The 3rd Biennial Staff, Volunteer, and Member Art Exhibition and Honi Deaton & Dream

On June 19th the dynamic Bluegrass Group, Honi Deaton & Dream, performed at the Booth Western Art Museum. Before the concert was the Meet the Artists Reception for the 3rd Biennial Staff, Volunteer, and Member Art Exhibition. The Exhibition, on display in the Borderlands Gallery through July 27th, is truly exceptional. There are a great many talented people involved with Booth Western Art Museum in the surrounding community!
This extraordinary painting is by Nikki Davidson.


© Nikki Davidson, Rain - A Portrait of Jessica Belcourt - Cherokee Nation, 2008, oil on canvas, 25 x 21"

Honi Deaton & Dream are made up of husband and wife Honi and Jeff Deaton, Wayde Powell and Josh Brooks. To those of you who missed it, the concert was phenomenal! Honi, twice nominated for IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year, has a powerful soulful voice with a charming sweet personality. The band started their performance at 7:00pm and played many western inspired favorites, including some songs by Patsy Cline and Gene Watson. They also performed gospel favorites along with both traditional and original blue grass songs and instrumentals. Honi and her band mates told meaningful stories and also amused the crowd by poking fun at each other. Almost every seat in the Booth Theatre was filled as this extremely talented group entertained and moved the audience. It was a great way to end the week at the Booth Western Art Museum!

Space Silence Spirit- Maynard Dixon’s West

© Maynard Dixon, Sasabe, 1941, Oil on canvas board,
12 x 16", The Hays Collection

Now showing in the Special Exhibitions Gallery is an engaging exhibition that is sure to rouse emotion and thought in the viewer. Maynard Dixon lived from 1875 to 1946 and was able to capture the beauty and existence of the great frontier west. This exhibition not only showcases Dixon’s variety of paintings and drawings but also provides memorabilia from the A.P. Hays Collection and the Brigham Young University Museum of Art. These memorabilia give the audience an account of Dixon’s struggles, opinions, loves, careers, and life. Of the memorabilia is an exchange of Christmas greeting cards between Dixon and the famed Charles M. Russell, painted by each respectively.


One painting by Dixon in particular depicts a landscape of the western plains. Appropriately titled, The Plains, this painting is wonderfully surreal in its magnificence. The audience can see a rainstorm falling from a cluster of majestic clouds in the distance. With over 75 drawings, small paintings and 15 studio paintings, both similar and different from The Plains, this exhibition shows the diversity, splendor, and beauty of the western frontier as well as the person of Maynard Dixon. A truly informational and moving exhibition, Space Silence Spirit: Maynard Dixon's West is worth a re-visit to the museum and a definite must see to those who have yet to visit us!