Dixie State to Host Renowned Utah Author Donna Poulton for Special Convocation

Dixie State College of Utah’s Cultural Arts department is welcoming renowned Utah author Dr. Donna L. Poulton for a special convocation on Thursday, March 19, at 7 p.m., in the Dolores Dore’ Eccles Fine Arts Center Main Stage Theater. Admission to the lecture is free and open to the public.

Dr. Poulton will discuss “The Art of Red Rock Country,” and how paintings of the sweeping desert and colorful canyon country of southern Utah captured the popular imagination of American and European audiences. She will talk about the expeditions and visits to Utah of such artists as Thomas Moran, Samuel Colman, Conrad Buff, Maynard Dixon and Georgia O’Keefe, who all came to paint Utah’s red rock scenery.

Poulton currently serves as curator of Art of Utah and the West at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts at the University of Utah. She studied at the Boston University extension in Germany and completed work on her Ph.D. at Brigham Young University. Poulton has juried and curated many exhibits, including the Olympic Exhibition of Utah Art. She has written articles on Utah and Western Art, is the co-author of Utah Art, Utah Artists, and recently completed a book on the early pioneer artist, Reuben Kirkham.

Poulton has taught Utah Art History at the University of Utah and has served on the boards of several arts organizations. She has also filmed extensive interviews with numerous Utah artists, produced commercials on Utah art, and consulted with private art collectors and galleries.

For more information, please contact Kathy Cieslewicz, curator of the DSC Sears Art Museum Gallery, at 435-652-7909.