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Photo Essay
2015 Performance Art Festival
by Winston Inoway
The third annual Performance Art Festival took over Salt Lake City’s Main Library the first weekend in October. The brainchild of artist Kristina Lenzi and hosted and sponsored by The City Library, the two-day festival featured 13 local and out-of-state artists performing throughout the iconic downtown building.
Works performed at the Performance Arts Festival included interactive pieces like “Weight/Wait,” where Boston-based artist Sandrine Schaefer was stationed in the revolving door entrance, moving in response to passersby; and solo pieces like “Have a Seat,” where Salt Lake City artist Eugene Tachinni designed and created a fabric shell for one of the Library chairs.
Additional participating artists included Gustaf Broms, Daniel Embree, Macie Hamblin, Bryce Kauffman, Shasta Fletcher Lawton, Dawn Oughton, Gretchen Reynolds, Jorge Rojas, Tony Schwensen, and Heidi Moller Somsen.
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Performance Preview: Fashion
Fashionistas and Artistas Unite
by Ann Poore
The Art Meets Fashion Foundation announces its first interactive art exhibition, Anamorphic: Distortions of Humanity featuring “Vivisection,” by AMF program artist Mark Seely, who will be exploring the human state in a series of large-scale metal collage pieces.
Seely (www.markseelyart.com) is a Salt Lake City artist and Realtor at City Home Collective and is the first recipient of the Artist Entrepreneurial Mentorship program where the AMF Foundation will create a website, logo, b2b mentorships, business formation, and financial projections.
The event is described as a unique evening delving into the concepts of the current state of humanity in relationship to each other and the current environment of technology and disconnection.
It will be the 7th annual event for the group when it meets Oct. 23 at the Fallout, 623 S. 600 West, Salt Lake City. Doors open at 7:30. Tickets are $45 general and, to encourage the participation of the artistic community, all in the professional creative industry are being offered a special entry fee of $25. Proceeds will benefit the new Art Meets Fashion Foundation programs.
The foundation is committed to creating a sustainable artistic industry locally and documenting stories from across the globe from other organizations that are impacting their community through art and fashion, according to a press release. “Through documentary work— photography, filmmaking, narrative writing, visual art, dance and music, AMFF aims to raise not only awareness and financial support for these organizations but also to secure Utah’s place in an ever-growing global landscape,” the foundation states.
Art Meets Fashion also will include Avant Garde Fashion Installations by Salt Lake Community College Fashion Institute and Lunatic Fringe; floral installation by Shelly Hunyh; visual installation by Phillip Istomin with MANICPROJECT; interactive image mapping by David Giardinelli; sound installations by Kenny Amacher; Virtual Reality experience; Shibari rope creations by Ron Finch; nightclub installation by Dianne De Vil; video installations by Michael Christensen; and food and beverages by Red Rock Brewery and Ogden’s Own Distillery.
For tickets visit www.eventbrite.com - Art Meets Fashion.
Mark Seely, mixed media on wood. 30" x 48"
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15 Bytes: About Us
Our editorial contributors
The content you see in this magazine is provided by a fluid group of volunteers whose ability with the pen or camera is matched by their curiosity and enthusiasm for Utah's art world. 15 Bytes is an open community forum. If you are interested in writing an article, or providing images for our magazine contact editor Shawn Rossiter at editor@artistsofutah.org
 Amy Brunvand is an award-winning poet and an associate librarian at the Marriott Library at the University of Utah. |
 Ehren Clark studied art history at both the University of Utah and the
University of Reading in the UK. He is now a professional writer. |
 Carol Fulton got her degree in radio and television production a long time ago. She was born in Brazil and lived in many countries. Now retired from the airline industry, she dabbles in oil painting and found-object sculpture. |
 David "HABBENINK" Habben is a Salt Lake City based illustrator and artist. He is currently working on an MFA at the University of Utah. |
 Winston Inoway is a Salt Lake based photographer and graphic designer.. |
 Larry Menlove is a graduate of the University of Utah. His fiction has appeared in many venues including Weber Studies, Dialogue, Irreantum and Sunstone. He lives with his wife, children and an old cat in Spring Lake. |
 Alexa Verdugo Morgan is a St. George-based freelance writer and photographer with a career spanning 5 years. Her work has appeared in numerous online and print publications.
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 Ann Poore is a freelance writer and editor who spent most of her career at The Salt Lake Tribune. She also worked for Salt Lake City Weekly and has written for such publications as Utah Business Magazine and Salt Lake Magazine. |
 Shawn Rossiter, a native of Boston, was raised on the East Coast. He has degrees in English, French and Italian Literature. A professional artist and writer, he founded Artists of Utah in 2001 and is editor of its magazine, 15 Bytes. |
 Will Thompson is a local photographer who specializes in work that is textural, intimate, and speaks to the space in our subconscious that seeks peace and tranquility. His work ranges from portraiture to abstract fine art. |
 Geoff Wichert has degrees in critical writing and creative nonfiction. He writes about art to settle the arguments going on in his head. |
 Gregory Walz is a native of Bitburg, Germany and received a B.A. in History from the University of Utah. He has worked at the Utah Division of State History since 2004, in the joint Research Center with the Utah Division of State Archives in the historic Rio Grande depot. He enjoys music in almost all of its forms and genres.
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