Hone your drawing skills at community figure model sessions
Next session is Jan. 26 with facilitator Greg MacDonald
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Learn something new with the MARC artist in residence
Stretch the limits of your creativity at the Moab Art and Recreation Center’s newest workshop series.
June Artwalk showcases new exhibits
This year’s third Artwalk will take place from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, June 11.
MARC installs sticker vending machine
The Moab Arts and Recreation Center recently installed a sticker vending machine just outside the front doors that sells stickers made by local artists for a dollar a piece.
MARC hosts art show devoted to dark skies
The Moab Arts and Recreation Center, in partnership with the City of Moab, is hosting a dark-skies-themed art show—“Ode to the Stars”—throughout the month of April. “It’s been a really interesting project in…
Q&A with Kelley McInerney, director of the MARC
The Moab Arts and Recreation Center is a cornerstone of the Moab community, putting on annual events such as the Moab Art Walks, Market on Center and Red Rock Arts Festival. In mid-January,…
Winter art classes include painting, paper making, jewelry
Moabites can learn something new this winter, or perfect their skills, at the Moab Arts and Recreation Center’s winter class series run by local artists. “We’re excited to grow the art community in…
Kick off the season with a weekend of holiday events: tree lighting, electric lights parade, and craft fair
When is the appropriate time to start listening to Christmas music? Most people say December 1—I think it’s alright to sprinkle some songs into the Thanksgiving playlist. Either way, holiday season is right…
Co-working space plans to expand: MARC hopes to purchase new furniture, security system
Last year, the Moab Arts and Recreation Center introduced a co-working space that provided affordable, shared office space. Makeda Barkley, then administrative assistant at the MARC, came up with the idea as a…
Red Rock Arts Festival offers workshops, street fair: The week-long festival celebrates painting, poetry and expression
What originally started as a celebration of “plein air” painting has transformed into the Red Rock Arts Festival, starting Saturday, Oct. 2, a week-long gathering for artists and art-lovers put on by the…
Q&A with new Parks, Recreation and Trails Director Annie McVay: McVay is two months into her job with the City of Moab
Each day is different at Annie McVay’s new job as Moab’s Parks, Recreation and Trails director, which she started on June 14, 2021. Her role oversees the management and development of all city…
Moab hires new Parks and Rec director
The City of Moab announced hiring Annie McVay as the city’s new Parks, Recreation and Trails director, effective on June 14. The role oversees the management and development of all city parks, as…
Walk With Dinosaurs!
Twenty-three Helen M. Knight Elementary School students, seven parents and three staff from the Moab Arts and Recreation Center joined art coach Bruce Hucko to create a “Dino-Crossing” at the only crosswalk serving…
June Art Walk ends the spring season
Paintings and drawings of realistic, anatomically correct body parts – a fitting subject for an artist aspiring to become a physician – will be among the artworks featured during the Moab Art Walk,…
“Get out and run, go greet the sun”
Their feet hit the ground before sunrise—whatever edge they could get to beat the heat. After being led in prayer by an elder, ten Indigenous runners began a five-day, 360-mile journey from Bears…
Dancing fever: Annual KZMU radio drama features a historical dancing plague
In 1518, a strange form of what some theorists believe to have been mass hysteria gripped hundreds of residents of Strasbourg, France: uncontrollable dancing, to the point of exhaustion and even death for…