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Tony Jacobsen’s Playdate with the Universe

By Shawn Rossiter on June 11, 2026 • ( Leave a comment )

Stephen Trimble: The Blue Gate

By READ LOCAL First on April 7, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

This month we bring you Stephen Trimble—one of Utah’s most influential artists in Utah’s 15 (Vol. II). Among his other honors: The Sierra Club’s Ansel Adams Award for photography and conservation; The National Cowboy Museum’s Western Heritage “Wrangler” Award; and a Doctor of Humane Letters from his alma mater, Colorado College.

Trimble’s latest work includes an anthology of the best writing about Captiol Reef, The Capitol Reef Reader, to be published by the University of Utah Press in June 2019. His introduction to the Reader (his 25th book) grew from this piece, “The Blue Gate.”

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Breanne Saxton Proves It’s Time to Acknowledge The Gateway Has Changed

By Natalie Gotter on April 6, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

After a few years of struggling to reinvigorate community interest, The Gateway is finally finding itself, as a home for a surging independent art scene. The former outdoor mall’s empty storefronts, which have become host to the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival, provide unique performance venues for all […]

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Talking Salt, Jazz and Broadway with Nick Palmquist

By 15 Bytes on April 5, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Kathy Adams has been a dance reporter for two daily newspapers over a cumulative 20 years. She tells us “there have been few opportunities to write in depth about jazz or theater dance.” So after discovering Nick Palmquist’s class work on Instagram and later watching his rehearsal with […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Artistic Transfer in Richard Gate’s Anthology

By Maddie Blonquist on April 4, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )

If you’re driving over the speed limit down Main Street in Ephraim you might miss out on a hidden gem of the Central Utah art scene. Granary Arts is exhibiting a chronological collection of works by Richard Gate, a Utah-affiliated artist who spends winters working out of his […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

The Tangible and the Intangible in John Sproul and Nancy Starks’ Library Exhibits

By Ann Poore on April 3, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )

While the two exhibits that hung together in The Gallery at Library Square during the start of 2019 offered a thematic comparison of nature and its elements as found in the works of Lisa Anderson and Susan Makov, the two shows up through April 26, by Nancy Starks […]

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Utah Artist/Teachers Encourage Kids to “Buy Art, Not Drugs”

By Kiki Karahalios on April 2, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

It should be no news that arts funding is not prioritized in K-12 education. While this remains a constant, teachers and other educators try to come up with ideas to incorporate all aspects of art education in their curriculum. Justin Wheatley and Clint Whiting, of Connection High School […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Train Tracts: Visual and Literary Project Makes Connections Across the Country

By Sue Martin on March 29, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

One of the greatest connections in the history of the United States was made when the golden spike at Promontory Point, Utah, joined the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads and united a continent. Train Tracts, a project conceived by writer Amie Tullius (with support from printmaker Stefanie Dykes) to […]

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Jim Jacobs and Shane Deeter Win Visual Arts Fellowships

By 15 Bytes on March 28, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

The Utah Division of Arts & Museums has announced the recipients of their 2019 Utah Visual Arts Fellowships: Jim Jacobs of Ogden and Shane Deeter of La Sal. Each artist will receive a $10,000 fellowship to recognize their work and encourage further development. Jacobs, a retired art professor […]

Artist Profiles | Visual Arts

Alison Neville Goes Small, with Big Results

By Hannah Sandorf Davis on March 20, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )

There’s a common rule in the contemporary art world — go big, or go very, very small. Alison Neville chose the latter. From miniature dioramas that fit into sardine cans to tiny polymer mushrooms, Neville’s work is small in scale but rich in depth. Her art is […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

The Hum of Nature in Wendy Wischer’s “Displacing Vibrations”

By Hikmet Sidney Loe on March 18, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

I have to admit it: I had no idea landscape arches vibrate and thus create sound (albeit through frequencies inaudible to the human ear). Learning this fact alone makes attending Displacing Vibrations, on view at Nox Contemporary through April 5, worthwhile. Ambitious in its scope and message, the […]

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RDT Hosts a Night of Danielle Agami’s Generous Acts

By Nora Price on March 16, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Internationally acclaimed artist Danielle Agami is a considerate host. Agami is also the founder and artistic/executive director of Los Angeles-based dance company Ate9, in addition to being a renowned choreographer, a Batsheva Dance Company alumna, a Gaga movement research instructor, and a masterful, incredibly expressive dancer. Each of […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Joseph Ostraff’s Unresolved Visit to Wendover

