Friday | June 2nd | 6-9pm

Art Box is happy to present Matthew Hassing for June's First Friday Art Stroll and The Monarch's Open Studio Night.

Matthew earned his BFA from the University of Utah in 2000. Since then, he has sold his work at A Gallery in Salt Lake City and Coda (now Trove) Gallery in Park City. His work has been included several times in the annual Spring Salon at the Springville Art Museum.

Matthew's most recent work focuses on patterns, particularly those found in nature. Nature and beauty drive his work and in this exhibition, Matthew will show large oil paintings and small (affordable) watercolors.

Please join us to meet Matthew and see his beautiful work!

Friday | May 5th | 6:00-9:00pm

Patricia Smith is the owner of Hopever, a small business located in West Haven, Utah. Hopever is built on Patricia’s passion for details, nature and accomplishing dreams. Hopever is the union of Hope and Forever with the purpose of bringing joy to people through unique products. Hopever designs premium handmade products in Utah that are made in Peru. Each item is carefully designed with natural materials and ancestral and modern techniques, emphasizing vibrant colors resulting in positive emotions.

Hand-embroidery and weaving is an ancestral Peruvian art which dates to around 3,000 BC. Andean textiles combined with different native materials such as alpaca, sheep, mixed wool, and cotton were considered more valuable than gold and silver. The combination of handmade techniques, vibrant colors and natural materials was Patricia’s inspiration to start Hopever. She also wanted to become more self-reliant and plans to start a non-profit organization to help children obtain better opportunities in education.

Born and raised in Peru, Patricia moved to the United States in 2016. She earned a BA in International Business Administration in Peru and an MBA from the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences. In 2017, she studied at the ELC-BYU to enhance her English to gain more education and job opportunities. She is now an entrepreneur, a full-time mom, and a believer that dreams come true from continual efforts and perseverance. Her goal is to share hope, uniqueness and beauty with the world.

Friday | February 3rd | 6-9pm

Art Box is happy to present self-taught artist Amy LeFevre for February’s First Friday Art Stroll. Amy is an Ogden native with a passion for the arts. After living in Fort Lauderdale for several years and working in the food and beverage industry, she found her way back to Ogden where she graduated from massage school and began working in the hotel industry in Park City.

During the COVID shutdown in 2020, Amy was impassioned to pursue her dream of becoming a full-time artist and launched her website in October 2021. Since that time, she has built a presence in the Utah art community with her creative use of acrylic paints on a variety of materials, including canvas, paper and wood panels.

Amy’s paintings are an expression of her emotions. Being creative helps her to find peace in the chaos, and makes her feel alive! 

Saturday | December 10th | 12-4pm

Don't miss this special Holiday Market at The Monarch! Come support local small businesses and get your Christmas shopping done in one place! Stroll the weather-free zone of the The Monarch which will be filled with local vendors and artists. There will also be a Children's Fair presented by the Subi Foundation to help children in Uganda: Games & Crafts, Live Music & Dance Performances, Hot Cocoa & Treats, and SANTA!

Friday | November 4th | 6-9pm | Free

Jonny Tanner is an artist that focuses on color, intuition, and creating spiritual alignment through his work. Many call him the “Spirit Painter” after the process he has created, “Spirit Painting.” Jonny’s work centers on capturing the reality of the spiritual that surrounds us. Each stroke, with its color and shape, represents a different eternal message. His pieces are aimed towards bringing validation, clarity and enlightenment to anyone who takes the time to let the colors speak to their heart.

Jonny currently lives in Ogden with his wife, daughter, newborn son, and puppy. You will usually find Jonny at his in-home studio on the east bench, where he creates Spirit Paintings full time. Jonny, together with the help of his wife and business partner Lu, create retreats, events, and other experiences to further help others with their own spiritual alignment through color.

Come meet Johnny and view his amazing colorful works in person!

