Posts Tagged ‘Local Artists’
Downtown Provo Gallery Stroll
August brings a new venue and plenty of new art
Originally published in the UVU Review on 7/28/2008.
Every first Friday of the month, art lovers swarm Historic Downtown Provo for the Gallery Stroll.
The event goes from 6 to 9 p.m. and is free to the public. This month, the stroll will include eleven venues, the newest being The Provo Community Church, United Church of Christ, which is located just next to the Sego Art Center.
Like the majority of the exhibits, the Church will show work by local artists.
The Gallery stroll is the most popular and deserving of any art-related event in Utah County, and can compete with the best exhibits in Salt Lake. The venues are all within six blocks of University Avenue and Center, which makes it entirely feasible to visit every exhibit.
As always, there will be free food, which makes it worth your while even if you’re not that into art.
North Platte Records’ Latest Release
See RuRu this Friday at Velour
Published in The College Times on June 2, 2008.
Joshua James is arguably the most popular modern musician that calls Utah home. The label behind that success is North Platte Records, which is co-owned by UVU alum and adjunct professor McKay Stevens.
The label’s most recent endeavor was an album with RuRu, also known as Isaac Russell. RuRu was only fifteen when they recorded it, but the label swears by his innovative, mature sound.
If seeing a new artist isn’t enough motivation to make it to the release party, you should know that local greats Colby Stead, Marcus Bentley, and Joshua James will also be playing — Stead and Bentley will open RuRu’s act, and James is included in his band.
“Elizabeth,” RuRu’s first album, will be released on June 6 at Velour, which is located at 135 N. University Ave in Provo, at 8 p.m. Cover is $5, and if you fancy the album, you can grab it for $10.
