The first Moab ArtWalk of 2025 will take place on Friday, February 7th from 5-8pm at various locations around downtown Moab. (ArtWalks for 2025 will be on first Fridays of the month once per quarter.)
Stop by the Datura Deli and meet our featured local artist for the month, Julia Buckwalter.
Artist Julia Buckwalter grew up under the Wasatch Mountains in Northern Utah, falling in love with the red rock of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks early on and vowing to live in Moab as an adult so that she could paint the landscape. Before she settled in Moab, Julia studied Painting at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and also Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania. She also visited and worked two seasons at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico during college, finding constant inspiration in Georgia O’Keeffe’s responses to her own “homeland”. When not working from her home studio, Julia is often working as a buyer at Back of Beyond Books, curating the adult book department. She’ll often pack a book on long hikes, runs or bike rides to read by the river or under a shady tree, emotional inspiration and visual recognition to carry into the studio later. Landscapes and skies are the focus of her passion, and she has been painting our desert backyard now for the past 13 years, spending one year awarded as Artist in the Park with the Canyonlands Natural History Association.
Come see what you think at the first ArtWalk of the year! Julia will be present to chat with about her work and we will be providing light refreshments.
Visit all locations and get your ArtWalk postcard stamped and turn it in to Moab Arts for a chance to win a prize!