Escalante Canyons Art Festival

Schedule Of Events

9:00 am - 2:00 pm - Bob Stevenson: Lightbulb Moments in the Circle Cliffs

Note: Limited to 12 people.

Meet at Anasazi State Park Museum 460 HWY 12, Boulder, Utah, United States

Backcountry Park Ranger Bob Stevenson will explore what happens when personal stories are sandwiched between geological stories and the geopolitics of the cold war.
 
What ideas and stories connect these words?  Anticline, Yellow Jacket, remote desert, Shinarump, Zelda, ambition, paleoenvironment, Blue Goose, family, Hot Shot, petrified wood, atomic, lightbulb.  If you’re curious, join Ranger Bob for a hike into the stark and wildly beautiful Circle Cliffs region of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.   
 
Hike Info:

Roads in the Circle Cliffs can be rough so high clearance vehicles are required (four-wheel drive recommended).
Two-miles round-trip - hike is not universally accessible.

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm - Lonny Granston: Battle of the Hemispheres

Escalante Heritage Center Escalante, UT, United States

In a never-before-attempted neuroscience experiment, Lonny Granston, the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument 2024 Artist in Residence, will attempt to do a pastel painting (using the 'right'aka creative brain/cerebral hemisphere) and deliver a lecture on a primary care-focused medical topic (calling on the ‘left’ aka logical brain/cerebral hemisphere) simultaneously.