Thursday | October 27th | 6-9pm

In conjunction with The Monarch's Witches Night out (see below), Art Box will be offering a Halloween-themed candle special for $26 (over a $35 value), serving up some yummy vittles, and holding a fabulous prize drawing for all candlemakers who arrive in bewitching attire!

This is a popular event, so make sure to make a reservation by calling (801) 675-1078 to secure your spot. Walk-ins will be taken on an "as-available" basis. So grab your coven and fly in for some spooktakular fun! 

Thursday | October 27th | 6-9pm

Pull out your hats, jump on your brooms, and join us for a night of bewitchery at The Monarch's most popular event of the year!

There will be a Stevie Nicks Dance Party, a photo booth to capture your wicked gaze, exclusive vendors, cool swag giveaways, and fun workshops including a Witches Tea, a Broom Making Class, a Pinch a Pumpkin Ceramic Workshop, a Wand Making Class, and Bewitching Watercolor Postcard Painting!

Some class require sign-ups, so make sure to click on the link below for more info!

Friday | October 7th | 6-9pm | Free

Art Box is so excited to have the return of self-taught artist Cathy Cartwright, but showcasing a new medium to Cathy – doll making. In her debut show entitled “The Sin Eater's Lament,” Cathy will be sharing the amazing and intricate work of her most-recent labor of love and understanding: Relics of Grief and Grace Dolls.

For the last 35 years, Cathy has experimented with glass, fiber and textiles. Each new exploration was a journey that brought her to places she didn't expect. Recently, as the pandemic raged on, Cathy knew that she needed to transform her personal loss, grief, longing, and fear – she could no longer sit with it, unattended and alone.

Over the years, Cathy flirted with the idea of making dolls, but it was transient and brief. However this time, as she deepened her practice, she found doll making comforting: the repetition of sewing, felting and draping was meditative. The process was thought provoking where she encountered silence, the unknown, and memories. She began to see dolls as a bridge to understand the inexplicable; a way to honor traditions and to celebrate change. These dolls have helped her to walk with grief, and find solace along the way.

Each doll that Cathy creates is needle felted on wire armature with hand-dyed and hand-sewn clothing. Then the dolls are finished with 3d printed skulls and taxidermy animal feet and tails.

We hope you can join us in person to see the entire collection of these captivating and fascinating works of art!

Friday | September 23rd | 8pm

In conjunction with our five-year anniversary bash (see above), we are going to (finally) have our Art on a Box unveiling party!

This is our creative community art project where blocks are purchased at Art Box (with all proceeds going to OCA) and then taken home and embellished using the medium of your choice. Blocks are then returned to us where we will be hanging them side-by-side in The Monarch Atrium to create a unique and collective permanent work of art.

Although this is an ongoing project, if you want to be a part of our unveiling, make sure to have your blocks back to us by September 18th!

Saturday | August 13th | 12-4pm

Come cool off and have some furry fun at The Monarch's Dog Days of Summer After Market! Enjoy exclusive dog-themed vendors, a puppy photo booth, a pup painting workshop, live music and more!

Get a portrait of your four-legged furry friend at the Puppy Photo Booth for only $10! Or take part in a "Paint Your Pup" workshop from MACSARTS. (Click on the link below to register.)

Then get your pooches dolled up for the "Strut Your Mutt" contest at 2pm. Grab a craft beer or hard seltzer for Yappy Hour and wag your way through a bow wow of a good time!

We’ll see you on the runway...

Monday | July 25th | 12-4pm

Come celebrate our great Utah heritage on Pioneer Day at The Monarch! Browse specialty vendors while enjoying live music with Dark Water Blues Revival. Sip on some cold brews & seltzers while showcasing your talents in a pie eating contest hosted by Brookey Bakes and axe throwing by On Point Axe! Art Box will be having a Tyke Candle Special (more info below) and there will be an Energy Terrariums with Spiritual Boujee workshop by Zion Sand & Stone.

Come cool off and enjoy some fun!

