by Heidi Grieser On the east side of Reservoir Park sits a blue building called The Art Barn, home to our city arts council. You may know of the council through some of the excellent programming they do for Salt Lake City- The Summer Concert Series and Brown Bag Concerts, The Gallery Stroll, The Living Traditions Festival, or maybe you took your first art class as a child at … [Read more...]
Salt Lake City scrapbooking stores
Why They Aren’t Afraid of the Big Box Stores? by Heidi Grieser Scrapbooking is huge in Utah and the scrapbook marketplace is extremely competitive. Hear from the small business owners who are surviving amid big box encroachment and bargain shoppers. Scrapbooking is the, “number one, top-selling category of the 39 craft segments in the $27 billion U.S. craft and hobby … [Read more...]
Travis Bone
By Richard Markosian One man’s rise from the copy center at Office Max to one of the more prominent names in music poster art in the West. Editors Note: We have some corrections to the story that were incorrect in Utah Stories Magazine. Travis received an Assosiate's Degree in Nanoscale chemistry not a Master's Degree. And Travis worked at OfficeMax throughout going to … [Read more...]
April Issue of Utah Stories. Find it all over Salt Lake or Buy it now!
The April issue of Utah Stories will be distributed today! (March 31,2011). By Friday morning it will be available all over downtown Salt Lake City and Sugar House. This issue includes articles of some of the most unique and inspiring Utah artists. Including sculptor Kreg Harrison, illustrator Travis Bone and street artist/graffiti artist Guts. Also read about why a New York … [Read more...]
A Playwright on a Persian Rug – Salt Lake Acting Company Presents The Persian Quarter
Salt Lake Acting Company Presents: The Persian Quarter By Heidi Grieser Salt Lake City playwright Kathleen Cahill says that after brain surgery in 2005 her playwriting, “actually improved.” Her last two award winning plays demonstrate this fact. Cahill’s new play The Persian Quarter is both a political history and the story of individual women in Iran and America. The … [Read more...]
Salt Lake City’s 15th & 15th
King's English Bookshop by James Gunter What was once a sleepy corner of Sugar House is now a thriving part of the community. When the King’s English bookshop opened in 1977, the 15th and 15th area was a strip of half-empty storefronts and dying businesses surrounded by residential homes. Salt Lake Drug once dominated the eastern side of the block, and entering it … [Read more...]
Handcrafted ornaments to get you in the holiday “Moody”
Local artist celebrates the holiday with unique home-made crafts by Paige Wiren Barton Moody defies stereotyping. Unless your stereotype for a tax accountant includes someone who is extremely community service-minded, who embodies and practices Eastern philosophies, who creates art for art's sake, and who explores the world. His travels are sometimes organized … [Read more...]
Repairing The Boxes That Make Heroes
Video games are the new most effective mode of escapism and home entertainment. When the video game industry skyrocketed past the movie industry in sales, video game companies and their talented teams of designers became respected as the creators of the worlds that millions of teens as well as adults now choose to inhabit. For better or for worse, fewer kids choose to … [Read more...]
Chris Gleason – Salt Lake City Craftsman
You may not have heard of Chris Gleason yet, but in the world of wood working, this up-and-coming Salt Lake City craftsman is an amazing local success story. by Heidi Grieser Master woodworker Chris Gleason picks up a banjo he recently made for a friend and plays a song. He’s wearing sandals and talking about his band, Bueno Avenue Stringband. “30, 40, or 50 people, of … [Read more...]
Boy Wonder Directs Top Rap Talent Out of SLC Studio
When Chris started directing high-end rap videos out of his family’s Salt Lake City photography studio as a teenager, he proved that talent and determination alone can take you to the top. by Heidi Grieser Being the child of first-generation Vietnamese immigrants, Chris Le’s mother insisted that he get a traditional education. But when Chris started directing high-end rap … [Read more...]