For four days every June, Washington Square fills with white tents and the people who’ve staked their practice on them. These are the artists who loaded their work into vans before dawn, who built the walls of their temporary galleries by hand, who know by now exactly how to arrange a shelf of ceramics or hang a frame to catch the afternoon light.

15 Bytes photographer Zoe Rodriguez spent the 2026 Utah Arts Festival among them.

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UTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.