Ron Russon, Random Acts & Homage: Mixed Media This Week
Media articles collected by Terrece Beesley include an interview with Ron Russon, Homage at Rio Gallery, Random Acts of Art at Utah Arts Alliance and the Finch Lane Show.
Wedding Dresses, Beer and Retirement: Mixed Media This Week
Mixed Media this week includes Amy Caron’s year-long commitment to a wedding dress, what a retired machinist does with his free time and copyright battles of Smithson’s Spiral Jetty.
Mixed Media: Rubber duckies, 7000 tons of basalt, and plush new seats.
RECENT MIXED MEDIA The Central Utah Art Center has announced the artistsin its annual Utah Ties exhibit, juried this year by Michelle Pobar, the director of Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles. This years artists are: Lesli Biggs, Matthew Choberka, Chris Coy, Vanessa Gromek, Davey Hawkins, Micol Hebron, […]
Sunday Reading: The Digital Experience
As we’re busy doing an initial redesign of the 15 Bytes portion of our site, code and art in the digital age have been on our mind. And we’re not the only ones, as we found in these two recently published articles in the national media: In The […]
Mixed Media This Week
Design competition injects art into empty lot: The winner of an innovative public art competition will fill an empty lot in the heart of Salt Lake City with a temporary field of composite rods, which will sway in the wind like tall grass or aspens.http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/51036669-81/art-competition-lake-salt.html.csp The new […]
Dan Steinhilber in ARTnews
One of the advantages of having been around for ten years is that we have a deep archive. In fact, we could probably cover half of what’s going on in Utah’s art world at any given time by linking back to a previous article in our archive. Or, […]
Sunday Reading
Our Mixed Media editor, Terrece Beesley, has sent us some recent articles on Utah’s art scene that might interest you: 1/5 Creating a scene: Emerging artists in Utah That’s why we’re focusing on this handful of emerging creatives who aren’t waiting their turn to be noticed by the […]
Mixed Media
Here are a couple of articles on the visual arts that have appeared recently in local publications: The Tribune reports on the unlikely journey across Germany of one of local artist Elmer Preslee’s bizarre artworks. Read here. The City Weekly’s Brian Staker discusses the Salt Lake County Art […]
Back in High School?
by Shawn Rossiter At the Artists of Utah Office Holiday Party this evening I was pleased to meet Austen Diamond, a writer and editor for City Weekly. He told me he mostly writes on music but that in this week’s edition he has contributed two visual arts articles. […]
Raquel Smith Callis
From 2006 to 2009 Provo seemed like it might finally coalesce into a thriving art scene of its own,* with a number of non-profit and profit gallery spaces and a successful gallery stroll. One of the driving forces behind this movement was Raquel Smith Callis, who until last […]
Recent Mixed Media
We’re encouraged by the arts coverage we’ve recently encountered in the media (likely because a new “arts season” opens every fall, but who knows, the coverage could be sustained throughout the year). The Salt Lake Tribune has being doing an impressive job lately. Yesterday’s article on Jimmy Lucero […]
Recent Visual Art Articles
In our effort to keep you up to date on what’s going on in our arts community we’ve been providing links to visual arts-related articles in other sources. We’ve always done this in our Mixed Media feature on the last page of 15 Bytes, but since by the […]
Some reading (and listening)
15 Bytes (and EXTRA!EXTRA!) is on vacation for most of June, but here are a few links to keep you busy while we’re gone: 6/3 Art collecting — for the rest of us : Art paints an intimidating picture for those who want to build a collection. Read […]
Susan Vogel on Radio West
For most of us in the United States, glamour is synonymous with the Academy Awards. Watching limos lining up to disgorge stars in priceless designer clothes is as close as we get to real celebrity. In the Latino community there are other options. In Long Beach, California, […]
Vandals target Banksy piece
The Park Record reports today that vandals have targeted one of the street art pieces done by British artist Banksy during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. His image of a filmmaker filming a flower being picked by the same filmaker, which has been on the side of Java […]