By Shawn Rossiter on March 12, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )

In her profile of Joseph Ostraff for the Artists of Utah publication Utah’s 15: The State’s Most Influential Artists, Laura Durham focuses on the artist’s tendency to seek engagement from others in his work — from the artists and individuals who have influenced him, to the scores of […]

Book Reviews | Literary Arts

The Imagination of History and Gender in Katharine Coles’ Look Both Ways

By Fish Burton on March 10, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

After finishing Look Both Ways, I found myself recommending it to friends based on its ability to cause me to rethink imagination, history, and gender. It’s an imaginative book, self-imaginative. It’s a biography/memoir by Katharine Coles that centers on her grandmother, Miriam Wollaeger Link, and their respective journeys around the […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Jennifer Nehrbass’ Pioneer Project Reimagines How the West Might Have Been Won

By Kelly Carper on March 8, 2019 • ( 4 Comments )

What if women were the pioneers of the West? Would our relationship with Native Americans be different? What about our impact on the environment? What would our society look like today had our region been founded under a matriarchy? These are a few questions raised by Jennifer Nehrbass’ […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

Ed Bateman Reverses Photosynthesis

By Ann Poore on March 6, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

What Edward Bateman does is as much in the realm of science as art — as reminiscent of Leonardo and Edison as of Michelangelo. Which is to say that unless you can grasp what he’s about on his computer, it becomes difficult to explain the results of his […]

Artist Profiles | Visual Arts

Andy Nasisse Finds Revelations in Clay

By Shawn Rossiter on March 5, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Pareidolia: It’s a term we rarely use for a process we frequently employ — the tendency to see forms in random, abstract patterns. It’s likely a survival instinct, since it is better to believe you see animals in the forest that are not there than not to see […]

Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts

In Wood or on Paper, Jim Frazer’s Glyphs Leave an Important Message

By Shawn Rossiter on March 4, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

“Part of what artists do is call attention to things that have been overlooked, and do so in a way that causes people to start noticing on their own,” Jim Frazer said in early 2018 while working on a project in which he transformed the trails of bark-beetle […]

Literary Arts | READ LOCAL First

Stefene Russell: Microfiction

By READ LOCAL First on March 3, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

READ LOCAL First represents Utah’s most comprehensive collection of celebrated and promising writers of fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, and memoir. This week we bring you Stefene Russell, a St. Louis-based poet, writer, editor and actor. She is a Salt Lake City native and graduate of the University of Utah where, she […]

Exhibition Reviews | Still On View | Visual Arts

Danae Mattes Helps Us Remember the Land at BYU Museum of Art

By Hikmet Sidney Loe on February 28, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

The dynamism of the natural world surrounds us: we are part of systems that grow and decay, process and alter on a continual basis. Nothing is static as matter and substance morph sometimes imperceptibly, and sometimes so dramatically it’s jarring to witness. These changes are at the heart […]

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Tony Jacobsen’s Playdate with the Universe

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Stephen Trimble: The Blue Gate

Breanne Saxton Proves It’s Time to Acknowledge The Gateway Has Changed

Talking Salt, Jazz and Broadway with Nick Palmquist

Artistic Transfer in Richard Gate’s Anthology

The Tangible and the Intangible in John Sproul and Nancy Starks’ Library Exhibits

Utah Artist/Teachers Encourage Kids to “Buy Art, Not Drugs”

Train Tracts: Visual and Literary Project Makes Connections Across the Country

Jim Jacobs and Shane Deeter Win Visual Arts Fellowships

Alison Neville Goes Small, with Big Results

The Hum of Nature in Wendy Wischer’s “Displacing Vibrations”

RDT Hosts a Night of Danielle Agami’s Generous Acts

Joseph Ostraff’s Unresolved Visit to Wendover

The Imagination of History and Gender in Katharine Coles’ Look Both Ways

Jennifer Nehrbass’ Pioneer Project Reimagines How the West Might Have Been Won

Ed Bateman Reverses Photosynthesis

Andy Nasisse Finds Revelations in Clay

In Wood or on Paper, Jim Frazer’s Glyphs Leave an Important Message

Stefene Russell: Microfiction

Danae Mattes Helps Us Remember the Land at BYU Museum of Art

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