{"id":48934,"date":"2000-09-08T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2000-09-08T18:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=48934"},"modified":"2023-11-25T18:12:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T00:12:33","slug":"brian-jorgensen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/brian-jorgensen\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Jorgensen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Jorgensen is a Salt Lake City artist who works in ceramics, photography and painting.<\/p>\n<p>Making art isn\u2019t something I came to early in life. Here\u2019s just a bit about me as an artist and my background and journey to this point.<\/p>\n<p>I was born in California and grew up mainly in Utah. I have also lived in Pennsylvania, Germany, Switzerland, Maryland, Nevada, Arizona, and California. Now I am back in Utah. It\u2019s a great place to live.<\/p>\n<p>I started taking art classes seriously about 20 years ago, as someone well into his adult years. A couple of years ago, I reflected on the fact that I was taking a fair number of art classes. I concluded that I might as well get an art degree to add to my various other college degrees. While I have to endure being the \u201cold guy\u201d student in the class, it\u2019s fun learning from peers and professors of all ages. And, frankly, I always liked school, and the studio art classes are particularly fun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><br \/>\nbrianjorgensen.net\/<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/01\/111-open-top-head-raku-ceramic-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-53568\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/01\/111-open-top-head-raku-ceramic-01-350x467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/01\/111-open-top-head-raku-ceramic-01-350x467.jpg 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/01\/111-open-top-head-raku-ceramic-01-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/01\/111-open-top-head-raku-ceramic-01-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/01\/111-open-top-head-raku-ceramic-01.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Jorgensen is a Salt Lake City artist who works in ceramics, photography and painting. Making art isn\u2019t something I came to early in life. Here\u2019s just a bit about me as an artist and my background and journey to this point. I was born in California and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1645,"featured_media":53568,"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":[212,135,136,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clay","category-painting","category-photography","category-utah-artists-j"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/01\/111-open-top-head-raku-ceramic-01.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-26 20:51:38","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\/48934","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\/1645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72338,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48934\/revisions\/72338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}