Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
Spiral Jetta: a road trip through the land art of the American West by Erin Hogan The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 2008 In the 1960s and 70s, artists were drawn to slogans. “Art is dead” was followed by “Museums are where art goes to die.” […]
Photojojo!: Insanely Great Photo Projects and DIY Ideas By Amit Gupta and Kelly Jensenreviewed by Amanda Moore Photojojo! Is a great book for the flickr addict, scrap booker and diy enthusiast. The book is separated into two halves. The first half is all about unique crafts and presentations […]
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art Laney Salisbury Penguin Press 2009 352pp You couldn’t write a better story line if you were dealing with fiction. John Drewe, a working-class chameleon of a racconteur passes himself off as a posh nuclear […]
by Corey Strange Somewhere between Maynard Dixon and the contemporary artists who paint Utah’s landscapes is Jim Jones. Bridging the past with the present, Jones has been a staple of the southwest landscape movement for many decades. On exhibit now at Southern Utah University’s Braithwaite Gallery is what […]
Jim Jones, the renowned painter of southern Utah, passed away at his home in Cedar City on Saturday. As we reported in this month’s edition of 15 Bytes (see page 2), Jones, who never married or had children, left his estate and his last paintings to Southern Utah […]
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) recently announced that Lisa A. Arnette has assumed the position of Director of Development and External Relations at the museum. From 1998 to 2003, Arnette served as a development officer at the Utah Museum of Natural History (UMNH) on the University […]
A bright spot of hope was visible on the local art scene this month with the opening of the 15th Street Gallery in Salt Lake City. Late this summer local art aficionados mourned the closing of Palmers Gallery — which had given exposure to emerging and underappreciated artists […]
Need to raise money for your favorite cause or charity? Hold an auction! And always include lots of art work. Utah nonprofit organizations facing financial woes, needing to meet operational costs, or financing projects and programs seem to rely more and more on this practice. Auction sponsors and […]
Our monthly Mixed Media feature in 15 Bytes (page 10) provides you links to various articles outside of Artists of Utah’s publications that deal with Utah’s visual arts scene. Every once in a while we’ll drop a notice about articles here in our blog. So, here are a […]
Every year Southwest Art Magazine recognizes talented emerging artists in their feature 21 under 31. But since emerging artists aren’t always under 31 years this year they decided to also highlight artists over 31. Utah artists Jill Barton and Wendy Chidester made the Honorable Mention list. The magazine […]
It’s official, Artists of Utah will be throwing a Holiday Office Party at the Salt Lake Art Center on December 17th. For us the entire visual arts community is our office, so we’d like everyone to come (this is not a fundraising effort — just a desire to […]
Salt Lake County Arts Funding Threatened – Act NOW to Save It! by Sue Martin If you care about Salt Lake County’s support for visual arts – specifically, the county’s art collection – now is the time to weigh in on budget deliberations by the county council. Salt […]
Con Artist, a film about 80s art-star Mark Kostabi, will be showing at the Salt Lake Art Center tonight (Friday, November 13) as part of the Salt Lake City Film Center’s Creativity in Focus program, which shows an art-related film every second Friday, through December. The film is […]
Someone has decided that the Trustees of Westminster College shouldn’t be looking up Trent Alvey’s dress. That seems like a self-evident, uncontroversial proposition. But the dress is actually a work of art Alvey created in 2007, and has been hanging in the Giovale Library as part of the […]
The public loves a character; and in the world of art the personalities behind the creations serve to make an artist famous as much as the paintings or sculptures. The people who collect art can be just as colorful as those who make it. A pair of Utah’s […]
Local artist Teresa Flowers, who is showing in Phillips Gallery’s Dibble Gallery this month, made it into the local rags this week. In an interview with In Utah This Week she answered questions about starting the Womens Art Center, struggling with Lymes disease and her art-inspired apparel. Read […]
Need to raise money for your favorite cause or charity? Hold an auction! And always include lots of art work. Utah nonprofit organizations facing financial woes, needing to meet operational costs, or financing projects and programs seem to rely more and more on this practice. Auction sponsors and […]
