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Big Cottonwood Creek in October, by Jennifer Worsley The Springville Museum of Art and Popwalk are partnering again to share the thoughts and ideas of the award winning artists in the 97th annual Spring Salon. There are a lot of great works in this exhibition. With Popwalk you are able to hear the words of … Continue reading 97th Annual Spring Salon Winners!

Dear Popwalk Community, Two years ago, we moved our organization to Utah. In those two years we have been very busy. We have received grants from Utah Humanities, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and from the National Parks Service. We have collaborated with the Springville Museum of Art and the Salt Lake Cultural Core. We … Continue reading A Seat for You in: ‘Our Valley Speaks’

We exhibit site-specific cultural work anywhere. In place. But as we have developed this kind of work, and collaborated with other arts organizations to put up their site specific projects, we recognize that there is a need to be able to communicate the details of these projects to larger audiences.  To help us do this, … Continue reading The Trailer Map function for Popwalk

We are grateful to be working with Utah Humanities to create a histories project for the Sanpete Valley. This project is being created in conjunction with our larger Sanpete Valley project, which you can read about here. This grant will support an innovative application of the Popwalk app. We will be gathering personal and family … Continue reading Utah Humanities Grant for Popwalk

The Popwalk app gives you the ability to exhibit your video in any location. Artists and arts organizations are using this unique tool to share their work in the places that will make it most meaningful. Sometimes that is right inside a museum. The Springville Museum of Art is using Popwalk to enrich the experience … Continue reading Creating a Popwalk Tour for the Springville Museum of Art 96th Annual Spring Salon

Popwalk and the Art History department at Brigham Young University are collaborating to help their community appreciate the public artwork of the university campus and of the surrounding city of Provo. Art history students at BYU are researching the artworks found in city and in university collections, to gather information about the history of the … Continue reading Art History, Public Art, BYU, and Popwalk

We are excited to announce the collaboration between Popwalk and Art in Odd Places, for their 2021 performance festival.  Art in Odd Places has a history of organizing performance festivals around the world. These festivals bring together artists and communities “to stretch the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines … Continue reading Art in Odd Places & Popwalk

The role of the monument in civic life has become a fractious topic in America. Monuments can interpret and present a history. They can be a statement of community values. But all too often these statements or histories are one sided, incomplete, or just wrong. Artists have been grappling with the layered meanings of public … Continue reading Using Popwalk to Interpret Monuments and Historic Locations

Sanpete Valley, Utah is probably not a place you have heard of. That’s alright. This broad valley is nestled between two sets of mountains, behind the larger urban areas in Salt Lake and Utah Valleys. It has a small college, a few small towns, and an excellent arts center, Granary Arts, with a far sighted … Continue reading Sanpete Valley PopwalkExhibit (yes, the whole valley)