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.
Ann Poore sent this to us recently, a snippet from the acclaimed autobiography of New Zealand writer Janet Frame: During the day Lawrence and I would take the usual route to Soho, followed by a “gallery crawl” inspecting the new paintings in each gallery. This was his duty, […]
When she was about five, artist Shalee Cooper says her little sister Chantel had a polka dot shirt, and Shalee and older sister Dawn would tease Chantel, saying, “What’s all that polka dot business?” “Now,” Cooper says, “I can’t get rid of the polka dots. I see them […]
David Pace is a writer, literary critic and arts administrator with work appearing in American Theatre, The Christian Science Monitor, Quarterly West, Dialogue, Sunstone, and Irreantum, among other journals, newspapers and a book with a forthcoming narrative non-fiction piece in Alligator Juniper. He was a stage critic in […]
Midvale artist Sue Martin is a busy lady this month. As noted in a post last week, one of her paintings is a prize winner at the Utah Watercolor Society exhibit at Patrick Moore Gallery. Another work was accepted into the University of Utah juried exhibit that just […]
To honor our volunteer photographers, who do such a fine job making Utah’s Art Magazine look fabulous, we’ve decided to begin a new feature in our Daily Bytes section. In Saturday Snaps we will feature a photograph from one of our photographers. The photographs featured may be about […]
Halloween and Day of the Dead exhibits and events at Blonde Grizzly, Charley Hafen Gallery, Dunce School for the Arts and the Utah Cultural Celebration Center.
The Utah Watercolor Society opened their Fall 2012 exhibition at Patrick Moore Gallery on Friday. The exhibition, which is up through November 2, was juried by artist Donna Zagotta. 2012 UWS Fall Member Exhibition Award Winners Best of Show Downtown Salt Lake – Brienne Brown Award of Excellence […]
The October 2012 edition of 15 Bytes featured a video interview with Stefano Catalani and Mary Anne Redding, jurors of Utah Arts & Museum’s statewide annual exhibition Utah 2012: Craft & Photography. Because the winners of the exhibition had yet to be announced, we withheld the final […]
On Saturday evening, about seventy-five people descended on the Sun Tunnels in Utah’s west desert to watch the sunset with the artist Nancy Holt, who is in town for the opening of her exhibit Sightlines, at the UMFA (read about it in the October edition of 15 Bytes). […]
A native of Utah, Linda C. Smith began her career in dance at the age of four with Virginia Tanner’s Children’s Dance Theatre. In 1966 she become a founding member of Repertory Dance Theatre where she fulfilled her dream of becoming a performer, teacher, choreographer, writer, producer and […]
On October 19, photographs from a workshop held in Centennial Valley, MT will be unveiled at Artspace Commons. The exhibit, Tutored by the Land, is titled after a quote from Barry Lopez, a well-known author with a love for the environment who calls fieldwork “being tutored by the […]
Pecha Kucha night is back and once again will be held at the State Room, 638 S. State St., on Oct. 22 from 6 to 10 p.m. Tickets are $15 and on sale now at www. thestateroomslc.com and they sell out fast. As we told you in detail […]
Next weekend the party is at Lucin, the old railroad watering stop near the Nevada border where Nancy Holt, and a throng of colleagues, admirers and (one must assume) hangers on, will be at Sun Tunnels for sunset. So maybe that has you thinking a bit about land […]
THE SKINNY UMOCA announced last week that they will be starting a new Artist in Residence program. The residency will offer free studio space, private meetings with national curators, critics, and other art world professionals, workshops in professional development, monthly critiques, special access to visiting artists and lecturers, […]
The Utah Humanities Council and the Utah Center for the Book have announced the winners for the 2011 Utah Book Awards. Winners were selected from three finalists (see our article in the October 2012 edition of 15 Bytes) and books from each category must have been published in […]
“Brigadier Thomas L. Kane” by Ortho Fairbanks. Photo by Kelly Green, September 2012. “The Lions” by Gavin Jack. Restored by Ralphael Plescia. Photo by Kelly Green, September 2012. “Martha Hughes Cannon” by Laura Lee Stay. Photo by Kelly Green, September 2012. 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 […]
As we announced earlier this month in a Daily Bytes blog post, Shalee Cooper has stepped down as the 15 Bytes Image Editor; and now we are pleased to announce that Simon Blundell has agreed to continue building on her strong work. But for a six-month sabbatical in […]
Whether you are an artist or art lover you have probably asked yourself the question: How did this get in? We sought to answer the question by interviewing two recent jurors of a Utah exhibition.
Cindy Grigg takes us inside the Violin Making School of America to talk with luthier and composer Peter Prier.
