Friday, June 2nd, 6p-7p, Millcreek Library. Come and see Stephanie Harper and live music from Adrian De La Cruz. Light refreshments served. This is a great opportunity to support your local artists of all ages.
The Millcreek Library is inside of the Millcreek Community Center located at 2266 Evergreen Avenue, Millcreek, UT 84109.
The Millcreek Arts Council and Salt Lake County Millcreek Library are excited to display the artwork of Kaylee Rakowski during the month of July. A reception with Kaylee will be held at the Millcreek Library from 6-7 PM on July 7th. Music will be performed by Koan Laros and light refreshments will be served.
Kaylee is an avid outdoor enthusiast who spends her time climbing mountains and searching for the obscurities in nature. Her fascination with nature started as a young child, where she spent countless weekends and summers camping in Arizona and traveling to national parks in the Western United States. Usually taking to outdoor activities, Kaylee played soccer during the day, and spent nights studying music and academics. She played flute, piccolo, and tenor saxophone locally and nationally.
Kaylee later accepted a scholarship to play collegiate volleyball with Pima Community College in Southern Arizona 2011-2013. She graduated with honors focusing mainly on nutrition, landscape photography, and coaching youth volleyball.
The following 7 years, Kaylee spent working within the outdoor and cycling community where she thrived helping others find the joy she felt so deeply for nature.
In late spring of 2021, while on a hike on local trails in her new home of Salt Lake City, UT, Kaylee broke her ankle and landed herself a tremendously long recovery.
Looking for an escape, Kaylee picked up her first batch of painting supplies and set out on a new path of artistic creation. With the help of online tutorials and books from the great Bill Alexander, Lowell Speers, Bob Ross, and many others, Kaylee started to learn the process of alla prima or wet-on-wet oil painting in hopes of creating the places she wished to go to. It wasn’t long before she realized she was tapping on the door of a whole new world of imagination, and there was no stopping her.
Kaylee spent the summer of 2022 attending her first weekly art shows displaying over 70 paintings with a variety of options for purchase. She was also one of 80 artists featured in Art at The Park Utah, where she showcased her journey from her first pieces to latest works. Her originals can be viewed in The Lazy Day Cafe and Millcreek Cafe of Salt Lake City, UT, as well as in Casa de Roman Airbnb located south of the border in Sonora, Mexico.
Koan Laros began his musical journey at the Open Classroom in 2014, at just 8 years old. There, he began taking classical guitar lessons from Eric McKenna Spreng, who remained his guitar teacher until the summer of 2022. Currently, he continues to study with his new teacher, Troy Lennerd.
For many years, Koan patiently practiced his guitar-playing skills and absorbed much music theory. Since then, he has been practicing classical pieces by Bach, Tarrega, and others, and has begun to compose his own music.