When I arrived at Sugar Space Arts Warehouse in the early evening, it was sweltering. Inside, the AC was blowing to its max while a very small crowd milled about. Comprised almost entirely of other dancers from around Salt Lake City, and presumably some close friends and family […]
“Convergence,” a 20-foot-tall work of cast aluminum forming a partial male head that peers skyward, adds a sense of intrigue and mystery to the nondescript government building it flanks, just off I-215 in Taylorsville. Installed in October of 2017, Douwe Blumberg’s sculpture is meant to give a visual representation of […]
We share with you a new feature from our partners at loveDANCEmore. This article represents the beginning of a new format for the performance journal. Each month they’ll be posting a new interview, essay, poem or other piece of original creative content related to dance-making in Utah. loveDANCEmore […]
Call For Artists Historic retail business in downtown Provo is adding an art/gift section featuring Utah artists. Local and family owned for over 100 years, we are partially reorganizing our business model to take advantage of the exciting development and culture of downtown Provo. As downtown Provo hosts more conventions, […]
by Kristina Gibby Steven L. Peck’s Gilda Trillim: Shepherdess of the Rats, winner of the Association for Mormon Letters’ 2018 award for novel, is at once whimsical and intensely meditative. It is cosmic in scope, yet profoundly intimate. In other words, it is full of paradox, the kind […]
Rock Canyon Poets co-founder Trish Hopkinson recently interviewed Beat poet Neeli Cherkovski, who is in town this week for readings in Provo and Salt Lake City, to find out more about who he is as a poet and how he approaches writing poetry.
UTAH’S 15, our program to recognize and honor the state’s most influential artists, RETURNS. And we need your help. It was five years ago. Laura Durham had an idea: ask people to think about who they felt were the state’s most influential artists. At the time, Durham was working […]
Brad Slaugh is a bit of a jokester. You see it in the postcards for the semi-annual open studios event he runs at Poor Yorick Studios (which he has operated for 15+ years): the card inserts the skeleton of Denmark’s famous court jester into an iconic work of […]
No, we’re not a pay-to-play sort of publication. People aren’t sending us a check and expecting us to write an article on them. But we recently sent out an email about our current edition, noting that on average it costs us $125 to produce an article in 15 […]
There’s so much junk on the internet, you begin to wonder why we spend so much time there, but then you come across something like this: on Thursday, Utah County artist Justin Taylor posted a video he created about BMX freestyler Scotty Cranmer, who suffered a life-altering accident […]
Anyone who has lost a solitary loved one can relate to the situation: a household full of objects — clothes, books, photographs, dishware — too sentimental to simply throw away, not precious enough to keep. Are the clothes old enough that they’ve come back in style? Maybe one […]
Nominations for the 6th 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 the Beehive State). 15 Bytes is […]
