Escalante Canyons Art Festival

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Celebrating Thirteen Years of
Art Inspired by Place
ESCALANTE CANYONS
ART
FESTIVAL
e v e r e t t r u e s s d ay s
September 16–25, 2016
Escalante, Utah
www.escalantecanyonsartfestival.org
Plein Air Events
Artist Welcome Cocktail Party*
Welcome to Escalante
and the Escalante Canyons Art Festival!
please note!
All programming
throughout the festival
is free and open to the
public unless otherwise
noted.*
It is that special time of year again, when afternoon clouds are
rolling in and out, sunlight slants on shimmering cottonwood
trees, and colors are changing along the river. It’s September
in Escalante! Artists and visitors from all over come to town to
celebrate art and the beauty of the Escalante Canyons.
Welcome to the 13th annual Escalante Canyons Art Festival—Everett Ruess Days. The festival is a week-long community event that brings nearby neighbors and former residents,
friends from near and far, and artists from all over the world,
together for a week of celebration. Thanks to all the folks who
make this annual event a success.
The festival is the premier event in the area, and we hope
you enjoy the many opportunities it provides. Artists set up
easels and paint throughout the region—in Escalante and
neighboring towns and counties. We hope you enjoy our
friendly accommodations and eateries and the stunning surrounding public lands.
The Escalante Canyons Art Festival week has programming
that includes plein air festivities, art exhibits, demonstrations
and workshops, hands-on art activities for all ages, artisans
selling their creations, live entertainment, and an engaging
speaker series that includes a special keynote event.
We are the gateway to America’s Great Outback. Please
enjoy the festival and your time in Escalante and come back
and visit us soon!
—Jerry Taylor, Escalante Mayor
Registered artists are welcomed to town by festival
committee members, volunteers, and sponsors
at this special event hosted by one of the festival
founding funders and long time patron.
Paint-Out Competition Events*
Nocturne Paint-Out
Stamp-In: Saturday, Sept. 17, 5–8 pm at
Vagabond Inn Barn, 115 W. Main St.
Painting Check-In: Sunday, Sept. 18, 9am–
noon at Vagabond Gallery, 115 W. Main St.
New for 2016 is our Nocturne Paint-Out,
an evening-long opportunity for those artists who
love (or want to try) to paint by moonlight and
street lamp to capture the essence of the area
once the sun goes down. September 16 is the full
moon, so there should be great evening illumination. Only artists registered for the plein air competition are eligible to enter the paint-out.
Nocturne Paint-Out winners will be announced
at the Awards Reception on Saturday evening. Artworks submitted for the Nocturne Paint-Out may
be viewed as part of the Plein Air Exhibit on Friday
and Saturday where they can also be purchased.
Celebrate Public Lands Paint-Out
Tuesday, September 20
Stamp-In: 7–10am
Painting Check-In: 2–5pm
Escalante Community Center
This is an exciting one-day event where artists
finish a painting in the course of one day, catching
a moment in a visual impression. Only artists
registered for the plein air competition are eligible to
enter the paint-out.
This year artists will paint on our diverse and
beautiful surrounding public lands. The Paint-Out
perimeters include all areas within the plethora of
public lands in Garfield, Kane and Wayne Counties. These include but are not limited to Grand
Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Dixie
National Forest, Glen Canyon National Recreation
Area, Bryce Canyon and Capitol Reef National
Parks and any of the great state parks in the area.
on the cover: Carol Bold, Color of the Wild,
acrylic, 2015
right: Manny Mellor, Cliffs Along the
Sheffield Road, linocut on paper, 2015
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Saturday, September 17, 7pm
Vagabond Inn Barn, 115 W. Main St.
*Open only to registered artists, festival
committee, volunteers and supporters, and
their families.
program design: Sandy Bell Design
Larisa Aukon, People’s
Exchange, oil, 2008
Paint-Out winners will be announced at the
Awards Reception on Saturday evening. Artworks
submitted for the Paint-Out may be viewed as
part of the Plein Air Exhibit on Friday and Saturday
where they can also be purchased.
Artists’ Reception*
Thursday, September 22, 7–9pm
Escalante Interagency Visitor Center
*Open only to registered artists, festival
committee, volunteers and supporters, and
their families.
Participating artists, festival committee members,
festival sponsors, and local art patrons mix and
mingle at this special event supported by businesses and members of the local community who
donate food and beverages for everyone to enjoy.
Plein Air Exhibit & Sale
Friday & Saturday, September 23 & 24,
9am–5pm
The Plein Air Exhibit is the highlight of the festival
and showcases all art submitted for the Plein Air
Competition and Paint-Out events. The show
includes entries in oil, pastel, watercolor, and
other media that have been produced during the
days leading up to the show by registered artists
of all levels of experience. The exhibit is a great
venue for purchasing art and seeing how the
region’s rural and natural landscapes have been
interpreted and captured on canvas or paper by
artists from near and far. Most works are for sale
via direct sales or the silent auction that closes on
Saturday evening.
Plein Air Judges Talk
Friday, September 23, 9–10am
If you’ve always wondered how judges of an
art competition make decisions on who wins,
this is an event you want to be sure to attend.
Join this year’s plein air competition judges to
learn how they evaluate the work submitted
and ultimately make decisions on who receives
awards. This year’s judges are Carol Bold, Loretta
Domaszewski, and Paula McNeill.
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Plein Air Events
Exhibits
Open Studios
Plein Air Award Ceremony
& Reception
Artist-in-Residence Exhibit
Serenidad Gallery
The 2016 Grand
StaircaseEscalante
National
Monument
Artist-in-Residence, Loretta
Domaszewski,
presents an
exhibit of works produced during the month-long
residency capturing the beauty of the landscapes
of the Escalante Canyons region. Loretta will be on
hand to discuss her work throughout the weekend
and many of the works produced will be for sale.
More information on Loretta can be found at
www.lorettafineart.com.
Stop by Serenidad
Gallery to see
the watercolors
of Harriet Young
Priska and Rachel
Dowd Bentley.
Harriet is “painting
the town” and preserving the pioneer charm of Escalante with her
work. Her 2017 calendar of “Escalante’s National
Historic District” will be available along with cards
with her paintings and drawings. Rachel painted
homes, historic buildings, and schools in northern
California and Gold
Rush Nevada for
45 years until she
passed in 1991.
Twenty five of her
paintings are for
sale.
Saturday, September 24, 6–8pm
Silent Auction closes: 6:30pm
Awards Presentation begins: 7pm
The festival closes with a reception and award
ceremony open to all artists and the public.
