Arts
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
Luminaria: A Photo Lab for Alternative Process Photography
Luminaria is one of the newest installations to Salt Lake City’s blossoming arts community. It began earlier this year as artists and partners Christine Baczek and David Hyams made the decision to focus their passion for alternative photography into an outlet that they could share with the greater community. … read more
The Visual Journalist: Photographer Kim Raff
There is an intimacy in each photo that is unmistakable when glimpsing into the lives that Kim Raff captures, and each portrait is vastly different from the next. “I’m legitimately curious about people and how they live, so it’s not really hard for me to talk to people and explain why I want to spend time with them.” … read more
The Latina Bike Initiative
The Latina Bike Initiative, a collaboration between the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective (SLCBC) and Safe Kids Salt Lake County coalition, was piloted in 2016. Now in its second year, it continues to provide classes for Latino families in Salt Lake County. … read more
La Iniciativa Latina de Bicicletas
La Iniciativa Latina de Bicicletas es una colaboración entre Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective (SLCBC) y la coalición Safe Kids Salt Lake County que empezó en 2016, para mujeres latinas. … read more
Youth Education at SLC Bicycle Collective: Build Bikes, Build Community
SLC Bicycle Collective works with schools around the valley, the Boys & Girls Club and even juvenile offenders and troubled young people. It provides youth with structure, “a sense of building community and the chance to meet different types of people they may not otherwise meet,” Coil-Pittman says. … read more
Fixin’ Up the Utah Criterium
Utahns have started to swap out their automobiles for two wheels and open air—it’s bike season! While there are those of us who do this as a hobby or to shed some pounds, some of us have already been mapping out their LOTOJAs, alleycats and criterium (crit) races for months in the making. Looking closer at Utah cycle competitions, the race with the most buzz is easily the fixed-gear crit. … read more
Mike Brown: Getting Rad With Tate Roskelley
I met Tate Roskelley via Instagram. At the time, I had no idea he was a pro BMXer/amateur paperboy. Tate was running a pretty epic, fake Karl Malone IG account with crude Photoshop skills, and was funny as fuck. The account was epically entertaining, and a ton of people thought it was me throwing shade at the Mailman. … read more
Vicious Cyclers: SLC’s Bike Couriers
These days, electronic words travel at the speed of light. But sometimes, a physical object needs to get from point A to point B—fast. It might surprise most people, but in a dense urban environment, the quickest and most efficient method is a bicycle courier. … read more
Born Again in Springdale: Zion Brewery Rises
Zion Brewery has gone through more than a few changes over the years. But with a fresh start, the gloves are off for Utah’s southernmost brewery. Located in Springdale, the brewery has ample opportunity to capitalize on the booming tourism business of the area. … read more
Vocally Local: Using Utah in Beer
I started a restaurant and brewery business five years ago, which now operates in three different locations and is looking into expansion. One of our central tenets since the inception of the company has been making buying local products a priority. … read more
