Oguzhan Kaya

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: Turkish film director Oguzhan Kaya proves every boundary can be crossed in Fear No Film

ByLes RokaJun 28, 2014

The director and producer from one of the 65 short films which are being screened this year at Fear No Film in the Utah Arts Festival are demonstrating in enlightening and heartening ways the best creative impulses that drive the ‘Boundaries’ theme for this year’s cinematic program. Oguzhan Kaya, director, ‘A Perfect Day,’ Fear No Film at Utah Arts Festival. Oguzhan Kaya, 30, who directed the short…

Bird of Paradise, Sergiusz Wiaderny.

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: Salt Lake City’s Sergiusz Wiaderny creates fascinating abstract art in most unusual form

ByLes RokaJun 28, 20145 min read

Burning Meadows, Sergiusz Wiaderny. Two years ago, Sergiusz Wiaderny applied to be in the…

Josiel Perez, trumpeter and bandleader, AC Jazz

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: Josiel Perez, AC Jazz Project bring sizzling timba in first Utah performance

ByLes RokaJun 27, 20144 min read

Josiel Perez and The AC Jazz Project, June 28, 9:45 p.m., Park Stage

Josh Shilling

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival 2014: Mountain Heart’s acoustic virtuosity to close out IAMA day at festival

ByLes RokaJun 27, 20144 min read

Mountain Heart, June 28, 9:50 p.m., Festival Stage [caption id="attachment_2207" align="alignleft" width="300"] Josh Shilling, Mountain Heart. Capping an…

Lisa Gastelum Necklace Knotted - Atomic

Backstage at Utah Arts Festival: Lisa Gastelum’s world of art in circles, dots, rounds, and spheres

ByLes RokaJun 27, 20147 min read

More than 100 artists in this year’s Utah Arts Festival Artists Marketplace come from outside of Utah. One…