Local artist Lenka Konopasek recently completed a piece commissioned by the Utah Transit Authority, Salt Lake Arts Council and Salt Lake City Corporation. Located on the platform of TRAX’s Old Greek Town Station (200 South 550 West), the piece consists of multiple parts playing with gears as a motif. […]
photos by Gerry Johnson The Mestizo Coffeehouse is back in town — this time with a cultural agenda that mirrors its name, a Spanish word meaning “mixed.” Being built on the corner of North Temple and 600 West in the Citifront complex, the Mestizo hopes to becomes a cultural gathering […]
The Utah Foster Care Foundations’s 6th annual Chalk Art Festival is this weekend, June 13th and 14th in downtown Salt Lake City. During the festival, thousands of families gather at the Gateway to watch dozens of artists create, beautiful, temporary works of art. To get you — and the participating […]
Utah Valley happily maintains a substantial cultural arts scene. On any given evening one might see a concert at the new Covey Center for the Arts, a play at one of the theaters at Brigham Young University’s Harris Fine Arts Center, a musical at the Scera Theater or […]
Few sculptors have left their mark on the visual landscape of Utah to the same degree as Angelo Caravaglia, a longtime University of Utah professor who passed away early last month. Thousands of us pass by his work everyday; if shown an image of one, many Utahns would immediately […]
As part of his Daily Documentary series, Dallas Graham interviewed Sundance artist Jann Haworth on the occasion of her upcoming exhibit Pop Plastiques at the Salt Lake Main Library. Below are images by Graham as well as a segment of the interview. For the complete interview, visit Montage-Creative.
If you’re already planning on attending the Utah Arts Festival at Library Square later this month, you’re in for a treat. And if you’re still debating, you may want to make up your mind to go – and when you do, consider being there Thursday night. Pop Plastiques at […]
In November of 2005, Kristen Abraham, an artist, and Alfonso Llamas, a musician, set out from their home in Florida with the goal of visiting every state in the Union in a conceptual art adventure called The Nomadic Project. Their hope was to get to know more “about their […]
If you’ve already read 15 Bytes then you know about the opening for Stefanie Dykes Cathedral tonight at Finch Lane Gallery, 6-9pm (see page 7). But Dykes’ work is not the only reason to make Finch Lane part of your Friday evening. Also showing with Dykes is photographer […]
Behaviourables and Futuribles A review of Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness In 1970, Roy Ascott wrote, “If writing about art has any value at all at a time when art works and processes are themselves polemical, it can only be to discuss alternative futures.” […]
Visual artists usually express themselves visually rather than verbally, so when it comes to finding the words to put in an artist statement, a grant proposal, the title of an exhibition, or the name of a painting or sculpture, we’re at a loss. Yet, words help communicate to […]
Crystal Young-Otterstrom is currently the Audience Development Manager for Utah Symphony | Utah Opera, a composer and a fan of the visual arts. Crystal started Vivace, a funkified bunch of 20/30/40 somethings (single, partnered, married) that just happen to get their groove on to classical music and opera. […]
This month’s edition of 15 Bytes is shaping up to have a sort of mini-theme: travel. Which seems appropriate with summer just around the corner. In addition to our article on Amanda Moore, we have an interview with Olivia Mae Pendergast about her trip to Africa, and a […]
by Kimberly Rock It’s picturesque: winter in Park City, Utah. Bedazzled holiday trees softly shine through swirling snow. Through thick crowds of sun-kissed skiers, delicious scents beckon from restaurants and warm coffee bars. And the Park City galleries, with their rich array of media, styles, and artists, perfect […]
Two years ago, in an exhibition at the Central Utah Art Center (see September 2006), Stefanie Dykes showed a pair of architectural fantasies: ornamental woodblock prints combining the flat perspective of diagrams with animated details and figures cavorting in space. Standing before these large prints (each 3 feet high and 2 […]
Back on May 12, we made a post about the Orphaned Works Bill. Here’s an interesting YouTube post (it’s really an audio file rather than a video) about the subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqBZd0cP5Yc If you want to communicate with your elected officials about this bill go to: http://capwiz.com/illustratorspartnership/home/
photos by Shalee Cooper When artists talk about their work they often project a feeling of inevitability. It had to be; either that or they say it was an accident. Speaking on film, Georgia O’Keeffe points to the top of a nondescript hill she feels she must climb with […]
Sundance Institute Documentary Film Series Wraps The 2007-2008 Season with a Free Screening Of My Kid Could Paint That On June 4th. The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Series wraps its 2007-2008 Season this week with a free screening of My Kid Could Paint That on June 4th. An […]
Laurie Lisonbee of Salem won Best of Show in the Hilton Head Art League 2008 National Juried Exhibition, Walter Greer Gallery, Hilton Head, South Carolina. The painting “Pigeon Pose With Spoon,” was selected for the $2500 award from among 798 artworks entered nationally. Her painting “Crazy Eight” recently […]
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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