Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
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, […]
5/31 SALT LAKE TRIBUNE: A very American controversy on the art world’s biggest stage — with a Utah-born sculptor at the center If a few thousand people see a gallery show in New York City, it’s considered a tremendous success. The Venice Biennale, which typically runs from […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
3/6 Salt Lake City Weekly: 180-page portrait collection featuring over 500 Pride participants to benefit Utah Pride Center A new portrait project celebrating Utah’s LGBTQ+ community has grown into a major publication effort: a 180-page book featuring more than 500 participants photographed during Utah Pride celebrations. The project […]
Well my friends are all gone and my hair is grey I ache in the places where I used to play And I’m crazy for love, but I’m not comin on I’m just payin my debt every day In the Tower of Song -Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen’s lyrics […]
“Above all, see that I am here.” For Salt Lake City artist Desarae Lee, that line anchors everything. Working primarily in pen and ink, she creates intricate narrative drawings built from obsessive, meditative linework. “The work is small: look closer,” she says. “Accept what is unchangeable—mistakes made with […]
Margaret Abramshe recently attended an artist talk at the St. George Art Museum where Stephanie Leitch discussed her installation Spell Field Two, presented as part of the exhibition Heaven and Earth: Attached by One Pillar. The work repurposes commercially sourced materials, transforming them through careful craftsmanship into something […]
Emily Plewe enters 2026 amid a significant shift in how—and how much—she is able to work. After a career change and a move that brought both her home and studio into new alignment, she says, “I am now working full-time in the studio,” a change that’s allowing her […]
How do we know? How can we know? Where does knowledge come from? Whether in lectures, blogs, interviews, books, or, of course, art works, hardly a day goes by that the question isn’t asked. Then again, there can be little doubt that much of the conflict and violence […]
For Utah artist Jim Frazer, 2025 became a year defined by watching his books travel—moving into exhibitions and collections across the country while remaining rooted in the landscapes that shaped them. His work has been in book arts exhibits in Texas, Wisconsin, California, and Washington.” Even […]
When Salt Lake City artist Sam Forlenza decided—almost accidentally—that he would go to his Sugar House studio every day and post a new creation to Instagram each day, he describes it as “the brilliant, albeit naïve idea” that took hold simply because he was already there so often. […]
We’re all about bright ideas. Like that first bright idea, almost 25 YEARS AGO: create an online platform to unite and strengthen Utah’s art community. And the even brighter one: in the face of dwindling coverage in traditional media, create an online magazine about the arts in […]
The holiday season is among us, which means your favorite artists and arts organizations are working overtime to reach their goals before the end of the year. The arts are vitally important in Utah (and everywhere, but since we are here, let us focus on Utah). The Kem […]
11/18 THE UTAH REVIEW: Intelligent, subdued spiritual feel in The Blue of Distance, show of Madeline Rupard, Drew Rane at Material art gallery For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote […]
Nine Salt Lake County artists and collectives have been awarded a combined $60,000 through the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA)’s new Assemblage Art Fund — a locally-focused regranting program supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Utah’s art scene continues to evolve in unexpected and vivid ways — from ski slopes turned into open-air galleries at Powder Mountain, to community-driven murals in Salt Lake City’s Ballpark neighborhood, to shifting landscapes of funding and institutional change. Recent articles reflect this dynamic moment: a book festival […]