Friday | July 1st | 6-9pm | Free

Art Box will be holding over the amazing life-sized portraiture work of Pamela Beach for July's First Friday! Pamela studied at BYU Provo where she graduated in 2001 with a BFA, with an emphasis in painting. While there, she spent two months in Europe with the Visual Arts Department, visiting major museums and painting in small towns along the way. She also studied in New York, Washington D.C. and Philadelphia.

After graduation she had two solo shows in galleries in Salt Lake and Bountiful, and participated in a few group shows. She has taken a professional break for the past 14 years to focus on raising her six children, but never really let her artistic practice die.

With children a little older, Pamela is painting again, and finding her own narrative a necessary part in the artistic landscape of Utah.

With vivid colors and large formats, this is a body of work you really need to see and experience in person!

Saturday, April 30th | 2-4pm | Free

After a traumatic birth and long, painful recovery, Kyriaki Birkeland started to notice that she wasn't the only one struggling with the emotional and physical transition into new motherhood. More and more she heard stories of moms who were suffering from either physical or emotional scars of motherhood, and often both. Wanting to find a way to love, encourage and support these busy and overwhelmed moms, Kyriaki started to write. Soon, "Motherhood is Big Enough" was born!

This high contrast board book offers mom a little bit of encouragement and self-care during baby care! Artfully crafted with the help of local Ogden mom & artist Jennilyn Keinsley, the pictures and phrases are simple and intentional, but the message is for those who may be struggling with the day-to-day load of motherhood. So while the pictures and words provide support for a baby's developing social, cognitive and language skills, the book's message is just for mom.

Come meet Kyriaki and learn more about her own journey into motherhood and the resulting journey into helping other new moms.

March 4th | 6-9pm | Free

Based out of Salt Lake City, Moni Ellee began her artistic work in 2009 fueled by her endless captivation of nature and art. Although her artistic endeavors began as a child, her passion for creating nature-inspired art in various materials has become her life's purpose. With each delicately traversed oil painting, Moni handcrafts windows into the vast and wildly vivid realm of the West, a spirit that has been forever infused in her heart. Her works are reminders to the untamed explorer beckoning them back to the natural world.

Moni’s work consists of oil paintings on Gessobord in various sizes - from micro scale to 18” x 24” and larger. All of her original paintings are framed locally, unless they are a “Rock Easel” painting, which are unframed and tastefully mounted to a rock that has been handpicked by her. All of the images Moni paints are moments from her nature adventures in the West.

Thursday | January 20th | 6-9pm

Come celebrate the New Year with some much deserved self-love! Enjoy local vendors, live music, a beer garden, and a variety of art this Thursday from 6-9pm.

In addition, illuminate your intentions and bring your dreams to life by creating your very own Intention Candle at Art Box! Select your shape, wax colors, fragrance, tealight, gemstone, and inspirational token, and then top it off with your 2022 intentions written down and encapsulated in a tiny glass vial. Cost is $25, including our Express Cool (so you can take your candle with you) - over a $30 value! Reservations are recommended, but not required. Call our shop at (801) 675-1078 to reserve your spot!

The Monarch will also feature several high-vibe workshops (tickets sold separately): Energy Bowls with Zion Sand & Stone; Botanical Wands with Wild Meraki; get centered and ignite your vitality with Evolve Eden Wellness Studio; taste & paint with Seek4Chocolate and Paint Kits; and sit, clip and manifest by making your 2022 Vision Board with Michelle Phelps.

Wear all white to celebrate a clean slate!

Friday | December 3rd | 5-10pm
Saturday | December 4th | 10am-5pm

Join us at The Monarch for the Craft Lake City Holiday Market. Enjoy over 70 Utah artisans, craft food and holiday spirits. It's such a big deal that even Santa will be there! So mark your calendars to make sure you don't miss the event of the season!

Tickets are $5 in advance (craftlakecity.com or click the below button) or $7 at the door. Kids 12 and under are free.

