Hannah McBeth studied art history, classics, and Mediterranean archaeology before getting a Master's at Cambridge University. She enjoys writing, hiking, and traveling to far-off places. Follow her on Twitter @hannahmcbee.
In the three years since opening Salt Lake Pottery Studio, Madison Maria has seen her life change as quickly as her business. “I was engaged when I opened, married, divorced last year,” she says, describing a period marked by “constant change, with life and business and the economy.” […]
As the water of the Great Salt Lake disappears, exposing an arsenic-filled lakebed, the once straightforward name “Salt Lake City” has become an emblem of lives that are vulnerable as the landscape shifts, and what we could lose if we don’t take action. The lake has shaped life […]
On view through June 21, 2026, Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts brings together more than three decades of the artist’s practice in an exhibition that approaches storytelling not as illustration, but as structure. Drawn from the collections of the Jordan […]
Modern West opens a new chapter with Unbound: Art of the West, the first exhibition staged in the gallery’s new space at 242 E. South Temple in Salt Lake City. On view through March 20, 2026, the inaugural show introduces the gallery’s presence along one of the city’s […]
There’s a particular energy that begins in art, drama, or band rooms. These are the places where people first learn that making things can be a way of life rather than something to outgrow. Those early spaces make room for ideas, experiments, and people who never fit the […]
In a new multimedia exhibition, Buenos Aires–based siblings Gonzalo Javier Silva and Susana Isabel Silva examine sound as a cultural technology through a body of work that is varied yet cohesive. They reflect on how sound is made, perceived, recorded, and transmitted across different places and times, using […]
At the turn of the 20th century, the American West came vividly into focus in the public imagination, shaped by a flourishing body of romantic representation circulated through poetry, illustration, travel writing, and popular media. Among the voices helping to define this picturesque vision was Henry Herbert Knibbs, […]
Some of the most visible arts experiences in Salt Lake City—the SLC White Party, the Urban Arts Festival, and Dreamscapes: Salt Lake City’s Immersive Art Experience—share more than spectacle or scale. They are part of a longer arc of creative entrepreneurship shaped by Derek Dyer, whose work has […]
I learned the feeling of modernism—before I could define it—by walking the Fine Arts & Architecture complex at the University of Utah. Designed around 1970 by Edwards & Daniels Associates, the complex rises in stacked planes and shadowed seams, a 140,000-square-foot maze of studios and galleries where […]
Ryan Harrington has lived in Utah long enough to watch its creative landscape reshape itself—slowly, unevenly, and often through the efforts of people working quietly in the background. Over the past two decades, he has become one of those people. His art blends the clarity of design with the energy of urban visual culture: his marker and acrylic works are built from clean lines, calibrated color interactions, balloon-lettering structures, and a long-running block-head character that shifts mood with the smallest change in outline. The work is approachable, polished, and distinctly his. But Harrington’s influence extends far beyond the pieces he makes. Through framing, curating, collecting, teaching, and simply showing up for other artists, he has become a connective thread in Utah’s creative fabric.
Dan Evans’ work begins with the question of what remains once an image has been pared to its essentials. “I’ve always been drawn to systems where clarity matters,” he says, “where you pare things down until the lack of recognition engages the viewer and holds itself.” It’s a […]
Holly Rios began her training at Western Colorado University, studying printmaking and English, until—as she puts it—she “did the art-school thing and dropped out to learn about real life.” The time away didn’t pull her from art so much as widen the lens: work, people, desire, power, and […]
Completed in 1890 for Salt Lake City’s first Jewish congregation, the B’nai Israel Temple carries a depth of cultural memory rare among the city’s remaining historic buildings. Its survival is uncommon in a city where progress has a habit of erasing the physical traces of its own past. Restoring the temple and establishing the Salt Lake Art Museum (SLAM) within it brings into view a narrative that has long remained at the margins of the city’s broader historical accounts.
A Perspective of Nature, now on view at Alpine Art & Frame in Salt Lake City, brings together four artists—Sarah Ashley Peterson, Laura Hope Mason, Jodi Steen, and Matthew Hassing—whose works channel the restorative power of the natural world into the places we live and gather. At a […]
If you’re being followed or navigating a dangerous place, your natural defense mechanisms activate and start tuning. These mechanisms are buried in our mind and body, just as they are in any other domesticated animal. Colors get brighter, movements slow down, and you can shift from terror to […]
“To be an artist, you have to work like a madman,” says Galina Perova, her voice tinged with an intensity that also radiates from her award-winning oil paintings, found in state government buildings, the homes of politicians and influential entrepreneurs, and the University of Utah Medical School. Perova […]
The world premiere of playwright Jenny Kokai’s and director Jason Bowcutt’s Singing to the Brine Shrimp (at Plan-B Theatre through February 23) gives the Salt Lake City public a funny and insightful look at belonging, culture shock, and silliness in the art world (for more about the play, […]
Politics and religion are topics to avoid during polite conversation, but today, most would also add marriage to the list. Before the middle of the last century, marriage was an assumed part of life after a certain age, but now, depending on your generation, there’s a broad spectrum […]
Whether you’re a Utah native traveling abroad or a happy transplant trying to explain the subtle but omnipresent cultural quirks of the state, it sometimes feels like the rest of the country is glad to be totally ignorant about Utah. Playwright Jenny Kokai’s Singing to the Brine Shrimp […]
