Events in Utah’s visual arts community.
If you’re down in Cedar City at the Utah Shakespeare Festival this week schedule a little time to catch Art Access Executive Director Ruth Lubbers at Southern Utah University’s Art Insights. On Thursday, September 1st, at 7 pm she’ll be speaking at the Centrum Arena at the SUU […]
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.
The Utah Arts Festival begins today and runs through Sunday. There’s so much going on at the festival there’s no way we could introduce it by selecting one or two items. Find out more at www.uaf.org We can, however, follow up on our previous article (in the May […]
On Saturday the Utah Arts Festival’s Random Acts of Art knitters will be installing the stitchery they have been preparing over the past months. The Utah Arts Festival and Art Access/VSA Utah have joined forces to cover Salt Lake City in handmade sweaters. The duo will gather June […]
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. […]
Not every novel that wins the Man Booker Prize—the annual award that over 40 years has become the world-wide benchmark of literary publishing—goes on to achieve wide notoriety, any more than every film that wins an Academy Award turns out to be a timeless masterpiece. One novel that, […]
The Salt Lake Valley saw mostly rain today, but up in Park City that precipitation turned into 3 – 5 inches of snow, enough to convince any committed skier or snowboarder that there’s still plenty of great opportunities to get up on the mountain before the season ends. […]
A review of Jennifer Adams’ new book Y is for Yorick.
Mexico City artist Minerva Cuevas speaks at the UMFA on Wednesday.
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” — T.S. Eliot Most of us remember studying poetry in grade school. Poetry taught us about language, rhythm imagery and symbolism. Many of us were too young to truly understand what the poet was communicating, but nevertheless, we read […]
Research for this month’s article on recent developments in Still Life painting took Geoff Wichert to St. George, where 21st century development around the Tabernacle impressed him as much as the painting he came to see.
Though today is Mardi Gras you’ll have to wait another week for the arts community’s Fat Tuesday party. The Utah Arts Festival, one of our community partners, is hosting their Tardy Mardi Party next week, March 12, at the Salt Lake Hardware Building. Their 8th annual fundraiser is […]
Two hours south of Salt Lake City, rural Sanpete County is home to a disproportionately high amount of artistic activity. There’s the well-known artistic enclave of Spring City, and, just to the south, Ephraim, home to Snow College and the Central Utah Art Center. For a number of […]
This week Brolly Arts and Repretory Dance Theatre present H2O, a week long art exhibition followed by three nights of performances at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. The exhibit is free and open to the public all week. Brolly Arts will be performing free Thursday through Saturday […]
You can make your Friday night all about art tonight. After taking a look at the Gary Vlasic performance (see below), or maybe as an interlude between visits, check out the open studios at Poor Yorick Studios and Spectrum Studios, both in South Salt Lake. Taking inspiration from […]
Summer may be the prime time for festivals, but in Utah the drop in temperatures and return to school does not signal the end of its festival season. Many of the festivals coming up are local harvest celebrations that, while they might feature artist booths, are more about […]
We’d like to welcome photographer Carson Heslop to the 15 Bytes team. Earlier this month Heslop visited the Ogden’s First Friday Art Stroll and sent us the following images from his time along Historic 25th Street. These exhibitions are up through the Month of May. The next Art […]
Have you noticed anything different about Salt Lake Art Center lately? More lectures by guest artists (one almost every week)? Greater presence in the social media? And, what’s this? They want feedback from the art community? Saturday afternoon SLAC’s executive director Adam Price formally introduced his latest organizational […]
