UTAH'S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Susan Narduli’s “Land and Time,” a multi-media installation at the Natural History Museum of Utah, was selected by The Americans for the Arts Public Art Network’s Year in Review as one of the top 50 public artworks in the United States for 2011. Narduli’s work begins outside with […]
The Leonardo’s current exhibition Fantastic Fabrications takes you through a faux history of the early 20th Century, using artifacts, images, and tools from an imagined past. It features Boilerplate and Frank Reade, the creations of husband-wife team Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett. The two artists are currently at […]
Sparano + Mooney Architecture’s design proposal for the addition and renovation to the Kimball Art Center in Park City has been selected to receive the 2012 Juror’s Award for DesignArts Utah 2012. Juror David Revere McFadden from the Museum of Art & Design in New York City jurored […]
The Sustain the Granary event in Salt Lake City is this Friday, June 15, 6 to 10 pm. There is plenty happening at this week’s Gallery Stroll in Salt Lake City, so it is with a touch of trepidation that we bring up a concurrent event . . […]
by Stefanie Dykes I’ve pretty much marked up every chapter with underlined passages, circled paragraphs, and left sticky notes to myself. What do I make of all this? That’s the first question I asked myself when I began reading Terry Tempest Williams’ new book, When Women Were Birds. […]
Add Provo’s Covey Center to the list of statewide annuals, and these winners to your list of artists to check out. Partnering with the Provo Arts Council, the Covey Center for the Arts opened their first annual Summer Art Showcase last weekend. The exhibit features 57 works (out […]
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Being an informed local citizen means knowing your city: knowing its neighborhoods, its architecture, its natural and its human-made wonders. It makes living in the city a richer experience, and inspires one to become engaged in the public process of creating a city. That’s why this month we […]
Though graffiti artists are almost always outdoors when they work, we usually don’t think of paint cans when we think plein air. Which may explain why when we mentioned a list of plein air events in last week’s blog post we failed to mention the Urban Arts Festival, […]
When starting a painting, it is important that the first few values get put down on the canvas correctly before any other brushstrokes are recorded. When choosing a first value, the artist must have a standard to choose from. In other words, just any value won’t do. That […]
Ehren Clark visits the studio of Paul Vincent Bernard to tell the story of this printmaker turned painter.
Simon Blundell talks with Aaron Moulton about the art of making exhibitions.
Nan Ellin takes us to Salt Lake’s Granary District to find out why locals think the area needs to be raised rather than razed.
Elmer Presslee’s head is an urban legend. The true kind. At an exhibit in Cologne, Presslee sold out an entire show except one large piece he was loath to ship back home to Salt Lake. His elegant and playful solution was to transport the piece, known then by […]
Being an artist means you belong to a profession. Unfortunately, the public does not always perceive artists as professionals, and sometimes artists do not rise to an appropriate level of professionalism in their own practices. Read our Best Practices article in the June 2012 edition of 15 Bytes […]
Mark Crenshaw talks with Anne Cummings-Anderson about his process, the direction he is taking with his work, and the experience of transference through art.
Salt Lake’s Kayo Gallery is moving. Though the move isn’t geographically very big — owner Shilo Jackson will be taking over the space adjacent to hers, recently vacated by Frosty Darling, allowing the former Kayo Gallery to be home to the expanding Green Ant furniture store — Jackson […]
A look at the upcoming plein air competitions with over $20,000 in prizes, including the Ogden Arts Festival competition, which begins this weekend.
