Brooks+Scarpa's new Southern Utah Art Museum draws its inspiration from the local artist that made it possible

2017-11-21T15:50:00-05:00

When the legendary artist Jim Jones, known for his painting of Zion and the Grand Canyon, died in 2009, he donated his Rockville home, and 15 of his late paintings, as well as the copyrights, to the Southern Utah University. The Cedar City native's gift was to provide the university with the seed money to eventually form the Southern Utah Museum of Art and almost eight years later, this dream has come to completion.

Brooks + Scarpa.

Ale Scarpa.

The new museum is part of the $39.1 million Beverly Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts campus—a 5.5-acre master planned complex that links downtown Cedar City with the Southern Utah University Campus. The museum itself comprises 28,000 square feet of adaptable gallery and exhibition space that will accommodate the special collection of Jones as well as regularly displaying the work of students, faculty, regional artists and juried shows.

Alan Blakely.

It has been designed by the Los Angeles-based firm, Brooks + Scarpa, who were in...

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Brooks+Scarpa's new Southern Utah Art Museum draws its inspiration from the local artist that made it possible