Links to visual arts articles in a variety of media including newspapers, magazine, blogs, tv and radio.
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 […]
11/22 Current Work Announces It is Closing Its Gallery Tiffini Porter, founder and owner of Current Work in Salt Lake City, has announced that as 2023 comes to a close the gallery will close its programming and focus on consulting projects and independent projects. Launched last summer, Current […]
11/11 BYUTV ARTFUL: Michael Malm / Kichaa Man Chitrakar Michael Malm encounters challenges while creating a painting for his church. Kichaa Man Chitrakar draws closer to his family through his artwork. WATCH NOW 11/9 SALT LAKE MAGAZINE: What’s Ya Vibe Awakens Utah Audiences and Uplifts POC Artists Shalandrea […]
10/21 Fanny Guadalupe Blauer receives the Ruby Chacón Social Justice Arts Award At the opening of their new space in the Gateway, Mestizo Institute of Culture & Arts (MICA) presented the Ruby Chacón Social Justice Arts Award to Fanny Guadalupe Blauer. Originally from Mexico City, Blauer holds a […]
10/14 BYUTV ARTFUL: Jeff Hein / Jeanette Kuvin Oren Jeff Hein explains how his health problems led to his devotion to painting Christ. Jeanette Kuvin Oren creates a torah cover for scriptures that survived the Holocaust. WATCH THE VIDEO 10/7 BYUTV ARTFUL: Kat Elliott / Jenedy Paige Kat […]