Refreshments are served and a cash wine bar is
available. The silent auction closes and winning
bidders rejoice. More than $10,000 in awards are
presented.
Festival Finale Brunch*
Sunday, September 25, 9–11am
Escalante Outfitters, 310 W. Main St.
This no-host brunch at the close of the festival is
the last opportunity to purchase art from festival
artists. You never know what crazy art deals you
might secure at this closing event.
Arts & Crafts Fair
9am–5pm, Festival Plaza & Festival Hall
Artisans, artists and
crafters from around
the region come to
Escalante each year
to share their unique
products with festival
attendees. The Arts
& Crafts Fair is great for finding regionally made
items that have a story to tell about the area and
those who live and work here. Jewelry, ceramics,
photography, wooden crafts, fiber goods and an
array of items can be found.
Featured Vendor
9am–5pm, Festival Hall, artist booth
Stop by Ernie Washee’s booth
inside Festival Hall to visit
and see his silver works-rock
art jewelry. See Ernie’s biography on page 12 for more
information.
Friday & Saturday, September 23–24,
9am–5pm, Escalante Community Center
Featured Artists Exhibit
9am–5pm, Escalante Community Center
2016 Escalante Canyons Featured Artists, father
and daughter, Dave and Ryen Treanor present an
exhibit of their works. Dave and Ryen will be on
hand to provide
demonstrations
and discuss their
work throughout
the weekend. Their
work will also be
for sale.
Thursday, September 22, 9am–4pm
170 South 100 West, Escalante, UT
Scotty Mitchell/
Landscape Pastel Artist
Saturday, September 24, 10am–3pm
200 North 110 West, Boulder, UT
(studio is at end of the lane on the right)
Saturday, September 24, 9–11am
1540 W. Hwy. 12, Escalante, UT
(1/2 mile west of town)
David and Brigitte Delthony
moved to Escalante in
1996 from Berlin, Germany.
David’s sculptured furniture
echoes the organic forms
of red rock country while
Brigitte’s primitive pottery
is inspired by prehistoric
cultures of the Colorado
Plateau. Their work can be
seen at Festival Hall, but
more of their art can be
seen during this open studio. Visit their website
www.sculpturedfurnitureartandceramics.com.
Workshops
Scotty Mitchell*
Pastels and Plein Air
Saturday, September 17, 2:30–6:30pm
OR Sunday, September 18, 2:30–6:30pm
Starts at Scotty’s studio,
200 North 110 West, Boulder, UT
Cost: $100, limited to 8 participants.
For more info contact Scotty at
scottym@color-country.net.
Scotty Mitchell will conduct pastel workshops the
first weekend of the festival. These workshops
start at Scotty’s studio where you will view the
results of her pastel technique, then participants
will venture down to beautiful Boulder Creek
Ranch below her house to draw. You’ll start with
one minute sketches that distill the essence of the
drawing and progress from there.
Quilt Exhibit
9am–5pm, People’s Exchange,
105 North Center St.
Every quilt has a story. Visit the Quilt Exhibit and
enjoy the art, workmanship, and history of these
beautiful quilts.
Sculptured Furniture/
Primitive Pottery Gallery
Stop by Scotty’s studio to view many of her pastel
works of the Escalante Canyon country. Scotty is
known for her ability to capture the changing light
in this region, especially the interplay of our spectacular skies and clouds. She moved to Boulder in
1994 and has painted the wonderful landscapes
on site since. To view many of Scotty’s works
please visit scottymitchell.com.
Workshops
Wayne Geary and Louise Fischman
Kid’s Mural Painting
Friday, September 23, 1:30–5pm
Hands-On Art Tent, Festival Plaza
Lisa Takata*
Travel Journey Discovery
Wednesday, September 21, 9am–5pm
Escalante Visitor Center Conference Room;
Nature Walk at Bailey’s Wash in Escalante
Petrified Forest State Park
For more info contact Lisa at
pppaz2@yahoo.com.
Explore simple ways to observe and record your
outdoor experiences. Part of the fun of traveling
is recording our experiences, observations and
questions—mostly for ourselves but also to share
our experience with family, friends and fellow
travelers. In this workshop you will create a mixed
media journal and leave with the inspiration to
capture future experiences traveling through
nature via journaling.
This full-day workshop includes engaging the
senses and mind mapping, followed by creating
a paper journal, taking a nature walk, sharing
individual observations and inspirations, followed
by instruction and hands-on channeling of experiences into a journal. The day concludes with a
collaborative community scavenger hunt.
Fee includes necessary supplies but participants are encouraged to bring any favorite materials. Pre-made bound journals will also be available
for purchase at additional cost. Walking/hiking
shoes are suggested for nature walk—be prepared
for uneven terrain.
Lisa Takata is an artist and writer from Phoenix,
Arizona. She enjoys exploring outdoors and has
completed artist residencies at Yosemite and
Rocky Mountain National Parks. The Southwest’s
dramatic geography and cultural history provides
constant creative inspiration for her.
Kellie Day*
Marvelous Mixed Media
Thursday, September 22, 9am–4pm
Escalante Visitor Center Conference Room
Cost: $125 (includes all materials),
limited to 20 participants.
For more info contact Kellie at
kellie@kelliedayart.com.
Explore the creative art of collage with artist, Kellie
Day. You’ll start by creating relaxed backgrounds
with fun papers on canvas, then integrate paint
with your collage, and add texture with patterns
and stencils. You’ll develop your subject with layers of paint and collage, and then explore adding
finishing touches with pastels, paint markers,
stamps, and other lively materials to create bold,
bright, mixed media paintings on canvas. See
more of Kellie’s work at kelliedayart.com.
Hands-On Art
Bonnie Griffith*
Alcohol Inks on Tiles
Tuesday, September 20, 7–9pm
Escalante Visitor Center Conference Room
Bring latex or vinyl gloves and an apron.
Get ready to create! Use
alcohol based inks to
create impressionistic or
abstract art on ceramic
tiles and Yupo paper. The
inks are brilliant in color
and can blend in freeform
patterns or be applied with
a brush for more controlled designs. This is a
medium that is enjoyed by artists of all levels!
Bonnie Griffith is a landscape painter who
paints the western world in oil and pastels.
She paints en plein air whenever possible. Her
work is shown in galleries in Montana, Idaho,
Washington, and Oregon and she participates in
numerous plein air and quick draw events in the
West. Bonnie teaches workshops at her studio in
Meridian, Idaho, and other locations by request.
See more of her work at bonniegriffith.com.
