When you’re an artist pursuing a career, Utah is the type of place you leave for cities like New York, San Fransisco, or L.A. Dana Costello did just the opposite. In 1996, she left San Fransisco to pursue her art in Salt Lake City. Costello, a California native, […]
Focusing on the “natural” interplay of the beauty of the Wasatch Mountains and the artistic process, the Cottonwood Canyons Foundation will host its second annual Art in Nature Party on June 19th at the Silver Lake Nature Center in Big Cottonwood Canyon near Brighton. Foundation volunteers and local […]
Inside the Vault: Truths & Myths from the Utah State Fine Art Collection The State Fine Art Collection, begun in 1899 as the Alice Merrill Horne Collection, now consists of over 1,200 works by Utah artists in all media. The pieces are on display in various state and […]
by Chad Saley The Utah Arts Festival (UAF), Utah’s largest and foremost arts celebration, will be celebrating its second year on Salt Lake City’s Library Square. With the completion of construction on the east end of the library, the Festival will now be even larger, spreading from Washington […]
Springville’s Jacqui Biggs Larsen WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? As much as I can — “A Girl Named Zippy” by Haven Kimmel, “Another Beauty” by Adam Zagajewski, The New Testament, the 1956 Betty Crocker Picture Cook Book, a 1774 Anicent Songs and Ballads collection, and, of course, Lance […]
by Allen Bishop “Pop Nostalgia” is an exhibition of recent years’ work by Joe Carter and Paul Heath, who have teamed up at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Gallery. As suggested by the term “nostalgia,” Heath’s and Carter’s sense of “Pop Art” has a far warmer, friendlier […]
Over the past year, I received several invitations from BYU art professor Joseph Ostraff to tag along with eleven students on a field study project in New Zealand. Five days before the plane took off, I finally decided to go. I was a little hesitant to accept the […]
Doug Snow has been a central figure in Utah art for the past fifty years. He was one of the first to champion abstract art in Utah, and, as professor of art at the University of Utah, influenced a number of artists that have received local and national […]
It’s that time of year again. Time for the Farmer’s Market at Pioneer Park to open it’s proverbial doors and welcome the eager public. But along with throngs of produce-buyers and art-lovers, the Market’s opening has also brought much controversy in the community of artists regarding the artists […]
David Edward Linn On the Spot WHAT ARE YOU READING LATELY? Bills and financial statements. Ah, reality . . . WHAT IS HANGING ABOVE YOUR MANTEL? A dried up, dusty wreath on the verge of spontaneous combustion. No, really. WHO WOULD YOU CHOOSE TO PAINT OR SCULPT YOUR […]
Some public art pieces are more successful than others. The Children’s Clinic up at the University of Utah is fortunate to have three successful pieces. It was a challenge because the committee wanted art that was friendly and geared towards children, but the parents and guardians also spent […]
“Every school would have a public art piece . . . every rest area would have temporary public art installations . . .” These are just a couple of ambitions Jim Glenn has for public art in Utah. For the past six years, Glenn has held the position […]
Figurative artist William "Bill Whitaker died on March 6, aged 74. We remember him with this interview, conducted in 2007 by the late Ehren Clark.
The Ascension of Classical Arts: An Interview With William Whitaker
Many are aware of classical art, but most are unaware of the fullness of the tradition, whose elements are so fundamental to the basic structure of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was a tradition that had its genesis with the Greeks, the Romans, subsequently the Renaissance revival, and a 400-year dominance of the French Academy, only to become obscured, lost amidst the paths of the modern. With limitless forms of contemporary art, are we to find classical art, in its pure and original state, a part of the forefront of mainstream art once more?
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