{"id":36689,"date":"2018-03-15T20:51:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T02:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=36689"},"modified":"2018-09-19T07:38:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T13:38:23","slug":"utahs-15-round-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/utahs-15-round-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah’s 15: Round 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Artists from Utah\u2019s 15 (round 1): (top row) Frank McEntire, Anne Cullimore Decker, Stephen Goldsmith, Ruby Chacon, Terry Tempest Williams (middle row) Joan Woodbury, Paul Davis, Brad Slaugh, Anna Campbell Bliss, Bonnie Phillips (bottom row) Sam Wilson, Sandy Brunvand, Brian Kershisnik, Trent Alvey, John Erickson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


\nUTAH\u2019S 15, our program to recognize and honor the state\u2019s most influential artists, RETURNS. And we need your help.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was five years ago.\u00a0Laura Durham had an idea: ask people to think about who they felt were the state\u2019s most influential artists.<\/p>\n

At the time, Durham was working as an arts administrator for the Utah Division of Arts and Museums. She was tired of always having to justify or defend the arts community, so she wanted to get people thinking about how artists have influenced the cultural landscape in Utah.\u00a0Utah\u2019s 15<\/em>\u00a0was born.<\/p>\n

We asked the public for nominations for the honor, saying, \u201cthese are not necessarily the \u2018hottest\u2019 artists, they are not the most \u2018honored\u2019 artists, but these are the artists who make a difference in Utah.\u201d We left it to the public to decide what they felt \u201cinfluential\u201d meant. We wanted these artists to be nominated by their peers, those that, as we said at the time, \u201csee the \u2018every day\u2019 situations and projects our artists engage in. Artists are not only thinkers and creators; they are collaborators, builders and leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

We received almost 100 nominations. We then asked a pool of 200 people \u2014 artists, writers, administrators, patrons \u2014 to winnow the list down to fifteen.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of 2014, we held an exhibition to honor the artists at Rio Gallery (it was, to put it mildly, packed). We also published a book telling the stories of these artists (it sold out).<\/p>\n

Five years later, we\u2019re back with round 2 of\u00a0Utah\u2019s 15<\/em>.\u00a0 Once again, we\u2019re asking you, our readers, to tell us,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who are the most influential artists in the state?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Influence takes many forms, and we\u2019ll leave it up to you to argue for how your nominee has been influential. We embrace all artistic fields from the visual and literary to the performing arts.<\/p>\n

To nominate an artist, please email the following, with the subject heading \u201cUtah\u2019s 15\u201d to editor@artistsofutah.org:<\/strong>
\nYour Name<\/p>\n

Your Email<\/p>\n

Biographical Information about the Artist<\/p>\n

Links to relevant websites, articles or other information about the artist.<\/p>\n

MOST IMPORTANTLY: Please provide us at least one paragraph describing why YOU think this artist has been influential on the cultural landscape of our state. Artistic value is important, but we hope you\u2019ll also identify other ways they have been influential.<\/p>\n

Nominations must be received by May 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nSome of the profiles from the 2014 publication Utah\u2019s 15: The State\u2019s Most Influential Artists have already been made available online. During the month of March we will be making the remainder available. Go to the tag\u00a0Utah\u2019s 15<\/a>\u00a0to read the profiles.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Artists from Utah\u2019s 15 (round 1): (top row) Frank McEntire, Anne Cullimore Decker, Stephen Goldsmith, Ruby Chacon, Terry Tempest Williams (middle row) Joan Woodbury, Paul Davis, Brad Slaugh, Anna Campbell Bliss, Bonnie Phillips (bottom row) Sam Wilson, Sandy Brunvand, Brian Kershisnik, Trent Alvey, John Erickson. UTAH\u2019S 15, our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1400],"class_list":["post-36689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bytes","tag-utahs-15"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/utahs15round1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 07:31:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37732,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36689\/revisions\/37732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}