Calling all kids—join
Salt Lake husband
and wife artists
Wayne Geary and
Louise Fischman to
create a small mural
that captures the
beauty of the canyons that surround us in Escalante. All materials
will be provided for this hands-on activity. Stop by
anytime during the afternoon to contribute to the
mural’s development.
Wayne and Louise are often involved in community art projects with youth—creating murals
and mosaics for public spaces. Louise directs the
Therapeutic Art Education Program at Primary
Children’s Hospital. Wayne works as a part time
art specialist in an elementary school in Salt Lake.
Jean Thomas
Kid’s Kreative Krafts
Friday & Saturday, September 23–24,
various times throughout both days
Calling all kids! Join Jean Thomas throughout
Friday and Saturday to express your creative sides
with finger painting, plant paintbrushes, and some
surprise craft projects. Jean began her career as
a high school art teacher and has transitioned to
charter school administration. She enjoys engaging kids in art projects where they can explore and
express their innate creativity.
Bonnie Griffith*
Pastel Paint Along
Friday, September 23,
3–5pm
Hands-On Art Tent,
Festival Plaza
Cost: $10, limited to
20 participants.
Join Bonnie Griffith and create your own pastel
masterpiece in a “paint-along” fashion. You will
have the opportunity to follow her lead in creating
a pastel landscape. There will be a sample to
work from while you paint along with Bonnie. Just
bring your desire to learn some pastel painting
techniques and have fun!
Lisa Hartman
Star Books–Star Date 2016
Saturday, September 24, noon–3pm
Suggested donation: $5
Have you ever made a Star Book? Please join
Lisa Hartman under the Hands-On Art Tent to
participate in an exciting collaborative Star Book
hands-on art project. You will create your own personal Star Book and make a section in collaboration with others to be incorporated into a dramatic
sculptural Star Book that will be showcased locally
after the festival. This is open to everyone—stop
by anytime during the afternoon.
Lisa Hartman is a multi-media artist who
enjoys making things. She is a member of San
Diego Book Arts and has shown her work in
several exhibit locations, including the San Diego
Women’s Museum.
Lisa has taught
creative art workshops
involving paper. She
lives in Escalante with
her husband and two
dogs.
Demonstrations
Patricia Rose Ford
Nocturne Painting in Nature
Friday, September 16, 8pm
Head of the Rocks Overlook
(10 miles east of Escalante on Highway 12)
Travel a bit out of town to the Head of the Rocks
Overlook to see how Patricia Rose Ford goes
about creating a painting
at night, using only natural
light to illuminate the
landscape features of the
Escalante Canyons. As a
landscape painter, Patricia
mostly paints with pastels
in plein air, as she enjoys
being in nature, looking
at a beautiful scene, and
translating the emotions
of what is seen onto paper.
See more of Patricia’s work
at patriciaroseford.com.
Demonstrations
Patricia Kimball
Keep It Simple
Saturday, September 17, 10am– noon
Meet at Anasazi State Park Museum
(460 Hwy 12 in Boulder) to travel to location.
Bring water and a camp chair.
This demonstration will be a synthesis of what
Patty has learned over the years about plein air
painting. She will share her thinking and methods
about the basics: what to paint, composition,
color, value, and mark-making. “En plein air” is
how Patty learned to paint more than 20 years ago,
and it continues to be a big part of her art practice
to this day. She is a native Utahn and received her
art training at the University of Utah. Her work is
regularly shown at the Phillips Gallery in Salt Lake
City and Park Gallery in Carmel, California. See
more of her work at patriciakimball.com.
Bonnie Griffith, Patricia Rose Ford,
Delee Grant, Peggy Marlatt, &
Valerie Orlemann
Lasting Impressions—
Women Paint the Canyons
Monday, September 19, 4–6pm
Slot Canyons Inn/North Creek Grill*
(4 miles west of Escalante—turn right
off Hwy 12 onto Main Canyon Road and
follow signs)
Catching the late afternoon light on golden
sandstone using plein air painting techniques
will be demonstrated by several women artists
painting together in the picturesque setting of Slot
Canyons Inn/North Creek Grill a few miles west of
Escalante.
*Please note: North Creek Grill will be serving
dinner this evening. Reservations are recommended: (435)826-4901.
Bonnie Griffith is a landscape painter who
paints the western world in oil and pastels. See
her biography on page 6.
Jacob Tarazoff
Painting Escalante at Night
Sunday, September 18, 8pm
Meet at Escalante Town Park Pavilion
Jacob will demonstrate how to capture the ambiance of small town Escalante in the evening when
homes are lit from within as well as when the
moon is shining brightly.
Jacob has been snowboarding and rock climbing/mountaineering for over half his life, and he
seeks to inform his painting with these adventure
pursuits, which have come to shape his core views
and values. Jacob has a BFA from the University of
New Mexico and has studied with many wonderful
painters in and around the Western US. See more
of Jacob’s work at jacobtarazoff.com.
be found in many private collections throughout
Canada, US, and Australia as well as public collections. She lives on a farm in Saskatchewan with
her husband and several four legged friends. See
more of DeLee’s work at deleegrant.com.
Peggy Marlatt is a self taught artist living and
working in Flagstaff, Arizona. She had the honor
of being Artist-in-Residence at Petrified Forest
National Park in 2014 and Hubbell Trading Post
Historic Site in 2015. Peggy finds that painting the
Southwest provides a dramatic landscape, and
pastels work well outdoors because of the intensity of the color and immediate application. See
more of Peggy’s work at peggymarlattarts.com.
Patricia Rose Ford’s
hope is that she is able to
convey in her art, the feelings of joy and tranquility
that she experiences when
painting. See her biography
on page 7.
DeLee Grant spends her time between painting and fine art photography. Her favorite passion
is working “en plein air” to capture landscapes
and scenes in their natural light. She has always
had an affinity for the outdoors, animals, trees,
flowers, wildlife, back roads, and wide open spaces
which stems from her childhood growing up on a
farm in Saskatchewan, Canada. Her art work can
Valerie Orlemann is a realist landscape
painter working with oil on canvas. She studied
art at the University of Utah, completing most of
the BFA program before parenthood (and a new
job for her husband in Escalante) redirected her
artistic efforts. Valerie wound up far away from art
school, but surrounded by beautiful landscape to
paint. See more of her work at orlemannart.com.
Katy Ann Fox
Flatting the Unflat
Wednesday, September 21,
2pm
Meet at Escalante Town
Park to travel to location
Join Katy Ann for a two-hour
demonstration where she shares how her paintings incorporate textures and play with the geometric and organic mixture of shapes. Katy uses
a lighthearted color palette
in documenting things that
often go unnoticed. She
lives and paints in Jackson,
Wyoming. See more of Katy
Ann’s work at katyfoxart.
com.
