Amber Caron, who has taught at Utah State University since 2019, is a recent recipient of a Utah Artist Fellowship which recognizes her exceptionalism in the field of literature at a pivotal point in her career. “Getting the Fellowship now—with my first book out and my second book […]
Twenty-five years ago this month, Sunnie Bybee was a young artist fresh out of BYU when her work appeared in In and Out of Habit, the six-person exhibition reviewed in the very first issue of 15 Bytes. A quarter century later, Bybee is still making art—and still interested […]
Two months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Frank McEntire and his wife traveled to New York City. The wreckage of the World Trade Center was still being cleared, but throughout the city another response to the attacks had appeared. McEntire remembers “altar-like memorials” on fences, […]
It began with a hymn. Methinks the Spirit whispers, “No man has found ‘pure space,’ Nor seen the outside curtains, Where nothing has a place.” Camilla Stark, Rusden Scott, and LAZERos set out to create an elusive “place” in downtown Provo. All they needed was a title. “We […]
When the Utah Museum of Fine Arts opened in the new Marcia and John Price Museum Building on the University of Utah campus in 2001, it seemed all anyone could talk about was the color. Frank Sanguinetti, the museum’s longtime director and the driving force behind its new […]
On September 9, Jasmine Khaliq joins Lisa Bickmore and Paula Mendoza for the inaugural installment of the Ambit Poetry Series, a new monthly reading series in downtown Salt Lake City begun by poet Lindsey Webb (Books & Supply, 252 E. 100 South, SLC, 6:30 pm sharp) Khaliq is […]
Twenty-five years ago this week, in the first issue of 15 Bytes, Casey Jex Smith made an appearance in these pages. He was fresh out of art school and participating in his first exhibition, In and Out of Habit, a six-person collaborative show at the Salt Lake City […]
Rebirth & Healing, an exhibition of watercolors and woodcut prints by Nancy Steele-Makasci, on display at the Sweet Branch Library through October 3, is visually enticing for gallerygoers. In the show, the artist offers a series of vertical stripe paintings—twelve in total—whose bands of variable widths and iridescent […]
A charcoal-grey smog sweeps across an American highway, the acrid tang of exhaust fumes so strong they snake into the cabin through the front windshield. A motorcycle, indefinitely rendered useless under a layer of cold plastic, leather, and steel. A single, perpetually parked car. The moment between calling […]
If you’re a newcomer to Salt Lake City’s art scene—say, sometime in the past decade—you may have no idea that this stretch of 500 West was once one of the most vibrant corners of the city’s cultural landscape. It began 25 years ago. Downtown was looking west, […]
Our Delicate Ecosystem, on view at Phillips Gallery through September 11, continues the enduring environmental mission of gallery owner Bonnie Phillips. It is a cohesive collection of photography, mixed media, painting, sculpture and more that—in and of itself—creates its own “delicate ecosystem” of art, mirroring the exhibition’s theme […]
It was a dark and stormy night. Perfect for reading a good mystery novel, and I had a few on hand that looked promising. The weather seemed a harbinger of winter and I determined to lay in more who-done-its before Utah’s fall/winter season kicks in hard, assuming it […]
How do you cultivate and sustain a thriving arts economy when you aren’t located in a major global art city? It is a question many art institutions and organizations are asking, especially at a time when the art world is wavering and feels uncertain. Material, a local art […]
In a recent article, Art in America cited a somewhat vague statistic: 95 percent of museum collections are hidden from view. The magazine hedged on the accuracy of the figure, but it could be off by ten, twenty or even thirty percent and still drive home the point: […]
Photography officially turned 200 years old this year (or next year, we don’t know for sure. Perhaps Joseph Niépce neglected to organize his EXIF files properly). Initially just a clever employment of physics and chemistry, photography became a powerful player in politics, culture, and commercialism, and one of […]
Thanks to the mighty efforts of artists, history lovers, and people who care deeply about rural life, Helper, Utah has transformed from a near‑abandoned coal mining town into a thriving arts destination that is on a path of rapid growth. It started more than thirty years ago, when […]
Utah has never been as monolithically Mormon as the cliché would have us believe. As evidence: the many virgins of Salt Lake City. Of course, native peoples were here first. Then, after 1847, whole towns were established by Latter-day Saint immigrants, and many remain predominantly Latter-day Saint to […]
When Western Minerals and Their Origins first appeared at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival in 2024, the creative team faced an unusual challenge. They would have just minutes to load in and out of a black-box theater, forcing them to imagine how a story rooted in Utah’s […]
Nicole Bishop receives Best in Show at Eccles competition Utah artist Nicole Bishop received the Best in Show award at the 2026 Eccles Community Art Center Annual Statewide Competition for her oil painting Everything is Gray. The exhibition was juried by artist David Dibble and features work by […]
Stewart Seidman creates expressive acrylic works on canvas and with recycled FedEx envelopes that once served as his paint palettes, transforming everyday materials into compelling contemporary art.
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