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2025 Artwork Listen to "Reaching," a harp composition from Catharine DeLong.
Artist Description "I look at the rock formations that are reaching to the sky... the cottonwoods that are reaching. All of these growing things, that feel to me like they're having an upward movement. So that's kind of my inspiration." - Catharine DeLong View "Crossbedding," a unique wicker basket created by Sylvia Friday. 
2024 Artwork View the painting "Temple of Sinawava and the Virgin River" by Roxane Everett.
Artist Description "The painting 'Temple of Sinawava and the Virgin River' represents my time as an Artist in Residence at Zion National Park during the month of April 2024. While at Zion, I frequently rode my bike to the end of the Canyon Road after the shuttle was done for the day. Enjoying the quietude of early evening at the Temple of Sinawava was a definite and memorable highlight of my month in this stunning park. There I would watch the colors deepen and the shadows lengthen while listening to the Virgin river rushing by. It is a moment I reflect on often, staying with me well after my time there ended." - Roxane Everett 
2023 Artwork View the mixed media composition "Grotto Fox," by Alison Green.
Artist Description "This piece was inspired by a family of grey foxes who live near the Grotto House in Zion Canyon when I lived for a month in Oct-Nov of 2023. They would come out after the last bus left the canyon and it was wonderful to watch them move around. I had a night camera with motion detection set-up and enjoyed seeing the photographic images of them in the morning. The photograph of the river was shot at Court of the Patriarchs on a gorgeous fall day with leaves floating in the water and animal footprints in the sand. I completed a series of mixed media paintings during my residency, and in the months afterward, all inspired by Zion National Park. Please visit my Zion Portfolio to view the work that was inspired by this Artist Residency. I will be forever grateful for this experience." - Alison Green View the painting "Ascent I," by Kathy Hodge. "The Narrows" was inspired by Zion Canyon and the artist's experience within. Read the poem below:
Nature is making and Unmaking itself at once
The waving sandstone, curved
Like a body Rounded belly,
Pectoral slab, the joint
Of a knee jutting out
From the rumpled sheet of water
This is a living sculpture
The Virgin River chisels Seventy-six feet down
Every mile Splitting
Thousand foot walls of stone
For two million years
Humankind has only seen
An inch of deepening
Throughout our history
The wrens flit from wall To wall The maidenhairs
In every crack deep green
And damp The light starts
To expand inside the slot
Canyon as the earth turns
Toward the sun Thirty degrees
Of rotation and forty-eight
Degrees of temperature
And eighty cubic feet per second
The rate of flow has grown Against you, your thighs, your groin,
Breaththieving cold Hand hooked
Around a wooden stick
A trek into creation
Should come with difficulty
This was a trail you thought A thing to accomplish But now
An altar A place for joining
A place for offering
You are a part of this
Process You reached
The high sunlight that falls
Straight into the canyon
The water like lit glass
As if it could have ever ended
Visit the NPGallery page to see the artistic backdrop accompanying this poem. 
2022 Artwork View the pastel painting "Moonlit Snow on Zion Canyon Walls," by Katherine Irish.
Artist Statement (Taken from Application) "It has always been my belief that to truly paint a landscape, one must take time to absorb its character, its beauty, its spirit and life. I have been an American Southwest painter for several decades. I would love to have the time to explore the beauty of Zion National Park in sketches, watercolor, pastel and oil. To have a month to paint Zion National Park, with no distractions, would be a dream come true. I visited Zion National Park in 2006 and remember it as a beautiful jewel, an important treasure for our national and cultural heritage. The Navajo Sandstone in Zion is brilliant in color contrasted with the green vegetation and cerulean blue of the sky. Light will change its character depending on the time of year, weather, and hour of the day as it reflects against the rock walls. I would love to explore the Kolob Canyons and the North Fork Virgin River up to the Narrows. Painting water is fascinating as it reflects all that surrounds it, the color and shapes of the rocks, the sky, and plant life. I would aspire to absorb the geology and biology of the region and reflect it in my art. I am intrigued by the history of Zion Canyon, its early and later occupants and how the Canyon influenced their view on life. I am fascinated to learn about its wildlife. I learn from trying to convey visually what I see in nature. Painting plein air causes me to study nature and observe more than I would during an hour-long process." - Katherine Irish View the watercolor painting "Separation Canyon," by Bryce Lafferty.
