11/22 Current Work Announces It is Closing Its Gallery Tiffini Porter, founder and owner of Current Work in Salt Lake City, has announced that as 2023 comes to a close the gallery will close its programming and focus on consulting projects and independent projects. Launched last summer, Current […]
11/11 BYUTV ARTFUL: Michael Malm / Kichaa Man Chitrakar Michael Malm encounters challenges while creating a painting for his church. Kichaa Man Chitrakar draws closer to his family through his artwork. WATCH NOW 11/9 SALT LAKE MAGAZINE: What’s Ya Vibe Awakens Utah Audiences and Uplifts POC Artists Shalandrea […]
9/30 BYUTV ARTFUL: Ryan Moffett and Liz Lemon After contracting Multiple Sclerosis, Ryan Moffett rediscovers his faith by sculpting. Liz Lemon Swindle thinks her art days are behind her until she finds inspiration in The Chosen, and a new appreciation for the life of Christ. WATCH THE VIDEO […]
8/1 SOUTHWEST CONTEMPORARY: Alexis Rausch Unpacks America’s Desensitization to Violence Violence and violent media are so common that desensitization to violence is just as normal. Some people are figuring out how to cope with this status quo—but when confronting stories of real-life violence such as police brutality, domestic […]
7/12 CITY WEEKLY: Get to know the Republic of Zaqistan, a micronation enclaved in Utah’s west desert Sculptor Zaq Landsberg came across one of those elusive “Big Ideas” in 2005. After it arrived, he invested his time and his money and then more of his time into it. […]
6/16 2023 SLC Mayor’s Artist Awards Honors Community-Building Artists and Arts Programming Mayor Erin Mendenhall has announced the winners of the 2023 Mayor’s Artists Awards, which will be presented live at the Festival Stage at Library and Washington Square, in conjunction with the Utah Arts Festival on Friday, […]
5/26 The Leonardo announces their roster of Artists in Residence Salt Lake City’s The Leonardo has announced their roster of Artists in Residence. Every Saturday and Sunday the Artist in Residence program will feature a different Latino/Hispanic artist from the community. The program was created in collaboration with […]
“For nearly 50 years, Ralphael Plescia has been making religious art to explore the story of creation in his private museum in Salt Lake City, Utah. His project has one overriding vision: to tell the story of Biblical creation in the right way by restoring characters and tales […]
We scroll the news and social media feeds so you don’t have to. Here are the newest articles related to Utah’s art scene. 3/7 THE INSIDER: Utah Wildlife Walls Brings Big Art to Small Towns Living in rural southern Utah has many unique qualities. Ranging from stunning landscapes, […]
2/24 CHANGES BEHIND THE SCENES AT UMFA Nancy Rivera has announced she’ll be leaving Utah Arts & Museums as of Feb. 24 and will be joining the staff at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. With the Utah Division of Arts & Museum’s two major exhibition spaces — […]
2/5 UMFA Receives $5 Million Gift The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) has announced that it has received a $5 million gift from longtime benefactors, the Price Family, establishing an endowment to support the UMFA executive director position. The Marcia and John Price Executive Director Endowment for the […]
For the first time, Salt Lake City has been named one of the top 40 most arts-vibrant communities in the United States. SMU DataArts, the National Center for Arts Research announced the seventh iteration of their Arts Vibrancy Index Report at the conclusion of 2022. Salt Lake City […]
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) has received a 2022 Bank of America Art Conservation Project grant to conserve “Two Running Horses (1932),” a four-panel screen by Chiura Obata (1885–1975). Obata is considered one of the most prominent Japanese-American artists of the 20th century. The work is […]
Over the past month, City Weekly has devoted two of its cover stories to exploring the art and architecture that defines (or hopes to define) our capitol city. A month ago it was Stephen Dark’s cover story on the $3 million public art project in downtown Salt Lake […]
In this month’s edition of 15 Bytes we mentioned that Utah is a good place for film, both making them and watching them. We still hold to the latter, but after someone brought this article to our attention, the former seems a little less sure. As the Moab […]
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 […]
In this month’s edition of 15 Bytes, Edward Reichel pointed to the current political debates about federal funding for the arts and public broadcasting as one reason for his examination of the importance of classical music: “With Congress thinking about eliminating funding and doing away with the National […]
Deadline: Dec. 8, 2023
35×35 is Artists of Utah’s showcase of work by Utah’s young generation of visual artists. Occurring every three to four years, this exhibit features work by 35 artists 35 years old or younger, providing the artists with a unique exhibition opportunity as well as extended media coverage to help further their career.
