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.
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.
Later this month Williams Gallery will host their annual UofU Student Show, a juried exhibition for both MFA and BFA students, with selections chosen by local artists. In its third year, the show grew out of the gallery’s tradition of supporting young students at the university that goes […]
by Caitlin Erickson Lovely Asunder, the first collection of poetry by Danielle Cadena Deulen, a 2011 Utah Book Award finalist, is inquisitive—the first poem, “Interrogation,” is composed entirely in questions. As the book progresses, inquiries move from the concrete: “How did you get here in the wet garden/ […]
by Esther Allen Reading Whitethorn, the recent collection of poems by University of Utah Distinguished Professor Jacqueline Osherow and a finalist for the 2011 Utah Book Award in Poetry, is like imagining that I have lived through the famed Vesuvius eruption at Pompeii. Some poems are heavy enough […]
It’s that time of year, when the weather can shift from brisk autumn to languid summer, all within a 24 hour period. Either way, it’s a perfect time to get out and about. A chance to wear that snazzy new jacket at night, or strip down to shirtsleeves […]
Two exciting opportunities this week, in two entirely different directions, for artists and art lovers to enjoy the great outdoors. To the north, at the University of Utah’s The Environmental Humanities Education Center (EHEC) in southeast Montona, the first annual Centennial Valley Arts Celebration we reported on in […]
“Untitled” by Sam Allen created in 1979. Photo by Kelly Green, September 2012. 15 BytesUTAH’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.
It’s definitely fall because things are in full swing in Utah’s art world and there is plenty you’ll want to check out for tonight’s Salt Lake Gallery Stroll. We won’t be able to mention all the fabulous shows worth seeing (but we’ve already talked about one in yesterday’s […]
Neighborhood House’s Urban Gallery turns inside out this year. The Urban Gallery, a open air exhibition that uses the non-profit’s suite of garage doors as a canvas for public art, was first installed four years ago when the 337 Project was asked to invite individual artists to […]
With the Utah Humanities Council 15th annual Book Festival beginning this weekend and continuing through the month of October (see here for a full schedule), you’ll be hearing a lot about books this month. A lot of the talk will be about what’s in the books and who […]
