Returning April 23rd

UBTech’s Outdoors & The Arts Auction returns to our Vernal campus on April 23rd 2026. RSVP below, or click the donate button if you cannot attend but would still like to make a contribution.

It’s your community. Your Uintah Basin. You made all the difference in the world for artists and students alike.

Art Available for Auction

Artist Bios

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Local artist being interviewed by local journalist near her vendor booth
A man and a woman looking at a set of three paintings in the art gallery housed at UBTech's vernal campus. The first, on the left, is a painting of two sego lillies in white, orange, and gold. The middle painting is of two black and white owls perched on golden rock. The painting on the right is of a creek during winter time.
The art auction crowd seated and ready for the auction to begin as stragglers make their way to their seats. The vendor booths can be seen in the background.
Decorative orange and blue baloons arranged with faux ivy in the foreground with the UBTech Vernal campus blurred in the background
Art auction attendees standing in the middle of vendor booth space
Two women standing at a black table look on at the ongoing art auction. One, in a blue dress, raises her auction paddle, while the other in a black dress smiles.

Live Auction Order

  1. Flaming Gorge Osprey
  2. Prairie Monarch
  3. The Fish Pond
  4. Pottery Package
  5. Shadowed Evening Walk
  6. Golf Package
  7. Ledges North of Ballard
  8. River of Resolve
  9. Manilla Fly Fishing Package
  10. Serene
  11. Lunch Counter for Three
  12. Roy C. Freestone Painting
  13. The Look See
  14. Heber Valley Package
  15. The Trail Boss
  16. Monarch
  17. Indigenous Mama & Baby
  18. Sage
  19. Via Ferrata Package
  20. Little Hole by the Dam
  21. Jim’s Cows
  22. Sentinel of the Quiet Forest
  23. European Deer Mount
  24. Between Two Shores
  25. Sand Hollow Package

Silent Auction

  • New Patio by the Border
  • South Cedarview
  • Zion’s Parkway
  • Better Than Cornflakes
  • Vintage Silverware Bracelet
  • Heron
  • Keeper of the Sea
  • Family Geese
  • Desert Run
  • Frosty White River Island
  • Freedom’s Majesty

Raffle Items

  • Baskets 1
  • Blackstone
  • Gift Box and Punch Pass from Greenbox
  • Baskets 2
  • RV Start Up Kit
  • Hale Centre Theater/Basket/Themed Items
  • Hand made pottery bowls plus six week pottery lesson for two
  • Miller Welding helmet
  • Wooden Bowls 1
  • Dirt bike helmet, goggles, and gloves set
  • Cooler bag and four folding camp chairs
  • Wooden Bowls 2
  • Red Fleet Stay Package
  • River Trip Package
  • Falcon’s Ledge
  • Duchesne County Tourism and Swag Bag 1
  • Duchesne County Tourism and Swag 2
  • Bass Fishin Package
  • LED Light Bar
  • Arctic Cooler
  • Camelback soft cooler

Last Chance Games

  • Mountain Home stay
  • Rifle
  • Shotgun

 Available For Live Auction

Between Two Shores

by Miriam Peña

The Trail Boss

by Jennifer Bell

An osprey in a tree eating a fish

Flaming Gorge Osprey

by Vanessa Barboza

Sage

by Trista Merrell

A painting of an elk on a sage green background

Monarch

By Chris Manwaring

Fish Pond

by Lisa Labrum

A black and white painting of an indigenous woman and baby in traditional dress

Indigenous Mama & Baby

by Brian Daniels

Lunch Counter for Three

Lori Burchinal

River of Resolve

by Alene Gilbert

Painting of two bison grazing

Prairie Monarch

by Jeanne Newman

A landscape painting of mountains, trees, and a river

Roy C. Freestone Painting

by Roy Freestone

A painting of an elk on a sage green background

Monarch

by Chris Manwaring

Painting of a deer in the gap between trees in a forest. Sunlight illuminates the wood behind the deer.

The Quiet Sentinel of the Forest

by Jim Atherton

A dirt trail leading into a forest of trees with golden leaves

Shadowed Evening Walk

by Deena Millecam

A cowboy on horseback and an adjacent pack horse filled up with cargo riding by a canyon wall

Ledges North of Ballard

by Lynn E. Mecham

A cowboy on horseback standing on a cliffside overlooking the land below

The Look See

by AD Shaw

A boy fly fishing in a river by a canyon wall.

Study - Little Hole by the Dam

Lynn E. Mecham

A photo of a bull moose in a river. Water dribbling from its mouth.

Serene

by Chris Cassanova

Photo of cabin and steam locomotive. Daniels Summit stay and Heber Valley train ride. Daniels Summit Lodge. Heber Valley Railroad. Scenic line. Through the Wasatch back.

Heber Valley Stay Package

A group of men on a golf course. 4 man golf team AM flight premium registration. UBTech.

Golf Team Package

Photo of person crossing narrow pole to the other side of a canyon. Vernal Dinosaurland. Guided Via Ferrata Day Trip for 5 adults.

Via Ferrata Package

Photo of a deer skull with antlers. European deer mount. Courtesy of Tyler's European Mounts Dermestid Beetles.

Euro Mount Package

Two side by sides parked on rock by canyon

ATV Rental Package

Cabins by mountains and a trout with its mouth open

Manila Stay and Fly Fishing Package

A reddish brown and white cow in the foreground, several others of the same breed in the background, all on golden grass in scrub land.

Jim's Cows

by AD Shaw

 Available For Silent Auction

A painting of a heron in a wetland at night

The Heron

by Marlee Marrell

Two canadian geese with two goslings swimming through a pond.

Family of Geese

by Jeanne Newman

A desert ridge with a river running through it. Remnant snow still lingers at the water's edge.

Frosty White River Island

by Stephen Sandau

by Laci Mitchell

Vintage Silverware Bracelet

A canyon wall and vegetation

Zion’s Parkway

by Deena Millecam

A red and white lighthouse flanked by trees in a red frame

Keeper of the Sea

by Lori Burchinal

Desert Run

by Vanessa Barboza

Close up of squirrel eaing nut on log

Better Than Cornflakes

by Stephen Sandau

Cowboy laying bricks in a dirt courtyard of a building

New Patio by the Border

by Lynn E. Mecham

A house and hay bails with two trees between them

South Cedarview

by Lynn E. Mecham

Bald eagle head on black background

Freedom's Majesty

by Janeal Wilson

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Art Available for Auction

Artist Bios