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The Salt Lake Art Center has announced that its Executive Director, Heather Ferrell, will resign effective December 4th. Farrell joined the Art Center in the summer of 2008, filling the position left vacant when longtime director Ric Collier retired (see our profile of her in the December 2008 […]
Last month we introduced our new feature, PasteUps, a column spotlighting exciting activities in the local art scene. If you read the first installment you’ll know about the forthcoming Red Call Box, the 337 Project’s 18-hole golf course, and the newly launched Foster Art Program (see an update at the bottom […]
The body found in Utah’s backcountry last year is not that of poet and artist Everett Ruess, the Associated Press reports today. DNA evidence has now show that the skeleton found in southern Utah is not related to the Ruess family. Which keeps alive the mystery of what […]
Utah County seems to be the gathering place for students looking to pursue a traditional, academic approach to art. Surprisingly this mustering is the result not of the instructors of the two Universities in the area, but of individual artists setting up their own academies. This approach brings […]
We’ve just received word that Utah artist Doug Snow died today in a car accident while traveling to Salt Lake City. V. Douglas Snow was born in Salt Lake in 1927. He was a champion of abstract art and credited by many with bringing the Abstract Expressionist style […]
Gavin Sheehan was hanging out at the 35 x 35 Awards Reception on Friday and he’s posted interviews with two of the show’s artist at his blog on City Weekly. Michael Ryan Handley won a juror’s award at the show and Paris Gerrard was a major contender for […]
Artists of Utah held its Awards Reception for the 35 x 35 exhibition on Friday, October 16. The evening included the premiere of WORKZONE, the Artists of Utah film containing interviews with artists from the exhibition. The following awards were presented: PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD Travis Nikolai JURORS AWARDS […]
Here’s a glimpse of things to come, both in 15 Bytes and at the 35 x 35 Awards Reception, October 16 at Finch Lane Gallery. http://www.artistsofutah.org/15bytes/vids/15_Bytes_Trailer-Small.mov 15 BytesUTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization headquartered in Salt […]
Artists of Utah’s 35 x 35 exhibition has caught the attention of the local press. Articles on the exhibit appeared in the City Weekly and the Deseret News this past week. In the City Weekly Brian Staker writes: “Any of these artists could mount a solo show successfully […]
An interview with Erin and Nick Potter of Potter Press recently appeared at Gavin’s Underground. “Nick: I spent most of my early years trying to figure out how to draw cool muscles and realistic blood splatter. After my hyper obsessive illustrations waned and I met Erin I started […]
A review of Jamie Wayman’s exhibit of underwater paintings at Horne Fine Art recently appeared in the pages of the Salt Lake Tribune. Ben Fulton writes that Wayman’s “new series on small and mid-size canvases are shot through with vibrant azure tones, sun-kissed dashes of white and flesh […]
At the recent annual trade show and convention of the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association (MPIBA), held in Denver, September 23 through 26, Catherine G. Weller, co-owner of Salt Lake City’s 80-year old independent bookstore, Sam Weller’s Books, received the 2009 Gordon Saull Bookseller of the Year […]
Well, apparently on last Friday there were exhibit openings other than our own. Our gaze on Friday night might have been a little to concentrated on our own navel, but City Weekly’s Gavin Sheehan was out on the stroll checking things out and he stopped in to talk […]
We have posted some information about our 35 x 35 artists, including headshots and images of most of the work in the show, at http://www.artistsofutah.org/35×35. And below are some shots by 15 Bytes Photo Editor Shalee Cooper of the opening night: Nancy Boskoff and Kim Duffin of the […]
With crowds waiting outside for the doors to open at 6 pm (okay, maybe not crowds: more like a handful of people, and the door was stuck and we let them in early, the point being that the whole evening got off to a good and early start) […]
We’ll be putting on the finishing touches today: getting those lights just right, double-checking all the labels, rounding up the food. And then we’ll plan to meet you tonight at 6pm for the opening of our 35 x 35 exhibition. The Artists of Utah Board of Directors has […]
by Van Chu A flash of purple or blue stands out against the beige paint, wood pannelling and ubiquitous clay in Cristin Zimmer’s studio space at the University of Utah. Zimmer, who is working towards an MFA, has a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Environmental Studies from […]
Maggie Macnab, author of Decoding Design: Understanding and Using Symbols in Visual Communication will be speaking at SUU’s Art Insights next week, on September 17 at 7 pm in the Centrum Arena at SUU. Macnab, whose book has been called this year’s hottest graphic design book, has been […]
