{"id":61470,"date":"2021-11-10T11:13:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T17:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=61470"},"modified":"2022-01-19T11:16:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:16:47","slug":"the-year-was-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/the-year-was-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year Was 2005 …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It lives!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The year was 2005 and … after going silent for six months, 15 Bytes was resurrected!<\/p>\n

Here, to the best of our recollection, is what happened:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the summer of 2004, just shy of three years after its inception, 15 Bytes went dark.<\/p>\n

Or, not exactly dark \u2014 the website, after all, was still up \u2014 but 15 Bytes stopped publishing. It was becoming too large a project, our attempts to solicit support from our readers came up short, and, well there were some other distractions (see\u00a0an attempt at an explanation here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Then, sometime in the fall of 2004 or maybe early 2005, Laura Durham, who was a visual arts project manager for the Utah Arts Council\/ Utah Division of Arts & Museums, was holding a professional development workshop. To the inquiry as to what the community needed, some in the audience were like, “What we really need is a magazine about the arts…”<\/p>\n

We weren’t there, so this is all based on hearsay, but from what we heard, a slightly dumbfounded Laura tried her best to speak in a measured tone when she responded, “You guys had that. Shawn Rossiter was doing that with 15 Bytes. But you didn’t support it. So he stopped.”<\/p>\n

Which was kind of cool.<\/p>\n

So we gave it another try, beginning in February 2005.<\/p>\n

And it’s a good thing we came back, because there was still plenty happening in Utah’s art scene:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like\u00a0Saltgrass Printmakers<\/a>, started by Stefanie Dykes and Sandy Brunvand in a Sugar House cottage, and still going strong 15 years later.<\/p>\n

Kimball Art Center’s celebration of Latino artists,\u00a0Arte Latino<\/a>, began a discussion about representation that continues today.<\/p>\n

Cowan Gallery<\/a>\u00a0opened in Springville.<\/p>\n

The Central Utah Art Center<\/a>\u00a0opened in Ephraim.<\/p>\n

The Unknown Gallery<\/a>\u00a0opened in SLC, as did\u00a0Palmers Gallery<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Kayo Gallery<\/a>,
\nand\u00a0Michael Berry<\/a>\u00a0expanded from framing shop to gallery.<\/p>\n

We bolstered our efforts with some new contributors,\u00a0including Frank McEntire, who reviewed\u00a0Hyunmee Lee and JinMan Jo<\/a>\u00a0in Logan …<\/p>\n

… Christopher Wilson, who covered an exhibit of\u00a0female students of Robert Henri at BYU Museum of Art<\/a>\u00a0…<\/p>\n

Brian Christensen, who reviewed\u00a0Alice Neel show<\/a>\u00a0…<\/p>\n

… and Geoff Wichert, with\u00a0a review of Brian Christensen<\/a>, began a relationship with us that 384 articles later has truly transformed our magazine.<\/p>\n

We were just in time for\u00a0Downy Doxey’s\u00a0exhibit at SLC’s Avenues Library, which Laura Durham, always willing to back up what she calls for, covered with\u00a0a profile of the artist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other profiles that year include:
\nAnnie Kennedy<\/a>
\nMadison Smith<\/a>
\nPaul Stout<\/a><\/p>\n

And we began lots of new initiatives:<\/p>\n

Bill Fulton began what became one of our most popular series, with a\u00a0<\/a>photo essay on Francis Zimbeaux’s studio space.<\/a><\/p>\n

What has become our Art Lake City map was begun with an article on\u00a0Gilgal Gardens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We began our Art Professional Profiles with\u00a0Ruth Lubbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And our In Memoriam series began with\u00a0Brent Gehring<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Lee Deffebach<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And, of course, we continued to cover exciting exhibitions by artists like\u00a0Adam Bateman<\/a>,\u00a0John Bell<\/a>,\u00a0Holly Mae Pendergast<\/a>,\u00a0Lisa Nichols<\/a>,\u00a0Max Grundy<\/a>,\u00a0Gloria Montgomery<\/a>,\u00a0Frank McEntire<\/a>,\u00a0Diana Garff Gardiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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