Alfred Lambourne Arts Program

Alfred Lambourne Arts Program

Organization: FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake

Purpose: Annual recognition and celebration of regional creativity inspired by Great Salt Lake. Through artistic expression, FRIENDS enhances capacity to build awareness about the Lake and the need to preserve and protect it for the future.

Program Description

FRIENDS celebrates the relationship between local artists and one of Utah's most precious natural resources, Great Salt Lake. The program invites creative work inspired by the Lake in multiple artistic forms.

Eligible Art Forms

• Visual arts
• Literary arts
• Sound and movement

Geographic Scope

• Location: Utah (regional artists)
• Focus: Great Salt Lake and its ecosystem

Program History

Established in 2014, the program is named after Alfred Lambourne (1850-1926), a renowned painter and writer. Lambourne was an early champion of Great Salt Lake, creating dozens of sketches and paintings that captured the lake's physical attributes. He also wrote extensively about the lake, publishing Pictures of an Inland Sea (1894; 1902) and Our Inland Sea: The Story of a Homestead (1909).

Contact & Program Director

Program Director: Holly Simonsen (Artist and writer) Email: Contact through website (spambot-protected) Portfolio: www.hsimonsen.com

Background on Alfred Lambourne

Born in England in 1850, Lambourne moved to Salt Lake City in 1866. He developed a passionate interest in Great Salt Lake after reading Captain Howard Stansbury's account of the 1850 survey. He traveled the lake by sailboat and lived on Gunnison Island. His artistic legacy includes romantic-style paintings in the Hudson River School tradition, along with influential lyrical prose about the lake.