Arches National Park - Like Nowhere Else on Earth
Moab Utah - Surprises Around Every Corner
Cedar Mesa - Feel the Wildness
Free lecture by David Boye, Thursday, August 2, 2018, at 6 pm.
Experience the mystery and magnificence of the National Parks through the instrumental guitar of composer, musician, and past National Park Artist In Residence, David Boye. This performance mixes music and talk as David discusses and plays music composed through the National Park Artist in Residence program inspired by the wild beauty of the wilderness of the west.
Free Lecture by ReBecca Hunt Foster, Thursday, July 26, 2018, at 6 pm
Paleontologists have recently discovered animals, such as the sauropod dinosaur Mierasaurus, and the mammal-like Cifelliodon, who have ancestors that suggest they originated outside of North America. Come learn about how these important fossils from Southeastern Utah have ties to Europe and Asia.
Free Lecture by Robert Anderson, Thursday, June 28, 2018, at 6 pm
Free lecture by John Foster, Thursday, June 21, 2018, at 6 pm
Southeast Utah was a very different place 201-205 million years ago during the Late Triassic. Come hear about the strange animals and plants that lived in the Moab area during that time.
Free lecture by Benjamin Bellorado, Thursday, June 14, 2018, at 6 pm.
Ben will share the results of a five-year study of decorated buildings at Ancestral Pueblo cliff-dwellings in southeastern Utah that were occupied in the Pueblo III period (A.D. 1150-1300). The findings indicate that murals were used to express important aspects of social identities on local scales in the early A.D. 1200s, but that changes in mural styles after A.D. 1240 reflecting broader changes in the political and ritual systems of the larger region.
Free lecture by Frank Ruggles, Thursday, June 7, 2018, at 6 pm
Join Frank as he talks about the images in “Chasing Light” which were selected from a decade of Frank’s personal photographic works, most shot in the “magic hour” of twilight.
Free lecture by R.E. Burillo, Thursday, May 24, 2018, at 6 pm.
The Greater Bears Ears area of San Juan County in southeastern Utah represents a peripheral zone to the heartlands of numerous cultural occupation areas throughout its history. Archaeological evidence from the Archaic, Basketmaker, Pueblo, Protohistoric, and Historic occupation periods all attest to collisions and coalescences of varying cultures here as a product of its being the hinterlands of so many social groups. This trend continues right up to the present day and has intriguing implications for the future of the area.
Free lecture by Jody Patterson and Patricia Stavish, Thursday, May 17, 2018, at 6 pm.
Join Jody and Patricia to learn about the excavation of a small Formative Period (AD 500 - AD 1300) site in Spanish Valley, near Moab Utah. Archaeologists expected to find only a small structure and midden, but excavated two separate structures and their associated features and recovered a wide variety of artifacts.
Free lecture by Joel Tuhy, Thursday, April 12, 2018, at 6 pm.
Some plants produce flowers that display more than one color in each individual flower. These plants are fewer and farther between, and some of their flower-color combinations are pretty unexpected. Come and see some Moab-area wildflowers of multiple colors – in each flower.
