New hirings, retirements and more from Utah’s visual arts community.
Karl Momen, the creator of the “Tree of Utah” sculpture on I-80 highway near Wendover, was diagnosed with a virulent form of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and admitted to hospital in Sweden just days before the opening of an important retrospective exhibition of his work at the Royal Academy of […]
Salt Lake City artist Dave Doman is in a coma following a terrible skateboarding accident in California. Doman’s mother, Charlotte, is providing daily updates on his condition through her Facebook page. For those of you who would like more information, you are invited to friend her at: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=1599801608&ref=ts. […]
The Visual Art Institute’s new GARFO Gallery opens this weekend with an exhibition entitled 1982: let’s start here. The Gallery has been carved out of empty space in Sugarhouse’s Garfield School by VAI staff Kenny Riches and Cara Despain. The Visual Art Institute has been in the Garfield […]
Boise, Idaho native Katie Woslager is the new Grants and Endowment Manager for the Utah Division of Arts and Museums. Woslager, who joins the Division with a background in management, human resources, and sales, will play an integral role in the development and roll-out of the Division’s new […]
Victoria Rowe Berry , Director of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University , and Andrew Yarosh, Director of the Moab Music Festival recently joined the Utah Arts Council Board of Directors. “I am excited that we will have expanded geographic representation from northern […]
The Salt Lake Art Center announced this week that their search for a new executive director (see February edition) is at an end. Heather Ferrell, who has most recently served as the Executive Director and Curator of the Salina Art Center in Salina, Kansas, has accepted the position and […]
Our February edition of 15 Bytes featured an article on the Salt Lake Art Center’s search for a new director; a search that is moving forward with possible candidates for the position being identified by the Art Center. One such candidate is Heather Ferrell, current Executive Director and […]
