Blue Notes: Rest assured that Blue Critchfield is not splegiarizing . . . whatever that means
Artist Profile of Salt Lake City artist Blue Critchfield in the March 2009 edition of 15 Bytes.
Wendy Chidester Studio Space
Fresh from an exhibit in Palm Desert, Draper artist Wendy Chidester was busy preparing for a show at Coda Gallery when we visited her studio in February. Chidester has converted her spacious garage into a studio space, storage unit and frame shop. Racks filled with odds and […]
Fine Arts in Survival Mode
USA Today published an article today entitled "Fine arts are in survival mode as funds dry up". Our upcoming edition of 15 Bytes (out Wednesday) will feature an article on how Utah’s own visual arts community is doing in this difficult economy, including the results of our survey […]
Art in the Dismal Economy Opportunities or Unsolvable Problems?
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.” – John W. Gardner, founder of Common Cause This quote well describes the optimist’s take on the current economic mess we find ourselves in. While even the most optimistic among us may have […]
Dallas Graham
Dallas Graham is a freelance documentary photographer and graphic designer. He currently serves as the programming director for AIGA. He lives in downtown Salt Lake City with his camera, iPod and Red Fred Bodoni. What hangs above your mantel? I don’t have a mantel. At all. Anywhere. However, I am planning […]
Notes for Bob & Bill Cupid & the Richards Girls Stories of Love and Art in Utah’s History
If for no other reason than that health insurance isn’t cheap, good sense would suggest that for love artists should look outside their own immediate circle — say, to lawyers and doctors and such. But stodgy, clean-cut Good Sense is no match for the shock and awe campaigns […]
Revealed Patterns Alex Bigney’s Talking to Tesla
Towards the end of his new book, Talking to Tesla: An Artist’s Dream Journal, Alex Bigny writes: “Imagine me, the consummate dreamer, a painter, encountering a great scientist somewhere in the ethers — to be told that I would carry on his work. I had expected by now that I […]
Arts Funding Hangs in Balance
Yesterday the Senate passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act with a vote of 61 to 37. As the bill heads to Congressional conference, $50 million in recovery funds to be distributed by the National Endowment for the Arts hang in the balance. Unlike the Senate bill, which […]
Creating a Legacy Sue Martin’s Creative Caregiving
In March of 2007, local artist Sue Martin went to Georgia to care for her mother, who was dying of cancer, and her father, who is afflicted with Parkinson’s and dementia. During the six months she spent caring for her parents she kept a blog about her experiment […]
A Visual Arts Movement: The Sonata Gallery Opens
Along the busy street of 4500 South sits a quaint white house. Since 1884, this historic home has housed multiple occupants; the first being one of Edward Pugh’s multiple wives. It is now a multiuse building and currently the show room for multitalented artists. Sonata Gallery’s motivation for choosing […]
Congress Says the Arts Don’t Need Recovery
Recently, Americans have become upset with economic recovery funds going to rather dubious ends, like, say bonuses to the bank execs who helped cause the whole problem. Not to worry, Congress (who also helped cause the problem) is on top of things. Earlier this week Senator Tom Coburn […]
Torlief Knaphus
Though by lineage I’m 100% British, since I come from Knudsen Corner and remain in the minority of those who use the hard “k” sound for Knudsen instead of “Nudson” or “Noodson,” in a way I’m an honorary Scandinavian; or so I told myself this weekend when I […]
Sandy Brunvand Take Two
When we say an artist puts her life into her art, we usually mean that important events become significant subject matter. But for Sandy Brunvand, the process is both subtler and more pervasive. Hearing her unravel the origins of her paintings and prints, whether in exceptionally accessible written statements […]
Artistic Engagement Hadley Rampton at Phillips Gallery
by Curt Hawkins Fresh from a morning of making turns in the fresh snow of the Wasatch Mountains, Hadley Rampton sits among her oil paintings and watercolor and ink drawings on display at Salt Lake’s Phillips Gallery. “I usually try to paint every morning, five days a week. But today, fresh powder. […]
Trent Call at Gavin’s Underground
Gavin, over at Gavin’s Underground, stopped in at Trent Call’s Captain Captain studio recently and talked with the artist about zines, solo shows, art vending machines and ping pong. Read the interview at: http://community.kutv.com/blogs/games/archive/2009/02/04/3680381.aspx
Inner Visions Blindsight at the Salt Lake Art Center
The artist’s eye is revered as if it were a sacred object, a visionary orb that sees all, externally and internally. Rembrandt saw the soul of the sitter as well as the form. For many artists — good artists — this tool bridging the object and the subject […]
Salt Lake – Top 25 Arts Destinations
It’s time again to vote for SALT LAKE CITY as a TOP 25 ARTS DESTINATION in the mid-sized city category. Salt Lake City has been included in the TOP 25 list of AmericanStyle Magazine for three years in a row. It’s easy to vote . . . and […]
Flying Objects 2.0 Artists Announced
The second installment of the Salt Lake City Arts Council’s public art project Flying Objects will be coming to the streets of Salt Lake this spring. Twelve sculptures by fourteen Utah artists were selected to be placed near cultural institutions in the city. The artists selected are: Marcee […]
Daren Young and Julia Voye at Gavin’s Underground
For January Gallery Stroll Gavin’s Underground headed over to Art Access, where he interviewed the two exhibiting artists: Daren Young, who brought in his mixed media art entitled HOMO/evocative, and self-taught photographer Julia Voye with her collection of up close works. Check it out here: http://community.kutv.com/blogs/games/archive/2009/01/21/3663531.aspx Daren Young […]
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