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Charley Snow's Studio Space || photos by Brandon Cook
It was almost a decade ago that Charley Snow moved to Helper, the coal mining town located near Price, Utah which is also a bourgeoning arts community. Behind his small, one bedroom home, Snow has erected a quonset hut structure to serve as his studio and work space. The curved ceilings soar high above, and windows, which Snow is still working on installing, provide light, though Snow also chooses to work under spotlights. The studio is split in half, an orderly side with work table, tools and lumber, where Snow stretches and gessoes the canvases numerous artists in the state order from him; and a more chaotic half with bookshelf, stereo, pinhole board easel, paint encrusted palette, q-tips littered floor and an arrangement of images pasted haphazardly to the wall. It is in this latter half that Snow works up the encrusted surfaces of his paintings, that depict landscapes of the area as well as various breed of cattle.
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AoU News Our Fundraiser and Future Plans
OUR GOALS
15 Bytes: We want to keep publishing 15 Bytes. That is the basic reason we have our fundraisers. But if you've been reading for a while or have had a chance to look over our archived editions, you'll have noticed that not only do we want to continue what we are doing, we want to grow while we do it. When we can do justice to the level and variety of visual arts in Utah in our ezine we will rest on our laurels, stop looking for new features and the stamina to produce more pages. But until then (and if our idea of 15 Bytes -- that it will have a synergetic effect on the community, causing it to grow and consequently forcing us to grow -- is correct, that day will never come) we want to keep pushing things. We're hungry. How 'bout you?
Multimedia: One of our main goals for 2007 is to continue to use the many resources the internet makes available to bring different views and angles on the visual arts in Utah. The addition of multimedia components, including video and audio, will allow us to cover the type of things we have been covering but in new ways. In addition, we can cover (and maybe encourage?) the development of visual artforms, such as performance and installation, for which video and audio presentation are necessary components in any meaningful coverage.
Readership: Our goal in 2007 will be to double our subscription rate.This is not just an issue of eyeballs (though the more people reading our articles the more satisfied we are). Because 15 Bytes' main goal is to facilitate a dialogue in the community, we feel the greater the number of voices the richer the dialogue. Plus, occassionally we get an irate subscriber who says "Why haven't I heard of you before?" We'd like to stop that.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Contribute: During these funds drives our basic need is financial support. We need to raise the basic funds to cover the costs of producing 15 Bytes every month. We welcome contributions of any amount and are more excited by the number of donors than by the quantity of donations (though we have some definite goals for that too). We have some wonderful thank you gifts available during our Fall Funds Drive including a Maynard Dixon DVD, Trent Call's limited edition sketch book publication, exhibition catalogues for Hyunmee Lee and Francis Zimbeaux and a book on watercolor artist Ed Maryon, as well as a limited number of remaining 15 Bytes: Do You Get It? T-shirts. Click here to contribute.
Underwrite: If you are self-employed, run a business or work for a non-profit and would benefit in reaching a very specific, elite audience of Utah art lovers and artists, then we suggest becoming part of our underwriting program; which allows contributors to place "underwriting spots" (which you'll see in the right hand column of most of our pages) in the pages of 15 Bytes or on the artistsofutah website. Underwriting begins as low as $25 and we offer discounts for those who choose to underwrite 15 Bytes for an entire year.
Write/Photograph: Our writers and photographers are all volunteer. They contribute because they care about the visual arts in Utah and have something to say about it. If you would like to join this discussion, considering becoming a writer (email us at artistsofutah@netzero.net). Our editorial team will be happy to work with you.
Volunteer/Intern: Artists of Utah has other volunteer opportunities including development of small features in 15 Bytes, marketing, publicity, and editing.
If you are a student or teacher we are happy to create an internship program to fit your needs. Interns can work at a variety of levels.(email us at artistsofutah@netzero.net)
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15 Bytes: About Us
This Edition
Tom Alder is a banker by day but in his free time explores his interest in Utah art. He is on the board of the Museum of Utah Art and History, organizes the yearly Zion's Bank Art Show, and is currently working on a Masters Thesis on Henri Moser.
Kasey Boone is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and has been living in Utah since 1990. He has a BA in French and Cultural Studies. He is a self-described "orphaned post-modernist."
Brandon Cook is a full-time painter known nationally for his expressive landscapes. He is represnted locally by A Gallery; a body of his work is currently on exhibit at Ogden's Gallery at the Station.
Lisa B. Huber is a native Utah artist who began painting in oils at the age of 4 years. About 15 years ago she switched to pencil and watercolors. She is also a published poet and writer, works by day as a Software Developer and resides in Washington City, Utah.
Sue Martin has never been able to choose – art or writing – as her preferred creative expression so she does both. She holds an M.A. in Theatre and has worked in public relations. As an artist, she works in watercolor, oil, and acrylic to capture Utah landscapes or the beauty of everyday objects in still life.
Kent Rigby, aka "Durango", is a registered architect and works at ajc architects. He is a mixed media artist, recipient of the Salt Lake City Mayor's Award for the Arts, past president of the Salt Lake Gallery Association and currently Gallery Director for the Utah Arts Alliance. In addition, "Durango" plays in the garage rock band, TAOS, and rides an MV Agusta Brutale 910 S. His work is represented at Contemporary Art and Design Gallery.
Shawn Rossiter, a native of Boston and graduate of BYU, lives in the SugarHouse area of Salt Lake City. His new monumental drawing, Tiamat, will be on display at the Finch Lane Gallery September 22 through November 3rd.
Geoff Wichert is a professor of Art History at Snow College, as well as a glass and multi-media artist. He has been writing about art for over 25 years in regional, national and international publications.
15 Bytes is published monthly by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization located in Salt Lake City Utah. The opinions expressed in these articles are those of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of 15 Bytes or Artists of Utah. Our editions are published monthly on the first Wednesday of the month. Our deadline for submissions is the last Wednesday of the preceeding month.
Editor: Shawn Rossiter
Assitant Editor: Laura Durham
You can contact 15 Bytes at artistsofutah@netzero.net
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Feature: On The Spot Salt Lake's Sylvia Ramachandran
Sylvia Ramachandran teaches ceramics at the University of Utah. She is included in the faculty show at the UMFA this month as well as Terra Nova's Great Things/Small Packages exhibit in Provo.
1) What are you reading lately?
Right now I'm reading James Trilling's Ornament: A Modern Perspective  While I was in art school, I found that anything decorative or too visually pleasurable was usually treated with suspicion. Trilling has some interesting ideas on how these attitudes came to be and what they say about our cultural values.
2) What hangs above your mantel?
Over my mantel I have a print of Wyeth's "Master Bedroom." I keep meaning to replace with one of my own canvasses, about four of which have been stashed in my claw-foot bathtub for the last ten months, but I ran out of time about the same time I ran out of storage space. It always seems ironic to me that as much time as I spend thinking about design in my teaching and art making, I have a hard time managing the aesthetics of my own living space.
3) What artist, living or dead, would you choose to paint, sculpt or photograph your portrait?
As far as having another artist do my portrait, I have fantasized on occasion about having a photo session with Richard Avedon, not in his fashion photography genre, but in his later, more straightforward approach. I'm impressed by how these portraits, while they often appear unflatteringly honest, still seem to show so much compassion, so much care in the observation. To me, those two qualities -- honesty and compassion -- feel like a gift and a miracle when they happen together in a work of art.
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