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.
by Chad Saley The Utah Arts Festival (UAF), Utah’s largest and foremost arts celebration, will be celebrating its second year on Salt Lake City’s Library Square. With the completion of construction on the east end of the library, the Festival will now be even larger, spreading from Washington […]
by Allen Bishop “Pop Nostalgia” is an exhibition of recent years’ work by Joe Carter and Paul Heath, who have teamed up at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center Gallery. As suggested by the term “nostalgia,” Heath’s and Carter’s sense of “Pop Art” has a far warmer, friendlier evocation than […]
by Patrick Nelson Focusing on the “natural” interplay of the beauty of the Wasatch Mountains and the artistic process, the Cottonwood Canyons Foundation will host its second annual Art in Nature Party on June 19th at the Silver Lake Nature Center in Big Cottonwood Canyon near Brighton. Foundation volunteers and […]
Children of the Muse, A Photographic Exploration of the Creative Process, an ambitious exhibition by noted Salt Lake photographer, Kent Miles, will hang later this month at Salt Lake City’s Art Access gallery. In 1984, Miles, a graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, began […]
If you aren’t able to catch Stephanie St. Thomas’ artwork this month at the Magpie’s Nest (see above) you’ll have a chance to see her work and the work of over thirty other Utah artists at the upcoming FEED THE HUNGRY FOSTER THE ARTS. This annual event is sponsored […]
by Alexandra Blantyre When people first meet Stephanie Saint Thomas, they are taken by her graceful and elegant presence. She is clearly a woman who has come into her own and who knows love and loss. Stephanie’s work is an expression of her heart. Her brushstrokes are […]
An uninformed visitor to Utah’s state capitol building might think Christo had come to town. Not so. Beneath the wrapped dome of the capitol building, the murals are being restored while our state legislators spend a couple of months debating the financial and legislative needs of the […]
by Linda Bergstrom New Visions — students of art are filled with them. Visions of what art itself means to them; visions of their next project; visions of what their life as a future artist will entail. The future is spread out before a student like a newly […]
by Don Thorpe The controversy of whether photography is a true art form or not has ridden the art critic roller-coaster for more than a hundred years, and we are no closer to a satisfactory answer now than a century ago. Is photography actually an extension of traditional […]
by Kent Rigby Ken Sanders, though neither an artist nor a gallery owner, has been exhibiting artwork for over thirty years. In the various businesses Sanders has run over the years, including his current venture, Ken Sanders Rare Books, Sanders has developed a variety of exhibitions featuring everything […]
Evergreen has been in the framing and gallery business for almost twenty years, but recently built a new building for the purpose of exhibiting artwork on a more professional scale. Now located on 3295 South and 200 East, owners Maj and Kelly Omana built a larger freestanding building […]
The Salt Lake Gallery Association also welcomes what they call “affiliate members” — arts-related businesses whose exhibit of artwork is not their primary function, but host regular exhibits during business hours and stay open late on Gallery Stroll. Design Firms such as W. Communications have separate spaces where […]
Utah County artist Stewart Anstead has learned the hard way that nothing in life is free. Like wall space. Like many artists, Anstead took advantage of empty wall space in the building where his studio is located to hang some of his artwork. His fellow tenants were happy […]
The Salt Lake County’s Brown Bag Discussion Series “Art Too! Art Not!” concluded this past month, with the final panel discussion “Controversies in the Salt Lake County Art Collection” held on Friday, October 17th. Dave Ericson and William Seifrit, both of whom were on the committee which helped […]
Inside the Vault: Truths & Myths from the Utah State Fine Art Collection The State Fine Art Collection, begun in 1899 as the Alice Merrill Horne Collection, now consists of over 1,100 works by Utah artists in all media. The pieces are on display in various state and […]
by Jill MacAllister/photos courtesy UAC Issues that haunt all local artist exhibitions have followed some of Utahs foremost artists to the UVSC Woodbury Art Museum in Orem. The Museum currently showcases the Utah Arts Council’s Utah! 2003: Crafts and Photography, featuring eighty-seven pieces from sixty-one Utah artists. These […]
by Jennifer Davis To take a walk in someone else’s moccasins is a strategy that encourages seeing things from a different point of view or perception. Brian Christensen, an associate professor at Brigham Young University, focuses on perception in his latest series of sculptures, which are now on […]
The State Fine Art Collection, begun in 1899 as the Alice Merrill Horne Collection, now consists of over 1,100 works by Utah artists in all media. The pieces are on display in various state and office buildings throughout Utah and many travel with the Utah Arts Council Traveling […]
by Lisa Scopes Oliver As the seasons start their metamorphosis once again and shades of fall begin coloring the hillsides, an artist’s thoughts turn to contemplate many things: capturing the landscape on canvas, finding alternate venues to display their works, and, possibly most important this fall, deciding which […]
