with his first solo exhibit, at the Kimball Art Center, 638 Park Ave., beginning with an opening reception for KAC members on Saturday, June 2, at 6 p.m. The works, which will feature colorful resin-on-wood wall hangings, totems and videos, will be on display to the public in the main gallery until July 29. "I can't wait to come to Park City," Parrish said. "I will take any excuse to go there. I love the Kimball, Park City and love everyone who works at the Kimball. I couldn't be more excited than to have my first solo show there. It's an honor, treat and privilege."...(read more)
June 2, 2012
Finding Art in Everyday Items
May 22, 2012
Art isn't just found in works by the masters Picasso, Degas, Rembrandt and Monet. Art can be found anywhere, whether it's spray-painted on a brick wall or crafted from throwaway debris or even in the shape of a water bottle. In fact, Canice Harte, CEO of Waterbox, a Park City-based company, and vice president of licensing and innovation for Penguin Brands, makes his livelihood creating water bottle art and he is ready to share his thoughts with the public....(read more)
May 24, 2012
New York Times
April 23, 2012
How to Protect Yourself From Your Own Investing Ignorance by Carl Richards, recently featured Kimball Art Center artist...(read more)
May 9, 2012
Park City Magazine
April 14th, 2012
(Park City, Utah) – Students from Summit and Wasatch counties will have art pieces on display in the main gallery of the Kimball Art Center from April 14th until May 27th. The student artists span from kindergarteners to high school seniors and each used everyday objects in their creations.....(read more)
April 29, 2012
Park City Magazine
April 19th, 2012
Park City, Utah – In celebration of April being Poetry Month, poet, novelist, and editor Katharine Coles is speaking and reading her poetry at the Kimball Art Center’s Art Talk on Thursday, April 19th at 6pm. Coles is the author of several collections of poetry including Fault (2008), Utah Book Award-winner The Golden Years of the Fourth Dimension (2001), and The One Right Touch (1992)....(read more)
Historic Park City Utah
April 2nd, 2012
Last June, Park City photographer Rebekah Stevens embarked on a volunteer trip with Kid’s Play Int’l to Gatagara, Rwanda where she worked with local children to build a sporting facility and helped create an after school sports program. Rebekah’s photographic works that resulted from this unique volunteer project will be featured during a special reception and exhibit, “Faces of Change: The Children of Gatagara, Rwanda,” at the Kimball Art Center on Friday, April 6, 6-9 p.m....(read more)
April 18, 2012
Architect Magazine
April 3rd, 2012
Copenhagen-based BIG’s new addition to the Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah, expands exhibition space for the center, which serves as both a community hub and a theater for Sundance House, a screening venue for the 10-day Sundance Film Festival...(read more)
Sunday In The Park
April 3rd, 2012
For the first time in three years, the Utah Office of Tourism received a budget increase from the Utah Legislature, an increase of $2M. The increase came with a specific caveat from the Legislature: 20 percent of the total $9M budget must go toward co-op marketing, a matching grant program that funds tourism-focused efforts of nonprofits such as the Park City Chamber/Bureau and the Kimball Arts Center...(read more)
Patricia Dever Memorial
March 10, 2012
Patricia Ellen (Savage) Dever died Tuesday, March 1, 2012, of an aneurism while scuba diving in Grand Cayman. She was 71. Mrs. Dever was born April 26, 1941, in Price, Utah, to William and Jean Savage...(read more)
April 6, 2012
Dwell.com Announces Kimball Competition Winner
February 11, 2012
He plans to build an 80-foot-tall tower by stacking former railway planks at a slight spiral so that the entire structure will appear to change directions midway up, like a game of Jenga gone askew. Inside, a restaurant will sit on the building's lobby floor while a cantilevered, wooden staircase...(read more)
Sunday In The Park
March 16, 2012
The talk the other night at the Kimball Art Center, by Dr. Chris Johnson from the University of Utah, was fascinating, showing us the beautiful intersection of art and science. Randomness in theory and strings. Explaining in drawings...(read more)
Kimball Art Center Announces Relevant 2012 Artist Residence Program
March 29, 2012
The Kimball Art Center’s Relevant Artist-in-Residence program brings together a select group of talented undergraduate and graduate-level art students from across the country for an 8-day artist-in-residence (July 28th - August 4th) focusing on sculpture, painting, mixed media and photography...(read more)
March 29, 2012
Art-Center Recipe: Take Log Cabin, Skew, Inflate
February 11, 2012
Park City, the Utah mountain town best known for catering to skiers and the Sundance Film Festival, now wants to attract art lovers by housing its local art center in a towering, half-twisted log cabin...(read more)
