Art Walk

Description

Join us for the first Art Walk of the 2026 season! The Museum will be free on Friday, February 6th from 5-8 pm. In your free visit to the Museum, you’ll have access to the first semiquincentennial exhibit of the year: Breaking 100 Years of Silence. Breaking 100 Years of Silence is an art exhibition that promotes healing and remembrance by commemorating the 101st anniversary of the Aniknuche Incarceration, formerly known as the “Posey War,” which began on March 19, 1923. Through the work of Ute Elders, storytellers, artists, and musicians, the exhibit shares the enduring spirit and legacy of the Ute Mountain Ute people—bringing to light a century of silence surrounding this historic event. The Aniknuche Incarceration led to the weeks-long forcible internment of approximately 80 Ute men, women, and children in a barbed-wire enclosure in the streets of Blanding; the deaths of two Ute men; the loss of traditional Ute lands in the Bears Ears region; and the coerced enrollment of Ute children in federal boarding schools. 100 Years of Silence aims to amplify the Ute perspective, foster understanding, and offer space for healing through the lens of art and storytelling.