Daily posts on happenings in Utah’s visual arts community.
“Part of what artists do is to call attention to things that have been overlooked, and do so in a way that causes people to start noticing on their own,” says Jim Frazer, an artist originally from Georgia who has been working in Utah since 1999. Forty-five years ago […]
Abe Kimball is dedicated to his teaching role in Sanpete public schools and at Snow College. He has been entrenched in the arts since he was a small child, watching his artist father work in lithography, and received classical training in art and anthropology at Brigham Young University. He […]
An award winner in 2016 and 2017 at the Holladay Art Show, Marianne Goodell has been making jewelry since 2001 and painting professionally since 2012. When she sets out to create something, she says she will often think of an emotion she wants to portray “and determine which symbols would […]
J. Amber Egbert is a ceramic artist and adjunct faculty member at BYU living in Highland. She received her BS in music therapy from USU in 1998 and her MFA in studio arts from BYU in 2016. She has been included in numerous state, regional and national shows, […]
This is Ya’el Pedroza’s third winter in Utah and, “since moving I have been very prolific in making art. I am very much a mountain and outdoor person and so living here has fed my work in a wonderful way. This has been a fantastic year job wise, as […]
Tyler Bloomquist, an artist and designer who earned his BA in Graphic Design from the University of Utah, was born in Salt Lake City and has lived downtown for 20 years. His varied artisitic practices—painting/drawing, printmaking, outdoor murals, photography, video/editing, graphic design, music/DJ-ing led naturally to his being an instructor in […]
Traci O’Very Covey’s spirits soared when she learned her sky-high sculpture, “Drinking It In,” had been selected as part of the Salt Lake City Arts Council’s “Flying Objects 5.0” public art project. In fact, she says the coolest thing that happened to her in 2017 was the completion […]
They are calling it the most drastic change to the tax code in 30 years, and that’s pretty accurate because there’s a lot of stuff going on in the bill the Senate approved this morning. One big change will affect tax-exempt nonprofits like Artists of Utah, publisher of […]
“Resonating Nexus,” by Wendy Wischer, West Valley City. Courtesy the artist. University of Utah sculpture intermedia professor Wendy Wischer has been chosen as one of Epicenter’s Frontier Fellows in the eighth year of the program. Fellows come from a variety of disciplines and include designers, poets, visual artists and folklorists. […]
Since the advent of the Internet, mailings have dropped dramatically, yet millions of letters are still sent every day. What happens to all those used envelopes? At least some of them find their way into the inventive collages of Jean Richardson. In her exhibition Destination Unknown, at the Granary Art […]
Photo by Simon Blundell. Kristina Lenzi is finding middle age a pretty good place to be. “I’m a private person,” she says as we sit across a table in the Poor Yorick studio she moved into just a couple weeks prior. “I’m horrifically shy. On the other hand, […]
For today’s installment of READ LOCAL SUNDAY we feature Patricia G. Karamesines, novelist, poet, blogger and nonfiction writer who today offers two poems. Originally from Virginia, Karamesines now lives outside of Blanding. Her novel The Pictograph Murders (Signature Books) is a unique Utah murder mystery, set at the site of an archaeological dig […]
We’re celebrating sixteen years as Utah’s art magazine! Help make it sweet with a contribution to our Fall Fundraiser. RAISED SO FAR: $5,160 TO KEEP 15 BYTES GOING FOR ANOTHER SIX MONTHS WE NEED TO RAISE ANOTHER $2,340 For a donation of $150 we’ll send you one of […]
Though people travel from around the globe to visit Robert Smithson’s monumental Spiral Jetty, located on the northeastern shore of Great Salt Lake, to this day some Utahns have no idea that one of the 20th century’s most iconic artworks exists in their own backyard. One who does is […]
In 1966, Salt Lake City’s “Japan Town” was demolished to build the Salt Palace Convention Center, taking with it a deep cultural memory of institutionalized prejudice. Although many Japanese immigrants came to America between 1884 and 1907, Asian immigrants were prevented from becoming naturalized citizens until 1952. A […]
“Have you ever heard of mammal watching?” a professor once asked me. “Besides whale watching?” I admitted that I hadn’t. “Sure,” he continued, “we humans like to watch animals of all kinds, but have you ever heard of a self-described snaker? Met an insect-looker at a party? But no one […]
“The Wild Garden” by Susette Gertsch Some of Utah’s finest plein air painters converged on Brigham City for the Brigham City Museum’s Fourth Annual Plein Air Competition. Lydia Gravis, Gallery Director at the Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery at Weber State, juried the competition and selected Susette Gertsch’s […]
Lindsie Smith will be getting back down to earth in her new role as Executive Director of the Kimball Art Center (KAC). “It is an exciting time to be joining the Kimball Art Center,” she said, “as we plan for a new facility that will allow us to expand our ability to inspire […]