Carol Bold
Color of the Wild
Friday, September 23, 7am
Meet at Escalante Town Park to travel
to location
Join Carol Bold to paint the early morning light in
Escalante. Carol is a painter
and printmaker based in
St. George, Utah. She has
exhibited her work in numerous shows and galleries in
Southern Utah, California,
Nevada and Maryland, and
has received continued
recognition and awards for
her work throughout the
Southwest. When not in her
studio, Carol spends her
time hiking, exploring, camping with her family,
and drawing inspiration from the vast and beautiful landscape that surrounds her. See more of her
work at carolbold.com.
Scotty Geary
Getting More
Comfortable with
Watercolor
Friday, September 23,
10am–noon
Meet at Escalante Town
Park to travel
to location
Artists unfamiliar with
watercolor often believe
that it is a difficult and
unforgiving medium. They
frequently ask many questions: How do I begin?
What are the processes
and techniques used to
get positive results? Why
are there so many variants
in paper textures? This
two hour demonstration will help answer these
questions. Long time canyon rat and watercolorist, Scott Geary, will show how a methodical
approach, using a variety of techniques, can
produce a watercolor painting that conveys the
clean edges, brilliant light, and vivid colors of the
landscape he loves above all others.
Although Santa Fe artist Scott Geary is probably better known for his abstract paintings, whenever he can, he hikes and paints the Colorado
Plateau’s incredible backcountry.
Demonstrations
Loretta Domaszewski
The Quick Draw Quest
Friday, September 23, 1–3pm
Escalante Community Center,
Artist-in-Residence Exhibit Room
Join Loretta Domaszewski,
the 2016 Grand Staircase–
Escalante National Monument’s 20th Anniversary
Artist-in-Residence in a
two-hour demonstration
surrounded by her exhibit of
textured oil paintings created throughout her onemonth residency.
Enjoy her Quick Draw Demonstration of visual
poetry and experience the broad brushstrokes
and textures expressing the essence of dramatic
southwestern skies and striking colors of this
unique landscape.
A professional contemporary artist from Montana, Loretta has been exhibiting and teaching all
ages and levels nationally for three decades. Her
passion is to be active, explore nature, create art,
and encourage selfdiscovery through
artistic expression. See more of
Loretta’s work at
www.lorettafineart.
com.
Loretta Domaszewski,
Bonnie Griffith, & Wayne Geary
Pop Up Artists at Calf Creek to Celebrate
National Public Lands Day
Saturday, September 24, 8–10am
Calf Creek Recreation Area (along Calf Creek
off Hwy 12 between Escalante and Boulder,
just east of the Escalante River)
Parking is limited, please carpool–access is
free for National Public Lands Day
Celebrate National Public Lands Day and the 20th
anniversary of the designation of Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument (GSENM)
by joining GSENM Artists-in-Residence Loretta
Domaszewski (2016), Bonnie Griffith (2015), and
Wayne Geary (2013) for early morning plein air
painting demonstrations at Calf Creek Recreation
Area, the most visited destination on the Monument. The artists will station themselves around
the recreation area to capture the spectacular
beauty of Calf Creek Canyon in the early morning
light and be available to interact with the public.
Speaker Series
The End of Night?
Escalante High School Auditorium
Joshua Baird
Introduction to Painting
with Oils
Saturday, September 24,
10am–noon
Escalante Interagency
Visitor Center
Conference Room
This approximately twohour demonstration is
simply an introduction to
oil painting. Joshua will
focus on tools, materials,
and equipment for simple
indoor setups, studio
setups, and outdoor setups. He’ll cover the basic
chemistry of oil painting—
surfaces, grounds, solvents, media, etc.
Joshua Baird is an American artist and Utah
native who captures the awe-inspiring colors and
spacious vistas of the Colorado Plateau in his
artwork. He received both a Bachelor of Arts in
drawing and painting, and a Master of Arts in art
education from Southern Oregon University. He
currently resides in Kanab, Utah. His artwork is
represented by David Ericson Fine Art and Raven’s
Heart Gallery. See more of Joshua’s work at
joshuabaird.com.
KEYNOTE PROGRAM
Paul Bogard
Ace Kvale
Sixty Days to Nowhere
Wednesday, September 21, 7pm
Photographer Ace Kvale invites you to accompany him, through stories and images, on a great
adventure that began three years ago when he
completed a 27-day backpacking trip out his backdoor in Boulder, Utah. The program will bring you
closer to the spectacular beauty of the Colorado
Plateau with breathtaking shots and tales from his
encounters.
The culmination of many years of research and
reconnaissance hikes, it was a singular life event.
However, in hindsight he realized it was short
sighted. Ace turned toward home when what he
really needed to do was keep going to the natural
destination—the beacon that beckons us all, floating on the horizon like a dream, the center of the
canyon country universe, the breast, the mother,
the giver of life: Navajo Mountain. Ace set out
again in September 2015 with two friends. Heat,
storms, lightning, unknown routes, logistics, water
sources, food caches, rescues—they had it all.
And through it all the rhythm of life. The cycles
of the moon. The routes of the ancients revealed
in the search. The quest. To view and feel the
land long before roads or an artificial lake marred
the landscape. An attempt to grasp the canyon
country, to hold it close. To feel the vibration of
the earth by walking through it.
Born in Minnesota, raised in the Rockies, Ace
Kvale has been wandering the globe, camera in
hand for over thirty years. While on assignment
for National Geographic in 2005 he glimpsed the
immensity of the Escalante country. In 2006 he
moved to Boulder, Utah. See Ace’s portfolio at
acekvale.com.
A starry night is one
of nature’s most
magical wonders. Yet
in our artificially lit
world, most of us no
longer experience true
darkness. In this talk
based on his book
The End Of Night,
Paul Bogard seeks
to restore our awareness of the spectacularly
primal, wildly dark night sky and how it has
influenced the human experience across
everything from science to art. Using a blend of
personal narrative, natural history, science, and
astronomy, Bogard shares the importance of
darkness—what we’ve lost, what we still have,
and what we might regain—and the simple
ways we can reduce the brightness of our
nights tonight.
Bogard is author of The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial
Light (Little, Brown, 2013) and editor of Let
There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark
(U of Nevada Press, 2008). His new book, The
Ground Around Us, will be published by Little,
Brown in 2017. A native Minnesotan, Paul has
lived and taught in Minneapolis, Albuquerque,
Reno, northern Wisconsin, and Winston-Salem.
