Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow & Other Mixed Media
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, a documentary that explores Anselm Kiefer’s city of ruins and art in southern France, is now screening in select cities in the United States.
Art History Mysteries
Iain Pears’ series of Art History mysteries involving characters Jonathan Argyll and Flavia di Stefano is reviewed.
Speaking of Community Input . . .
Yesterday’s post mentioned the Kimball Art Center’s desire to gain public input for their Transformation Project. In nearby Coalville the Summit County Public Art Advisory Board has decided to make public input the deciding factor in a new public art sculpture. They have placed eight sculptures around town […]
Kimball Art Center’s Transformation Project
A lot of our Mixed Media articles from the past week concern the Park City Arts Festival, a project of the Kimball Art Center (see below). One of the Kimball’s projects that hasn’t yet hit the headlines is their new Transformation Project, a building project announced last week. […]
Public Art and Private Scandals: Mixed Media
Here are a couple of interesting articles that appeared in the state’s major newspaper last week. In her July 24th article The Deseret News’ Carma Wadley tracks Utah’s public art history: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700165734/Public-art-State-funds-dedicated-to-create-works-for-all.html This month’s edition of 15 Bytes will feature an artist profile of Brian Swanson, a sculptor […]
Walberg Amendment Fails
While the debt ceiling debate dominated the political news, another piece of legislation, important to the arts community, came to a vote last week. The Walberg Amendment, which would have cut an additional $10.6 million from the NEA on top of the proposed $20 million cut in the […]
Kamille Corry Painting Stolen
A valuable painting was stolen from artist Kamille Corry’s studio.
The Decemberists, & Hidden Hollow Tonight
The Hidden Hollow concert tonight is a Where to Wear event. Here are some shots from last night’s event, The Decemberists at the Twilight Concert Series. Photos by Zoe Rodriguez.
15 Bytes Tees
The best thing to wear in the studio to get your creative mojo going, the 15 Bytes tees are also great to wear around town to announce your support for Utah’s vibrant visual arts community. The 2011 tee shirts feature the new 15 Bytes logo, designed by local […]
15 Bytes Tees
The best thing to wear in the studio to get your creative mojo going, the 15 Bytes tees are also great to wear around town to announce your support for Utah’s vibrant visual arts community. The 2011 tee shirts feature the new 15 Bytes logo, designed by local […]
How Come Salt Lake’s Not Like . . .
If you hang around Utah’s art community long enough you’ll hear a version of the discussion, “How come Salt Lake’s not like ___________?” Oftentimes the blank is filled by “New York” or “San Francisco;” sometimes by more modest comparisons: Portland, Seattle or Minneapolis. But you’ve probably never heard […]
Exhibition Announcements Feature
Our new exhibition announcement feature allows you to browse through press releases for current exhibitions in the state of Utah.
Bad News for the Arts
The Utah Cultural Alliance reports that Kansas has become the first state without an arts agency. Governor Sam Brownback vetoed funding for the Kansas Arts Commission after the legislature voted to fund the commission over his objections. Read the article here. The UCA also reports that the U.S. […]
Kim Schoenstadt Wins Catherine Doctorow Prize
The Salt Lake Art Center and the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation announced today that Kim Schoenstadt is the inaugural recipient of the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting. The bi-annual prize recognizes exceptional emerging and mid-career artists in the United States. It comes with a $15,000 […]
Fibonacci Visits the Desert and LA Artists Come to Utah to Get Fruity: Mixed Media This Week
5/16 Lamplight show highlights beauty in the shadows. http://clippertoday.com/view/full_story/13294316/article-Lamplight-show-highlights-beauty-in-the-shadows?instance=secondary_stories_left_column 5/17 Art exhibit to connect Utahns with our fallen fruits. Don’t be surprised if you’re befuddled on hearing about the Fallen Fruit Collective’s upcoming exhibit at the Salt Lake Art Center. Something deceptively simple-sounding sweeps you into profound artistic […]
Lawn Gnomes Eat Your Hearts Out Bus Tours
The Salt Lake Art Center’s Yard Art Extravaganza and Competition, Lawn Gnomes Eat Your Hearts Out, started last weekend as maps to over 50 lawn sculptures throughout the Salt Lake Valley was published. Tomorrow, Saturday May 21, the Art Center will be providing bus tours for the event. […]
Utah Chamber Artists receive Award
We’ve received word that Utah Chamber Artists has been awarded Chorus America’s prestigious Dale Warland Singers Commission Award. The ensemble receives a $5,000.00 cash prize – offered by the American Composer’s Forum – which will go directly to British composer Tarik O’Regan. O’Regan, will compose a 10 minute work for […]
Stacked Scriptures, Ogden River Art, and Trouble at the Fork: Mixed Media This Week
5/4 BYU exhibit skirts controversy. Artist sculpts sacred Mormon scriptures and other LDS-themed books into a thought-provoking work. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/51742275-81/books-art-bateman-museum.html.csp 5/4 Ogden spends big to get a ‘significant’ public artwork Ogdenites soon will be able to watch as the city’s most expensive piece of public art is created to […]
What We’re Working On
The most exciting art event of the past month, the one that drew the largest, broadest, and most enthusiastic crowd of Utah art lovers—young and old, amateurs and pros, from those who can’t stop making art to those who just love to look—wasn’t the opening of an […]
