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.
Every five years, we check in with our public to answer an important but not always easy question: Who are the state’s most influential artists? These are not necessarily the “hottest” artists, they are not the most “honored” artists, but these are the artists who make a difference […]
The South Salt Lake Arts Council on behalf of the City of South Salt Lake is seeking qualified artists and organizations to provide professional art instruction to South Salt Lake residents. Qualified instructors are requested to submit a Statement of Qualifications. Specifications for this Request for Qualifications […]
Below is a conversation with Efren Corado, local choreographer and dancer who has performed with RDT for the past six years, published as part of loveDANCEmore’s November Digest. loveDANCEmore: We’ve heard that you’re leaving RDT at the end of the season. What are your future plans? […]
The Utah Division of Arts & Museums has chosen 22 writers in seven categories as the winners of the 60th annual Utah Original Writing Competition. The winners were selected from a total of 195 entries from Utah-based writers. Manuscripts were reviewed in a blind process by judges who […]
15 Bytes was on everyone’s lips earlier this year when the Salt Lake Tribune dropped their arts coverage and threw up a paywall. Where was the arts community to turn for coverage of their activities now that the daily newspaper was throwing in the towel? Ah, 15 Bytes, […]
We are pleased to announce that Hikmet Sidney Loe’s innovative exploration of Robert Smithson’s iconic earthwork, The Spiral Jetty Encyclo, has won the 15 Bytes Book Award for Art Book for 2018. David Habben’s steampunk coloring book and Mary Lee Fulkerson’s survey of women artists of the Great […]
Our relationship to the environment, notions of fatherhood, patriarchy and violence, and the way one can come to live by language appear in the poems of the finalists for this year’s 15 Bytes Book Award in poetry. Nancy Takacs’ “The Worrier,” a collection of interior dialogues coming to […]
Join 15 Bytes as we celebrate exemplary works in nonfiction that explore the trauma of birth, the travails of dementia and the solitude of the desert. The latter, Brooke Williams’ Open Midnight, receives the 15 Bytes Book Award this year (see our review here), with Jennifer Sinor’s Ordinary Trauma and […]
Gabriel Tallent’s debut novel My Absolute Darling may be difficult to read, but the judges of the 15 Bytes Book Awards for Fiction say we should. The story of 14-year-old Turtle Alveston’s abuse at the hands of her father can be harrowing, but redemption and grace are found in […]
RadioWest has a terrific new project. In partnership with cityhomeCOLLECTIVE, the ubercool Salt Lake City real estate, design, and neighborhood cheerleading operation, they are filming the interiors of the interesting houses of interesting people most of us otherwise never would get to see. Called “Habitat,” the series began […]
What’s your favorite book? That’s the question KUED, in conjunction with PBS’s The Great American Read, has been asking Utahns all summer long — at the Farmer’s Market, the Pride Festival, Craft Lake City and elsewhere. “This isn’t meant to be a list of the best books written, […]
The Underwater American Songbook, Rebecca Pyle’s 2018 digital chapbook, is structured around a captivating and engaging conceit: the collection, as Pyle explains in a foreword, is “a body of almost-lyrics about objects found underwater all around New York.” Each of the 10 poems, therefore, focuses on some sunken […]