A graduate of Carleton College, the University
of New Mexico, and the University of NevadaReno (PhD in Literature and Environment),
Paul is now an assistant professor at James
Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia,
where he teaches creative writing and environmental literature. Find him at paul-bogard.com.
Prelude music by
Craig Sorenson and
Curtis Oberhansley
precedes the lecture
beginning at 6:30pm.
Speaker Series
Paula McNeill
Appreciating the Work of Featured Artists:
Dave and Ryen Treanor and
Featured Vendor: Ernie Washee
Friday, September 23, 11am
Paula will discuss the lives and works of Escalante
resident artists, father and daugher, Dave and
Ryen Treanor, and Blanding resident silversmith,
Ernie Washee.
Dave and Ryen
Treanor: Dave
first entered the
Escalante Canyons
Art Festival in its
second year. He
took several years
off to spend some
time to understand what plein air was really about.
In 2012 he felt comfortable giving it another try
and won Honorable Mention in mixed media. In
2014, he won the People’s Choice Award and in
2015 he was awarded with the Escalante River
Watershed Project River Award, for best portrayal
of the Escalante River. Whether Ryen is drawing,
painting, building, writing, singing, or playing, she
is ALWAYS creating.
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North Creek Grill
SF
Lisa Takata is an artist and writer from Phoenix,
Arizona. She enjoys exploring outdoors and has
completed artist residencies at Yosemite and
Rocky Mountain National Parks.
Mind Mapping to Capture the Beauty
of Nature
Explore simple ways to observe and record our
outdoor experiences with mind mapping, journaling and collaborative activities for our own creative
inspiration and to share with others. The beauty
and expansiveness of Escalante’s landscape offers
great inspiration but can easily overwhelm the
senses. This interactive presentation offers some
simple tools for making the most of our time here
to record more of what we are seeing and experiencing. We will learn how to use our notes and
sketches to provide personal creative inspiration
and make it easy to share the richness of our experiences with family and friends back home. These
tools can easily be applied to any future journeys
you may take. A short nature walk is included to
practice our skills, so remember to bring a journal
and something to write with to this program.
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Festival Map
Lisa Takata
Ernie Washee:
Dine (Navajo) silversmith and artist,
Ernie Washee was
born in Crownpoint, New Mexico
and raised by his
grandmother in the small community of Mariano
Lake, New Mexico. His clan is Deeshchii’nii (Start
of the Red Streak People). In recent years, Ernie
has been influenced by the many rock art motifs
and traditional Dine stories of the early people
of the Southwest. Drawing on these inspirations,
Ernie has developed a style of work that he calls,
“rock art jewelry.”
Art educator and photographer, Paula L.
McNeill, divides her time between Valdosta,
Georgia, where she is on the art faculty at Valdosta
State University and summers in Escalante, where
her family has had a summer home since 1980.
With an interest in community-based art, for
more than ten years, McNeill has documented
the art and lives of visual artists in Southern
Utah through video-taped oral history interviews.
She has published some of these findings and
has made numerous presentations at state and
national professional meetings on this topic,
including presentations on the Featured Artist
for the Escalante Canyons Art Festival since
2004 when the Festival began. At Valdosta State,
McNeill teaches art education and creativity
courses.
Lisbeth Louderback & Bruce Pavlik
The Archaeology and Conservation
of the Four Corners Potato
Saturday, September 24, 11am
Could Utah be home to the earliest known domestication of a wild native plant? We have been
examining that possibility through archaeological
and botanical studies of the Four Corners potato
(Solanum jamesii), a species found in southern
Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. The
work has highlighted the importance of collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to complex
problems in deep time.
Although once ubiquitous in Escalante (which
the pioneers called “Potato Valley”), S. jamesii is
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Escalante Outfitters
Historic Escalante Showhouse
Festival Hall
Festival Plaza
Escalante High School
People’s Exchange
Slot Canyons Inn/North Creek Grill
Sculpted Furniture/Pottery
Serenidad Gallery
Escalante Petrified Forest State Park
Escalante Town Park
Vagabond Inn
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Beyond Escalante:
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Calf Creek Recreation Area
Head of the Rocks Overlook
Scotty Mitchell Studio
now hard to find on the landscape. By establishing
the cultural significance and potential agronomic
importance of S. jamesii we hope to facilitate
conservation through better land management
practices and local outreach.
Dr. Lisbeth Louderback is Curator of Archaeology at the Natural History Museum of Utah
and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the
University of Utah. Her research interests include
archaeology and archaeobotany of the arid western North America. Dr. Bruce Pavlik is Director
of Conservation at Red Butte Garden (University
of Utah) and Principal Scientist at BMP Ecosciences. His research concerns conservation and
restoration of native plants and ecosystems.
Scott Thybony
The Disappearances: A Story of Exploration,
Murder, and Mystery in the American West
Scott Thybony draws from
his latest book to present a
story of exploration, murder,
and mystery set in the Four
Corners country during the
1930s. He includes readings
from The Disappearances and
historic photographs to recount the struggles of
a girl in search of her father, the mystery of a Los
Angeles artist in search of beauty (the festival’s
namesake—Everett Ruess), and the explorations
of a scientist seeking ancient cliff dwellings. All
were young, all went missing and were feared
lost, and all three incidents unfolded at the same
moment of time in the tangle of canyons and
slickrock expanses of Utah.
Scott Thybony has covered the American
West on assignments for magazines such as
National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Outside.
His books include Burntwater and The Canyon
Country, while his stories regularly air on Arizona
Public Radio. To use food as biography, he has
eaten tamales made with
blue corn and ash after
dancing with the Yellow
Clowns during a Hopi ceremony, deep-fried Rocky
Mountain oysters after a
morning of branding cattle, and cold mutton stew
with Navajo medicine
men. For more information on Scott and his work
visit scott-thybony.com.
Special Programs
Ranger Talk and Cake–
Orientation to Area for First Time
Artists/Visitors
Sunday, September 18, 1–2pm
Escalante Interagency Visitor Center Theater
Christa Sadler
Deep Time on the Grand Staircase:
25 Million Years in the Life of Southern Utah
During the Late Cretaceous
Deep Time on the Grand Staircase explores the
extraordinary world of southern Utah during the
last part of the Age of Dinosaurs. From about
100 million years ago to 76 million years ago, the
region was home to a diversity of plants and animals that seems impossible today: magnolias and
smothering vines, conifers and sycamores played
host to a menagerie of dinosaurs and crocodiles,
turtles and lizards—and early members of the
birds and mammals. While most of these creatures and plants would become extinct at the end
of the Cretaceous, at this point in time life was
flourishing, and southern Utah appears to have
been a cradle of diversity and evolution. Although
we see the beginnings of our modern world in this
time period, we also may be able to look into the
future by examining the past. The extraordinary
“greenhouse world” of the Late Cretaceous may
have important information for our modern world
in the context of a changing climate and changing
ecosystems.
