In-person Events
Facing Fire: Aesthetics, Environment & Policy in the West
Panel Discussion and Reception
Sept. 16, 2023
6:00 PM Panel Discussion, Wanlass/Russell Performance Hall
7:00 PM Reception, NEHMA
Join us for a cross-disciplinary panel with artists, policy makers, and a fire fighter
to explore how we experience, perceive, respond, and research fire in the West. Following
the discussion we will have a reception in the museum to see the new Facing Fire exhibition.
Moderated by Brian Steed, PhD., Executive Director, Janet Quinney Lawson Institute
for Land, Water, and Air.
Panelists:
Jamie Phillip Barnes, Director of Utah Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands
Noah Berger, Wildfire Photographer in Facing Fire
Samantha Fields, Painter in Facing Fire
Eric LaMalfa, PhD., Ecologist
Wade Snyder, Deputy State Fire Management Officer and Former Alta Hotshot
Coorganized with the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air, as well
as the Utah Public Radio
Live Stream on UPR.org
Creating Wellness
September 22, 29 & October 6, 20, 27 & November 3, 10, 17 & December 1
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
@ NEHMA
Creative Wellness provides an open studio environment in which anyone can utilize
the create process to
promote wellness and learn about art therapy.
Hosted by Susie Selger
COMMUNITY ART DAYS
Second Saturday of Every Month
Learn about and make art! Free and open to all.
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
@ NEHMA
August 12
September 9
October 14
November 11
December 9
