Utah Visual Arts articles published in 15 Bytes, arranged by category.
Andrea Bowers, the Marva and John Warnock Visiting Artist in Residency, will be giving a free, public lecture tonight (Wednesday, January 25) at 7:00 p.m. in the Dumke Auditorium at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA). Bowers combines her passions for art and activism through a variety […]
We have started to catalog images from our staff photographers for our new Art Lake City app. We have challenged our photographers to always be on the look out for any piece of artwork in their neighborhoods and to document it. This will become our database of images […]
Context: from Friday, January 20 through Saturday, May 19, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (formerly the Salt Lake Art Center) will be presenting New Frontier 12, an extension of the Sundance Film Festival. During this time visitors will experience the best efforts of today’s video artists to […]
In conversations local artist Chauncey Secrist conveys a thoughtful intensity that ranges from playful to philosophical. His latest exhibit at Guthrie Studios is a reflection of that. On display is 15 years worth of work but the show has remained untitled because he feels it’s too soon in […]
In the December edition of 15 Bytes we announced Art Lake City, Matt and Laura Chiodo shot an entire photo essay to begin our project, this was one of the photographs that they took. Can you guess where it was taken?!?! There is plenty of art to see on […]
In 2010, Brigham Young University Joe Ostraff professor received a Visual Art Fellowship from the Utah Arts Council. It was his second time. The first time, in 1993, he won for a group of paintings done with his children. He’s been looking for collaborative opportunities ever since. […]
Ehren Clark speaks with Deborah Brinckerhoff about her upcoming exhibit at Salt Lake’s Phillips Gallery.
A review of Georgia and Rob Buchert’s sound installation at BYU’s Gallery 303.
Laura Durham sits down with Nancy Boskoff as she retires from the Salt Lake Arts Council.
Mark Magleby’s passion for his new job is immediate and infectious. He had just been named the new, third, director at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art in November when our conversation took place, yet he exuded a natural confidence in this new post – one that […]
A review of Donna Poulton’s biography of pioneer artist Reuben Kirkham, recently published by Cedar Fort press.
A profile of Hilma Mole Payne, on the occasion of her retrospective at the Springville Museum of Art.
“Print is not dead. It is not even dying, at least not yet. Think of print like an overweight beast, shedding excess weight. The result is a leaner, more defined, more beautiful experience.” – Kassia Krozser, 2010 Ingenuity never is scarce when it comes to the final student […]
Copyright is a legal right that gives the creator of a work an exclusive right to control how that work is used. Copyright only covers the tangible expression of an idea, not the idea itself, but copyright lasts a long time — until 70 years after you die, […]
Dallas Graham is a personal documentary photographer, graphic designer and writer who has merged his loves into a colorful creation called Red Fred Bodoni & The Jolly Troop—a photography/design blog for children and adults that creates value through images and stories by encouraging its readers to “pause & rejoice!” […]
A Utah native, Wilson G. Martin graduated Cum Laude from the University of Utah in 1972 and is a member of the Economic and Geographic Honorary Societies. He attended Oxford Brookes University, where he received a Masters in Town and Country Planning. He served as an officer on […]
A lot can go on at the Springville Museum of Art. Sure, the Soviet era realism and impressionism never seems to find its way into storage, and when the annual Spring Salon and the Religious and Spiritual Art exhibits are hung they stick around for extended runs, but […]
“The Yardstick” is a constantly morphing public art wall in West Downtown Salt Lake City that attracts street artists as well as tourists.Here is the wall as it appeared in February 2018. January 2012, photos by Shalee Cooper and Tyler Bloomquist December 2011, photos by Laura and Matt […]
The first color photograph in the state of Utah: we know who created it and have a description of what it looks like, but we don’t know if it still exists. In 1908, John Leo Hafen created the first color photograph in the state of Utah, using the […]
