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. […]
Crazy thing, we were peeking under the hood of the website the other day and were surprised to find that we’ve had more referrals from Facebook over the past couple of months than from Instagram. We weren’t even sure people still used Facebook. Except, you know, your parents, […]
For more than a century, the Pickle Building stood along 400 West, first as part of Salt Lake City’s industrial infrastructure and, more recently, as a marker of the Granary District’s creative ambitions. On the morning of May 22, 2025, it was abruptly demolished—an act that erased a […]
For most artists, “Don’t quit your day job” is less the personal criticism a speaker may intend, and more a generic necessity. On its own, an artist’s craft is unlikely to provide a living, and the readymade judgment that “those who can, do; those who can’t, teach” makes […]
I learned the feeling of modernism—before I could define it—by walking the Fine Arts & Architecture complex at the University of Utah. Designed around 1970 by Edwards & Daniels Associates, the complex rises in stacked planes and shadowed seams, a 140,000-square-foot maze of studios and galleries where […]
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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