Thursday | Nov. 18th | 6-9pm | Free

Before holiday havoc arrives, relax with the girls and enjoy drinks (non-alcoholic too), skin care, amazing art, jewelry, soaps, candles, live music, and more at The Monarch! Kick off your holiday shopping at Art Box and the bustling Monarch Market full of holiday gifts and self-care goods with vendors including JulBud Ranch soaps, Knots by Gisel Macrame, BadBatch Sister home decor, Aeree Naturals skin care, She Knows clothing and art, You Are Uniquely Magic, and others. Then unwind with a lineup of entertainment featuring an intimate concert with the Dustbowl Collective, Kairos fitness poll dancers, and, to get your endorphins going, some standup with Ogden Comedy Club.

In addition, Art Box will be offering 10% off all purchases, including candlemaking!

Saturday | Nov 6th | 5-7pm | $45

Zentangle is a fun, easy-to-learn and accessible way of reducing the feelings of stress and anxiety while creating a sense of calm through the meditative drawing of beautiful patterns.

In this class led by Rose Wambganss you will learn a brief history of this medium and its creative meditation techniques. Rose will guide you through the process of finding balance utilizing only black ink to create an attractive layout that follows the psych eye pattern studies. She will then lead you through a Zentangle-art mapping exercise and pattern filling technique culminating in a beautiful finished piece!

Thursday | October 21st | 6-9pm

Join us for a night of bewitchery at The Monarch! Art Box will be offering a Halloween-themed candle special for $25 (a $30 value), serving up some bubbly brew (adult and non) to all candlemakers, and offering a give-away to anyone who arrives in bewitching attire! The Monarch will have over 30 vendors, live music by Moonshine & Co., fitness pole dancers from Kairos, tarot readings, and a contest for the best witch attire. In addition, Ninth Muse Academy will be offering an open paint night in The Monarch Workshop, Wild Meraki will be holding a Witches Tea (ticket required) and the Paul Mitchell School will be will doing some fun halloween tattoos for kids and glitter roots for all ages! So grab your coven and fly in for some spooktacular fun!!!

Please call Art Box to reserve your candlemaking spot - (801) 675-1078.

October 1st | 6-9pm | Free

Laurie Harrower is a self-taught oil artist. Painting from her own photographs, Laurie has recenlty been tapping into her unique vision and intuition bringing much success and happiness in her work. She feels very fortunate to be doing what she loves and inspiring others in the process.

Although Laurie works mainly in oil, she also loves to experiment and play with different mediums. She uses oil paints and cold wax for many of her abstracts which create great texture. She also tends to work wet into wet for subtle color and soft edges. Laurie will also let paintings dry and then go back into them with a more critical eye, editing and reworking pieces until they are completed.

Come meet Laurie and learn more about her work!

September 30th | 6:30-8:30pm | $40

Come capture your favorite furry friend in a wonderful work of art! In this popular class led by the talented Pamela Beach, you will create an 8" x 8" painting of a beloved pet or favorite animal. As in all of Pamela's classes, the focus will be on COLOR and how to use it more creatively in your work. Learning about more unique and interesting color combinations, you will come away with an expanded view on color in art, and a portrait of an animal you love!

September 18th | 2-5pm | $50

Back by popular demand! We had so many requests for this class that we are bringing it back in September just in time for fall. Nancy’s fabulous teaching skills have helped beginners create amazing pieces on their very first lesson. In this class, Nancy will guide you to paint a bright and fresh summer landscape, while teaching you how to make your watercolor paintings more vibrant. In the tonal color scheme of your choice (think oranges/yellows, pinks, blues, or violets), you will learn the techniques needed to make a loose sparkling watercolor on a gold-trimmed 9.75” x 10.5” wood board. You will be using bright pigment paints actually made by Nancy, which will also be for sale at the class! All materials, including images to use for inspiration, will be provided, so you can just sit back, play and create.

