Features on public art published in 15 Bytes, Utah’s art magazine.
Angelo Caravaglia’s two sculptural pieces adorn the corners of this nondescript white building. Caravaglia was a professor at the University of Utah and was commissioned for a number of public art projects. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 […]
Back in the September 2013 edition of 15 Bytes we featured a photo essay on the street art — public and private — of South Salt Lake. Because our office is in the city, we continue to get to know the area and discover new gems, including this pair of […]
The apartment building next door has become a destination for street art murals, but this building had its own wall art years before – mosaics embedded into the walls of the building’s entrance. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, […]
Mural by Los Angeles artists El Mac and Retna on the side of the Guthrie Building. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map In Plain SiteWith our In Plain Site byline we feature publicly viewable art, both official and street art, throughout the state of Utah.
This month we’ve taken you to South Salt Lake, for a look at their public art (see the photo essay in the September 2013 edition of 15 Bytes), talk of the city’s future as an art locale (see our September 10th post), and, coming up, the Poor Yorick […]
Discover more art with our Art Lake City map 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.
Photo by Liberty Blake, September 2013. Photo by Liberty Blake, September 2013. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map 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.
This mural is for the selfie generation. Designed by University of Utah professor Kim Martinez, and executed with the help of her students, this mural near 2700 South features quotations from a number of famous art works and the placement of painted footprints to suggest one take a photo of oneself in the […]
Take a detour into South Salt Lake to check out interactive murals, painted electrical boxes and other eclectic artistic expression.
Each of Salt Lake City’s Fire Stations features artwork by Salt Lake City artists and Fire Station #6, in Salt Lake City’s Poplar Grove neighborhood, now features “Courage Under Fire” a collaboration by John Hess and Benjamin Higbee. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map […]
The Nine Muses, designed by artist Troy Pillow, surround the intersection of 9th East and 9th South, a hip neighborhood complete with a bike shop, bar, coffee shop, cinema, gelateria, dance studio and more. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE […]
“Cloud,” a public artwork commissioned by Utah Arts & Museums, has been named as one of the 50 best public art projects by the 2013 Public Art Network Year in Review by Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts. Installed at Dixie […]
To celebrate their 35th anniversary Cannella’s, the Salt Lake City restaurant devoted to good food and good times, has unleashed artist Ben Wiemeyer on the south side wall of their building. Founded in 1978 by Joe and Missy Cannella on the corner of 500 South and 200 East, […]
From a 15 Bytes article by Sue Martin on the Airport Line artwork:Ruby Chacon, who is known as a community activist as well as a gifted painter, was charged with developing a station art project that would involve the diverse community around 850 West, as well as reflect […]
Shawn Porter’s “Spatial Perception,” part of the TRAX Airport Line, was installed in Spring of 2013. Porter has said of the work: “This series of two sculptures reference the Jordan River, Riparian Zones, wetlands and wildlife existing throughout the Salt Lake Valley and near the Salt Lake City […]
The decisions to place public art pieces at the six stations on the new TRAX line was far from an afterthought. In fact, it was just the latest iteration of a longstanding collaboration between Utah Transit Authority (UTA) and Salt Lake City’s Public Arts program, which is part […]
It’s that time of year in Utah when it’s hard to tell if it is spring or winter. Days brimming with sixty degree weather can be chased away by snowstorms that blow horizontally. Earlier this week someone down at Liberty Park decided to embrace the warm weather to […]
For over 50 years a Salt Lake City neighborhood has celebrated the season by displaying paintings illustrating the Bible story of the nativity in their front yards. The current owners of the houses aren’t sure how the tradition started, they just know that when they moved in they […]
Gallery MAR recently announced that their featured artist James Burnes installed a new public artwork in Park City. “Flanco” was selected by the Park City Public Art Advisory Board as part of their Rotating Sculpture Project. It is for sale through Gallery MAR and will be on display […]
