Utah Valley University's new Museum of Art at Lakemount Manor, transforming the former Bastian family mansion, will open Saturday, May 13, in Orem.
Utah Valley University's new Museum of Art at Lakemount Manor in Orem, on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. The mansion was originally built for Bruce and Melanie Bastian, who divorced in 1994. Melanie Bastian died in 2016, and their sons donated the property to UVU in 2018.• It’s taken four years to turn a 39,000-square-foot private mansion into an art museum for people in Utah County and beyond to enjoy — and this weekend, people get to see it for themselves.
“Melanie was a lifelong supporter of arts and education,” her son, Darren, said in 2018, according to a UVU. “She built this huge, beautiful home, but she didn’t build it for herself — she built it for us and she built it for the community. She wanted it to be used by people she loved, and for her that included a lot of people.”
“We actually went back east and toured a few homes that had been turned into art museums, to kind of get an idea of what would need to be done and how,” Godfrey said. The exhibition is in three parts, and is part of a larger UVU initiative that has the goal of exploring “themes of belonging in community and culture.” The exhibition is a collaboration between artist and educator Jorge Rojas and Fanny Guadalupe Blauer, executive director ofOne part of the exhibition is solely curated by Rojas. Another is of Rojas’ work, curated by Taylor Wright. The third is a statewide juried exhibition, with 50 artworks in various media from 40 Utah BIPOC artists.
“Her work centers on kind of documenting aspects of culture and life where she grew up in Mexico, and being able to create some kind of permanence or perseverance for that — so that not only people in her culture can see what life was like, but also that the rest of us can experience that,” Godfrey said.
Since the mansion is in a residential area, Godfrey said there were initial concerns about traffic in the neighborhood. But, he added, people seem to be on board, because it reflects Melanie’s legacy of making her home open to others.
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