Night at the Museum

Get inspired by artist Andy Goldsworthy in the filmRiver and Tides tommorrow, Dec. 11 at 6:30 pm.

This event is free and open to the public. Andy Goldsworthy’s Rivers and Tides is a truly beautiful, Scottish-German 2001 documentary about artist Goldsworthy, a Scotsman whose medium is nature itself and whose preferred studio is the outdoors, particularly where water forever flows, rises, and/or retreats. The soft-spoken, secluded Goldsworthy is seen hard at work making ephemeral sculptures out of bits of ice in the trees, or building tall, mysterious cones from loose rock, which stand like spiritual sentinels in forests and on shorelines, overgrown by plants or swallowed daily by high tides. Filmmaker-cinematographer Thomas Reidelsheimer goes to great and sometimes inexplicable lengths to make visual corollaries to Goldsworthy’s ideas about underappreciated relationships between light, color, movement, balance, and fluidity of form in the real world, making Rivers and Tides a lively and always surprising cinematic gallery. Some of Goldsworthy’s most miraculous natural installations--stone walls that snake through hundreds of feet of forest and stream, for instance--show up in the last half-hour. --Tom Keogh

The Woodbury Art Museum is located at the University Mall between Nordstrom and the Gap.

Send a postcard to a friend or loved one

Do you have an aunt, grandparent or missionary who hasn't heard from you in a while? Bring your family and friends to see the exhibits and make a postcard to send to a loved one for the holidays.

Utah resident, Melanie made this postcard here at the museum as a part of our The National Invitational Postcard Exhibit .

With your permission we might even feature yours here on our blog.

Do you have any activities you'd like to see at the museum? Please use our blog to make comments about ideas you have. We like good ideas.

Send your own postcard to friends, family, or yourself!

Make your message travel just like the artists represented in The National Invitational Postcard Exhibit from each of the fifty states.

Artists were invited to make a postcard size image dealing in some respect with the place in which they live. The exhibit is now traveling to venues throughout the United States. Many of the works on paper are two sided - and are installed in such a manner as to permit the patron to examine both surfaces.

See the front desk for mailing basket.

Winter Exhibits Opening Reception

On Friday, November 6, 2009 the Woodbury Art Museum welcomed guests to our Winter Exhibits Opening Reception. While sipping apple cider and enjoying a variety of delicious homemade artisan cookies, visitors explored several exhibits, including the National Invitational Postcard Exhibit, The Jeanne Clark Collection and Lewis Sorensen Dolls from the McCurdy Doll Museum. Currently, our galleries represent many different genres and mediums; guests can view paintings, photographs, sculptures and prints, in addition to Selections from the Permanent Collection.

Come flip a postcard or take a trip down memory lane with the McCurdy Museum’s holiday dolls! We invite you to visit our newest exhibitions up through January 15, 2010. Check our website: www.uvu.edu/museum for upcoming shows and events, and a detailed exhibition schedule.

Welcome to Our New Blog, Meet Our Staff

Welcome to the UVU Woodbury Art Museum Blog.

This is the place for news about our exhibits, special events and art related communication in the community.

Meet our Staff:

Marcus Vincent, Director and Curator

Melissa Hempel, Assistant Curator

Amy Stephan, Assistant Registrar

Chris Juber, Preparator

Jesse Royston, Graphic Designer and Public Relations Officer

Our Mission Statement: The Woodbury Art Museum serves as a catalyst in engaging our community in aesthetic investigation and cultural awareness. The museum collects, preserves, and exhibits art and related materials, focusing on, but not limited to, modern and contemporary artistic styles. These exhibitions, programs, and collections stimulate research and serve as a valuable resource in our academic setting as well as in the community.