Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
Nothing quite says “Hot town, summer in the city” in Salt Lake City like the Twilight Concert Series, which launched its 2013 season on Thursday with Glasgow indie-pop band, Belle and Sebastian, and Portland’s Blitzen Trapper. An estimated 14,000 fans happily braved the near 100 degree heat, turning […]
Breaking records becomes an act of spare-time madness when Mel Crow steps up to the plate. “The largest word search puzzle,” was his thought, and a decade later became so by his own vision. Crow’s lack of stimulation after finishing a lousy 20 by 20 word search brought […]
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. Joan Didion, We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live. Standing at the mouth of Emigration […]
As a silent epidemic, sexual violence is America’s elephant in the room. One is hard pressed to find a citizen unaffected by such crimes. Certainly this topic is not a common one within visual art, nor a student art show for that matter. The predominant silence-or likewise apprehension-to […]
Somewhere along his path, while growing up in his native Utah or later, studying illustration, painting, and graphic design at the prestigious Pacific Northwest College of Art, Anthony Granato acquired a genuinely idiosyncratic approach to making art. It’s not unusual for an artist to seek out vintage frames […]
During the Utah Arts Festival Fernando Lara visited artists to ask them what it meant to be a “Salt Lake City artist.” His video piece was published this week in Salt Lake Magazine, and features the artists from our recent colLABorART project at The Leonardo. OTHER MIXED MEDIA […]
The cover of the forthcoming New Yorker magazine invokes a familiar image: a blonde woman in a nightgown reacts in terror to the sight of a giant face at her window. It’s Fay Wray and King Kong, of course, but with a twist: the giant eyeball peering in […]
Is there a market for Mormon literature even among the LDS? Is the goal of writers who, with apologies to Emily Dickinson, see “Mormonly” to seed crossover work for those outside the tradition, or, like the once thriving Yiddish press that spawned Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, simply write and publish […]
We’ve had thousands come through the Lab at the Leo to take a look at our colLABorART event in conjunction with the Leonardo. Beginning Thursday, the artist pairs began working on their pieces and on Saturday, while a packed audience mingled through the space, all eight artists were […]
(please note: Williams Fine Art at 641 East South Temple has changed its name to Alderwood Fine Art. Clayton Williams now operates Williams Fine Art at 132 E Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84103 | 801-712-7577 – www.williamsfineart.com) Hopping locations is difficult, tedious, and time consuming. Although it […]
The new Whitespace gallery, across Wall Avenue from the Union Station in Ogden, opened with an impressive array of artworks emphasizing noteworthy materials rather than familiar names or genres. For instance, photographer Koh Sang Woo knows that documentary photographs are old news; his digitally manipulated color images, like […]
The drive from Salt Lake up to Eden can take you over Trappers Loop near Snowbasin Ski Resort and is an inspiring prelude to the equally inspiring plein air oils and watercolors exhibit by Hadley Rampton now through July 6 at the Free Spirit Spa & Yoga […]
WHAT: Get your work shot by a professional photography studio WHERE: 7×7 Creative, 682 South 700 East (above Ward and Child: The Garden Store) in Salt Lake City. WHEN: Saturday, June 15, 10am-1pm WHO: Artists of Utah, in collaboration with 7×7 Creative HOW MUCH: $30 donation to Artists […]
WHAT: Create your own website using free WordPress software WHERE: 7×7 Creative, 682 South 700 East (above Ward and Child: The Garden Store) in Salt Lake City. WHEN: Saturday, June 15, noon-4 pm. WHO: Artists of Utah, in collaboration with 7×7 Creative HOW MUCH: $100 fee. Participants are […]
Dancers do it. Musicians do it. Even writers do it (we’re thinking of Wu Ming). So why not artists? This month, Artists of Utah is celebrating the art of collaboration with a special event at The Leonardo during the Utah Arts Festival that explores what happens when […]
This Friday is the first of the month, which means it’s Ogden and Provo’s turn for their gallery walks. For Ogden, it’s also the Ogden Arts Festival, June 7 & 8, a free event with artist booths, kids activities, live music and a plein air exhibit and competition. […]
On Wednesday, the Utah Department of Heritage & Arts announced that after a nationwide search they have selected Lynette Hiskey as the new director of the Utah Division of Arts & Museums. “Lynnette has the experience to connect with and strengthen arts, museums, and cultural organizations that are […]
This is our fourth Sunday Blog Read, a glimpse into the working minds and hearts of Utah’s literary writers. Former Utah Poet Laureate Kate Coles was our inaugural offering in March, followed by poet Michael McLane, short story writer Darrell Spencer and, this month, fiction writer Larry Menlove. […]
If you’re reading this, you’re probably among the 47.9% of our readers who, according to our recent 15 Bytes Reader Survey, were aware that 15 Bytes has a blog (see question #7 below). The “blog” is what we call this portion of our site — the (mostly) daily […]
