Arts
Alethia Lunares: Reina De Los Feels
Alethia Rodriguez has been using art to help process her emotions for years. She produces art under the moniker Alethia Lunares and has been honing her stunning and provocative digital work for several years. … read more
Bushwhack Outdoor Company: CLC DIY Engineer
Every ounce counts on a long backpacking trip. Toting along something to sit on is a luxury that most avid backpackers aren’t willing to afford themselves. … read more
Gold Ridge Design: CLC Vintage Vendor
Through innovation and hard work, Will Simmons of Gold Ridge Design can upholster any item—from modernized couches to transformed, ’60s-diner RV interiors. … read more
Mike Brown: Tattoo Horror Stories and Customer Etiquette
The following is a simple guide to some shit that should already be a given but somehow always isn’t. It’s a couple quick do’s and don’ts from some tattoo artists’ perspectives about how a customer should behave when going in to get drilled, based on real-life tattoo horror stories. … read more
Chad Kirkland Photography: A Journey from the Dark Room to...
Chad Kirkland is a local freelance commercial and editorial photographer. He has shot for companies like Google, Converse, The Wall Street Journal and more. More impressive than his list of clients, however, is his work. “It’s my typewriter, my paintbrush, my microphone and amplifier,” he says, referring to his camera. … read more
Martha Díaz Adam and Visual Ethnology
Photographer Martha Díaz Adam, a recent Utah State University BFA graduate in photography, has a penchant for visual ethnography. She seeks to foster understanding among cultures and understanding of underrepresented groups of people—both locally in Utah and abroad—through her photographic portraits and work. … read more
The Illusion of Photographic Realism: Josh Winegar
When asked about his process, work or style, Josh Winegar is incredibly particular and often elusive. In regards to whether or not he employs certain techniques or concepts when creating, his most common response is that it varies from work to work. The medium does not present a unidirectional approach to art. … read more
Cultivating Life: Niki Chan Wylie’s Photographic Storytelling
The photography of Salt Lake photographer Niki Chan Wylie is the kind that nudges you when you look at it, encouraging you to really feel out the story indicated in her images. She describes her work as “honest visual storytelling, walking the line between documentary and art.” … read more
Selective Nature: Nancy Rivera
Nancy Rivera has wrestled with this boundary of the real since her days completing her MFA at the University of Utah. Her work centered around the cyanotype processes, a cameraless form of photography that exposes a photosensitive iron solution onto a surface and then dries it in a dark room. … read more
A Place of Power: Russel Albert Daniels and the Authentic...
Russel Albert Daniels is a quiet, pensive artist who contains an expansive river within him, much like the spaces and stories his work reflects. His photographs have captured the complexity of the modern Native experience intersecting with nature and contemporary political struggle. … read more