On the Spot
Salt Lake's Cathy Reese Newton
photo by Gerry Johnson
Cathy Newton is the senior music critic at The Salt Lake Tribune, where she has worked in various capacities since graduating from Utah State University in 1988. She also is a charter member of the Tribune's features copy desk. Highlights of her reporting career include interviewing Harry Potter artist Mary GrandPre, "Sesame Street" star Bob McGrath and her musical idol, Elvis Costello.
 What hangs above your mantel:
 A photo of the cathedral of Segovia, Spain, taken by my husband from atop the Alcazar.
What are you reading?
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. It's pretty trippy.
What is your favorite building in Utah?
The Salt Lake Tabernacle. Not just for the fantastic acoustics and wealth of musical memories, but because it's such an inspiring example of pioneer resourcefulness.
Artists of Utah News
15 Bytes page redesign
Look forward to indexed articles and more
In the month of February we launched an initial redesign of the 15 Bytes homepage, www.15Bytes.com. While our monthly editions continue to be formatted in the same way, we found it necessary to redesign the portion of our site that has served as our 15 Bytes intro page, held our archived editions, and, since 2007, has featured our Extra!Extra! blog.
Increasing content, published on a daily basis and in a variety of fields, made the redesign necessary. We hope the new layout will help you find what you are looking for, and its image-heavy format will entice you to dig into our decade long chronicle of Utah's arts community.
All of our content did not dovetail perfectly with the new format so we are still working on integrating the two systems. Over the next couple of months we will be indexing articles to make them easier to find, and we will continue to publish new content about the arts in Utah on a daily basis, so be sure to check back frequently. As this new content does not fit into the traditional sense of a "blog" you'll no longer find it referred to as our Extra! Extra! blog. They are simply our Daily Bytes, and while some posts will refer to items found in 15 Bytes, much of the content will be new and definitely au courant. You'll find links to the articles that appear in the monthly edition in the slideshow that appears at the top of the page. A video tutorial to help you navigate the site will be forthcoming.
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15 Bytes: About Us
Our editorial contributors this edition
 Ehren E. Clark received his BA from the University of Utah and MA at
the University of Reading in England, both in art history. Ehren is a
Utah native and currently lives in Salt Lake where he is an adjunct
professor of art history at Westminster College.
 Jared Christensen grew up in North Ogden, Utah and finally moved to Salt Lake at the age of 18 to go to school. He is currently a junior at Westminster College pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography. This semester he is working as an intern with Artists of Utah.
 Shalee Cooper, who holds a BFA in photography from the University of Utah, has curated multiple international photography exhibitions. She is an associate instructor at the University of Utah, an art consultant at Alpine Art and the photo editor for 15 Bytes.
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 Lewis Francis is an intellectual property attorney with Jones Waldo in Salt Lake City. He is also an accomplished photographer, having grown up helping father print Anderson photographs from glass-plate negatives, and later developing his own more abstract photographic eye. Lewis is head of the Salt Lake Modern committee with the Utah Heritage Foundation. In addition, he is the Board Chair for SpyHop, a local youth media development organization.
 Bill Fulton enjoys painting, photographing and being a
psychotherapist. He is delighted that the latter is fulfilling because
the rewards of the former two have been more psychic than fiscal.
 Carol Fulton got her degree in radio and television production a long time ago. She was born in Brazil and lived in many countries, being a Foreign Service officer brat. Now retired from the airline industry, she volunteers at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, and dabbles in oil painting and found-object sculpture.
 Sheryl Gillilan received her B.A. in Psychology from Lewis and Clark College, and Masters in both Social Services and Law and Social Policy from Bryn Mawr College. She is an award-winning quilt artist and the Assistant Director for Art Access.
 Kelly Green, a Salt Lake native, first discovered photography when her parents gave her a point-n-shoot camera while traveling through Southern Utah. She was instantly hooked. She photographs in black and white and color film with 35mm and medium formats, dipping into the digital world for live music shots or 15 Bytes assignments.
 John Hughes is an award-winning artist and teacher who has been painting the landscape both in and out of the studio since 1983. He maintains a studio in Taylorsville and teaches students in private workshops and in a course at Salt Lake Community College.
 Gerry Johnson, was an engineer in a past life. A former film, now digital photographer, his work over the last 3 years has been "to capture the 'moments of beauty' that surround each of us in our daily lives, and present them to the viewer in a way that they can also experience the spirit of beauty."
 Sue Martin 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.
 Frank McEntire, former executive director of the Utah Arts Council, is a sculptor, independent curator, and arts administrator and was the art critic for The Salt Lake Tribune and Salt Lake City magazine.
 Edward Reichel, author, writer and composer, served for many years as the primary music critic for the Deseret News, and currently writes for a number of publications including Chamber Music America. He holds a Ph.D. in composition from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
 Shawn Rossiter, a native of Boston, grew up on the East Coast. He has degrees in English, French and Italian Literature. He dropped out of a Masters program in Contemporary Literature to pursue a career as an artist. He founded Artists of Utah in 2001 and is editor of its magazine, 15 Bytes.
 Geoff Wichert has degrees in critical writing and creative nonfiction. He writes about art to settle the arguments going on in his head.
Join the 15 Bytes Team
The content you see in this magazine is provided by a fluid group of volunteers whose ability with the pen or camera is matched by their curiosity and enthusiasm for Utah's art world. 15 Bytes is an open community forum. If you are interested in writing an article, or providing images for our magazine contact editor Shawn Rossiter at editor@artistsofutah.org
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