Springville Museum of Art UP: 85th Annual Spring Salon, encouraging diverse applications of style and technique and promoting varied conceptual and formal directions in art. This year, the Museum received a record breaking 1,102 entries from Utah and across the country. Jurors Tom Alder, a partner at Williams Fine Art Gallery, and Jeff Lambson, Curator of Contemporary Art at the BYU Museum of Art, chose 253 works. First place was awarded to Wendy Chidester’s “Dalton on Red.” The two second place awards were given to Sunny Belliston and Laura Trinnaman. Randall Lake, Frank McEntire, and David Wayne Meikle received the three third place awards. Directors' awards were received by Aaron Brent Harker (image at left), Jared Jackson Ellis, and David Dornin. Through July 3 2009.

Brigham Young University Museum of Art UP: Dan Steinhilber, an exhibition of installations by the Washington, D.C.-based artist. The exhibition consists of nearly 20 installation works made specifically for this show from an assortment of everyday, consumer goods, such as dry cleaner hangers, trash bags, bottles of soda pop, fluorescent light bulbs, crowd control stanchions, Styrofoam packing peanuts, soy sauce packets, stacking lawn chairs, and PVC pipe (see January edition). Through June 6.

AND: Visions of the Southwest from the Diane and Sam Stewart Art Collection presents an outstanding collection of artworks by major southwestern artists and will tell some of the stories and the strategies that shaped the Stewart’s collection (see March edition). Through July 3.

ALSO: Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos, and Toys in the Attic, a photography exhibition of a familiar make-believe world created from buttons, dice, marbles, rubber frogs, toy robots, and other whimsical items. Forty large-scale photographs by Walter Wick, author and photographer of more than 30 children books that include the popular “I Spy” (with Jean Marzollo) and “Can You See What I See?” series, will be on display along with five models that Wick used to create some of the images, and a behind-the-scenes video presentation that will help visitors understand how Wick creates the images in his books. Through August 1.