Serious Listening
If you want to hear music by Benjamin Britten that is almost never performed and music that offers sounds you have rarely heard, then you will want to attend Intermezzo’s concert on Monday, July 11th.
15 Bytes
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.
Heidi Moller Somsen Studio Space
Jared Christensen takes a look inside Heidi Moller Somsen’s studio.
Living Art: Philip Beesley and Simon Heijdens
Two Installation Projects Coming to Salt Lake Blend Art and Technology.
The Rural Landscape According to Ron Russon
Sue Martin talks with Ron Russon about his process on the occasion of his exhibit at Gallery MAR in Park City.
Preparing to Paint in the Field
“Over the years, I have left everything from brushes, palette, white paint and even a canvas back in the studio in my zeal to get out and paint. It’s really bad too — you get all set up, the scene is great and duh, no palette knives! I […]
No Detour: What We’re Working On
With the North Temple viaduct torn up for resurfacing and closed to traffic, it’s tempting for those coming from downtown to skip the challenge of navigating over to the West Side. It’s a temptation worth resisting, for several reasons. For one, a quick detour past the Gateway complex […]
How Come Salt Lake’s Not Like . . .
If you hang around Utah’s art community long enough you’ll hear a version of the discussion, “How come Salt Lake’s not like ___________?” Oftentimes the blank is filled by “New York” or “San Francisco;” sometimes by more modest comparisons: Portland, Seattle or Minneapolis. But you’ve probably never heard […]
Exhibition Announcements Feature
Our new exhibition announcement feature allows you to browse through press releases for current exhibitions in the state of Utah.
Bad News for the Arts
The Utah Cultural Alliance reports that Kansas has become the first state without an arts agency. Governor Sam Brownback vetoed funding for the Kansas Arts Commission after the legislature voted to fund the commission over his objections. Read the article here. The UCA also reports that the U.S. […]
Kim Schoenstadt Wins Catherine Doctorow Prize
The Salt Lake Art Center and the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation announced today that Kim Schoenstadt is the inaugural recipient of the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting. The bi-annual prize recognizes exceptional emerging and mid-career artists in the United States. It comes with a $15,000 […]
Bark ‘n’ Art
Walking your dog is not a very common way to memorialize someone who has died, but that is what the Park City Gallery Association is inviting the public to do in honor of the late Connie Katz. Katz passed away in January of this year after a short […]
Utah’s Art Festivals
If we were betting people we’d be willing to stake our fundraiser funds that attendance records at Utah’s art festivals will be broken this year. With the longest, coldest, and wettest winter and spring in recent memory finally over, we can only imagine how eager everyone is to […]
Some Like It Hot: Working with Encaustic
Sue Martin talks with three Utah artists working in encaustic in the June edition of 15 Bytes.
Micol Hebron
You can see it in her eyes. Micol Hebron has a thirsty sense of curiosity and a sharp intellect; as evidence of this a person needs to look no further than her vision for the Salt Lake Art Center.
Lenka Konopasek Speaks at the SL Art Center
The argument could be made that Salt Lake multi-media artist Lenka Konopasek stands astride two contrasting, major approaches to art, with one foot firmly in each, all the while subscribing to neither. Born and raised amid the European postwar experiment with figurative abstraction—Bohemia is one of the places […]
Fibonacci Visits the Desert and LA Artists Come to Utah to Get Fruity: Mixed Media This Week
5/16 Lamplight show highlights beauty in the shadows. http://clippertoday.com/view/full_story/13294316/article-Lamplight-show-highlights-beauty-in-the-shadows?instance=secondary_stories_left_column 5/17 Art exhibit to connect Utahns with our fallen fruits. Don’t be surprised if you’re befuddled on hearing about the Fallen Fruit Collective’s upcoming exhibit at the Salt Lake Art Center. Something deceptively simple-sounding sweeps you into profound artistic […]
Your Art Is As Lonely As This Cow
If you’re an artist who has ever had a piece in the Rio Gallery or if you’ve traveled your work with the Utah Arts Council’s Traveling Exhibition Program, you may be in a show right now that you don’t know about. The Rio Gallery is putting up a […]
Lawn Gnomes Eat Your Hearts Out Bus Tours
The Salt Lake Art Center’s Yard Art Extravaganza and Competition, Lawn Gnomes Eat Your Hearts Out, started last weekend as maps to over 50 lawn sculptures throughout the Salt Lake Valley was published. Tomorrow, Saturday May 21, the Art Center will be providing bus tours for the event. […]
Utah Chamber Artists receive Award
We’ve received word that Utah Chamber Artists has been awarded Chorus America’s prestigious Dale Warland Singers Commission Award. The ensemble receives a $5,000.00 cash prize – offered by the American Composer’s Forum – which will go directly to British composer Tarik O’Regan. O’Regan, will compose a 10 minute work for […]
