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.
by Corey Strange Somewhere between Maynard Dixon and the contemporary artists who paint Utah’s landscapes is Jim Jones. Bridging the past with the present, Jones has been a staple of the southwest landscape movement for many decades. On exhibit now at Southern Utah University’s Braithwaite Gallery is what […]
Jim Jones, the renowned painter of southern Utah, passed away at his home in Cedar City on Saturday. As we reported in this month’s edition of 15 Bytes (see page 2), Jones, who never married or had children, left his estate and his last paintings to Southern Utah […]
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) recently announced that Lisa A. Arnette has assumed the position of Director of Development and External Relations at the museum. From 1998 to 2003, Arnette served as a development officer at the Utah Museum of Natural History (UMNH) on the University […]
by Elizabeth A. Peterson This month’s Alder’s Accounts column is being guest-written by my friend, former University of Utah Department of Art and Art History chair, and my thesis chair, Professor Elizabeth Peterson. I had planned to write about Alvin Gittins, Utah’s foremost figurative artist, until learned Elizabeth […]
A bright spot of hope was visible on the local art scene this month with the opening of the 15th Street Gallery in Salt Lake City. Late this summer local art aficionados mourned the closing of Palmers Gallery — which had given exposure to emerging and underappreciated artists […]
Our monthly Mixed Media feature in 15 Bytes (page 10) provides you links to various articles outside of Artists of Utah’s publications that deal with Utah’s visual arts scene. Every once in a while we’ll drop a notice about articles here in our blog. So, here are a […]
Julie Checkoway’s film “Waiting for Hockney” premieres on the Sundance Channel Thanksgiving week. You may remember Checkoway as the art critic for the Salt Lake Tribune for 2008. Her film, “Waiting for Hockney,” profiles artist Billy Pappas, who spent 10 years of his life creating a minutely rendered […]
Every year Southwest Art Magazine recognizes talented emerging artists in their feature 21 under 31. But since emerging artists aren’t always under 31 years this year they decided to also highlight artists over 31. Utah artists Jill Barton and Wendy Chidester made the Honorable Mention list. The magazine […]
It’s official, Artists of Utah will be throwing a Holiday Office Party at the Salt Lake Art Center on December 17th. For us the entire visual arts community is our office, so we’d like everyone to come (this is not a fundraising effort — just a desire to […]
Salt Lake County Arts Funding Threatened – Act NOW to Save It! by Sue Martin If you care about Salt Lake County’s support for visual arts – specifically, the county’s art collection – now is the time to weigh in on budget deliberations by the county council. Salt […]
Con Artist, a film about 80s art-star Mark Kostabi, will be showing at the Salt Lake Art Center tonight (Friday, November 13) as part of the Salt Lake City Film Center’s Creativity in Focus program, which shows an art-related film every second Friday, through December. The film is […]
Someone has decided that the Trustees of Westminster College shouldn’t be looking up Trent Alvey’s dress. That seems like a self-evident, uncontroversial proposition. But the dress is actually a work of art Alvey created in 2007, and has been hanging in the Giovale Library as part of the […]
What makes for a good fundraising pitch? Like other non-profits we’re always looking for ways to get across that basic, fundraising message — what we do is important; we need your money to do it. We don’t put on fancy events to do it (because then we’d need […]
The public loves a character; and in the world of art the personalities behind the creations serve to make an artist famous as much as the paintings or sculptures. The people who collect art can be just as colorful as those who make it. A pair of Utah’s […]
Inevitably, when we put out a new edition of 15 Bytes we miss things, whether because we weren’t paying attention or because — HINT HINT — people don’t send their press releases to us in a timely manner (due the last Wednesday of the month). We’ve updated our […]
Local artist Teresa Flowers, who is showing in Phillips Gallery’s Dibble Gallery this month, made it into the local rags this week. In an interview with In Utah This Week she answered questions about starting the Womens Art Center, struggling with Lymes disease and her art-inspired apparel. Read […]
The Salt Lake Art Center announced today that Adam Price has been named its new Executive Director. Price, best known as the founder of the 337 Project, will take over at Heather Ferrell’s departure at the beginning of December. Price has been serving as the President of the […]
Scott Renshaw relocated to Salt Lake City from Northern California in 1997. He has been at Salt Lake City Weekly for 10 years as a film and theater critic, the last seven years as Arts & Entertainment Editor. What hangs above your mantel? Nothing at the moment. But […]
