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from the collection of French Jewish art gallery owner Andre Jean
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each month. Adult programs include painting classes, lectures, and fine arts film series. Children's programs include special summer classes where children may combine history with art making. There are also classes for parents and their children from ages 2–5 to learn how to paint and sculpt.
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declared the UMFA as an official state institution, confirming the importance of the museum’s role as a center for art, culture, and education in the state of Utah. In April 2009, David Dee resigned from the museum and
Gretchen Dietrich was named Executive Director effective August 2010.
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464:(February 10, 2009 – March 1, 2010) premiered an exhibition of cultural and artistic treasures from the John and Marva Warnock Collection with 149 objects from the native people of the Northeast and Plains.
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497:(Jan. 19 – Mar. 29 2008) which included around sixty works of intense beauty that exhibited energy found in larger works.
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