Christa Sadler is a paleontologist and educator, author, and wilderness and river guide with
an enormous love for all things earth. She calls
Flagstaff, Arizona her home base, but pretty much
any river, trail, mountain or ocean is home. Her
publications include There’s This River . . . Grand
Canyon Boatman Stories; Life in Stone; Dawn of the
Dinosaurs; and Deep Time on the Grand Staircase:
Dinosaurs, Discovery,
and the Late Cretaceous
World of Southern Utah.
Check Christa’s website
for more information:
this-earth.com.
Stop by the Escalante Interagency Visitor Center to
get an orientation to the area and to enjoy cake to
celebrate the 20th anniversary of the designation
of Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument. With millions of acres in which to paint
and a variety of weather and road conditions to
figure out, it may be daunting for first time artists
to get started. Park Rangers will be on hand to
share tips and suggestions for how to safely enjoy
the area and locations that offer great painting
opportunities. Come with your questions and the
rangers will do their best to provide the answers
about this amazing landscape they call their office
(and home).
The End of Night–Telescope
Viewing
Friday, September 23, after dark immediately
following Keynote Speaker Program
outside Escalante High School
Join Escalante Interagency Dark Sky Park Rangers
to enjoy viewing the moon, planets, and stars
through high-power telescopes immediately
following Paul Bogard’s keynote on dark skies.
Planets that may be visible if the skies are clear
include Venus, Mars, Saturn and Uranus.
Lasting Impressions—
Panel Discussion
Saturday, September 24, 2–3pm
Conference Room
Lasting Impressions—Women Paint the Canyons
participants (see below) from earlier in the week
will participate in a panel discussion about their
work, unique styles of painting, inspirations and
motivations. The discussion will be moderated by
Sandy Larsen, retired festival director.
Bonnie Griffith is a landscape
painter who paints the western world
in oil and pastels. She participates
in numerous Plein air and quick
draw events in the West and teaches
workshops at her studio in Meridian,
Idaho and other locations by request.
Patricia Ford is a landscape painter
who loves the great outdoors, particularly the scenes of the southwestern
deserts and coastlines. Patricia’s
work has been exhibited in local and
national juried shows throughout the
United States.
DeLee Grant spends her time
between painting and fine art photography. Her favorite passion is working
“en plein air” to capture landscapes
in their natural light. Her art work can
be found in many private collections
throughout Canada, US, and Australia
as well as public collections.
Peggy Marlatt is a self taught artist
who had the honor of being Artist-inResidence at Petrified Forest National
Park in 2014 and Hubbell Trading
Post Historic Site in 2015. Peggy finds
that painting the Southwest provides
a dramatic landscape, and pastels
work well outdoors because of the
intensity of the color and immediate
application.
Valerie Orlemann is a realist landscape painter working with oil on canvas. Her work has been recognized in
a variety of ways—winning awards at
the St. George Art Festival, the River
Runner’s Art Show in Green River and
several awards for plein air painting at
the Escalante Canyons Art Festival.
Entertainment
All programming is free and open to the
public unless otherwise noted.*
2pm Mikalene
washington city, ut
Friday, September 23
Mikalene has been performing country music
professionally for 15
years. She and her band
recently opened for Jo
Dee Messina. Mikalene
is an accomplished songwriter and has written
songs for many projects. She has two albums of
originals available on iTunes, Amazon, and on her
website: mikalene.com
All entertainment is performed on the Festival Stage
on the north end of Festival Plaza unless noted
otherwise.
10am Kenny Hall
cannonville, ut
Kenny is a singer of Western ballads and songs,
who resides just over the hill to the west in
beautiful Bryce Valley. He is a popular entertainer
and has a great arsenal of songs that cross many
Western genres. If we are lucky, he might even
share a cowboy poem or two.
Noon Both Crows
southwestern utah
Lottie Darger is a 21 year
old singer/songwriter
based in Southern Utah
where she lives with her
husband and two sons.
She began writing songs
at age 15 and admits to
loving words and word
play. Lottie’s band Both
Crows assists her in the
final development of her
songs. Initially, she composes a song’s melody
on either piano or acoustic guitar and then runs
the ideas by the band. Each member of the band
develops their own unique contribution to the
songs while Lottie steers the direction.
Saturday, September 24
All entertainment is performed on the Festival Stage
on the north end of Festival Plaza unless noted
otherwise.
10am Less Than Lucid
southern utah
Hailing from Southern
Utah, Less than Lucid
performs a wide range of
genres—rock, alternative
rock, blues and acoustic
material, covering songs
from acts like Pearl Jam,
Creedence Clearwater
Revival, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters,
Collective Soul, Sublime and others. Less Than
Lucid also has several original songs and is
preparing their first studio album.
Noon Closure
st. george, ut
4pm Crook & the Bluff
salt lake city, ut
Psychedelic western blues rockers, Crook & the
Bluff portray the sonic landscape they’ve been
refining since the band’s birth in 2013 that is akin
to the desert itself, whose vast wildness permeates
their music. They’ve crafted a powerful stage presence equipped with an arsenal of songs depicting
lust, love, murder and malevolence. There is only
one way to experience Crook & the Bluff—LIVE!
“—an unholy joining of tripped-out Western
psychedelia and dirty desert blues—and proven
that they’re masters of mood. And oh, do things get
moody. Dense layers of reverberating guitar slowly
grow into ground-shaking crescendos, then fade into
ghostly atmosphere, over all of which echo Dath’s
deep, booming lead vocals. And always looming at
the center of the album is the ever-watchful desert,
which, in Crook & the Bluff’s hands, seems to take on
a personality of its own.”—City Weekly
St. George-based
Closure was formed
14 years ago with one
purpose in mind . . .
play good music that
people like! Their setlist includes popular
songs from most
genres of music
spanning multiple
decades. There is something for everyone at a
Closure show.
2pm Mindy Dillard
salt lake city, ut
Mindy Dillard is an adventurer and an awardwinning singer-songwriter. She plays clawhammer, banjo and rhythm guitar, often in alternate
tunings to accompany
her electric and raw,
crystal-clear voice. Her
music pulsates with
funky rhythmic grooves
and sparkles with heartfelt storytelling. Mindy is
a mythological scholar
and has performed
her one woman folk
rock opera based on
Grimm’s fairytales and
the work of Clarissa Pinkola Estes internationally.
