Agency Randomness Chaos: A Sound Installation
A review of Georgia and Rob Buchert’s sound installation at BYU’s Gallery 303.
The Show Will Go On: Nancy Boskoff
Laura Durham sits down with Nancy Boskoff as she retires from the Salt Lake Arts Council.
Mark Magleby
Mark Magleby’s passion for his new job is immediate and infectious. He had just been named the new, third, director at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art in November when our conversation took place, yet he exuded a natural confidence in this new post – one that […]
Donna Poulton’s Reuben Kirkham: Pioneer Artist
A review of Donna Poulton’s biography of pioneer artist Reuben Kirkham, recently published by Cedar Fort press.
Hilma Mole Payne
A profile of Hilma Mole Payne, on the occasion of her retrospective at the Springville Museum of Art.
Celebrating the Printed Word: University of Utah’s Book Arts Program
“Print is not dead. It is not even dying, at least not yet. Think of print like an overweight beast, shedding excess weight. The result is a leaner, more defined, more beautiful experience.” – Kassia Krozser, 2010 Ingenuity never is scarce when it comes to the final student […]
How and why to register copyrights in your work
Copyright is a legal right that gives the creator of a work an exclusive right to control how that work is used. Copyright only covers the tangible expression of an idea, not the idea itself, but copyright lasts a long time — until 70 years after you die, […]
Dallas Graham
Dallas Graham is a personal documentary photographer, graphic designer and writer who has merged his loves into a colorful creation called Red Fred Bodoni & The Jolly Troop—a photography/design blog for children and adults that creates value through images and stories by encouraging its readers to “pause & rejoice!” […]
Salt Lake City’s Wilson G. Martin
A Utah native, Wilson G. Martin graduated Cum Laude from the University of Utah in 1972 and is a member of the Economic and Geographic Honorary Societies. He attended Oxford Brookes University, where he received a Masters in Town and Country Planning. He served as an officer on […]
Feast and Fast; Jennifer Barton, Sunny Taylor, Carolyn Guild
A lot can go on at the Springville Museum of Art. Sure, the Soviet era realism and impressionism never seems to find its way into storage, and when the annual Spring Salon and the Religious and Spiritual Art exhibits are hung they stick around for extended runs, but […]
50 East 300 South – The Yardstick
“The Yardstick” is a constantly morphing public art wall in West Downtown Salt Lake City that attracts street artists as well as tourists.Here is the wall as it appeared in February 2018. Past art featured on the Yardstick’s wall January 2012, photos by Shalee Cooper and Tyler Bloomquist […]
Utah’s First Color Photograph: Leo Hafen’s 1908 Lumière Autochrome
The first color photograph in the state of Utah: we know who created it and have a description of what it looks like, but we don’t know if it still exists. In 1908, John Leo Hafen created the first color photograph in the state of Utah, using the […]
Phoenix Ostermann
A profile of Phoenix Ostermann, who, as Reclaimed Sentiment, is exhibiting a collection of collages inspired by “mid-century” illustrations at Nox Contemporary.
Xaviera Simmons: An Interview
A video interview with Xaviera Simmons, a New York-based artist featured in the UMFA’s salt 4.
Tony Fitzpatrick at Kayo Gallery
Chicago artist Tony Fitzpatrick is the type of colorful character that is welcome fodder for arts writers. In an art world overrun with degree-toting professionals who nip and tuck their way into stable careers while dreaming of blue-chip status, Fitzpatrick is a larger-than-life figure more at home in […]
Ririe Woodbury: The Message and the Medium
Imagine you land in a strange new country, or even a different planet. You don’t know the local language, the culture, or the customs of this place. How would you react? Would you attempt to communicate, and if so, how? Most likely through movement. Your movements might tell […]
Karen Horne’s Nocturnes
Karen Horne is an “artist’s artist” if there is such a thing. She has taken all the lessons we try to absorb in the classroom or workshops – like color theory, simplification, gesture drawing, value and form, and the lush handling of paint – and demonstrates them […]
Announcing Art Lake City
This month, Laura and Matt Chiodo, curators at Salt Lake’s Alpine Art, hit the streets of Salt Lake, cameras in hand, to capture the lively street art scene around the capitol city. Discovering the art all around you is the impetus behind our new project, ART LAKE CITY, […]
