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.
Artists of Utah is excited to announce that Alen Hamza’s Twice There Was a Country has won the 15 Bytes Book Award for Poetry for 2021. Published by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, the collection is a moving, lyrical portrait of a refugee stumbling his way towards […]
Brigham Young University professor Patrick Madden has won the 15 Bytes Book Award for Creative Nonfiction for his collection of essays. Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Disparates confirms Madden’s reputation as an essayist of great humor, vitality and range. In one of the essays collected here, […]
Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner’s evocative, disturbing, dark novel, The Contortionists, has won this year’s 15 Bytes Book Award for fiction. The novel, which the author has described as a “literary crossover,” injects the tension of a suspense novel into the world of fully fleshed characters, deep context and […]
Art Access, a Salt Lake City organization which aims to build an inclusive and diverse arts community in Utah through creative opportunities for people with disabilities and other marginalized communities, has announced two new staff members: Cara Jean Hall as Communications and Digital Marketing Manager and Max Barnewitz as […]
The year was 2006 . . . and Pluto was being downgraded from a full planet to a dwarf one. 15 Bytes was being upgraded, by going from a 6-week publication schedule to a monthly one: You could set your calendar to the first Wednesday of the month, […]
It lives! The year was 2005 and … after going silent for six months, 15 Bytes was resurrected! Here, to the best of our recollection, is what happened: In the summer of 2004, just shy of three years after its inception, 15 Bytes went dark. Or, not exactly […]
The quarterly Humanities Magazine, a publication of the National Endowment for the Humanities, featured Utah Humanities’ Executive Director Jodi Graham in the most recent issue. The highlight gave Utah Humanities a national platform for sharing our deep, statewide work and Jodi’s vision for the influence the humanities can […]
The year was 2004 … and 15 Bytes went silent. Most art galleries and organizations last a couple of years before they give up or disappear. 15 Bytes lasted three. But before we called it quits in August of 2004, we were keeping up with what was going […]
The year was 2003, and the Salt Lake Gallery Association was celebrating 20 years of Gallery Stroll. In Ogden, Gallery 25, a co-op gallery which had launched in 2002, was joined by Artstop Ogden. Terra Nova opened in Provo. In Salt Lake City’s Millcreek neighborhood, Evergreen Art […]
The year was 2002, and Utah was host to the Winter Olympics … When the Springville Museum of Art was selected as the official venue for an exhibition of Utah art, a group of artists decided to go rogue and stage an exhibit closer to the action and UtahArt2002 opened […]
The year was 2001: George W. Bush was in the White House; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone dominated the box office; people were listening to their music library on the newly released iPod; and Utah’s art magazine was born. That summer, at the Sugar House Art Festival, local artist […]
The Board of Directors for Art Access has announced the selection of a new Executive Director, Gabriella Huggins. She will begin leading Art Access on Monday, July 19, 2021. Gabriella Huggins is a multi-media arts practitioner and student of social work from Salt Lake City, Utah—ancestral Shoshone, Paiute, […]
For their July Digest, loveDANCEmore intern Sofia Sant’Anna-Skites spoke with Bashaun Williams from Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company and Jaclyn Brown from Repertory Dance Theatre, both of whom are retiring from their respective companies. At a young age, Williams was passionate about basketball but began dancing in his junior year […]
I had no clue what to expect when I logged online for the Queer Spectra Arts Festival. Usually, I am not able to fully experience art safely without banishing one or most of my identities to the netherworld of exclusion. To my surprise, Queer Spectra was an explosion […]
In the second of a series of three audio interviews on art making during the pandemic, Halie Bahr discusses the ongoing work of Queer Spectra, an arts festival in Salt Lake City. Bahr speaks with the festival’s founders and organizing committee: Aileen Norris, Max Barnewitz, Emma Sargent and […]
The Utah Shakespeare Festival has announced the hiring of Derek Charles Livingston as director of new play development/artistic associate. In this newly-created position, Livingston will be responsible for re-envisioning and overseeing the Festival’s new play program, Words Cubed, as well as other artistic and senior staff duties. “I […]
MICA, aka Mestizo Arts, recognizes the SLC MURAL MAKERS as the recipients of the Ruby Chacón Social Justice Arts Award. The Ruby Chacón Social Justice Arts Award is given annually to individuals who are advancing justice and equity in our communities through the arts. Our 2020 award goes […]
Granary Arts announced on Feb. 1 that Bryn Burningham will be the organization’s new gallery manager. Bryn graduated from Utah State University with a BFA in printmaking. She began her gallery career several years ago as an intern at Granary Arts while earning her AA and AFA from Snow […]
When one exciting assignment leads to the next, it can be difficult to give the rearview mirror more than a glance; but when Covid hit last spring, Kim Raff found she had time on her hands. “After I got over the initial financial fears, I began to look […]