In June 2015 she won Susanne Millsaps performing songwriter competition in Salt Lake City, Utah
(which is also her hometown). She opened for folk
icon John Gorka at the 2015 Utah Arts Festival.
Mindy’s musical influences include Joni Mitchell,
Dar Williams, Stephen Sondheim, and Ella Fitzgerald. A genre bender, Mindy’s sound holds shades
of old-time Appalachia, contemporary folk, gospel,
musical theatre, and rhythm and blues. Through
her music she seeks to transform the ordinary
into the magical and poison into medicine. Visit
mindydillard.com to find out more.
4pm Mary Kaye
escalante, ut
Mary Kaye is an internationally acclaimed and
multiple award winning
singer-songwriter and
tours extensively with
her unique brand of
western roots music.
She is a native born
Texan and as a young woman ventured off to Utah
where she “married her a cowboy.” Their family
has deep western roots that go back six generations. Mary Kaye now resides in Escalante where
her large family is involved in cowboying, horse
training, and all things Western. She has been
married to her husband Brad for 30 years; they
have ten children. Her distinguished songwriting
and vocal abilities combined with her magnetic
stage presence, beautiful guitar playing, and fun
sense of humor make for a memorable performance. To hear more of Mary Kaye’s music, visit
mary-kaye.com.
Evening Festival Finale*
Saturday, September 24,
Historic Escalante Showhouse,
50 W. Main St., $10 at door
8:30–11:30pm Crook & the Bluff
Come and hear the group in their second appearance at the Historic Escalante Showhouse following the Plein Air Award Ceremony. The Escalante
Showhouse was built in 1938 by Lorin Griffin
and was originally constructed as an entertainment hall and movie theater. It has been lovingly
restored by the Steed family of Escalante.
Schedule at a Glance
All programming is free and open to the public
unless otherwise noted.*
Friday, Sept 16
Saturday, Sept 17
ESCALANTE LOCATIONS:
CC Community Center
EO Escalante Outfitters
ES Historic Escalante Showhouse
FH Festival Hall
FP Festival Plaza
HS Escalante High School
■ PLEIN AIR EVENTS AND EXHIBITS
■ DEMOS/WORKSHOPS/OPEN STUDIOS/
HANDS-ON ART
■ SPEAKER SERIES
■ ENTERTAINMENT
■ SPECIAL PROGRAMS
Sunday, Sept 18
Tuesday, Sept 20
Monday, Sept 19
8 am
8 am
Celebrate Public Lands
Paint-Out*
Stamp-in: 7–10am
(CC)
9 am
9 am
Check-in: 2–5pm
(CC)
10 am
Kellie Day*
WORKSHOP
Marvelous
Mixed Media
9am–4pm
(VC)
Serenidad
Gallery
OPEN
STUDIO
9am–4pm
(SG)
1 pm
Ranger Talk and Cake
SPECIAL PROGRAMS
1–2pm (VC)
2 pm
2 pm
Scotty
Mitchell*
WORKSHOP
Pastels and
Plein Air
2:30–6:30pm
(SM)
3 pm
4 pm
5 pm
FULL MOON
TONIGHT!
Scotty
Mitchell*
WORKSHOP
Pastels and
Plein Air
2:30–6:30pm
(SM)
Nocturne
Paint-Out*
Stamp-in:
5–8pm
(VI)
7 pm
9 pm
Lisa Takata*
WORKSHOP
Travel Journey
Discovery
9am–5pm
(VC)
Thursday, Sept 22
noon
1 pm
8 pm
Wednesday, Sept 21
BEYOND ESCALANTE:
AM Anasazi State Park Museum
CA Calf Creek Recreation Area
HR Head of the Rocks Overlook
SM Scotty Mitchell Studio
11 am
noon
6 pm
People’s Exchange
Slot Canyons Inn/N.C. Grill
Serenidad Gallery
Town Park
Escalante Visitor Center
Vagabond Inn
10 am
Patricia
Kimball
DEMO
Keep it Simple
10am–noon
(AM)
11 am
PE SC SF SG TP VC VI
Patricia Ford
DEMO
Nocturne
Painting
8pm (HR)
Katy Ann Fox
DEMO
Flatting the
Unflat
2–4pm
(TP)
3 pm
Lasting
Impressions—
Women Paint
the Canyons
DEMOS
4–6pm
(SC)
4 pm
5 pm
6 pm
Artist
Welcome
Cocktail
Party*
7pm
(VI)
7 pm
Jacob Tarazoff
DEMO
Painting Escalante at Night
8pm
(TP)
8 pm
Bonnie Griffith*
HANDS-on ART
Alcohol Inks on Tiles
7–9pm
(VC)
Ace Kvale
SPEAKER
Sixty Days to Nowhere
7PM
(VC)
Artists’ Reception*
7–9PM
(VC)
9 pm
CC Community Center
FH Festival Hall
FP Festival Plaza
HANDS-ON ART
■ SPEAKER SERIES
■ ENTERTAINMENT
Friday, Sept 23
Carol Bold
DEMO
Color of the Wild
7–9am
(TP)
10 am
11 am
Judges Talk
9–10am
(CC)
Plein Air
Exhibit &
Art Sale
9am–5pm
(CC)
Artist-inResidence
EXHIBIT
9am–5pm
(CC)
Overflow Art
Sales in the
Tent
9am–5pm
(FP)
Quilts
EXHIBIT
9am–5pm
(PE)
noon
1 pm
2 pm
3 pm
4 pm
Featured
Artists
EXHIBIT
9am–5pm
(CC)
Arts & Crafts
Fair
9am–5pm
(FP & FH)
9 am
Scotty Geary
DEMO
Getting More
Comfortable
with Watercolor
10am–noon
(TP)
Loretta
Domaszewski
DEMO
The Quick Draw
Quest
1–3pm
(CC)
Jean Thomas
HANDS-on ART
Kid’s Kreative
Krafts
various times
throughout
the day
(FP)
Wayne Geary
and Louise
Fischman
HANDS-on ART
Kid’s Mural
Painting
Bonnie Griffith* 1:30–5pm
HANDS-on ART (FP)
Pastel Paint
Along
3–5pm
(FP)
10 am
11 am
noon
Paula McNeill
SPEAKER
Appreciating the Work of Featured
Artists and Featured Vendor
11am (VC)
1 pm
2 pm
3 pm
4 pm
5 pm
6 pm
6 pm
7 pm
7 pm
8 pm
8 pm
BEYOND ESCALANTE:
8 am
5 pm
9 pm
People’s Exchange
Serenidad Gallery
Town Park
Vagabond Inn
Friday, Sept 23 continued
8 am
9 am
9 pm
Lisa Takata
SPEAKER
Mind Mapping to Capture the
Beauty of Nature
3pm (VC)
Kenny Hall
Western Ballads/Songs
10am
(FP)
Both Crows
Singer/Songwriter
noon
(FP)
Mikalene
Country
2pm
(FP)
Crook & the Bluff
Blues/Folk/Psychedelia
4pm
(FP)
*Prelude music to be provided
by Craig Sorenson and Curtis
Oberhansley beginning at
6:30 pm.
