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Powder Art Foundation redefines active viewing. Artworks are placed to be discovered, transforming the mountain into a living exhibition site that shifts with the seasons. Cradled in valleys, perched atop ridges, or hidden among the trees, art is amplified by world-class outdoor recreation and dynamic conditions of movement as visitors ski, hike, bike, and ride chairlifts from site to site.

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PAF001Griffin Loop, Launch Intention, 2014

(41°22'05"N 111°46'26"W)

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Woody’s World shuttle

PAF002Gerard & Kelly, Relay (Powder Mountain), 2023

(41°22'35"N 111°47'10"W)

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Sunrise

PAF003Susan Philipsz, We’ll All Go Together, 2009

(41°23'03"N 111°46'05"W)

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Paradise

PAF004Davina Semo, Listener, 2020-2024

(41°22'37"N 111°46'16"W)

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Timberline

PAF005Davina Semo, Reflector, 2025

(41°23'24"N 111°45'04"W)

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Sunrise

PAF007Kayode Ojo, “...and that they hadn’t heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house...”, 2025

(41°22'32"N 111°45'26"W)

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Hidden Lake

PAF008EJ Hill, Surrendered (Total Ascent), 2025

(41°22'33"N 111°46'17"W)

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Timberline

PAF009EJ Hill, Love Song (for Eden), 2025

(41°23'55"N 111°45'44"W)

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Paradise

PAF010Madeline Hollander, The Moon is Always Full, 2023

(41°22'46"N 111°46'52"W)

PAF011Nancy Holt, Starfire, 1986

(41°22'08"N 111°45'55"W)

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Hidden Lake

PAF012Nobuo Sekine, Phase of Nothingness - Stone Stack, 1970-2025

(41°22'30"N 111°45'57"W)

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Hidden Lake
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Land Art in the Region

Utah and the surrounding region represent one of the most important geographies in the world for visionary engagement with landscape, from ancient petroglyphs and Ancestral Puebloan structures that function as solar calendars, to works of Land Art such as Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels. Powder Art Foundation celebrates this lineage—one that spans thousands of years and includes sacred sites, groundbreaking artworks, and new experiments in living with and through the land. The following are important touchstones for our work, with many accessible by car from Powder Mountain:

Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1970. ©Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Nancy Holt, courtesy Holt/Smithson Foundation

SITE 01Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970

A 1,500-foot basalt spiral that curls into the Great Salt Lake, Spiral Jetty is a foundational work that links entropy and geologic time.

Details

  1. Medium

    Black basalt rock, salt crystals, earth, and water

  2. Dimensions

    18000 x 180 in. (45720.0 x 457.2 cm) approximately

  3. Collection

    Dia Art Foundation

  4. Distance from PAF

    80 Miles

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Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels, 1973–76. Great Basin Desert, Utah. Dia Art Foundation with support from Holt/Smithson Foundation. © Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Victoria Sambunaris, courtesy Dia Art Foundation, New York

SITE 02Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels, 1973–76

Four large concrete cylinders aligned with the summer and winter solstices frame celestial alignments and invite deep perceptual engagement with the desert sky.

Details

  1. Medium

    Concrete, steel, and earth

  2. Dimensions

    111 x 217 x 111 in. (281.9 x 551.2 x 281.9 cm) each of 4

    111 x 822 x 636 in. (281.9 x 2087.9 x 1615.4 cm) installed

  3. Collection

    Dia Art Foundation

  4. Distance from PAF

    179 miles

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SITE 03Nine Mile Canyon

Often called the world’s longest art gallery, this remote canyon holds thousands of prehistoric rock art images by the Fremont and Ute peoples.

Details

  1. Location

    -110.668 39.556

  2. Distance from PAF

    192 Miles

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SITE 04Fremont Indian State Park

This site preserves hundreds of petroglyphs and pictographs from the Fremont culture, carved into cliffs and canyons along the I-70 corridor.

Details

  1. Location

    Fremont Indian State Park and Museum, 3820 Clear Creek Canyon Rd, Sevier, UT 84766

  2. Distance from PAF

    241 Miles

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SITE 05Sego Canyon

Near Thompson Springs, this site showcases Barrier Canyon, Fremont, and Ute rock art traditions as they overlap, layered across thousands of years.

Details

  1. Location

    Sego Cyn Rd, Utah 84540

  2. Distance from PAF

    275 Miles

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SITE 06Bears Ears National Monument

Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings and ceremonial sites sit amid red rock canyons in this sacred culturally rich landscape still stewarded by tribal nations

Details

  1. Location

    37.629975, -109.867630

  2. Distance from PAF

    386 Miles

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SITE 08Andrea Zittel, A–Z West, 2000 - present

A long-term experimental living compound near Joshua Tree, CA, stewarded by the nonprofit arts organization High Desert Test Sites, where Zittel explores how we live in relation to systems, shelter, and landscape. 

Details

  1. Location

    62923 Sullivan Rd., Joshua Tree, CA

  2. Distance from PAF

    668 Miles

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SITE 01Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970
SITE 02Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels, 1973–76
SITE 03Nine Mile Canyon
SITE 04Fremont Indian State Park
SITE 05Sego Canyon
SITE 06Bears Ears National Monument
SITE 08Andrea Zittel, A–Z West, 2000 - present