Park City’s public art program started with an accounting error. David Chaplin was going through the books of the Park City Arts Foundation when he came across a felicitous accounting error. Chaplin, an avid skier, professional artist and instructor at the high school and college level, had moved […]
Emily Plewe enters 2026 amid a significant shift in how—and how much—she is able to work. After a career change and a move that brought both her home and studio into new alignment, she says, “I am now working full-time in the studio,” a change that’s allowing her […]
Some of the most visible arts experiences in Salt Lake City—the SLC White Party, the Urban Arts Festival, and Dreamscapes: Salt Lake City’s Immersive Art Experience—share more than spectacle or scale. They are part of a longer arc of creative entrepreneurship shaped by Derek Dyer, whose work has […]
Salt Lake’s public libraries have in common more rooms than strictly needed, but which are not wasted. Each branch has at least one art gallery, and the main library, which has its own TRAX stop and a row of shops that curl around its plaza like a sleeping […]
When Jo Roper came to Utah in the early 1960s, she was already an accomplished sculptor. Trained at Southwest Missouri State College and at Cranbrook Academy of Art, she had spent more than a decade teaching, exhibiting, and working across the Southwest, particularly in New Mexico, where she […]
In 2003, when we first wrote about Gallery 25, it was a hopeful experiment on a still-scruffy stretch of Ogden’s Historic 25th Street. Dubbed “A Northern Utah Artists Cooperative,” the gallery had been founded the previous August, when a local merchant bought a building to open a frame […]
A new year, and a shared project we’re excited to build together. As we step into a new year, we want to share something we’re especially energized by—and something we see as a long-term, collaborative effort. Utah Art Map (UAM!) is a project rooted in attention, documentation, and […]
Concerned with your health in 2026? Recent research shows the arts can be just as powerful as going to the gym in improving your health and well-being. Consider ditching the dumbbells for your New Year’s resolution this year and adopting one of these three arts-related goals instead: Resolution […]
Artists of Utah and 15 Bytes are pleased to announce that the 2025 15 Bytes Award for Fiction has been awarded to David G. Pace for his short story collection American Trinity: And Other Stories from the Mormon Corridor, published by BCC Press. Selected from a strong field […]
Artists of Utah and 15 Bytes are pleased to announce that Sheila Nadimi has been selected as the winner of the 2025 15 Bytes Book Award in Art Book for Eagle Village: A Deep Mapping of Fallow Architecture. As our jurors noted: “Eagle Village is a profound photographic […]
Artists of Utah and 15 Bytes are pleased to announce that Lance Larsen’s Making a Kingdom of It, has been selected as the winner of the 2025 15 Bytes Book Award in Poetry. Larsen is a poet and essayist based in Utah, where he teaches literature and creative […]
Artists of Utah and 15 Bytes are pleased to announce that Christopher Cokinos has been selected as the winner of the 2025 15 Bytes Book Award in Creative Nonfiction for Still As Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon, from Antiquity to Tomorrow. In this expansive, luminously crafted […]
At the Pinebrook roundabout of I-80’s Jeremy Ranch exit, Sandy the Crane presides over the landscape with a quiet, attentive dignity. Unlike a typical depiction of a sandhill crane in motion, Sandy is shown seated in her nest, her long neck lifting skyward while her body settles into […]
15 Bytes is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2025 15 Bytes Book Award in Art Book. Presented annually since 2013 by Artists of Utah, the award recognizes excellence in publications that illuminate, document, or advance the visual arts of the region. This year’s finalists reflect the […]
15 Bytes is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2025 15 Bytes Book Award in Poetry. Presented annually since 2013 by Artists of Utah, the award recognizes outstanding literary achievement by Utah poets or works with significant ties to the state published in the previous year. This […]
David Kranes, the prolific Utah author, playwright, teacher, and longtime director of the Sundance Playwrights Lab, has died at 87. He was a fiercely imaginative writer whose work ranged across fiction, theater, film, opera, and even casino design—an eclectic span that reflected a mind always in motion. Kranes […]
How do we know? How can we know? Where does knowledge come from? Whether in lectures, blogs, interviews, books, or, of course, art works, hardly a day goes by that the question isn’t asked. Then again, there can be little doubt that much of the conflict and violence […]
For Utah artist Jim Frazer, 2025 became a year defined by watching his books travel—moving into exhibitions and collections across the country while remaining rooted in the landscapes that shaped them. His work has been in book arts exhibits in Texas, Wisconsin, California, and Washington.” Even […]
When Salt Lake City artist Sam Forlenza decided—almost accidentally—that he would go to his Sugar House studio every day and post a new creation to Instagram each day, he describes it as “the brilliant, albeit naïve idea” that took hold simply because he was already there so often. […]
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.
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