Shakespeare Wrote in the Time of Plague
During the time of Shakespeare, church leaders likened cats to witches. Rebecca Pyle: “With less cats came more rats, more fleas, more people infected too: black plague.”
Joseph Ostraff: Answers are Good, Questions are Better
“You’re just an appropriator.” That’s what a young, huffy art student said to Joe Ostraff in 1993 when he was a finalist for his current teaching position at Brigham Young University’s art department. Negative comments like that typically bounce right off him. In fact, although he’s sure he […]
35×35: Jamie Kyle
Jamie A Kyle is a photographer based in Salt Lake City, Utah. She received her BFA from Weber State University with an emphasis in photography and attended the University of Utah in pursuit of an MFA. She currently spends her time working in art services and managing the gallery space for the Downtown Artist Collective.
35×35: Erik “The Computer Key Artist” Jensen
Born and raised in Salt Lake, Erik Jensen graduated from Utah Valley University with a BS in Art Education in 2017. He started doing art with computer keyboard keys in 2013. He loves spending time with his family and when he finds the time, he even gets on his 36-inch unicycle for exercise.
35×35: Alison Neville
As part of Artists of Utah’s 35×35 exhibition, at Finch Lane Gallery through June 5, 2020, we spoke with each of the artists about their work. Artist Alison Neville lives and works in Bountiful, where she is the outreach and education director at the Bountiful Davis Art Center. She […]
Craig Dworkin Reads from The Pine-Woods Notebook and Allison Parrish’s Articulations
In these times of isolation, we may find ourselves paying more attention to the particularities of things. Rather than witnessing life at the rate of a moving car, we find ourselves stationary, with the time to see — possibly anew — the things around us. In this, we […]
Natasha Sajé Reads “O” and Marianne Boruch’s “The No-Name Tapestries”
When I think of the dead, it means they’re thinking of me … Cheering or haunting, depending on your perspective, are these opening lines from Marianne Boruch’s “The No-Name Tapestries,” a work Natasha Sajé chose to read for us in honor of National Poetry Month. Sajé, a professor […]
UMOCA Offers Online and Off-Site Exhibition Programming During Covid-19 Closure
Although the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art is closed due to COVID-19, its programming is still being made accessible to the public online and off-site. The museum has created 360 virtual tours of current exhibitions, allowing viewers to move through the museum and view artworks as if they […]
Katharine Coles: Poetry From One World Passing to the Next
… Mutter all you want: in this You are different from nobody, even in your feeling Alone at night when darkness brings itself down And all you find gazing out from where you are is light Blazing the house across the way, where you imagine Neighbors you haven’t […]
Trish Hopkinson’s “Letter to Covid-19” and a Reading of Meg Day’s “Psalm for July”
“Poetry is about trying to re-create an experience that, technically, can never happen again,” Trish Hopkinson said in our profile of the poet, blogger and literary arts advocate in April, 2019. “It’s specific to the poet or the character they’re writing through.” You can find Hopkinson’s work online […]
Laura Durham: The Curated Home
Earlier this year, Laura Durham was asked to be on a panel for a book club discussion hosted by Utah Arts and Museums about Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. “The book is set 20 years following a pandemic,” Durham says. “Crazy timing, right? Anyway, the book is about […]
Rob Carney Reads “Facts 3, 4, 5, 6” and Scott Poole’s “The Tinder Box”
In honor of National Poetry Month, we’ve asked poets in our state to read from their own work as well as from the work of a poet they admire. Rob Carney is the author of six books and three chapbooks of poems, most recently Facts and Figures (2020). […]
Art, Mortality, and Religion Among Utah’s Historic Women Artists
The first generations of female Utah artists, those who worked from the end of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th, lived through troubling times including two world wars, the 1918 influenza epidemic and the Great Depression. Times of crisis like these propel people to thoughts […]
Julie Turley: Rock Moves
Utah native Julie Turley is quarantining in Brooklyn, New York. She’s a writer and librarian. The 15 Bytes editorial staff extends its well wishes to Julie, as well all artists, writers, and residents in Manhattan—the epicenter of our country’s coronavirus outbreak. The photograph pictured here was taken in Utah prior to the pandemic.
Beth Krensky: Learning to Fly
A photograph shows a little girl standing in front of an easel painting; she seems delighted to have been caught in the act of creation. Now grown, Beth Krensky reflects that this moment captured on camera typifies her childhood affinities and early interest in art. “While other children […]
loveDANCEmore’s April Digest: An Interview with Charles Anderson
Charles O. Anderson spent two weeks during the Fall of 2019 working with the University of Utah’s School of Dance discussing issues of diversity, belonging, inclusion and equity in dance academia. He was instantaneously adored and we all inquired if he would ever consider relocating here. To our […]
Experience the UMFA online
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is scheduled to be closed through Friday, May 8 (though dates could change at any time). Below are some virtual art experiences the museum is offering that may interest you in the meantime: UMFA at Home https://umfa.utah.edu/museum-at-home is a new online portal launched in late March. […]
Utah Chamber Artists Launch Virtual Virtuosity
As this case in Washington proves, the COVID crisis is not a good time to be participate in a choir. Along with everything else in Utah’s performing art community, the crisis forced Utah Chamber Artists to cancel the final concert of their 2019-2020 season. To assuage the appetites […]
David Lee’s Newest Collection Mines the Gems and the Dross
David Lee, the first Poet Laureate of Utah and a retired professor of English literature, has published over 20 books of poetry, two of which have been nominated for a Pulitzer and one for the National Book Award. His newest collection of poetry, Mine Tailings, is a dynamic […]
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