Celebrating the Spirit of the American West through city-wide events, in conjunction with
Go West! Art of the American Frontier from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West
at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts
December 2, 2017 – March 11, 2018
Salt Lake City is “Going West!” In celebration of the exhibition Go West! Art of the American Frontier from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, the city of Salt Lake is scheduling a host of activities around the Go West! theme. The exhibition is on view December 3, 2017 – March 11, 2018, at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA).
Titled On the Trail of the West: Salt Lake City, Utah, the special events planned by seven organizations truly “celebrate the Spirit of the American West.” The list of happenings boasts music, film, lectures, family activities, and learning opportunities—all focused on the American West. Besides UMFA, participating groups include the following: Utah Symphony & Opera, LDS Church History Museum, O.C. Tanner Jewelry, University of Utah Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Utah State Historical Society, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, and Classical Art and Architecture.
It features an extraordinary array of the Center of the West’s collection items that “exemplify how newcomers mythologized their vision of the region, and how Native peoples sought to preserve their vanishing way of life.” The display boasts more than eighty celebrated paintings, sculptures, and cultural objects by Euro-American and Plains Indian artists.
On the Trail of the West is the brainchild of Center of the West Trustee Naoma Tate, whose goal is simply to share the culture, vibrancy, and pathos of the West, allowing Salt Lake Valley residents, visitors, and participants to make their own connections with the frontier.
On the Trail of the West is sponsored by the Hal R. and Naoma J. Tate Foundation with added contributions from the Center of the West, David Dee Fine Arts, and Circle of Art Loving Friends (CALF).
CLICK HERE for a booklet with all details, participating organizations, and the schedule of events!
On the Trail of the West Schedule of Events
Exhibitions
Go West! Art of the American Frontier from the Buffalo Bill Center of the West
December 3, 2017–March 11, 2018 | Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Morman Trails: Pioneer Pathways to Zion, 1846–1890
Through July 2018 | Church History Museum
Memorabilia from the Mormon Trail Crossing and related activities
Through March 31, 2018 | Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Museum
Participating Organizations
- Utah Museum of Fine Arts | UMFA
- Church History Museum | CHM
- University of Utah Osher Institute | UUOI
- Utah State Historical Society | USHS
- Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Museum | DUPM
- Utah Symphony
- O.C. Tanner
- Institute of Classical Architecture & Art—Utah
Events
Dec 1. MUSIC: Hymns Sung by Pioneers and Stories Told on the Mormon Trail, 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. | DUPM
Dec 3. ART: Go West! opens to the public | UMFA
Dec 7. LECTURE: Thayer Tolles, PhD (Marica F. Vilcek Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, Metropolitan Museum of Art), The American West in Bronze, 1850–1925, 7 p.m. | UMFA
Dec 9. PROGRAM: A Pioneer Christmas: Period Crafts & Carols, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. | CHM
Dec 16. THIRD SATURDAY FOR FAMILIES: Create waterscapes, free admission, 1–4 p.m. | UMFA
Jan 9. LECTURE: Nadine Eastwood, granddaughter of Minerva Teichert, The Western Art of Minerva Teichert, 1:30 p.m. | DUPM
Jan 10. PROGRAM: Native story-telling tour (for adult audiences) with DeLesslin George-Warren on Indigenous Corps of Discovery: The Don’t Go West Expedition, 4 p.m. | UMFA
Jan 10. LECTURE: ACME (Art. Community. Museum. Education.) Native American Artists’ Voices, 6:30 p.m. | Salt Lake City Public Library, Marmalade Branch
Jan 11. PROGRAM: Native story-telling tour (for adult audiences) with DeLesslin George-Warren on Indigenous Corps of Discovery: The Don’t Go West Expedition, 1 p.m. | UMFA
Jan 11. PROGRAM: Native story-telling: Good Trouble: Children’s Story Time and Social Dance, 4 p.m. | UMFA
