UTAH'S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Due March 7 The Visual Arts Fellowship is a $5,000 unrestricted award to acknowledge and encourage the careers of mid-career and established Utah artists who are demonstrating exceptional creativity in the visual arts. Six visual arts fellows are selected by an out-of-state arts professional. Fellowship Guidelines 2022 […]
To celebrate our 20 years of publishing 15 Bytes, every few weeks since September 2021 we’ve been taking a look back at a year in our history — highlighting the major trends and events that year in our art community by looking at the articles we published in […]
Due Jan. 20 JOB SUMMARY Manages the Salt Lake County Public Arts Programs and assists on art related special projects for the Division and County. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Art, Arts Administration or other closely related field, plus two (2) years […]
Logan Jan. 29 – Dec. 17, 2022 Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art 650 North 1100 East Logan, Utah 84322 Directions The focus of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art collection in on twentieth and twenty-first century art of the western United States. It consists of over […]
Salt Lake City Jan. 22 – June 26 Utah Museum of Fine Arts What is a border? What happens to the binds that tether us to our ancestors once we cross border checkpoints? What does it mean when art taken from one place is displayed across the same […]
Due March 15, 2021 Nominations for the 10th annual 15 Book Awards are open. Books must be Utah-centric (author must live in Utah, have a strong connection to Utah, and/or the book must be set in the state or have important themes that speak to the population of […]
Brigham Young University professor Patrick Madden has won the 15 Bytes Book Award for Creative Nonfiction for his collection of essays. Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Disparates confirms Madden’s reputation as an essayist of great humor, vitality and range. In one of the essays collected here, […]
Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner’s evocative, disturbing, dark novel, The Contortionists, has won this year’s 15 Bytes Book Award for fiction. The novel, which the author has described as a “literary crossover,” injects the tension of a suspense novel into the world of fully fleshed characters, deep context and […]
Art Access, a Salt Lake City organization which aims to build an inclusive and diverse arts community in Utah through creative opportunities for people with disabilities and other marginalized communities, has announced two new staff members: Cara Jean Hall as Communications and Digital Marketing Manager and Max Barnewitz as […]
The year was 2006 . . . and Pluto was being downgraded from a full planet to a dwarf one. 15 Bytes was being upgraded, by going from a 6-week publication schedule to a monthly one: You could set your calendar to the first Wednesday of the month, […]
It lives! The year was 2005 and … after going silent for six months, 15 Bytes was resurrected! Here, to the best of our recollection, is what happened: In the summer of 2004, just shy of three years after its inception, 15 Bytes went dark. Or, not exactly […]
The quarterly Humanities Magazine, a publication of the National Endowment for the Humanities, featured Utah Humanities’ Executive Director Jodi Graham in the most recent issue. The highlight gave Utah Humanities a national platform for sharing our deep, statewide work and Jodi’s vision for the influence the humanities can […]
Salt Lake City Nov. 19, 2021 – Jan. 7, 2022 Modern West is pleased to introduce ULTRASCAPES!, a solo exhibition of new works by Jerrin Wagstaff, Artist in Residence at Modern West from September 1 through November 30, 2021. The exhibition will be on view Upstairs from November […]
The year was 2004 … and 15 Bytes went silent. Most art galleries and organizations last a couple of years before they give up or disappear. 15 Bytes lasted three. But before we called it quits in August of 2004, we were keeping up with what was going […]
The year was 2003, and the Salt Lake Gallery Association was celebrating 20 years of Gallery Stroll. In Ogden, Gallery 25, a co-op gallery which had launched in 2002, was joined by Artstop Ogden. Terra Nova opened in Provo. In Salt Lake City’s Millcreek neighborhood, Evergreen Art […]