September 3rd | 6-9pm | Free

We are so excited to have Mark B. Goodson back at Art Box! Mark was our first featured artist and many of you will remember his amazing Converse sneakers piece that hung in our shop when we were down on lower 25th Street. Mark’s work covers a broad range of genre including portraiture, figurative, still life, and landscapes. Although Mark did not begin painting until age 47, he is an accomplished local, regional and internationally award winning artist.

Mark’s paintings have an innate feel of light, color, form and atmosphere. As a representational painter, Mark works in a naturalistic style, both realistic and painterly. Mark’s works read well up close and at a distance. They also exhibit a richness of color combined with the natural, yet lively, beauty of both light and shadow. Mark enjoys the buttery body of the paint on the palette and the brush, and its textures on the canvas. He likes the brush stroke to be visible-the hand of the artist evident.

We are honored to have Mark back with us and hope you can stop by to meet him and see his incredible work in person!

Friday | September 3rd | 6-9pm

Art Box is excited to feature another young creative entrepreneur! We invite you to come visit Half Baked Clay, the Pop-Up Shop of 7th Grader Rachel Long, during September’s First Friday Art Stroll and Open Studio Night at The Monarch.

Working in clay, Rachel has formed a new creative outlet and a fun way to express herself! Rachel crafts whimsical gnomes, mushrooms and more out of bakeable clay. Her work is inspired by the world around her, her imagination, and her heritage. Her magical gnomes include Vikings, mermaids, nature & garden gnomes, seasonal characters, and gnomes embracing inclusivity. No matter the theme, each clay piece is hand created by Rachel with love.

In addition to being an active 7th grader, Rachel is a Student Councilmember and a member of her school’s choir. Being passionate about art and music, Rachel loves Broadway musicals, Anime artwork, music of many genres, and theater, and has been in several musicals herself!

Come meet Rachel and be inspired by her enchanted creations.

August 6th | 6-9pm | Free 

Gillian Chapman (aka “boujee hippie art”) is a local artist from Ogden studying Political Science at Weber State. This 22-year-old, who lives with bipolar I disorder, has been doing artwork since her childhood. Using art as an outlet, much of her work is done during or right after manic episodes which spark her creativity. Gillian gets inspiration from her dreams, and looks up to artists such as Van Gogh who also lived with bipolar disorder or manic depressive disorder. As such, you can see different moods throughout her work.

Working on canvas and wood, this exhibit consists mostly of landscapes and different places Gillian has been, including Colorado and the mountains of Utah. She is also exhibiting several abstract nude paintings. Most of this body of work was done in the last year during or after manic episodes.

July 2nd | 6-9pm | Free

Based in Salt Lake City, Heather Olsen began her art endeavors at a very young age and her passion for creating grew as she did. She studied with various professional artists at the Bridge and Hein Art Academies and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Utah. From figures to still life, landscapes to animals, Heather is interested in the human condition and emotional aspect of our existence, and portraying the soul of every living thing. As a lifelong animal lover, animals often appear in much of her work.

Heather’s paintings are rooted in realism due to her classical training, but passionately creates her art with expressionistic brushstrokes and heavy application of paint. The use of vivid color and texture in each piece captures the emotional aspect of each subject.

For this exhibition, Heather will be featuring a collection of various animals that the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah treats and saves, and will also be donating part of her proceeds from the sale of her work to this amazing cause.

June 19th | 3-5pm | $40

Come dive into the world of Tarot with Alan Dee Geddes. Alan discovered Tarot at the age of 13 and has been reading cards for over 25 years. In this class, Alan will cover many topics, including the Fool's Journey, the Celtic Cross Spread, Cord Cutting and the Minor Arcana, the Moon and Tarot, Archangels of Tarot, and Numerology and Tarot. In addition, this class includes a copy of Alan's Tarot guidebook!

Come spend a fun afternoon learning more about this magical and intuitive subject!

