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The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), formerly known as the Salt Lake Art Center, is Utah’s only contemporary art museum. Located in Downtown Salt Lake City, the museum presents rotating exhibitions by local, national and international contemporary artists throughout its six gallery spaces. ==History== The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art was first founded in 1931 as the Art Barn Association by art enthusiast Alta Rawlins Jensen (1884–1980), who dreamed that the Art Barn would "be a retreat where art may be sold, expressed and fostered — a project which Salt Lake has long desired and never quite succeeded in obtaining." In the 1930s, the Art Barn focused its activities on supporting established and emerging Utah artists. Other endeavors included the creation of the Art Bulletin, an art journal featuring events and art reviews. By the early 1940s, the Art Barn gained credibility as an art institution, exhibiting nationally and internationally renowned artists, including a series of oil paintings by Vincent Van Gogh.〔 In 1958, the Art Barn’s name changed to the Salt Lake Art Center (SLAC) to better reflect its expanding role in the community, and two years later, the institution saw the hiring of its first paid full-time director.〔 By 1979, SLAC found itself in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, the cultural center of Utah, when the institution moved to a new facility, designed by the Salt Lake architectural firm of FFKR Architects/Planners,〔 for increased and more adequate gallery space.〔 In 1981, Salt Lake City residents and members of the National Endowment for the Arts commissioned Abstract artist Ilya Bolotowsky to create a sculpture outside the center.〔 The 24-foot stainless steel column, titled ''Column 24'', still stands between the museum and Abravanel Hall. In 2011, SLAC changed its name to the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art to better disclose to the public the organization’s function. Since then, UMOCA has expanded its exhibition and community programming, and has been a four-time recipient of funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation as well as a 2015 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Art Works grant award. Since 2011, UMOCA has partnered with the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation to present the biennial Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting to an emerging or mid-career artist who shows a great range of talent and forward-thinking within a contemporary idiom. Past winners have included Firelei Báez (2015), Tala Madani (2013) and Kim Schoenstadt (2011). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Utah Museum of Contemporary Art」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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