Links to visual arts articles in a variety of media including newspapers, magazine, blogs, tv and radio.
Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall has announced the recipients of the 2025 Mayor’s Artists Awards, honoring individuals and organizations that have made lasting contributions to the city’s cultural life. A few are such longstanding champions of our arts community—pillars, if you will—we were surprised to learn they […]
5/19 DESERET NEWS: One-of-a-kind stained-glass dome will top Utah’s new Capitol building The crown jewel of Utah’s new North Capitol Building is a $1.6 million, one-of-a-kind stained-glass dome designed to take visitors’ breath away even as it unites them in shared appreciation for the state’s beauty. The custom-made […]
4/19 SLTRIB: A UVU student’s artwork was rejected from a school exhibition. Here’s how she made sure her work was seen. In the art world, rejection can be the end all. It can hinder creativity, put an end to an artwork’s fledgeling life, or catalyze a creative […]
2/24 How Craft Lake City’s Scholarship Helped One Artist Reclaim Her Craft What if the biggest obstacle to becoming an artist wasn’t talent, but money? For Steph Alpizar, a local painter and crochet artist, financial limitations dictated everything from the materials she used to the way she shared […]
2/5 SLUGMAG: “Where Art and Community Meet”: The Curatorial Ethos of Michelle Pace Art is a very vulnerable gift,” says Michelle Pace, artist and curator of the Urban Arts Gallery’s 2025 exhibition Shades of Expression. “Art comes with judgement and opinion: positive, negative, whatever.” For Pace, an artist, […]
10/23 DESERET NEWS: New Provo gallery rises ‘from the ashes’ of Writ & Vision to give voice to a variety of LDS, other artists For about a decade, the cramped, lively quarters of Provo’s Writ & Vision operated as a kind of unofficial headquarters for the Mormon intelligentsia — a […]
10/13 SLTRIB: Sign-painting is in this Salt Lake City artist’s blood, and her work is unavoidable Salt Lake City residents may not know of Shley Kinser, but they almost certainly know her work. A 40-foot graphic for Spy Hop on 900 South. A musical ode on a wall outside the Hip-Hop Education Resource Center. […]
9/15 BYU TV’s Artful: Season 5 Episode 2 Amber Eldredge shares how God creates beauty from ashes and how she seeks to do the same with her art. Santiago Michalek focuses on portraying horses and automobiles with exact detail and strength in his paintings, inspired by his grandfather. […]
8/16 SLTRIB: A Utah artist created 100 wacky caricatures of pop culture icons. Here’s where to see them. Chances are if you step into Coffee Garden, you’ll see 100 different faces staring back at you. If you’ve visited recently, those 100 faces are separate from the regular patrons […]
7/9 PARK RECORD: John Bukaty adds more than color to the Park City Song Summit Renowned visual artist John Bukaty takes his role as the Park City Song Summit Artist in Residence seriously. “For the most part, I’m there to serve art for the musicians,” he said. “I’m […]
6/14 SLTRIB: A Utah architect, inspired by LGBTQ stories, makes a walk-through art project Doug Staker’s moveable art project — a walk-through “sacred space” he calls “Sanctuary” — is designed to celebrate belonging. Staker said he was motivated to create the project by personal stories from family and […]
2024 Utah Artist Fellowship Recipients The Utah Division of Arts & Museums has announced the 15 Utah artists in design, performing, and visual arts who have been awarded $5,000 fellowships to recognize their individual artistic excellence and support their professional careers. The fellowship provides unrestricted cash awards based […]
At least UMOCA has had a warning. The announcement that the West Valley Performing Arts Center, facing an expensive overhaul, would instead close forever, was announced “abruptly” by city officials (see below). The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, and its neighbor, Abravanel Hall, have known that their almost […]
4/25 SOUTHWEST CONTEMPORARY: The Desert’s Living Skin: A Collaborative Effort to Bring Biocrust Into the Museum Entering the gallery space initiates a tangible contact with the desert’s living skin—that is, the biocrust. At UMOCA, a portion of the biocrust, a community of organisms—lichens, mosses, and cyanobacteria—that form a carpet-like crust […]
4/3 KUER: Yes, the new Salt Lake City airport tunnel will be a shorter walk. It’s also artsy Where in Utah can you be 26 feet underground and 12 feet above water at the same time? The answer is a new tunnel at the Salt Lake City International […]
2/28 CITYWEEKLY: Everything is Collective: Expected Image at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art In Utah, the landscape and the natural world form a huge part of the state’s identity. Yet while we think we know what that landscape looks like—and what we expect it to look like—that idea is one […]
2/5 SALT LAKE CITY ARTS COUNCIL The Salt Lake City Arts Council’s Public Art Program has announced the selection of Seattle-based artist-led team Haddad|Drugan for the 400 South Viaduct Trail project, a key initiative aimed at revamping the corridor linking the city’s West and East sides. Laura Haddad […]
1/21 Utah Cultural Celebration Center gallery to be named after Pilar Pobil The Pilar Pobil Legacy Foundation has secured naming rights for the art gallery housed inside the Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City. “We are honored that PPLF has secured the naming rights for our […]
