Show a Little Love
Ever since an early version of this month’s edition was leaked online, rumors have been flying around the internet that the May edition features a shot of our esteemed editor as Botticelli’s Venus. Is it true? You’ll have to read “Show a Little Love” to find out.
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Plan B’s Slam: 24-Hour Theatre
Twenty-four hours. Five playwrights. Five directors. Fifteen actors. This is the tried and true recipe for Slam, an annual production by Plan-B Theatre Company. In twenty-three hours, five short original plays grow from infancy to full maturity. The twenty-fourth hour is when the audience is invited in to the Jeanne Wagner Theatre to see five...
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Fill An Empty Bowl This Weekend
This weekend is Clay Arts, Utah’s annual Empty Bowls fundraiser to feed the homeless. Here’s how it works: Local artists make handcrafted bowls and donate them to the cause. Patrons (that’s you) purchase a bowl for $15. The bowl is filled with soup and a side of bread. You eat the lunch and then take...
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Governor’s Leadership Awards
In our upcoming edition of 15 Bytes, Stephen Goldsmith discusses the new City Creek development in Salt Lake City. Finding his name in print in 15 Bytes should be accolade enough, but he’ll also be pleased this week that Artspace, the non-profit he founded in 1987, will be recognized when Governor Gary R. Herbert presents...
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2 Days of Performance Here, and Around the World
Local artist Jorge Rojas brings his Networked Performance Festival to Salt Lake this weekend with Low Lives 4. The two-day festival features live performance-based artworks from around the world that are transmitted over the web and projected in real-time to international venues. The festival was founded in 2009, with Rojas as the curator. “Low Lives...
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Get Carried Away
At 15 Bytes we’ve always enjoyed getting carried away. Which is why Stefanie Dykes has come up with these impish mascots for our new marketing campaign. The puppet figures will be appearing in venues across the state and on the back of our new 15 Bytes T-shirts. We think they’ll accurately reflect the enthusiasm we...
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From Mud to Mod Conference Looks at Architectural Preservation
In addition to the Historic Homes tour mentioned in yesterday’s post, Utah Heritage Foundation hosts its sixth annual Preservation Conference, From Mud to Mod, looking at preservation from the earliest of Utah’s structures through modern structures that make up our Landscape on May 3-5. Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez, Vice President of Historic Sites for the National...
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41st Annual Homes Tour on Millionaires Row – South Temple Street
Utah Heritage Foundation will host the 41st Annual Homes Tour on Saturday, May 5, on Salt Lake’s Millionaires Row – South Temple Street. First envisioned in Joseph Smith’s Plat of the City of Zion, South Temple was meant to be the finest and most prominent avenue in Salt Lake City, as well as a model...
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St. George’s Art Around the Corner 2012
Because of the upcoming launch of our Art Lake City app we’ve been talking a lot about public art in the capital city. But of course Salt Lake isn’t the only Utah town that invests in public art. For the past 8 years, Art Around the Corner has served as a conduit for the introduction...
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The Pattern of Line
What patterns do you pass everyday? Portia Snow, who shot the photo essay for the April 2012 edition of 15 Bytes, has an eye for line and pattern. We want to see what you see everyday. Email us an image of what line and pattern you view and get published on Art Lake City!
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The Leo: Taking Stock, and other mixed media.
The Leonardo, Utah’s art-tech-science museum has been open six months now, and in a recent article the Trib’s Glen Warchol takes stock of the museum as well as a look at some recent changes. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/53855547-81/museum-leonardo-says-lake.html.csp Part of Warchol’s article talks about the task the staff at the Leo has of introducing patrons to what is...
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Icon: Hooked on Jesus
Today’s post comes from the Renewal exhibit at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City: Hikmet Sidney Loe’s literary response to Frank McEntire’s “Hooked on Jesus.” You can see all the visual works and literary responses at the UCCC through April 25. Icon: Hooked on Jesus We surround ourselves with omens, with icons. Our chosen objects murmur...
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