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Maestro's Gelato Cafe (22 W Center St; 691-5550) UP: Art by David Gianfredi.

Terra Nova Gallery UP: Great Things Small Packages, an annual group exhibit by 22 artists including David Gianfredi, Anne Gregerson, Brett Larsen, and Dahrl Thomson.

Coal Umbrella UP: Art by Fidelis Buehler.

Muse Café (151 N University Ave) Portraits by Travis Braun.

Woodbury Art Museum UPCOMING: 2008 AVC Faculty Exhibition, featuring works from UVSC's Art and Visual Communication faculty. January 18 - February 15. Opening reception on January 18 from 6 - 8pm.

Brigham Young University Museum of Art UP: Cliché and Collusion: Video Works by Grant Stevens, an exhibition of twelve video works by contemporary artist Grant Stevens that incorporate familiar excerpts from advertising, music, film, and common conversation. Exhibit continues through February 9 (see October edition).

ALSO: Minerva Teichert: Pageants in Paint, through May 26, 2008, examines how the American mural and pageantry movements influenced Teichert's artistic production through 45 of her large-scale narrative murals (see November edition).

BYU Harold B. Library Exhibits UP: Andrew Turley in the Hallway Gallery, level 2, through January 11. AND: Amy Bennion in the Auditorium Gallery, level 1, through January 8.

SANPETE COUNTY
Central Utah Art Center UP: Peter Goss and Kurt Nicaise. In the upper gallery Peter Goss will be exhibiting a group of photographs from his project, "Environmental Portraits." Goss has rephotographed the work of George Edward Anderson, they are historic portraits of Utah architecture and its early residents. Goss states: "As an architectural historian and a documentary photographer, I find Anderson's "environmental portraits" important architecturally and culturally. Much of the architecture represented is within one to two decades of its original construction and as such is little altered. Peter will be lecturing on the project on the evening of the opening reception, Friday Jan 4th at 7pm.

In the main gallery a new group of paintings, from Kentucky-based artist Kurt Nicaise. Inspiration for his paintings and drawings come from the land, it's terrain, and our place within its environment. Nicaise uses acrylic, charcoal, brickyard materials, and wood ash to create a layered, quasi-geological representations of the landscape. In the fourth of six visiting critic lectures, freelance curator Adam Bateman will be speaking about the context in which Nicaise is working on January 16th at 7pm.

ST. GEORGE AREA
Sears Art Gallery UP: Milton Goldstein: Magnificent West, featuring the best of Goldstein's famous collection of vintage posthumous dye-transfer photographic prints presented by his widow, Martha Goldstein. Through January 25.

St. George Art Museum UPCOMING: Bear River: Last Chance to Change Course in the Main Gallery, A Reflective Nature from the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in the Mezzanine Gallery and in the Legacy Gallery, A Legacy of Water, featuring works from the permanent collection. AND: In the Mezzanine Gallery A Reflective Nature from the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum. ALSO: In the Legacy Gallery, A Legacy of Water, from the permanent collection. All exhibits January 12 - March 28.

12/3 Utah school hoping to hang onto its Rockwell. 12/6 Bountiful Davis Art Center goes bold with The Red Wall Project. 12/6 Two Salt Lake blocks may become arts hub. 12/9 Stories without words: Folk art depicts Peruvian culture. 12/9 Brent Godfrey of Salt Lake will be exhibiting his painting, "Stranger in a Strange Land," in this year's Florence Biennale. 12/11 Spirit and magic meet at the new Repartee Gallery. 12/12 Uncommon Curator: Monika Del Bosque at Weber State University. 12/22 In Doug Adams' hands, reclaimed metal rings out with new life. 12/22 Missouri art finds a home in SLC. Utah Museum of Fine Arts acquires two paintings by George Caleb Bingham, whose canvases richly documented frontier life 12/22 Provo artist's exhibition confuses residents. 12/22 Waxing Eloquent: Alison Armstrong’s “encaustic art” speaks to uniting past and present 12/23 Brilliant Birds: Artist is inspired by nature. 12/25 Bountiful/Davis Art Center 2008 programs and exhibition schedule. 12/27 Eerie display calls attention to Provo demolitions. 12/29 Salt Lake Tribune names Utah's top 25 cultural power brokers. 12/29 Visual Art in 2007: 337 Project opens the door wide for public art. 12/31 SL Weekly names Best Artists in Action for 2007: TRASA Urban Arts Collective and Best Mormon Artist: Annie Kennedy.

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CEDAR CITY
Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery UPCOMING: The High School Fine Art Competition Exhibit, featuring work by selected entrants from Utah high schools, this exhibit offers younger artists an opportunity to display their artwork and receive awards and critiques from the faculty of the SUU Department of Art and Design. January 7-19.

SOUTH EASTERN UTAH
Moab Art Works UP: Retrospective, featuring works from the gallery's exhibits for the past two years.