Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
In addition to the Historic Homes tour mentioned in yesterday’s post, Utah Heritage Foundation hosts its sixth annual Preservation Conference, From Mud to Mod, looking at preservation from the earliest of Utah’s structures through modern structures that make up our Landscape on May 3-5. Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez, Vice […]
Utah Heritage Foundation will host the 41st Annual Homes Tour on Saturday, May 5, on Salt Lake’s Millionaires Row – South Temple Street. First envisioned in Joseph Smith’s Plat of the City of Zion, South Temple was meant to be the finest and most prominent avenue in Salt […]
An art professor recently told his class, “You can’t be an artist in the 21st Century if you don’t know Photoshop.” The truth of this statement is borne out for artists who aspire to enter competitive (juried) shows or apply to galleries that request digital images. You must […]
Because of the upcoming launch of our Art Lake City app we’ve been talking a lot about public art in the capital city. But of course Salt Lake isn’t the only Utah town that invests in public art. For the past 8 years, Art Around the Corner has […]
What patterns do you pass everyday? Portia Snow, who shot the photo essay for the April 2012 edition of 15 Bytes, has an eye for line and pattern. We want to see what you see everyday. Email us an image of what line and pattern you view and […]
Felicia Baca holds a Master’s degree in Education with an emphasis in contemporary arts pedagogy from Goldsmiths College, University of London. She received her undergraduate degree in social sciences and art from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has worked in a variety of arts education […]
A profile of Salt Lake artist John Bell on the occasion of his Postmodern Blues exhibit at Nox Contemporary.
John Hughes sees learning to paint as a metaphor for life.
Ehren Clark sits down with Jeffrey Hale to talk about his approach to portraiture.
Father and daughter artists Linnie Brown and Marinus E. Wolf base their current show, Related, on the theme of crosswords. Their paired pieces illustrate questions and answers from the trivial puzzles, one artist exploring the answer as the other poses the clue. It all started from Linnie’s opinion of […]
A review on Mary Toscano’s Worry Lines at the Main Library. It’s all about space.
Manufactured objects begin their existences already possessing—and possessed by—a history. Even the latest digital wonder evokes a potential deluge of memory: early computers, radios, land lines, and wind-up phonographs are just some of the connections the latest cell phone may make. Earlier machines project memory in both directions: […]
Geoff Wichert muses on decoration, craft, art and life with a review of Ric Blackerby and Mary Boerens Sinner at Art Access.
Alexandra Karl says the U of U Faculty show at the UMFA opened with a bang.
Portia Snow takes a look at the patterns and textures of Salt Lake City.
Serving as a photography studio and gallery space, Saans Photography has been around since the 1950s . When Jaron Horrocks bought the property at 173 E. Broadway about a year and a half ago, he wanted to preserve the Saans reputation and services but help it evolve into […]
Geoff Wichert daydreams about Fatima Ronquillo, whose works are on exhibit at Meyer Gallery beginning Friday, March 30.
For this month’s In Plain Site page 2 photo essay Salt Lake photographer Portia Snow has been out shooting her “neighborhood,” an area that begins in the Avenues and stretches down to the new development at City Creek. Portia wasn’t shy with the shutter, so we won’t be […]
If you’re wondering what to see during Gallery Stroll this evening, take a look at Geoff Wichert’s preview of the Laura Sharp Wilson retrospective at House Gallery.