June 4th | 6-9pm | Free

Emily Fox King is a visual artist working in oil paint, sculpture, installation, and printmaking. Much of her work explores notions of femininity, including domestic spaces, and feminized objects. She is currently exploring themes of creation and frustration in abstract floral imagery. In the words of Emily: “I think life, motherhood, womanhood, is a mixed bag of beauty, chaos, uncertainty, anger, and resignation, all in one. In the end it’s freaking gorgeousness! That’s what these florals are about.”

Emily is known for her large scale abstracted floral pieces. She paints with oils on canvas with an impressionistic color palette, aggressive brushstrokes, and heavy texture. Although some species of flowers within her pieces may be recognized, many of them are imagined rather than actual. Her florals represent femininity and feminine spaces.

May 13th | 6-8pm | $45

Led by the talented Pamela Beach, in this class you will break beyond colors used traditionally in portraiture by delving into the many possibilities color can bring - blue and green shadows, hot pink highlights, and purple midtones. There are so many possibilities, we don't want to limit ourselves to tans and peaches. In fact, those won't even be an option in this class!

Because this class will focus on bringing emotion and interest through the use of color, images (Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman or Ruth Bader Ginsburg) will already be drawn onto your panels! Each participant will paint one 12"x12" portrait with acrylics of one of these famous people.

May 7th | 6-9pm | Free

Pamela’s painting style is a form of portraiture that represents life experiences and emotions that are real, but not visible to the physical eye. What goes on in the heart and mind is where real transformations in life take place, and therein lies the place that Pamela strives to express through her paintings. 

Within each piece, Pamela seeks representation of a realistic figure going through an abstract process. It is a process similar to living life itself. When we look at the whole of our lives, some parts make sense, and some don’t. Some are solid, and well defined, and some remain confusing and murky. Pamela’s work is imbued with a reverence for life, a reverence for difficulties, and a reverence for the beautiful process we all go through as human beings.

Pamela paints with oil on panel, as this surface and medium allow her to express the messages she wants her artwork to convey. Sometimes areas are sanded down or painted over. Sometimes collage elements or fabric are added. She always leave traces of the whole process in the finished work so the viewer can sort out how she arrived at the end.

Pamela studied at BYU Provo where she graduated in 2002 with a BFA, with an emphasis in painting. While there she spent two months in Europe with the Visual Arts Department, visiting major museums and painting in small towns along the way. She also studied with BYU professors in New York, Washington D.C. and Philadelphia, visiting major museums and galleries.

April 2nd | 6-9pm

At Art Box we are happy to support young artists and entrepreneurs! We love being able to showcase young creative minds that exhibit it’s never too early to pursue your dreams. We invite you to come visit the pop-up shop of Millie Reeder during Ogden's First Friday Art Stroll featuring beautifully hand-wrapped jewelry with stones, crystals, metal, beads, and other items, often with an included story about each piece!

In the words of Millie:

"My name is Millie. I’m 15 years old and I love making jewelry! I’ve been making and selling my jewelry since I was 12. Some other things I love: being with my puppy, Scout; hiking; camping; baking; chocolate; Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Marvel; listening to audiobooks; and spending time with my family!"

We hope you can stop by and say hello!

March 5th | 6-9pm

At Art Box we are happy to support young artists and entrepreneurs! We love being able to showcase young creative minds that exhibit it’s never too early to pursue your dreams. We invite you to come visit the pop-up shop of Roe Roe Candle Co. featuring handcrafted soy blend candles poured by monROE! Come meet and be inspired by this young creative who displays that you don't need a driver's license or high school diploma to transform your ideas into a promising business.

In the words of Monroe:

"My name is Monroe Gilbert. I am nine years old and I love to make candles. I started doing research on different waxes and fragrances, and convinced my mom to let me have a little business. I did not think it would have gone this far. I am very proud of myself (so are my mom and dad!). When I am not making candles, I am always dancing. I started competition dance when I was three, and currently dance for Utah Dance Academy. It is safe to say that between dance and candlemaking, I am always pretty busy!"