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.
The first question that came to mind when we heard Kingsbury Hall was planning a renovation was, “What about the murals?” UtahPresents and the University of Utah announced last month the allocation of $3 million in state funding for interior renovations at Kingsbury Hall, the 1,900-seat historic theater […]
On May 4th, the Box Elder County Commission held a special meeting at the county fairgrounds in Tremonton—moved there because so many people were expected to show up. Which they did. When the commissioners took their seats, they were met with an eruption of shouting and booing. After […]
The Utah Division of Arts & Museums (UA&M) has announced the 2026 Utah Artist Fellowship recipients. Five fellows have been selected in the program’s Literary Arts and Performing Arts (Music) disciplines, and eight fellows have been selected in the combined discipline of Visual Arts & Design. The fellows, […]
The works that enter public collections carry a particular kind of weight. More than purchases, they are selections, each one a small claim about what matters, what endures, and who belongs in the story of a community’s artistic life. Once acquired, these works take on a life that […]
When David Walker and his wife first imagined Art on Main, they were thinking about a street, not just a show. The two had run Brigham City’s Main Street Program for years and watched what the annual St. George Art Festival had done for that community—how the arts […]
There is a persistent myth about what it means to be a serious artist — that the work is everything, that the studio is the whole world, and that attention paid to anything outside it is a kind of compromise. Ask anyone who advises working artists about how […]
New mural planned for Salt Lake City’s historic Japantown Salt Lake City’s historic Japantown—one of the last remaining traces of what was once a thriving Japanese American district downtown—will receive a new community-informed mural this summer. Led by the Salt Lake City Community Reinvestment Agency in partnership with […]
Sugar House has been arguing about itself for more than a decade. What kind of neighborhood should it be? How tall should its buildings get? What belongs next to the park? The arguments go back to when developer Craig Mecham tore down the old retail spaces on the […]
Twenty-five years is a long time to be together. You get into rhythms. Certain habits. And then—if you’re smart—you start finding ways to keep things interesting. People will suggest things. Maybe open the relationship up a little? In the case of an online magazine, what would that mean, […]
Fifty is a big anniversary. Whether a golden anniversary for a couple, or a company marking half a century of endurance and adaptation. Any arts organization that reaches fifty years has something to crow about—a record of having weathered changing tastes, uncertain economies, and the thousand quiet challenges […]
In celebration of National Poetry Month, 15 Bytes is pleased to present a conversation and reading with Utah poet Shawn Dallas Stradley, interviewed by 15 Bytes editor Shawn Rossiter. In their conversation, Stradley reflects on a life spent writing—beginning in adolescence and continuing through decades of artistic and […]
For years, the Springville Museum of Art’s Spring Salon has served as a place where we at 15 Bytes both discover new artists and take stock of what those we already know are doing.The 15 Bytes Discovery Award, inaugurated this year in partnership with the Springville Museum of […]
Construction is underway on the Larry H. & Gail Miller Arts Center, a new regional venue set to expand arts access in Salt Lake County’s southwest valley. A March 19 groundbreaking in Downtown Daybreak brought together civic leaders, arts advocates, and community members to mark the start of […]
What happens to a successful artistic collaboration when it ends in the death of one of its members? In the midst of their lives, after their children were grown, and with years of opportunity to make splendid works of art before them, Marcee and Ric Blackerby suddenly faced […]
For more than a decade, playwright Elaine Jarvik has been asking big, uncomfortable, and often funny questions on Utah stages—about belief, identity, power, and the stories people tell themselves. With Sunny in the Dark, now receiving its world premiere at Salt Lake Acting Company, she turns that curiosity […]
Getting people to your show is one of the hardest parts of exhibiting—and one of the most important. Artists can spend months making the work. Galleries and institutions spend time shaping the presentation, installing it, writing about it, and putting their name behind it. Then the doors open […]
Artists of Utah and 15 Bytes are pleased to announce that the 2025 15 Bytes Award for Fiction has been awarded to David G. Pace for his short story collection American Trinity: And Other Stories from the Mormon Corridor, published by BCC Press. Selected from a strong field […]
Artists of Utah and 15 Bytes are pleased to announce that Sheila Nadimi has been selected as the winner of the 2025 15 Bytes Book Award in Art Book for Eagle Village: A Deep Mapping of Fallow Architecture. As our jurors noted: “Eagle Village is a profound photographic […]
Artists of Utah and 15 Bytes are pleased to announce that Lance Larsen’s Making a Kingdom of It, has been selected as the winner of the 2025 15 Bytes Book Award in Poetry. Larsen is a poet and essayist based in Utah, where he teaches literature and creative […]
