The Utah Arts Festival returns to Library Square Park this weekend. Here are five artists showing their work there.
The Utah Arts Festival runs through Sunday, featuring dozens of artists from Utah and across the country.
Each performance, artist and creator has a story that they aim to share through their work. Here are five of them:, are from Uganda and live in Los Angeles. They combine their art expertise in storytelling and the fabric-dyeing process batik. Rubadiri pointed to one large painting, “The Market,” that features shades of orange, yellow, tan and brown, with hints of red.
“Raku is basically an hour and a half firing, then you pull them out of the kiln while they’re still very hot,” he said. Then, he drops the pieces, still hot, into trash cans full of sawdust, “which creates the reduction of oxygen, which turns the unglazed portions of the clay black and gives the clays either the crackle effect or the like real metallicky kind of iridescent looks,” he said. Raku-fired work by Allan Potter of Hereford Arizona at the Utah Arts Festival on Friday, June 23, 2023.
Her otherworldly creations now capture some of Utah’s most iconic outdoor scenes — including mountain ranges and Delicate Arch. Jager also uses resin. The results are beautiful mosaics, juxtaposing deep blues, dark purples and magenta pinks with gold, silver and copper foils.Jager became an artist full-time during the COVID-19 pandemic, deciding to put 100% of herself into her art when she was unhappy at her old job.
Sigg goes over every line of her sketch with the resist, and then applies an acid-based dye she buys from France. The sketches revolve around floral and mushroom designs, though she has a few abstract ones. The smaller neck and hair scarves have more modern designs, she said, because college students buy them.
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