Come discover the history of watchmaking, fun facts about time and timepieces, a huge map exploring the world’s time zones, and video clips from watchmakers, as well as from classic films that touch on the subject of time and timepieces. There are coloring pages for children, watch parts to discover what goes into clocks and watches to make them work, and the opportunity to mark what timezone you were born in. Adults and children should come explore and participate in this interactive timepiece experience.

A.R.T.S. School Tours of this educational exhibit are available free of charge thanks to funding from Vail Resorts and Canyons. To schedule a free school tour, please contact artstours@kimballartcenter.org

The Kimball Art Center offers many educational programs to students across the state, allowing access to the visual arts. Each year through the free A.R.T.S School Tour Program the Kimball serves more than 11,000 students, and pairs the Main Gallery exhibitions with core curriculum subjects to help students experience and learn. New this year, the EVA (Elementary Visual Arts) program, in partnership with Park City Education Foundation, has allowed Park City Public Elementary Schools consistent visual arts lessons. In addition, the work of the Young Artists’ Academy, which is composed of 15 aspiring teen artists, is featured in the Badami Gallery.The Kimball Art Center also offers more than 300 art classes each year to Families, Tots, Kids, Tweens & Teens and Adults.

Students normally gaze at the work of famous artists like Matisse, Maynard Dixon, or Lego© Brick Artist, Nathan Sawaya, and dream of their chance to display their creations. Now proudly showing in the galleries are the dreams, aspirations and hopes of our local youth. The Kimball Art Center is pleased to present the annual Wasatch Back Student Art Show featuring work by student artists in Summit and Wasatch County Schools, grades K – 12. The show incorporates the theme, What Dreams Are Made Of. Each September the Kimball Art Center announces the theme for the year and students have time to create unique pieces of 2 dimen- sional and 3 dimensional art. As you look at this incredible display, remember, as Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” When you leave, remember to follow your dreams and please vote for next year’s theme at our front desk.

Dream /drēm/
noun 1. A series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep. verb 2. To contemplate the possibility of doing something or that something might be the case.

Photographs can capture the truth or facilitate a lie. They can be impressionistic or realistic. Photography has become almost ubiquitous as a medium to express ourselves and share our life with the world. Faces of Summit County, one of the Kimball Art Center’s summer exhibits, offers a visual representation of Summit County as documented through the lenses of emerging and established Utah Photographers. Join us as we celebrate the faces that are weathered, determined, hopeful, and dreamy as they reflect the aura of our community in this black and white photographic exposition.

Dog Dogs, a sampling from an extensive series by American photojournalist Elliott Erwitt, includes over 60 black-and-white photographs taken around the world between the years 1946 and 2000. Erwitt sees the dignity of the ankle-high Chihuahua; the anxiety of the homeless hound; the patience of the pom-pommed poodle; and the matchless joy of the homely but well-loved pug. Organized by Magnum Paris and art2art Circulating Exhibitions, these acute observations of the canine world prove that human relationships with furry friends are often due to mutual resemblance and emotion.

Erwitt’s images have appeared in such publications as Life, Look, Holiday and Collier’s, as well as in the renowned 1955 Museum of Modern Art, New York exhibition The Family of Man. Born in Paris to Russian parents, Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan, then emigrated to the United States via France, with his family in 1939. As a teenager living in Hollywood, he developed an interest in photography and worked in a commercial darkroom before experimenting with photography at Los Angeles City College. In 1948 he moved to New York City and completed his formal education through film classes at the New School for Social Research. After service in the United States Army as a photographic assistant, Erwitt joined the prestigious Magnum Photos agency in 1953 with such famed photographers as Edward Steichen, Robert Capa and Roy Stryker.

Over the years, Erwitt has published numerous books as well as feature films, television commercials and documentaries, but he is probably best-known for his candid photographs of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings.

“Postcards are totable memories, emblematic imagery of people, places, and things that people find meaningful. I love that a simple photograph — an arrested moment — has the power to elicit precious emotional reactions in others. I want my audience to personalize my work, associating their own feelings and experiences with my images. I hope that even just one of these photos triggers a thought, a moment, a person, or an event that provokes nostalgia and resonates in your heart.”

Postcards is a stunning series of photographs capturing the beauty of the simple moments of life photographed by Park City local, Carla Boecklin.

Spanning two years and 50 states, Greta Van Campen’s series “American Travels” gives us a collection of landscapes from across our country. Greta depicts everyday America in her contemporary style, finding inspiration in everything from the gable on a house, to railroad tracks in the city, from a dinghy on a peaceful bay, to a crane and power lines. Greta’s modern painting style distills her landscapes into color, shape and line. Greta paints in her studio in Maine, where she uses photographs and sketches from her trip to complete each painting.