Indigenous Utah Architecture
Research for this month’s article on recent developments in Still Life painting took Geoff Wichert to St. George, where 21st century development around the Tabernacle impressed him as much as the painting he came to see.
Tardy Mardi Next Week
Though today is Mardi Gras you’ll have to wait another week for the arts community’s Fat Tuesday party. The Utah Arts Festival, one of our community partners, is hosting their Tardy Mardi Party next week, March 12, at the Salt Lake Hardware Building. Their 8th annual fundraiser is […]
Mixed Media: Rubber duckies, 7000 tons of basalt, and plush new seats.
RECENT MIXED MEDIA The Central Utah Art Center has announced the artistsin its annual Utah Ties exhibit, juried this year by Michelle Pobar, the director of Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles. This years artists are: Lesli Biggs, Matthew Choberka, Chris Coy, Vanessa Gromek, Davey Hawkins, Micol Hebron, […]
To Drill or Not to Drill
On the occasion of Tim DeChristopher’s trial, Hikmet Loe looks back at the 2008 attempt to drill for oil in the Great Salt Lake.
BDAC Annual Statewide Winners Announced
The Bountiful/Davis Art Center has announced the winners of its 2011 Annual Statewide Competition. 1st Place Erin W. Berrett Five-O oil 2nd Plac Paul Vincent Bernard Tremblings Dry Point on aluminum with oil 3rd Place Marcee Blackerby Nesting […]
Sunday Reading: The Digital Experience
As we’re busy doing an initial redesign of the 15 Bytes portion of our site, code and art in the digital age have been on our mind. And we’re not the only ones, as we found in these two recently published articles in the national media: In The […]
Legislative Updates from the Utah Cultural Alliance
First, on the local level (text courtesy of UCA member organization Utah Heritage Foundation): Preservation moratorium proposed Senate Bill 243, Historic Areas or Sites Amendment, was released with text on Monday, February 7, 2011. In brief, the bill proposes a year-long moratorium on designations, expenditures, and development agreements […]
$15,000 Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting
This week the Salt Lake Art Center and Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation announced the creation of the Catherine Doctorow Prize for Contemporary Painting, a new national painting prize that will recognize exceptional emerging and mid-career artists in the United States. The recipient of this bi-annual prize […]
Poor Senator Stephenson
From his recent statements that degrees in the liberal arts are “degrees to nowhere” Utah State Senator Howard Stephenson (R, Draper) appears to be either: 1) disappointed in himself 2) a “liberal” 3) a seer Or possibly all three. Disappointed because his own bachelor’s degree in psychology has […]
The Arc and the Sediment
“You have to be careful. This one will write it all down.” The question we asked ourselves was simple. What kind of writing wins Utah’s literary awards? In this month’s edition, we took a look at 2009 Utah Book Award for Poetry winner Lance Larsen, whose […]
James Franco Afraid of Flying
The Salt Lake Art Center announced that that Renaissance man James Franco will not be attending the January 27 presentation of his work Three’s Company: The Drama at Salt Lake Art Center’s exhibition of Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier. “With the Oscars so close can’t risk flying,” his […]
Mixed Media This Week
Design competition injects art into empty lot: The winner of an innovative public art competition will fill an empty lot in the heart of Salt Lake City with a temporary field of composite rods, which will sway in the wind like tall grass or aspens.http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/51036669-81/art-competition-lake-salt.html.csp The new […]
CUAC pARTy BUS
Two hours south of Salt Lake City, rural Sanpete County is home to a disproportionately high amount of artistic activity. There’s the well-known artistic enclave of Spring City, and, just to the south, Ephraim, home to Snow College and the Central Utah Art Center. For a number of […]
Dan Steinhilber in ARTnews
One of the advantages of having been around for ten years is that we have a deep archive. In fact, we could probably cover half of what’s going on in Utah’s art world at any given time by linking back to a previous article in our archive. Or, […]
Sunday Reading
Our Mixed Media editor, Terrece Beesley, has sent us some recent articles on Utah’s art scene that might interest you: 1/5 Creating a scene: Emerging artists in Utah That’s why we’re focusing on this handful of emerging creatives who aren’t waiting their turn to be noticed by the […]
Is Dance Dead?
The art of ballet is at the point of death. Or it’s moribund, awaiting transformation. Such are the points of discussion between two of its foremost critics, Jennifer Homans and Robert Gottlieb. Homans is the dance critic for The New Republic and the author of the recently published Apollo’s Angels: A History […]
Mixed Media
Here are a couple of articles on the visual arts that have appeared recently in local publications: The Tribune reports on the unlikely journey across Germany of one of local artist Elmer Preslee’s bizarre artworks. Read here. The City Weekly’s Brian Staker discusses the Salt Lake County Art […]
Sunday Reading
Do people still curl up on the sofa to read the paper on Sunday morning? We imagine that the numbers are dwindling so quickly that the phrase will soon be as anachronistic and incomprehensible to our younger readers as “putting on a record.” On the other hand, with […]
