Starting Something with Daniel Charon
Daniel Charon brings his minimalist vision to Salt Lake as the new director of Ririe-Woodbury Dance.
John Hughes’s Summer Excursions
From staying in a cozy room in bucolic Spring City, to backpacking in the Tetons, plein air painter John Hughes tells us what he did on his summer vacation.
Pilar Pobil’s Legacy
Pilar Pobil’s art, and her marvelous house are both colorful fixtures in Utah’s art scene. Her friends plan to keep it that way.
Salt Lake City’s Shirley Ririe
What is your favorite building in Utah? It’s a cross between the Salt Lake Library and the New Museum of Natural History. I love the architecture of the library and go there every week or two, and I feel like it’s my library. I’m so proud of it. […]
Taking Care of Your Genetic Material: Motherlunge by Kirstin Scott
The phrase “taking care of your genetic material” first appears in Kirsten Scott’s smart debut novel Motherlunge through a father talking warningly to his son as the son begins to date seriously. But in the gynecological world of this novel where the female body is relentlessly inscribed […]
Jann Haworth and the BBC
Walking past the Rose Establishment coffee shop on the way to the Farmer’s Market on Saturday, we ran into artist Jann Haworth, preparing for an interview with the BBC. Haworth is best-known for co-creating the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s album cover with then husband Peter Blake. […]
Rose Exposed: A Cultural Buffet
So you’re feeling a little adventurous. You want to add a little culture to your life. If you’re thinking visual art, it’s not too hard — or at least not too expensive: around here, galleries, and even most museums, are free (that being said, yes, if you’re new […]
Life Under the Horseshoe: Plein Air Painting, Studio Tour and Live Radio in Spring City
For some, Spring City’s annual plein air competition and studio tour marks the end of the summer (it doesn’t hurt that it happens on Labor Day weekend, which despite what the calendar says is the end of summer for most of us). While it’s not the last open […]
Introducing Sketch Sundays
This weekend one of Utah’s newest visual arts activities launches at Squatters Pub Brewery in Salt Lake City. Sketch Sundays, which takes on the top floor of the brew pub starting at 6 pm, is a time where artist and patrons can get together in a social atmosphere […]
Eric Rich Collective Wednesday Night
If you’ve been in Salt Lake City at all this summer you’ve seen them — the hordes of bearded and ironically mustachioed hipster kids riding their bikes around town. But one of their number stands out: Eric Rich, who hauls an upright piano with him on his way […]
The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa
Since Japanese American sculptor Ruth Asawa passed away at her San Francisco home earlier this week, we’ve decided to run a review of the book The Sculptures of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air, which appeared in the February 2007 edition of 15 Bytes. The Sculpture of Ruth […]
Erykah Badu at Twilight Concert Series
by Robert Swift-Rodriguez photos by Zoë and Robert Rodriguez. Thursday night’s crowd was much smaller than for many of the other acts of this summer’s Twilight Concert Series, and many of Erykah Badu’s fans were older than previous audiences. Lots of white wine drinkers, if you know […]
Amy Tolk Richards: Artist Profile
“I control what I can control and then I try to manage what I can’t control,” says Utah County artist Amy Tolk Richards. Richards is speaking on both an artistic level and on a personal level: as a mother, spouse, and human being. Richards’ canvases are simple […]
Charlotte Bell: Artist Profile
Charlotte Bell’s striking silver hair hangs to the middle of her back, her voice is quiet, and she walks with anticipation: pointing to the towering trees, florets of allium, and the neighborhood’s 100-year-old roses. Walking with her feels oddly like stepping out of Salt Lake—the noise and rush—into […]
Bicycle Art in Park City
The creative process is one particularly unique from person to person. A vast array of art is generated every single day from almost nothing but an artist’s imagination. When the Kimball Arts Center in Park City teamed up with SRAM to put on the SRAM pART PROJECT, individual […]
Glass Art at the St. George Art Museum
From a blue depiction of microscopic amoeba to a life size rectangular wall of an artist’s abstract version of their life, it’s clear that residents of the St. George area will get their share of beauty from Sparkle and Glow: A Clear View, the glass art exhibition at The St. […]
Uncategorized
A Year in Utah’s Art Community, with Jo-Ann Wong
It has become an annual tradition that every August we ask Jo-Ann Wong to send us a selection of her snapshots from her active life in Utah’s art community. From concerts, to art shows to political rallies and more, it seems Wong is everywhere. And wherever she is, […]
Susan Elizabeth Howe’s Salt
Intimate Moments of Subdued Watching In 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson published his essay “The Poet” in which he called for an American poet to celebrate the distinctly American materials not before utilized as ingredients for a high national poetry. Emerson knew that the landscapes, the religions, the politics, […]
READ LOCAL First: Shanan Ballam
This is 15 Bytes’ sixth Read Local First, a glimpse into the working minds and hearts of Utah’s literary writers. Former Utah Poet Laureate Kate Coles was our inaugural offering in March, followed by poet Michael McLane, short story writer Darrell Spencer, fiction writer Larry Menlove, memoirist Christopher Bigelow […]
Recent Comments