Kimball Art Center presents Step After Step May 30 – Sept. 14

PARK CITY, Utah — Step After Step explores the evolution of walking as an art form, inviting viewers to reflect on how a simple act can have profound meaning. The exhibit at the Kimball Art Center opens with an opening reception on May 30 from 6 – 8 p.m.

Walking as Art

In the late 1960s, as artists across the globe began to question the confines of the gallery and the commodification of the art object, a quiet revolution took shape—on foot. What began as a radical gesture against traditional media evolved into a profound artistic language: walking as art. Today, walking endures as an artistic strategy rooted in presence, meditation, and attention. It is both intimate and expansive: a way of recording memory, resisting systems, and mapping the self within a shifting world. Park City has added its own version of walking with Art on the Trails and marches down Main Street for any number of reasons.

See Walking as Art evolve

Step After Step traces the lineage of this movement, from its conceptual origins to its contemporary resonance. Artists turned to the act of walking not only as a means of mark-making, but as a mode of inquiry—into place, politics, embodiment, and constructed barriers. The artist’s body in motion became both subject and tool. Richard Long’s solitary pathworks through the British countryside and the long-distance performances of the 1970s redefined what it meant to make and experience art.

Step After Step lets you experience the movement

Through a constellation of video, photography, sculpture, ephemera, and participatory works, Step After Step invites viewers to consider the resonance of each step taken—and to imagine how even the most ordinary gesture might be transformed into a profound act of meaning. The exhibit features art by Marina Abramović / Ulay, Francis Alÿs, Regina José Galindo, Bill Gilbert, Richard Long, Hendl Helen Mirra, Museum of Walking (with Angela Ellsworth and and KB Thomason), Paulo Nazareth, Sohei Nishino, Ernesto Pujol, and Kristen Jean Wheatley.

On July 12 at 6 p.m. join poets Rebecca Brenner and Nan Seymour for an evening of poetry, conversation, and community connection. Through shared poems and moderated discussion, Brenner and Seymour will explore how writing can become a practice of walking beyond concepts—into the heart of what is real, alive, and urgently felt.

The evening will open with a presence practice and walking meditation, offering participants an opportunity to arrive fully in their bodies and tune into the land around them. This grounding ritual will invite stillness, spaciousness, and attentive movement, setting the tone for deep listening and an embodied approach to the creative process.

Following the session, Brenner and Seymour will reflect on how their creative work connects them to the living world, their ancestors, and ecological and social justice movements. The program will conclude with a Q&A and space for audience reflections.