Upcoming Exhibitions
July 18, 2026 - September 26, 2026
This juried exhibition features quilts of all styles and sizes created by some of the State’s finest quilters. Presented by the Springville Museum of Art and the Utah Valley Quilt Guild with support from the Corn Wagon Quilt Company.
Portraiture is an act of interpretation, not just documentation. The works by the over 20 master artists in Contemporary Portraiture reveal what happens when artists use extraordinary technical skill and artistic vision to represent another human being in paint, film, or clay. Every artistic choice, from medium to style to setting, reveals something about the relationship between artist and sitter, and between the portrait and its intended audience.
One of the animating questions of this exhibition is the tension between public and private portraiture. Some portraits are made to project a public image, while others are intended to privately capture a loved one or moment in time. Many of the most compelling portraits in this show exist somewhere in between, revealing the complex, layered nature of identity itself.
The Springville Museum of Art invites all Utah artists to enter this exhibition which celebrates the diversity of religious experience and belief in our community. Using different media to express these ideas, artist create works that will engage and inspire viewers to contemplate and reflect on the vibrant spiritual traditions we share.
In This Together: Art, Belonging, and the Urgency of Social Connection is a first-of-its-kind multiyear collaboration between Springville Museum of Art (SMA) and the work of Julianne Holt-Lunstad, PhD, the nation’s leading social connection researcher, as well as professor of psychology and neuroscience and director of the Social Connection & Health Lab at Brigham Young University.
At a time when loneliness, isolation, and disconnection are impacting individual and community health in fundamental ways, the larger initiative engages art to illuminate what research alone cannot.
