2012-2013 Annual Report
Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery and Southern Utah Museum of Art Highlights The exhibition, Everything in Between: Art Quilts, Fabric Collage & Embroidery, provided students Linda Johnson and Whitney =^KRVOS ^RO YZZY\^_XS^c ^Y VKc Y_^ KXN RKXQ ^RO aY\U] YP K\^ SX
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students participated. The Braithwaite Gallery continued its extension into the Hunter Conference Center with two exhibitions, Panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt and Ron Spears: Landscapes from Zion National Park featuring a series of paintings by faculty member Spears during his tenure as a Zion Artist-in-Residence.
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the hands-on workshop. The Friends voted to sponsor a ceramics exhibition, curated by SUU’s Susan Harris, scheduled for Fall 2014.
Students Kari Heaps, Ernesto Perez and Asher J. Swan as well as SUU faculty Ron Spears, Susan Harris, and Carrie Trenholm contributed art to the Friends of the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery’s Annual Art Auction – all of which sold and helped raise money for the Friends’ projects. Theatre Arts & Dance’s Peter Sham served as auctioneer while Brad Carroll was the evening’s emcee. The SUMA Community Engagement Committee held its second Art Home Tour which included the studios of SUU’s Jay Merryweather, Rheana Gardner, Carrie Trenholm and faculty alumna Arlene Braithwaite. Arlene also contributed original art for the poster and note cards that was the prize in an opportunity to win. The Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery, under the supervision of Deborah K. Snider, hosted an Event for Educators workshop through the StateWide Art Partnership. The event, Up Close with Superior Threads, featured Bob and Heather Purcell of Superior Threads, St. George, UT, giving a workshop on color theory, thread education and a trunk show of Heather’s stunning quilts.
The Friends of the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery holding Jim Jones' The Guitar Lesson Photo: Asher J. Swan
The Gallery worked with Cedar City-Brian Head Tourism Bureau to cross promote two additional local quilt shows that overlapped the run of Everything in Between; Block by Block: Stories of Common Threads at the Frontier Homestead Museum and the Cedar Chest Quilt Show at the Heritage Center.
Banner devised by Ernesto Perez for Psychedelic Experience exhibition January 2013 Photo: Asher J Swan