You may have noticed that 25th Street is closed to through traffic between Washington and Adams, and between Adams and Jefferson. This is to facilitate reconstruction of the street for the Ogden Express (OGX), UTA’s new Bus Rapid Transit line. This means that there is no on-street parking in front of Art Box or The Monarch. This closure is scheduled through the end of May 2022.

BUT DON’T DISPAIR!

You can access The Monarch parking lot located across the street through entrances on either Adams Avenue or 24th Street. Parking is also available on side streets-Ogden, Jefferson and Adams Aves., and on 24th & 26th Streets.

And with the parking pass on the left, you are able to park in the State Parking Structure located at 2558 Ogden Avenue (between El Matador and The Monarch).

Keep your eyes out for our construction specials. Also, UTA has distributed $15 vouchers throughout the community to be used like cash at any of the businesses affected by this project-so keep your eyes out for those as well!

We truly appreciate each and every one of you and hope that you will continue to support Art Box through this construction zone time!

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.

Friday, April 1st | 6-9pm | Free

An emerging artist and practicing witch, D Bowden explores the crossroads between creativity, imagination and spirituality in relationship to nature. They grew up in a very artistic family feeling early on that art would always be part of their life. However, it wasn’t until 2017 that they really began to take the artist’s journey. After years of teaching meditation, earth-based spirituality and animistic philosophy, D finally found what truly fuels their passions. After leaving their day job of 16 years with the federal government, D moved to Olympia, Washington where they started trying out different mediums. Eventually, D discovered that ink and watercolor hold the power of patience and precision, while acrylic and canvas detoxify the mind and feed the soul. Now D is back in Ogden and excited to share what is on the horizon. The future is so bright, they might have to wear shades.

D likes to think of their work as a portal into another world. Not on some fantastical landscape only in the mind, but instead exposing the world hiding underneath the one we occupy on the daily. The animistic worldview is all about acknowledging the threads connecting everything in our world to the fabric of the underlying universe. A place where our spirit and bodies find their connective tissues. D embraces natural themes, holiday celebrations and human sensual experiences as the subjects they explore. Vacillating between watercolor and acrylic mediums, D hopes to create an experience that both delights the senses and invites inquiry and discussions, all while enchanting the viewer with that special magic of perception.

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!

Thursday | Dec. 16th | 6-9pm | Free

Join us for the best ugly sweater bash in town! This rockin' Ladies Night Out at The Monarch will feature a Christmas party hop, a fundraiser, holiday shopping from unique vendors and Art Box, music by DJ Bryson, Comedy Collective show, silent raffle, and special workshops by Monarch creatives including Intention Spell Candles by Wild Meraki and a Centerpiece Class from Hope & Evolution.

In addition, Art Box will be featuring our Holiday Tyke Candle Special! Choose your wax colors, fragrance and a selection of embellishments to make a winter wax wonderland. $15 per candle (over a $20 value), which includes our Express Cool so you can take your candle with you!

Bring your friends, get dolled up in your tackiest holiday attire, and give to a great cause! All proceeds will go to help a local family whose seven-year-old Jonah was diagnosed with Leukemia last year.

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.

Friday | December 3rd | 6-10pm

Art Box is excited to be featuring the work of local artist Kate Bruce for December's First Friday Art Stroll! Kate is a contemporary expressionist painter and colorist who creates expressive paintings inspired by nature. She loves to work in a loose and intuitive style and is known for her florals and use of vibrant colors. Kate paints daily and her home studio is her “happy place.” Her paintings can be found in many gallery locations in Northern Utah and in the homes of many art collectors across the country.

Kate, who also has a permanent studio within The Monarch at Sage Art Utah, will be exhibiting her collection of winter woodland creatures. So stop on by and see Kate’s whimsical world of winterland art!

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!"