Jan 11. PROGRAM: DeLesslin George-Warren, Histories: Artist Lecture and Performance, 7 p.m. | UMFA
Jan 12. PROGRAM: Native story-telling tour (adult audiences) with DeLesslin George-Warren on Indigenous Corps of Discovery: The Don’t Go West Expedition, 4 p.m. | UMFA
Jan 13. PROGRAM: Native story-telling: Good Trouble: Children’s Story Time and Social Dance, 11 a.m. | UMFA
Jan 13. PROGRAM: Native story-telling tour (adult audiences) with DeLesslin George-Warren on Indigenous Corps of Discovery: The Don’t Go West Expedition, 1 and 3 p.m. | UMFA
Jan 17. LECTURE: Leslie Anderson (UMFA Curator of European, American, and Regional Art), Go West! and gallery talk | UMFA
Jan 18. PROGRAM: Karen McWhorter (Curator, Center of the West’s Whitney Western Art Museum), Go West! A Cause for Celebration, a Catalyst for Conversation, Commander’s House, seating limited, 1:30–3 p.m. | UUOI
Jan 18. FILM: Buffalo Bill, 1944, Fort Douglas Post Theater, 7–9 p.m. | USHS
Jan 19. LECTURE: Brandon Plewe (Chief Editor of Mapping Mormonism), 1846: Visualizing a Church on the Move, 7–9 p.m. | CHM
Jan 25. PROGRAM: Jeremy Johnston, PhD (Curator, Center of the West’s Buffalo Bill Museum), Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and the Dramatization of History, Commander’s House, seating limited, 1:30–3 p.m. | UUOI
Feb 1. PROGRAM: Rebecca West (Curator, Center of the West’s Plains Indian Museum), Go West! Art of the American Frontier, Commander’s House, seating limited, 1:30–3 p.m. | UUOI
Feb 8. PROGRAM: Donna Poulton, PhD (art historian) Utah Pioneer Artists and Their Place Among the American Western Oeuvre, Commander’s House, seating limited, 1:30–3 p.m. | UUOI
Feb 8. PROGRAM: Gregory Hinton, Out West with Buffalo Bill, 7 p.m. | UMFA
Feb 13. LECTURE: Kay Threlkeld, Women on the Overland Trails, 1:30 p.m. | DUPM
Feb 15. PROGRAM: Paul Meecham (President and CEO of Utah Symphony/Utah Opera) and John Goberman (Creator and Founding Producer, Live from Lincoln Center) discuss their collaborative work on High Noon for the Utah Symphony, Commander’s House, seating limited, 1:30–3 p.m. | UUOI
Feb 15. FILM: Romana, 1928, Fort Douglas Post Theater, 7–9 p.m. | USHS
Feb 15. LECTURE: Amy Tanner Thiriot (LDS scholar), In My Father’s House Are Many Mansions: The Black Mormon Pioneer Experience, 7–9 p.m. | CHM
Feb 17. MUSIC: Utah Symphony presents the western classic movie High Noon (1952) as the symphony performs the film score. Tickets required. Abravanel Hall, 7 p.m.
Feb 22. PROGRAM: Walk and Talk with the Curator, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. | DUPM
Feb 22. LECTURE: Emma Hansen (Curator Emerita, Plains Indian Museum, Center of the West), Native Art and a Sense of Place in the Great Plains, 7 p.m. | UMFA
Feb 22. PROGRAM: Salvo Vergadavola (Patek Philippe Ambassador at O.C. Tanner), American Time: The Essential Role of Horology and the Railroad in the Creation of the American West, seating limited, 1:30–3 p.m. | UUOI
Feb 28. PROGRAM: Creativity in Focus Film Series with Postcommodity (an interdisciplinary arts collective comprised of Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, and Kade L. Twist), Through the Repellant Fence, 7 p.m. | UMFA
Mar 1. LECTURE: Josh Probert, PhD (one of America’s leading experts on the history of American decorative arts and aesthetics), What Style is that Building? Architectural Traditions in the American West (Introduced by Paul Monson, President, Institute of Classical Architecture & Art—Utah), 6–8 p.m. | Hope Gallery
Mar 8: LECTURE: Peter Hassrick (Center of the West Director Emeritus), Bierstadt and Moran: The Battle for Yellowstone, 7 p.m. | UMFA
Mar 8: PROGRAM: Walk and Talk with the Curator, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. | DUPM
Mar 9: LECTURE: Salvo Vergadavola, Patek Philippe Ambassador at O.C. Tanner, American Time: The Essential Role of Horology and the Railroad in the Creation of the American West, 6:30 p.m. | O.C. Tanner
Mar 15: FILM: Ramrod, 1947, Fort Douglas Post Theater, 7–9 p.m. | USHS* (*The Utah State Historical Society’s Screening Utah: Classic Hollywood Cinema and the Imagination of the American West continues on April 19 with Wagon Master, 1950; on May 17 with Brigham Young, 1940, and on June 21 with Westward the Women, 1951.)
