SLCC presents President's Art Show, our annual, juried exhibition that awards $5,500 in prize money. This year, we feature 103 amateur and professional Utah artists.
Exhibit Dates
October 29 - November 19, 2026
Monday – Thursday, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Note: The exhibit closes early on Fridays and on November 19: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Closed: Saturday & Sunday
Location
SLCC South City Campus
Multipurpose Room SCM 1-030/1-032
1575 South State Street, Salt Lake City
Map
Visit and Vote!
City Weekly's Talk of the Town Audience Award in collaboration with Salt Lake Community College.
Visit the 2026 SLCC's President's Art Show between November 5 to November 19 at 3 p.m. and vote for your favorite.
How to cast your vote:
- Visit SLCC’s President’s Art Show in person.
- Scan the City Weekly's sign QR. See contest rules upon signing up/logging in.
- Vote by using City Weekly's new digital poll.
Prizes:
- Artist Award Prize #1: $300 gift card
- Artist Award Prize #2: $150 gift card
- Artist Award Prize #3: $50 gift card
Check back late November for all City Weekly's Talk of The Town Awardees.
Award Winners
Best in Show - $1,500
Pat Debenham
Serendipitous Moment, 2025
President's Award - $1,000
Geoff Shupe
Nekronomitron 3000, 2025
Commmunity Award - $1000
Annie Wang
Ruby, 2025
2nd Place - $500
Jessica Day Smith
By Our Mothers Hand II, 2025
3rd Place - $500
Meg Frost
Hibernacula, 2026
Jury's Choice Award - $500
Robert Fuerer
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, 2026
Bruin Award - $500
Lacee Black
Road to Monument Valley, 2025
Meet Our 2026 Judges
Tristyn Bustamante
Tristyn Bustamante is a ceramic sculptress who has attended residencies in places such as, the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Clayarch Gimhae Museum South Korea, and New Harmony Clay Project in Indiana. Tristyn achieved an MFA from Arizona State University in 2013. She has exhibited nationally and abroad in a range of venues. As a community and education advocate, she has pursued teaching, learning, and involvement in local communities whenever she can. Tristyn has worked as an Instructor of Art for a range of ages and skill sets at different institutions. Currently she is the Ceramics Program Manager at the Visual Art Institute in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Peter Hay
Peter Hay is a cultural programmer and curator based in SLC, UT. He received an AA from Northern Oklahoma College, a BFA from Northeastern State University, and an MFA from Louisiana Tech University. Hay co-founded PROArtes México in 2018 with Stephanie García and is the project's co-director. And since 2023, Peter has been the visual arts manager for the Utah Division of Arts & Museums. Previously, he was a grant consultant with ASU Art Museum, gallery manager of Modern West in SLC UT, exhibits director of Durango Arts Center, Durango CO, and director of development for Living Arts of Tulsa, OK.
Yuri Ortiz
Yuri Ortiz, artist, curator, and collector, is the founder of Mixi Art Studio in Salt Lake City, where she serves as artistic director. Her artistic practice combines painting and conceptual art to examine everyday interaction with artificial intelligence, entropy, and randomness. She completed a residency in New York and presented her second solo exhibition at Amplia Galería during Art Week México 2026. Her academic preparation includes visual arts at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (UAEM), aesthetic appreciation of the visual arts at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey (MARCO), collection management at Tecnológico de Monterrey (TEC), and curatorial studies at NODE Center in Berlin. Since 2022 she has directed Mixi’s program, organizing on-site exhibitions and international collaborations with galleries in Mexico City, working with more than thirty artists. She has also worked with the Artsy platform on curatorship and curatorial texts. She began collecting contemporary art in 2019 and has built a collection that currently includes seventy artists from eighteen different countries. That interest in collecting led her to create the acquisition prize Mixi Collectors, whose first edition took place in Mexico City.
Dr. Greg Peterson
Dr. Greg Peterson is the ninth president of Salt Lake Community College, and he began leading Utah's largest two-year higher education institution on July 1, 2024. Throughout Dr. Peterson's tenure in higher education, he has demonstrated his commitment to the community college mission — aspiring to provide all students with access to and success in higher education and in life.
John Sproul
John Sproul earned a BFA from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT. The artist has held 27 solo exhibitions and participated in over 120 group exhibitions internationally. These include notable venues such as the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City, The Painting Center in New York, the CICA Museum in Gimpo, South Korea, Bipolar Projects in Barcelona, Galerie Metanoia in Paris, The Kunstwerk Carlshutte in Germany, the Imagoars Center for Visual Arts in Venice, Italy, and the Sienna Art Institute in Italy. In 2026, he presented a two-person exhibition at the Fitton Center for Creative Arts and participated in group exhibitions at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Springville Museum of Art, Greenwich Art Society, and Material Contemporary. He also attended the Critlab/Rural Residency for Contemporary Art in Venice and the Valcamonica Valley, and his work was featured in the May issue of Vogue Korea.
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