Paul Bogard
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
The End of Night?
7–9pm (HS)
The End of Night–Telescope Viewing
SPECIAL PROGRAMS
Following keynote speaker after 9pm (HS)
CC Community Center
FH Festival Hall
FP Festival Plaza
HANDS-ON ART
■ SPEAKER SERIES
■ ENTERTAINMENT
Saturday, Sept 24
10 am
11 am
noon
1 pm
Plein Air
Exhibit & Art
Sale
9am–5pm
(CC)
Artist-inResidence
EXHIBIT
9am–5pm
(CC)
Overflow Art
Sales in the
Tent
9am–5pm
(FP)
Quilts
EXHIBIT
9am–5pm
(PE)
Featured
Artists
EXHIBIT
9am–5pm
(CC)
2 pm
Arts & Crafts
Fair
9am–5pm
(FP & FH)
Joshua Baird
DEMO
Intro to Painting
with Oils
10am–noon
(VC)
Lisa Hartman
HANDS-on
ART
Star Books
noon–3pm
(FP)
Scotty
Mitchell
OPEN STUDIO
10am–3pm
(SM)
Sculptured
Furniture/
Primitive
Pottery
OPEN STUDIO
9–11am
(SF)
9 am
Jean Thomas
HANDS-on ART
Kid’s Kreative
Krafts
various times
throughout
the day
(FP)
11 am
10 am
noon
1 pm
2 pm
3 pm
4 pm
4 pm
5 pm
5 pm
6 pm
Plein Air Award Ceremony
& Reception
6–8pm
6 pm
7 pm
Silent Auction closes: 6:30pm
Awards Presentation: 7pm
(CC)
7 pm
8 pm
9 pm
BEYOND ESCALANTE:
Sunday, Sept 25
8 am
Pop Up
Artists at
Calf Creek
DEMO
8–10am (CA)
Panel Discussion
SPECIAL PROGRAMS
2–3pm (VC)
3 pm
People’s Exchange
Serenidad Gallery
Town Park
Vagabond Inn
Saturday, Sept 24 continued
8 am
9 am
Lisbeth Louderback &
Bruce Pavlik
SPEAKERS
Four Corners Potato
11am (VC)
Scott Thybony
SPEAKER
The Disappearances
1pm (VC)
Christa Sadler
SPEAKER
Deep Time on the
Grand Staircase
3pm (VC)
Less Than Lucid
Rock/Blues & Acoustic
10am
(FP)
Festival Finale Brunch*
Last chance to purchase art!
9–11am
(EO)
Closure
Popular Genres
noon
(FP)
Mindy Dillard
Singer/Songwriter
2pm
(FP)
Mary Kaye
Western Roots
4pm
(FP)
8 pm
9 pm
Crook & the Bluff* Blues/Folk/Psychedelia
8:30–11:30pm
(ES)
Funders, Donors, & Supporters
Many thanks to our generous and amazing funders,
donors, volunteers and supporters.
FOUNDING FUNDERS
Steve Roberts
The Family of Georgie Meinert
(Mark Austin & Paige and Steve
Witzdam)
Winnie Washburn and Harriet Priska
Kent Cottam
Arnold & Deon Alvey
Garfield County Commission &
Travel Council
Gibbs Smith
The Ruess Family
COLORADO PLATEAU ($5000+)
Garfield County Office of Tourism
Utah Office of Tourism
ESCALANTE CANYONS ($2500+)
Escalante City
Bob & Karin Simmons
AQUARIUS PLATEAU ($1000+)
Glen Canyon Natural History
Association–Grand Staircase–
Escalante National Monument
Aid-to-Park Program
Mormon Pioneer National Heritage
Area
Steve Roberts
The Family of Georgie Meinert
(Mark Austin & Page and Steve
Witzdam)
The Waggoners (Dennis, Dana,
Nate & Kris)
GRAND STAIRCASE ($500+)
Circle D Motel & Eatery
Grand Staircase–Escalante Partners
Gibbs & Catherine Smith
KAIPAROWITS PLATEAU ($250+)
Melanie Boone-Reznick
Dennis & Jean Bramble
Clarke’s Market
Cottam’s 66
Garkane Energy
Dale & Marty Henrie
Ruthanne Oliver
The Rexes (Joette Marie,
Adam & Kristen)
Jana Thompson & Mike Wracher
CIRCLE CLIFFS ($100+)
Arnold & Deon Alvey
Canyons of the Escalante RV Park
Gael & Tom Hill
Fred Kovol
Sandy Larsen
Jens & Kathy Munthe
Serenidad Gallery
Jeanne & Steve Seymour
Laura & Jim Smith
Paul & Catherine Thalmann
Joann Vitale
Vicki Wren & Mark Saunto
GLEN CANYON ($50+)
Allysia Angus
Ben & Becca Benson
Burr Trail Outpost
Cowboy Country Inn
Kim & Hank Duffy
DONATIONS
Canyons of the Escalante RV Park
Etched Magazine
Lora Gale
Nevada Public Radio–KNPR
KRCL Radio
KUER Radio
Kim Norris
Plein Air Magazine
South Central Communication
Southern Utah Independent
Publishing
Southwest Art Magazine
Utah Public Radio–KUPR
SPECIAL THANKS
BLM Grand Staircase–Escalante
National Monument
Escalante Outfitters
Envision Escalante
Escalante City
Escalante Elementary School
Escalante High School
Escalante Showhouse
NPS–Glen Canyon National
Recreation Area
Slot Canyons Inn/North Creek Grill
USFS–Dixie National Forest
The Escalante Canyons Art Festival is a program of Envision Escalante, a non-profit 501c3 organization that seeks to be a
catalyst for a vibrant, self-sustaining community by encouraging an appreciation of the arts, working towards preserving the
local heritage, and fostering community pride.

Escalante Canyons Art Festival

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