Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
The Salt Lake City Arts Council’s Public Art Program has announced four artists—Jann Haworth, Lenka Konopasek, Trent Call, and Jason Manley—as recipients of its latest public art commission, Unifying Artworks. The project aims to enliven the city’s parks, trails, and open spaces through a series of sculptural installations […]
Plan-B Theatre’s new play, “Just Add Water,” which opens this week in Salt Lake City (see here), is part of a dozen temporary installations by local, national, and international artists commissioned for Salt Lake City Arts Council’s Wake the Great Salt Lake initiative. The innovative public art project […]
9/19 SLTRIB: Here’s the timeline for the massive overhaul of Abravanel Hall, UMOCA and the Salt Palace Construction plans for Salt Lake County’s portion of the downtown sports, entertainment, culture and convention district call for breaking ground on major overhauls of the Salt Palace Convention Center, Abravanel Hall […]
You may have noticed something both familiar and odd in your social media feed, today—another image of the Great Salt Lake, slight waves lapping on the shore, the Wasatch Range in the distance; but if you paused before swiping, you may have seen the source—an Instagram handle belonging […]
“Monsoon season” has arrived, which is an odd phrase to write in a desert state, but particularly so during one of the hottest and driest summers on record. It’s the term we use for the mid-to-late summer weather cycle that brings sometimes intense afternoon thunderstorms. It typically runs […]
The Utah Women 2020 mural, conceived and led by Salt Lake City artist Jann Haworth during the pandemic, recently got a facelift. Originally created in 2020 as a digital mural, it was compiled from more than 250 stencil portraits submitted by artists of all ages and skill levels […]
– At the 2025 Helper Plein Air Festival, the top honor of Best of Show went to Robert Fuerer for his ambitious painting Helper, a sweeping work that captured the town’s layered story—from its railyards and main street architecture to the towering geology above. Judge Aimee Erickson praised […]
The St. George Art Museum has appointed Meagan Evans as its new Manager and Curator, a move the museum says marks “a bold step forward in shaping the Museum’s future through dynamic exhibitions, thoughtful scholarship, and community engagement.” “It is a privilege to contribute to the legacy of […]
After more than a decade as a hub for contemporary art in central Utah, Granary Arts has closed its physical space in Ephraim and announced it will continue operations through a virtual, project-based model. “As we move away from our origin story and this place we have called […]
Jeff Lambson, a former curator of contemporary art at Brigham Young University and a nationally recognized museum leader, is returning to Utah to serve as deputy director of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) at Utah State University. Lambson’s appointment comes at a time of growth […]
Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall has announced the recipients of the 2025 Mayor’s Artists Awards, honoring individuals and organizations that have made lasting contributions to the city’s cultural life. A few are such longstanding champions of our arts community—pillars, if you will—we were surprised to learn they […]
Is climate change coming for the arts festivals? Last year, after a $200,000 shortfall representing 10% of its overall budget, the Utah Arts Festival warned it might not survive. Attendance that year was down by 14,000 people. At the time, UAF Executive Director Aimee Dunsmore identified a few […]
Suzanne Sbarge, the visionary founder and longtime executive director of Albuquerque’s 516 ARTS, has been selected as Ogden Contemporary Arts’ fourth annual Artist-in-Residence. A practicing visual artist as well as a curator and arts advocate, Sbarge will begin her two-month residency in Ogden on September 1, 2025, culminating […]
In a year when public funding for the arts continues to face significant challenges, the Utah Division of Arts & Museums has awarded $5,000 fellowships to 20 Utah artists across four categories—Visual Arts, Design Arts, Literary Arts, and Performing Arts (Theatre). The 2025 Utah Artist Fellowships recognize exceptional […]
We noticed this the other day—a house in Salt Lake City along West Temple being gutted by construction workers who were careful to keep a mural along two of its sides intact. Turns out, it’s a new library. The Ballpark Library Lab (1406 S. West Temple) is the […]
5/19 DESERET NEWS: One-of-a-kind stained-glass dome will top Utah’s new Capitol building The crown jewel of Utah’s new North Capitol Building is a $1.6 million, one-of-a-kind stained-glass dome designed to take visitors’ breath away even as it unites them in shared appreciation for the state’s beauty. The custom-made […]
There’s more than one reason to head to Sanpete County this Memorial Day weekend. You can visit pioneer-era homes and the studios of present-day artists, at Spring City’s Heritage Days; embrace your inner Viking at Ephraim’s Scandinavian Heritage Festival; or get your blood pumping at world-champion bull riding […]
Last month, we received an email message from Vicki Bourns: Expect less. “We” being Artists of Utah, the publisher of 15 Bytes, but also every other arts organization that receives funding from Utah Arts & Museums (UA&M). Bourns being the director of UA&M, the state’s arts division. “Expect […]
4/30 CITY WEEKLY: SLC and the creator of “The Whale” take 630 victory laps around a beloved public artwork. On a chilly, overcast morning in February, a fit man in his mid-40s jogged steadily in small concentric circles, looping a roundabout in the middle of Salt Lake City’s […]
