Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
The Francis H. Zimbeaux Trust has kindly donated a large collection of work by the late Utah artist to help raise funds for Artists of Utah and 15 Bytes. And this Saturday you have the chance to pick some up for yourself, at a price that means you’ll […]
There’s an old rule-of-thumb in galleries, more applicable than ever these days: ‘The more text on the wall, the worse the art.’ Without an injection of extraneous text, much of today’s art would offer viewers little for their trouble. But the rule cuts both ways, and Fifteen, the […]
In the recent issue of City Weekly, Brian Staker reviews Stephanie Leitch’s Untitled Apogee, which opened at UMOCA on Friday. Artworks tend to include the imprint of the personality and social development of the artist, on some level or another. For installation artist Stephanie Leitch’s new work “Untitled […]
In his 2012 collection House Under the Moon, it’s clear that poet Michael Sowder has suffered for his art, as spiritual seekers do. The first section (“Homecoming”) starts with a kind of post mortem of the life previous—another marriage, a father whose marginalia in a book sends the […]
If you can’t quite buy in to the truism that these days we are a visual culture, just take a look at Instagram. Every day millions of people post images from their life, unadorned with words. It is, as our artist profile Mark Hedengren mentions in his video […]
On December 2nd, The King’s English hosted Wendy Perron, editor of Dance Magazine, to read from her new book Through the Eyes of a Dancer. The reading encapsulated much dance history, fostering connections between those working in ballet, modern dance, and spaces between. The night connected the artists in […]
Last week The Tribune published Ellen Fagg Weist’s article on the Doug Snow “Final Light” book, published earlier this year. The article examines the group of friends and admirers that put the book together, the “healthy ego” of the artist that asked for it, and the vibrant art […]
reviewed by Brinley Froelich This weekend saw the second annual “Flight of Fancy: Soar into a Magical World,” presented by the Aerial Arts of Utah. Starting with “Above the Mist”—a piece introducing a taste of what was to come throughout the evening, with the dancers in a cocoon-like […]
“Lively”, Repertory Dance Theater’s (RDT) most recent performance, invited us to “usher in the holidays with toe-tapping music & dance to lift your spirits and make you smile. RDT offers this gift to the community featuring choreography “on the lighter side” for audiences of all ages.” And at […]
It’s the Salt Lake Gallery Stroll tonight, and since we’re heading into the holiday season, you can expect to find a lot of group shows with small work out there. But that’s not the case at all the galleries. At Sugar Space you can catch the closing reception […]
Hard to say why author Brian Doyle is such a hit with Utah readers. He’s of Irish descent, confessional, audacious in his prose and unabashedly Catholic. But here he is again making an appearance in Utah County at both the Orem Public Library (Thursday, Nov. 14 at 7pm, […]
Salt Lake City is the U.S.’s most creative mid-size city according to the Movoto real-estate blog. There are a variety of these “most artistic city” or “most creative city” designations out there. While some are vote-based (meaning the city that cares the most to get their peeps to […]
READ LOCAL First is your glimpse into the working minds and hearts of Utah’s literary writers. Today, 15 Bytes features Calvin Haul whose short-short story Like Shakespeare is here complete. Haul joins a distinguished group of established and emerging Utah writers in this capacity, including former Utah Poet Laureate […]
We are pleased to announce that Barbara K. Richardson’s novel Tributary has been awarded the 2013 15 Bytes Book Award for Fiction. The author will receive a small cash award to recognize her achievement. Our congratulations also go out to our other two finalists for the award, Miah […]
Did you know that 87% of arts alumni are satisfied with their current job? So says the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP). Here are some other stats from the same source: 70% of all arts alumni (and 60% of undergraduate arts alumni) work within the arts 76% […]
Being an artist doesn’t always come with the luxury of knowing how to make money. Many artist have come and gone unnoticed, simply because the knowledge of business was just out of their reach. This no longer has to be a worry. Kane County’s Center for Education, Business, […]
In poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s debut collection But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise (Red Hen Press, 2012), the diction is daring, the voice muscular. In “Why I Want To Be A Tow Truck Driver,” she writes, See the snowclouds thrusting over the range like a cough, a hard-packed […]
The Utah Waterolor Society has announced the winners of their 2013 Members Juried Exhibition, being held at Michael Berry Gallery in Salt Lake City (163 East Broadway) through November 1. Best of Show London Mass Transit Kristi Grussendorf Awards of Excellence Blue Reida Fillmore Morning Chores Brienne Brown […]
The overwhelming response to the professional development workshop we held as part of our 35×35 exhibition in April encouraged Artists of Utah to partner with the Salt Lake City Arts Council to provide a continuing series of workshops for artists. The first, held in September, focused on writing […]
