Past Exhibitions

H.L.A “Harry” Culmer painted magnificent scenes of the American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He opined that the mountains were "the most noble subject for an artists' brush." This exhibition will explore what the artists in Gail Miller and Kim Wilson's private collection considered their "most noble subject." It will feature masterpieces of Utah and Danish art, including works by historic Utah artists John Hafen, H.L.A. Culmer, Alfred Lambourne, J.T. Harwood, Minerva Teichert, James Christensen, LeConte Stewart, and C.C.A. Christensen that have never before been exhibited publicly. 

Art on the Highway celebrates Highway 89’s historic and cultural impact on Utah with dozens of artworks created en plein air (painted outdoors, on site) by members of the Plein Air Painters of Utah.

Utah artists have always been ambitious. They studied abroad, created monumental works, and pushed the boundaries of Utah art and creation. This exhibition celebrates the grand ambitions, interests, and aims of our Utah artists from the nineteenth-century to the present day.

The Annual Utah All-State High School Art Show features 330 works of art from over 100 high schools across Utah. Come see art created by Utah's best high school artists. 

The Springville Museum of Art invites all artists in Utah to participate in the 99th Annual Spring Salon. This exhibition is a juried competition that showcases the diversity and quality of contemporary Utah art. 

Celebrate mid-century modern art, culture, and design with us in this fun and playful exhibition. You get to be the judge!   

The Annual Utah All-State High School Art Show showcases the best of student artwork juried from high school juniors and seniors around the state. 

This exhibition celebrates the work and voices of a selection of contemporary Native Utah artists. Their work shows the vibrancy of artmaking and creativity in Utah’s Native communities.

The SMA invites all Utah artists to enter this exhibition which celebrates the diversity of religious experience and belief in our community.

For this exhibition we invited members of our local Springville community and the larger Utah religious community to choose a work of art from our Permanent Collection that represents sanctuary to them. On these walls you will find their answers and writings about where they find peace, solace, and community. 

This exhibition is open to K-10 students living in Utah Valley. This year, in efforts to make this an interfaith celebration, we are encouraging students to create artwork that will coincide with themes found in the exhibition, Sanctuaries. The prompts for this year’s Youth Art Competition will focus on sanctuaries and what that means to each student. Entries are due Nov 10-11, 2022. 

The SMA invites all Utah artists to enter this exhibition which celebrates the diversity of religious experience and belief in our community.

In this exhibition everything is “off the wall.” All of the artworks hang from the ceiling, sit on a pedestal, or are displayed on the floor. The 20 sculptures on exhibit from the Museum’s Collection invite you to engage with three-dimensional work and experience the Museum and art-viewing in new ways. 

This exhibition of Brooke Smart’s illustrations of Utah women’s advocates, is traveling the state in 2020 as Utahns commemorate the 150th anniversary of Utah women’s first votes in 1870, the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment in 1920, and the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

The Springville Museum of Art invites all artists in Utah to participate in the 97th Annual Spring Salon. This exhibition is a juried competition that showcases the diversity and quality of contemporary Utah art. 

This exhibition surveys the contemporary photographic landscape of creative practice by artists in the state of Utah as they navigate new territory in the global dialogue of imagemaking.

The Springville Museum of Art invites all artists in Utah to participate in the 96th Annual Spring Salon. This exhibition is a juried competition that showcases the diversity and quality of contemporary Utah art. 

This exhibition, formerly known as the Annual Christmas Lamb Art Show exhibition, is open to K-10 students living in Utah Valley. This year, students are encouraged to create an artwork based on our exhibition Contemplations: Highlights from the Spiritual & Religious Permanent Collection. 

This exhibition uses artworks from our Spiritual and Religious Permanent Collection to encourage viewers to ponder more deeply the everyday matters of life and the extraordinary realm of the sacred. 

Since the early 1900s the Springville Art Gallery, now the Springville Museum of Art, has been a fixture of the community. Artists, advocates, and curators built the Museum and its collection, and cemented its importance to Springville. This exhibition celebrates several of these figures who influenced the Springville fine arts community from early to mid-twentieth century, including B.F. Larsen, Wayne Johnson, Glen Turner, Oliver Parson, Blaine Frazier, and Mae Huntington.

In place of the postponed Spring Salon, the Museum decided to curate an exhibition of staff and Board Member favorites from our Permanent Collection. Staff and Board Members nominated their most beloved artworks and had the opportunity to share a memory of that work and why it was meaningful to them. This exhibition shares some of those memories.

The SMA invites all Utah artists to enter this exhibition which celebrates the diversity of religious experience and belief in our community

This exhibition, formerly known as the Annual Christmas Lamb Art Show, is open to K-10 students living in Utah Valley. This year we are encouraging students to create artwork that focuses on memories. 

The monomyth or Hero’s Journey is used to describe similarities in structure between stories and myths from various traditions, cultures and time periods. This invitational, in conjunction with the 33rd Annual Spiritual and Religious Art Show, will guide visitors through the stages of the Hero’s Journey as they encounter spiritual and religious works of art depicting the different phases and elements of the monomyth. 

The Spring Salon was first held in 1922, begun by students and teachers of Springville High School who wanted to exhibit and promote original artwork. The Salon has been held annually since that time, except during World War II when fuel and other goods were rationed nationwide. The Springville Museum of Art continues the tradition today and invites all artists in Utah to participate in the 94th Annual Spring Salon. This exhibition is a juried competition that showcases the diversity and quality of contemporary Utah art.

Presented by the Springville Museum of Art and the Utah Valley Quilt Guild with support from the Corn Wagon Quilt Company.