For more than 15 years, the drums of the Intertribal Powwow have been heard in Liberty Park just as the Days of ’47 Parade disbanded. Part of the Native American Celebration in the Park, founded by Salt Lake City graphic designer and Navajo Cal Nez (see our July edition) and still headed by him, it...
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Jim Rennert: Playing With Fire
If you went up to Park City’s Fashion Stroll on Friday you might have seen Jim Rennert’s sculptures in Meyer Gallery. Rennert is becoming increasingly well-known for his “Suits,” series, which combines his business background with his enthusiasm for sports to explore the competitive nature of business. In 2006 we visited Rennert’s studio as part...
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September 2011 Edition of 15 Bytes
The 10-year anniversary edition UTAH’S ART MAGAZINE September 2011 Edition SLUG’s Angela Brown On the Spot | Salt Lake: In Plain Site | About Us page 2 Artist Profile: John Erickson | Lisa Orr | Where To Be & What To Wear page 3 Heel Toe Project | Jared Clark’s BILD | The Industrial Sublime...
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Goodbye To Summer
For most, Labor Day marks the end of summer, so to everyone who has to get back to the grind of school and regular hours at the office, here are some shots from the last Twilight Concert Series, featuring Lupe Fiasco and Big K.R.I.T. (with a couple of laser light shots from the Ghostland Observatory...
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Wear Will You Be Tonight?
Tonight Salt Lake’s Twilight Concert Series continues in Pioneer Park with Sonic Youth great Thurston Moore and Kurt Vile and the Violators. Like this girl (from last week’s Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros concert) we’ll be surfing the crowds, looking for you in a 15 Bytes t-shirt. If you don’t already have a shirt,...
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Where to Wear Events
Tonight we’ll be starting out the Where to Wear Events with a stop at The King’s English Bookshop, which celebrates the debut of David Roberts’ Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer at 7 pm. “An artist, writer, and celebrator of the wilderness, Ruess is known for his bold...
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15 Bytes Tees Tonight at Nox Contemporary
Hot off the screens, the 15 Bytes Tees will be in this afternoon and we’ll have them tonight at Salt Lake’s Nox Contemporary as part of Gallery Stroll. If you’ve already ordered your shirts you can pick them up at Nox Contemporary after 7 pm. If not, come by and check them out and see...
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Your Art Is As Lonely As This Cow
If you’re an artist who has ever had a piece in the Rio Gallery or if you’ve traveled your work with the Utah Arts Council’s Traveling Exhibition Program, you may be in a show right now that you don’t know about. The Rio Gallery is putting up a brief, 3-week exhibit featuring unclaimed art. This...
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Chasing the Light
Sometimes rules are meant to be broken. In this month’s Hints ‘n’ Tips column John Hughes explains why sometimes it’s not that bad for a plein air painter to chase the light. Read the article in the May 2011 edition of 15 Bytes. COMMENT BELOW.
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Someone Just Wrote Us a Big Fat Check
Someone just wrote us a big fat check, which means we won’t have to do our Spring Fundraiser! April Fools. It would be nice not to have to do our semi-annual plea for funds, but though we’ve already had some generous contributions we still have a lot of work to do to get the necessary...
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15 Bytes Redesign
As you can see we’ve uploaded the 15 Bytes redesign. This is a work in progress so there is still plenty to do, but we’ve had so much “blog” content lately that we had to come up with something better to present it. Our monthly editions will still be published in their regular format and...
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Mary Toscano
“I know that people say that art is about either sex or god or death. But I think it’s all about death.” Watch our video interview with Mary Toscano, showing this month at Kayo Gallery, in the May edition of 15 Bytes. COMMENT BELOW
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Micol Hebron – Redefining the Artist-Art Center Relationship
Micol Hebron – Redefining the Artist-Art Center Relationshipby Sue Martin Have you noticed anything different about Salt Lake Art Center lately? More lectures by guest artists (one almost every week)? Greater presence in the social media? And, what’s this? They want feedback from the art community? Saturday afternoon SLAC’s executive director Adam Price formally introduced...
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Westminster’s Beyond the BFA
On Friday, March 19th, Westminster College is presenting a day of artistic events open to the entire community. The day begins with a panel discussion — Beyond the BFA — at the Jewett Center for the Performing Arts (1850 S 1300 E). The panel includes curators Jeff Lambson and Jill Dawsey, from the BYU Museum...
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