Artist Statement (Taken from Application) "Zion National Park is a landscape with deep memory. For an artist like me who seems to have no limit for feelings of awe and wonder for this world, its natural systems and its history, Zion is a love affair. I use cross-sections as motifs in my watercolor drawings in order to open up the landscape and interpret its narratives – stories like how interconnected systems of sunlight, geological architecture, deep time, and plant communities intertwine with human experience. How standing in a canyon, you are not only viscerally aware of where you are and the scale of the geologic architecture around you. But also aware of when you are, and equally disoriented by the immensity of the past strata visible all around." - Bryce Lafferty 
2021 Artwork View the painting "Spirits of the West Rim," by William Sillin.
Artist Description "The title refers to the American Indian philosophy that everything in nature, not just the charismatic megafauna, has a spirit. The smallest mote of dust is animated with spirit. With patience and close observation we might sense those spirits and their stories and thereby acquire some of their wisdom. The subject is a view of Zion, not from a well known destination like Angels Landing or Observation Point but instead from a break in the forest and thicket along the West Rim Trail. That 19 mile trail crosses the West Mesa connecting Lava Point to the Grotto in the Scenic Valley. In the distance on the viewer’s left and on the far side of the Scenic Valley are Deertrap Mountain and the East Temple. East Zion lies beyond them in the far distance. The near distant ridge leads out to Castle Dome. Concealed by this ridge is a side canyon above the Emerald Pools. Below the shadowed side of the ridge and immediately before us is a deep narrow nameless slot canyon intersecting Heaps Canyon. This canyon terminates at the Court of the Patriarchs with Mount Abraham bathed in the morning sun above it. The northern faces of the towers of west Zion mark the far right end of the distant horizon." - William Sillin The links below are Hannah Sandvold's donated works, all of which are woodblock prints:
View "Canyon Fire in Color." View "Canyon Fire" in black and white. View "Landed in Color." View "Landed" in black and white. View "Ancients in Color." View "Ancients" in black and white. View "Unforgettable." View "Scaling Memories," an incomplete collaborative work. View "Rushing." View "Transfixed." View "After the Rain." View "Forever Changed." View "A Pause for Hydration." View "Checkered." View "Cold Walls." View "Overlook Tree." View "Jackpot." View "East Rim Veins." Artist Statement (Taken from Application) "For my printmaking, I first carve traditional blocks with stylized landscape scenes from photos I take. This is followed by a second phase, which is to manipulate and combine those images in larger compositions in order to capture the feeling of being in and experiencing a place. Photos capture single moments in great detail, but they are limited to the physical reality from one point in space and time. As with anything, understanding the significance of places like Zion come from piecing together multiple histories and perspectives and bridging blurry areas with clarity, and it’s this play with focus that interests me and drives my larger pieces." - Hannah Sandvold The links below are Rebecca Shewmaker's submitted works, all of which are fiber art or "threadpainting:"
View "Afternoon on Kayenta Trail." View "Morning on Kayenta, View 1." View "Morning on Kayenta, View 2." View "View near East Entrance." View "Virgin River." View "Canyon Junction." View "Court of the Patriarchs." View "Watchman Trail, View 1." View "Watchman Trail, View 2." View "Light at the Organ and Big Bend." View "Afternoon near the Grotto." Artist Statement (Taken from Application) "My work, which I call ‘threadpainting,’ depicts the places where I find a sense of belonging and beauty. When visiting these locales, a sense of peace, rest, and renewal encompasses my mind. I enjoy walking through parks, fields, and woods, photographing the beauty I discover. Using these photographs and my memories of these scenes, I create landscapes out of thread and fabric. Like growth in nature itself, my work takes significant time, energy, and labor to create. Usually I produce only a few paintings per month. The process begins with dyeing cotton fabric for sky and land, followed by many hours of sewing straight and zigzag stitches using a sewing machine. Threads are changed frequently to add color and tone to the image. To contrast the threadwork, loose wool, dyed ribbons, or tulle are incorporated. French knots and straight stitches are hand embroidered to add more detail. I enjoy the slow, repetitive stitching in my work. The process creates a sense of calm analogous to the quietness and beauty I experience within these places." - Rebecca Shewmaker Artwork from Previous YearsArtwork from 2020 - DillowayArtwork from 2019 - Citret, Cogan, Hoffmann, and Longoria Artwork from 2018 - Curl, Hutchins, Keller, and Reading Artwork from 2017 - Gilley, Graham, Hulden, and Patterson Artwork from 2016 - Bubar, Hughes, Mauzy, and Vobis Artwork from 2015 - Nichols, Rusnak, Thalden, and Ward Artwork from 2014 - Braveheart, Hart, Panitch, and Tabbert Artwork from 2013 - Fogg, Harris, McCorriston Peters, and Wong Artwork from 2012 - Cullen, Onyon, and Woolf Artwork from 2011 - Dondero, Kimmerle, and Purcell Artwork from 2010 - Farris, Graham, and Miller Allen |
Last updated: December 5, 2025