Utah Arts Festival - Target Art Yard & Mad Hatter

Target Art Yard & Mad Hatter

target One of the most popular attractions at the Festival each year is the Target Art Yard. Everyone knows that kids would rather "do" than "just look..." While they can enjoy visiting the Artist Marketplace with their parents, they are often told, "don’t touch." At the Target Art Yard, they are encouraged to touch, make, create. Enjoy!

When Target opened its first stores in 1962, it was with a strong commitment to support and empower the communities its stores serve. Today, that 44-year tradition is reflected in the Target grant-making program, through which Target gives more than $2 million every week to strengthen families and communities across the nation, with a focus on education, the arts, social services and other vital community partnerships.

EVERYTHING ABOVE OUR HEADS

Target Art Yard Hours: Noon to 9:00 p.m. Daily!

Look up! Enter the Target Art Yard galaxy of birds, bugs, spaceships, clouds, and skyscrapers as you create your own out of orbit masterpieces. Enjoy the wonders of everything above our heads, The ART Way.

Birds and Bees Trees: These trees have no leaves! In their place are birds and bees - and all sorts of flying things!
Celestial Cave: Make your own planet, comet, and star and cool off in our mini-galaxy.
Spaceship Central: We're looking for a few good painters and mechanics to help us get these stellar spacecraft flight-ready.
Cloud Mountains: Make a personalized cloud and create quite a storm in our Cloud Mountain Range.

Partnerships

Every year the Utah Arts Festival partners with local non-profits to make the Target Art Yard a dynamic place of wonder for festival-going kids. Here's what you'll find at this year's Yard!

Instrument Petting Zoo by Summerhays Music Center: Teachers will show you how to make a sound on all the band and orchestra instruments - anyone can do it!" More info at www.summerhaysmusic.com or 801-230-5147.

instruments-violin Make And Take Above Our Heads Projects presented by Art Access/VSA Arts of Utah: Let your imagination take flight with an assortment of fun and funky materials. Art Access has developed this activity to be accessible to all children! More info at www.accessart.org or 801-328-0703.

Discovery Gateway: Discover space with Twinkling Stars! More info at www.discoverygateway.org or 801-456-KIDS.

Japan Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Drachen Foundation: Commemorative kites designed by the Drachen Foundation and kite masters from the Japan Cultural Heritage Foundation will be teaching the art of kite making. More info at www.drachen.org.

Tracy Aviary: Create bird beaks and hummingbird flower illusions. More info at www.tracyaviary.org or 801-596-8500.

Dancing Moose: Science and art come together in the FLYING INSECTS project by Dancing Moose. Children will create and paint colorful butterflies and other flying insects under the Dancing Moose net. Just look up and see an array of imaginative, flying insects, and make one of your own to take home.

Visual Art Institute: Participants will create a collection of birds, insects, butterflies, cranes or anything else that flies above our heads using the Art of Origami. We will be folding paper into these shapes and spraying watercolor on the completed design for a colorful creation. Take one with you and add one to our display collection for others to enjoy looking at. More info at www.visualartinstitute.org or 801-474-3796.

TARGET ART YARD SPONSORED PROJECT

Birds to Space Junk - It’s All Above Your Head with Nancy Monteith, Landscape Architect and Artist

What do trees, planes, radio waves, insects, weather, space junk, pollen, water, light bulbs, satellites, TV signals and space stations have in common? They are all above your head!

Some things we can see and some we can't. Come explore what is above your head at multiple scales, from the microscopic to the galactic.

Discover systems at different scales and create art to populate worlds of molecules, urban forests and space systems.

ART YARD COORDINATOR: Margaret Willis
ASSISTANT COORDINATORS: Rachael Benoit, Zara Shalbetter, Matt Sanyer, Omar Limon

Other Activities for Kids

Mad Hatter

Decorate and show off your own paper-bag creation (small materials fee applies).

MAD HATTER COORDINATOR: Elysha Alexander

PB & J Booth

Everybody’s favorite comfort food! PB&J sandwiches and milk are available for younger appetites. Proceeds benefit the Visual Arts Institute.

PB & J PARTNERS: Utah Food Services, Sysco, Cream O’ Weber, Great Harvest

Toddler Zone

For our very small guests and their grown-up of choice. Activities are designed for children age four and younger. Please, no unattended tots!!

TODDLER ZONE COORDINATOR: Shannon Moss

Face Painting

Always a favorite Target Art Yard activity, Face Painting offers Quick Hits and Full Face options. We have more artists than ever, to decorate as many faces as we can during Art Yard hours.

Quick hits are $3.00, full-face painting is $5.00.

Face Painting Coordinator: Adam Stapley

Face Painting Assistant Coordinator: Rob Smart