STAFF
Amy Jorgensen is a co-founder of Granary Arts and is currently the Executive Director and Chief Curator. Dedicated to the arts as a facilitator, maker, and educator, she has curated over 70 exhibitions of artists working in contemporary art. She is an appointed member of the Utah Arts Council Board of Directors and a member of the Acquisition Committee for the State of Utah Alice Merril Horne Fine Art Collection. Jorgensen was a juror for the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art Doctorow Prize and Springville Museum of Art Spring Salon, presented at the Mountain West Arts Conference, and recently gave the keynote address at the Business of Art Conference. In addition to her role at Granary Arts, Jorgensen is Chair of Visual Arts and an Associate Professor at Snow College where she is head of photography and works as a practicing artist. Her recent exhibitions include Elizabeth Houston Gallery in NYC, LA><Art in Los Angeles, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), GuatePhoto Festival, AIPAD, and Oceanside Museum of Art. Jorgensen was born in Milan, Italy, she received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University, and an MFA from the University of California San Diego. She lectures and writes regularly about issues related to curatorial practice, arts advocacy, and her work as a practicing artist. Jorgensen wholeheartedly embraces the practice of building the community you want to be a part of.
Kamilla Earlywine is the Manager of Programs and Marketing at Granary Arts and a Utah native with generational history in the Sanpete Valley. Earlywine received an AFA from Snow College where she graduated cum laude, was the curator of Lumlux Gallery and worked in the visual arts department as the photography Teaching Assistant. As a practicing artist, she is interested in personal narrative and identity. Her work explores the correlations between memories, objects, places and energy as she aims to discover and preserve the stories within those connections. Earlywine’s selected exhibitions include Bountiful Davis Art Center, Writ & Vision, Lenscratch, UMOCA + Granary Arts (Lawn Gnomes 2020), Snow Art Gallery, Eccles Art Gallery, and The Curated Fridge. In 2017 Earlywine received the Best-In-Show award for Maternal Identity I at Snow College’s Artists in Residence, Works in Progress group exhibition. Her work has been published in Exponent II, Weeds Literary Journal, and she has self-published several books. She lives with her husband and three sons in Provo, UT where she works as a freelance photographer specializing in the documentation of art and enjoys practicing yoga, collecting houseplants, and gardening.
Elisabeth Fitch is the Gallery Manager at Granary Arts. She received an Associates of Science from Snow College in 2022, with a focus in Outdoor Leadership and Entrepreneurship. With a desire to explore the natural world, she has been employed at summer camps, working outdoors with youth groups across Utah, Idaho, and West Virginia. Fitch is passionate about photography, oil painting, and special effects make-up, all of which started with her work for Treehouse Children’s Museum and the Black Island Farms' Nightmares Acres. While attending Snow College, she spent many hours working as a volunteer in the theater department, assisting with make-up and costumes. Now residing in a self-remodeled tiny home in Sanpete County, she seeks sustainable living and desires to bring light to the community through her involvement in the arts.
Julia Dixon is the Programs Assistant at Granary Arts, and recent graduate from BYU with a Bachelor’s degree in English, emphasis in Professional Writing and Communication. While earning her degree, she worked at the Bean Life Science Museum and as a Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant in various departments. She also interned with the Wordsworth Trust at their museum in Grasmere, England. Julia presented at two panels for the BYU 2023 English Symposium, Words That Shape Us, where she discussed her conference paper and her internship. She returned to England this summer to present her research on Dorothy Wordsworth at the 2023 Wordsworth Summer Conference. She is passionate about making opportunities to gain knowledge and a deeper appreciation of the arts more accessible to all communities. Julia enjoys hiking, reading, and thrift shopping in her spare time.
COLLABORATORS
Kelly Brooks
Co-founder
Board Member
Kelly Brooks is a co-founder of Granary Arts and serves on the Board of Directors. She is the former co-director of Granary Arts and she directed the Museum School at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. Brooks teaches in the Department of Visual Arts at Snow College, where she is the head of time-based media. In her own work, her interests span several media but focus most on drawing, painting, video art, and animation. Selected exhibitions include the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Rio Gallery, Finch Lane Gallery, Springville Art Museum, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Utah Cultural Celebration Center, Writ & Vision, Alice Gallery, Kimball Visual Arts Center, CUAC, and SMartspace. Brooks grew up in the Salt Lake Valley near the Cottonwood Canyons. She received a BFA from Brigham Young University, a certificate in Art Teaching from Weber State University, and a Master's of Arts Teaching—Fine Arts from the University of Utah. She lives and works in central Utah with her husband and three children, where she collaborates on creative projects with her local and larger communities.
SCOTTI HILL
Board Chair
Scotti Hill (she/her) serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at Granary Arts, and is a Utah-based arts journalist, critic, and lawyer. She is a former staff writer for 15 Bytes: Utah’s Art Magazine and has contributed to Hyperallergic, Deseret News, New Art Examiner, and the Center for Art Law.
JARED JAKINS
Curator Film Feast
Jared Jakins, collaborative Film Feast Curator at Granary Arts, is a South African-born documentarian. His feature directoral debut, Scenes from the Glittering World, was featured on Independent Lens (PBS, 2022). His work has screened in major film festivals around the world and has been curated in The Atlantic. Jared is interested in stories of cultural intersection, and seeks to document images of community and identity emerging from those collisions.
CARLY JAKINS
Curator Film Feast
Carly Jakins is a collaborative Film Feast Curator at Granary Arts and documentary filmmaker whose work has been curated by The Atlantic and ITVS’s Independent Lens. Her debut, Ghosts on the Mountain, was the short documentary award winner at the American Society for Visual Anthropology and Heartland Film Festival in 2014. Carly has produced and co-directed several other award-winning short documentaries, including producing the feature documentary, Scenes From the Glittering World (PBS, 2022). She is currently engaged in exploring the experiences of rural women in the western United States.
JANIce timothy
Workshop Instructor
Janice Timothy is the Workshop Wednesday instructor at Granary Arts and a former art teacher in the public-school system. She received a BA from Boise State University in Advertising Design and an MA in Art Education from Brigham Young University. Timothy has years of experience teaching art classes to middle and high school students where she taught the basics of both 2-D and 3-D mediums. She has a deep love for art and is experienced in drawing, painting, watercolor, pottery, paper-mache, wire sculpture, jewelry, photography, and book making. She currently lives in Manti, Utah where she enjoys spending time at home with her family, numerous animals, and especially her grandchildren.