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The Leonardo and the Utah Arts Festival: Special Pricing, Hands-on Activities
Combo Ticket for Utah Arts Fest and The Leo Just $15, June 21 through June 24
Regular Admission to The Leonardo Just $7 During Festival
SALT LAKE CITY, June, 14, 2012—The Leonardo (www.theleonardo.org), a contemporary museum in downtown Salt Lake City connecting science, technology and creativity will offer discounted pricing, as well as free activities during this year’s Utah Arts Festival.
Combination tickets for both The Leonardo and the Arts Festival are just $15, and available for pre-purchase beginning immediately at The Leo ticket desk, located inside the museum at 209 East 500 South. Festival-goers who show their arts fest wrist band at The Leonardo ticket desk will be admitted to the museum for just $5.
For visitors who aren’t planning to attend the festival, but would like to enjoy The Leonardo again – or for the first time – between June 21 and June 24, the museum is offering special pricing of just $7. Admission for children five years old and younger is still free.
The Leonardo will also host several activities outside the building as part of the arts festival. Activities are free with festival admission and include:
The Lab: Hands-on Art Making
Daily 11a – 6p
Explore your own creativity with recycled/re-used materials to make your own take-home work of art.
Digital Graffiti: Drawing with Technology
Daily 11a – 6p
Create a digital urban art design using a Nintendo Wii-mote and a flat screen TV. It’s fun for all ages. Just walk up, pick up the Wii-mote and create.
Synchronicity with Trent Alvey
Daily 11a – 6p
Trent Alvey is a mixed-media artist who uses paint, sculpture, as well as light and sound techniques to create works that have been called both pop and contemporary. Trent’s Synchronicity piece uses shallow water baths and floating metronomes to explore the science of water and wave dynamics in an interactive way. Water maps of the Salt Lake Valley will also be on display.
