UMFA Insights Tour: For the Future Exhibition at Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Art enthusiasts and visitors seeking a midday break in Salt Lake City can explore acquisitions during a free, 45-minute guided exhibition walkthrough at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

Special Exhibition at Utah Museum of Fine Arts

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is hosting a special exhibition titled For the Future: Collecting at the UMFA 2001–2026. The institution is located inside the Marcia & John Price Museum Building at 410 Campus Center Dr., Salt Lake City, according to event notices. The exhibition highlights creative works acquired over a 25-year period.

American art forms featured in the collection span a diverse spectrum of cultural expression. The gallery displays Indigenous practices dating back thousands of years alongside traditional European-origin painting and sculpting traditions. Modern and contemporary pieces engaged on the global stage are also part of the showcase.

Museum Staff Led Exhibition Tours

Visitors can experience the artworks through the unique perspectives of staff members who work with the collection every day. The lunch-hour tours provide a midday break where attendees can also stop by the Museum Café for a bite to eat. The 45-minute excursions offer a look into the pieces, their histories, and how the institution stewards them.

Leadership for the tours rotates among museum experts. A tour will be led by Stacey Kelly, director of collections and conservator at the UMFA. Alisa McCusker, senior curator and curator of European and American art, also leads tours highlighting noteworthy acquisitions that deepen the museum representation of American history and culture.

Alisa McCusker, Curator of European and American Art, leads a tour of some of the UMFA’s most noteworthy art acquisitions in the past 25 years that have broadened and deepened the Museum’s representation of the richness of American history, culture, and life.

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Alisa McCusker Curates Free Insights Tours

Earning her doctorate in art history from the University of Texas at Austin, Alisa McCusker also completed a Master of Arts in art history and museum studies via the joint program connecting Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Her professional background features a full-year Fulbright fellowship to Germany combined with prior experience serving as Curator of European and American Art at the University of Missouri’s Museum of Art and Archaeology.

The insights tours are provided free of charge to museum visitors. The current exhibition run celebrates acquisitions spanning up to the year 2026, offering the public an inside look at how the institution builds and preserves its permanent collection.