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Art Talks

Art talks at the Kimball Art Center serve as a vehicle for education and discussion surrounding the Kimball's exhibitions. Our monthly art talks are free and open to the public. We encourage you to come out and further the conversation on the visual arts. See below to find out more information about our past and upcoming art talks at the Kimball Art Center, your non-profit community art center.

January Art Talk

Speaker: Geralyn Dreyfous

Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 6:00pm

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Film has become a part of our cultural landscape. Standing on the shoulders of Sundance, film exhibition and production are vibrant in this state. During the evening, Dreyfous will discuss and show clips from projects she has championed over the years as an Executive Producer and co-founder of Impact Partners.

Credits include Academy Award winning Born Into Brothels; Emmy nominated The Day My God Died; and multiple film festivals winners such as Kick Like a Girl, In A Dream,Dhamma Brothers,Project Kashmir,Miss Representation, and Connected. Impact Partners has been involved in the financing of over 25
including: The Cove, which won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature; The Garden, which was nominated for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature; Freeheld, which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best
Documentary Short Film; and The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, which won the 2007 Emmy Award for Best Documentary Special. Eight of Dreyfous’ films have premiered at past Sundance Film Festivals with five scheduled to premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

Art Talk with Linda Tesner, Curator for Park City Collects, Meet the Collectors and Hear their Stories.

Speaker: Linda Tesner

Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 6:00pm

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December Art Talk with Linda Tesner, Curator for Park City Collects, Meet the Collectors and Hear their Stories

Thursday, December 15^th, 6:00pm at the Kimball Art Center

Art Talk is FREE and open to the public.

Park City, UT- Kimball Art Center presents Art Talk: Park City Collects onThursday, December 15, 2011 from 6:00 to 7:00pm in the Main Gallery. This evening will be hosted by Curator, Linda Tesner and will feature a panel of many of the collectors from Park City in this rare opportunity to hear their stories. This event is free and open to the public. Art Talks are part of a monthly series and are free and open to the public.

Why do people collect art? Find out their stories behind masterpieces from Damien Hirst, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, Maynard Dixon, William Morris, Doug Snow and Leo Villereal. Tesner curated the show bringing together 60 works of art from 14 different collections in this one of a kind exhibit. The panelists featured, who will focus on their experience as collectors are: Judy and Tom Billings, Michael Levinthal, Janet and Jack Massimino, Maren and Matt Mullin, Ben and Hillary Nitka, Joanne and Bill Shiebler, Buzz and Polly Strasser and Jeffrey Wright.

Art Talk with Duff Lindsay Nationally Known Outsider Art Collector

Speaker: Duff Lindsay

Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 6:00pm

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Art Talk with Duff Lindsay
Nationally Known Outsider Art Collector
Thursday, September 22, 6:00 p.m. at the Kimball Art Center
Art Talk is FREE and open to the public