photos by Will Thompson The first time I met Mary Lyn Graves, the newest dancer with Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, was in September 2012, after a performance, when the dancers usually mingle with the crowd. As anyone who has seen a Ririe-Woodbury performance already knows, their shows are physically […]
Today, it’s easy for even the average, low-tech, untrained person to take a nice photograph. With a point-and-shoot digital camera. With a telephone. With an iPad. So why in the world would professional photographers approach their art in the most challenging ways – using ancient technology and […]
On March 8, the latest 35 x 35 show will be unveiled. See work 35 local artists, 35 or under. These up-and-coming artists are poised to make a splash in Utah’s art scene.
John Hughes has been writing for our Hints & Tips column for over three years now, providing advice on everything from painting in the snow to choosing an easel to how to get out of an artist rut. We decided it was finally time to see him in […]
The theme of Friday evening’s festivities at King’s English was “The Earth Is Not Flat,” from the title of Katherine Coles’ fifth volume of poetry, just published and eagerly anticipated by followers of Utah’s leading poet. If that title sounds more like it belongs on a scientific treatise […]
Situated next to Provo, Utah, Orem is one of the most conservative communities in the United States. I mention the politics only to mark the courage of Terry Tempest Williams and why so many of us were struck by her transparency at the Orem Library when she highlighted […]
Kelsey grew up in Utah and currently lives in Holladay with her soon-to-be-husband. She graduated from the University of Utah with a BA in Art History and from there moved into arts education and taught youth through programs at the UMFA and for many years with Bad Dog […]
What does it mean to be a man? Plan-B Theatre Company’s resident playwright, Matthew Ivan Bennett, tackles this complex question in his latest work and world-premiere Eric(a). A one-person play that directly engages the audience as participants, Eric(a) is a thought provoking piece filled with challenging questions about […]
Lauren Gallaspy, who joined the Art & Art History Department Ceramics Area at the University of Utah this year, is one of twenty-five artists across the country who has been awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. The prestigious award comes with a $25,000 cash award. […]
Former Utah Poet Laureate and Guggenheim Fellow Katharine Coles is 15 Bytes’ inaugural Sunday Blog Read. Each month we’ll be posting for your reading enjoyment literary works-in-progress…works soon-to-be-published…or, as in the case of today, works recently released. The Sunday Blog Read is a glimpse into the working minds […]
The Bountiful/Davis Art Center opened its Annual Statewide Competition last night in their new (but temporary) space at the Davis County Memorial Courthouse in Farmington. The 38th annual competition featured 115 pieces created by 81 different artists. The winners, chosen by juror Mikell Stringham of Mondo Fine Art, […]
You may not have realized it, but this has been a season of Mendelssohn for the Utah Symphony. Music Director Thierry Fischer programmed Felix Mendelssohn’s five symphonies for the 2012-2013 season and this weekend the Symphony will conclude the performance cycle with a concert featuring the first and […]
For the Park City Gallery Stroll tonight, (yes, it’s the last Friday of the month already) J GO Gallery is revealing a new body of work by Curtis Olson — three years in the making. The exhibit’s title, Antikythera: Knowledge Objects, is a reference to an ancient […]
It’s coming. March 8th. At Finch Lane Gallery. Artists of Utah’s 35×35 exhibition, a look at thirty-five artists under the age of thirty-five. Video, sculpture, painting, printmaking, ceramics, performance, installation and drawing. In one gallery. Conversing. And here’s the lineup, selected from over 100 entries by Artists of […]
Maybe you missed gallery stroll last Friday or you just didn’t get enough. We’ve got you covered. This Friday, CONCEPT is hosting its grand opening. The latest addition to the Granery District is a gallery and eco-friendly furniture store founded by Jeffrey Potts, John Harris, and Jeff Barker. […]
Another Language Performing Arts Company continues to push boundaries and redefine theatre. Think back to geometry class and mapping points on a grid. The x-axis runs horizontally and the y-axis runs vertically. It’s a two-dimensional plane. But then there is the z-axis, a visual representation of our three-dimensional […]
A traveling exhibit of mummies from around the world takes over The Leonardo, the UMFA mounts an exhibit of works depicting the American Indian and LEGOs are the building blocks for sculptures at the Kimball Art Center.
Artworks can make visible the success of their makers, but to understand the struggles that produced them, and so the triumph they represented, something more is needed. Paul Cézanne was an artist who mastered his chops long before he was accepted by the gatekeepers, and the stories of […]
Camellia Rowland grew up in a small desert town in southern California. She danced ballet for 13 years and trained with professional companies in Santa Barbara and San Diego. She has also lived in New York and Quebec and is fluent in French. She holds an associates degree […]
Stewart Seidman creates expressive acrylic works on canvas and with recycled FedEx envelopes that once served as his paint palettes, transforming everyday materials into compelling contemporary art.
To discover more artists, visit our Utah Artists Directory
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