Artist Resources – General Resources
Event Calendars
Discover what’s happening in THE BLOCKS! Have an event coming up? Submit it to these community calendars and share it with Salt Lake!
CATALYST Magazine
CATALYST Magazine
CATALYST has its finger on the pulse of our society’s most intriguing movement: the rise of the “cultural creatives” — those who take a whole-systems approach to the world’s ecological, social and spiritual crises. This has netted them the enthusiastic support of the community — and a stable of terrific advertisers, who value the unique demographics their editorial content attracts. Their growth since 1982 has been steady. Conservative, one might say. They prefer the word “organic.” If conservative growth produces an institution, organic growth grows an organism — something vital, alive, responsive. They think they’ve got a venerable organism here. Join them, and grow!
City Weekly
City Weekly
City Weekly’s mission is to provide thorough, relevant and interesting reporting and writing on local news, arts, and entertainment for the progressive, active, thoughtful residents of Salt Lake City and the environs. And in the process, set the standard for journalistic quality for this community. To foster a work environment that attracts and holds the most talented and skilled individuals available. To utilize technology to improve all aspects of our organization and publishing company.
“If we don’t print it, who will?”
KRCL
KRCL
90.9fm KRCL is northern Utah’s only non-profit, member-supported public radio station dedicated to broadcasting a well-curated contemporary eclectic mix of music and community information 24 hours a day. KRCL is a non-profit community radio organization, Listeners Community Radio of Utah is heard on the air along the Wasatch Front and Back and streaming worldwide.
Through music and stories created for a culturally open-minded community, 90.9fm KRCL is a catalyst for creating a better, more inclusive and engaged Utah. They reach listeners with a wide variety of music and community programming. They champion Utah — our music, arts and culture, neighborhoods and community organizations. KRCL celebrates diversity, and encourage community engagement and a strong commitment to a healthy environment — while promoting a positive global identity for Utah.
KUER
KUER
KUER public radio, a charter member of National Public Radio (NPR), is a 501(c)3 non-profit that provides a commercial-free mix of NPR, BBC and local news to thousands of listeners throughout Utah and beyond through its extensive translator network. It is their fundamental belief that information and public engagement enrich a community. To that end, KUER 90.1 is intensely committed to building a community of world citizens through story and art, discussion and debate, sound and creativity. Their work is driven by their Public Service Mission: KUER enhances the lives of its audience with a blend of news, information and entertainment in an unbiased, non-commercial context and creates an ongoing source of service and support vital to community organizations.
Now Playing Utah
Now Playing Utah
NowPlayingUtah is an initiative of the Utah Arts & Cultural Coalition (UACC). Development is guided by our Board of Directors, our staff and the greater Utah arts and cultural community. Our partners include constituents, recipients and members of the Utah Division of Arts & Museums, Salt Lake County Zoo Arts & Parks Program and Visit Salt Lake.
The mission of NowPlayingUtah is to increase awareness about arts and cultural opportunities in Utah by providing a comprehensive events resource. Simply stated, NowPlayingUtah wants you to experience the rich, vibrant, creative arts and cultural community in Utah. Take in a show, tour an exhibit, visit a festival… get out there and see what it’s all about!
Getting involved is easy! Register for a user account and submit your event information, as well as organization and venue information, if applicable. And, add events@nowplayingutah.com to your mailing lists to send all press releases, calendars of events, etc. and we will load all applicable events directly to NowPlayingUtah.
SLUG Magazine
SLUG Magazine
Supplies and Framing
Head to these places for the supplies to make your next project and framing to finish off your completed works.
Clever Octopus Inc. – Creative Reuse Center
Clever Octopus Inc. – Creative Reuse Center
Clever Octopus Creative Reuse Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit art and craft store – a thrift store for art and craft supplies. It’s a wonderful place to find supplies for making all kinds of things. Whether you’re a teacher, an artist, a crafter, a student, a kid, a parent, or an adult, you’ll find supplies you need and supplies you never knew you needed. Proceeds from the shop go to providing art education to area students.
Oasis Stage Werks
Oasis Stage Werks
Oasis Stage Werks is a well-stocked theatrical rental house operating since 1977. Their knowledgable, friendly, and professional service is at your disposal. With 40 years of experience, they know how to solve your problems and make your concert or show the best it can be! If you’ve got a problem, they have the solution.
University of Utah Bookstore
University of Utah Bookstore
Phillips Gallery – Framing
Phillips Gallery – Framing
With 52 years as a small local business, Phillips Gallery has one of the oldest and most experienced custom frame shops in the Salt Lake Valley. Their knowledgeable staff is pleased to offer ideas and suggestions for all of your quality framing needs. They believe custom framing is vital for the preservation of your most valued photos, paintings, diplomas, and heirlooms. Let them help you enhance and protect your art for generations to come.
They offer many product lines and levels of archivability, 100% rag board, shadowbox frames, UV protective glass, fabric mounting and many additional custom options. Please contact them for more information or a free quote.
Alpine Art & Frame
Alpine Art & Frame
Alpine Art has been a resource for local businesses, interior designers, architects, hospitals and clinics for over 30 years. They are located in the heart of the city and have been custom framing since 1983. Their large workspace is filled with natural light and has ample room to accommodate projects of any size. Alpine Art features fine art from local, regional and international artists, both established and emerging.
Tanner Frames
Tanner Frames
Pictureline
Pictureline
Pictureline opened in Salt Lake City in February 1989 as a small one-man operation dedicated to providing exemplary service to all who crossed the threshold. Over 30 years and 20 employees later, that credo of exemplary service remains, not only to those visiting our store but also to those visiting us on the web. We provide fast and honest service, email order updates, and prompt special orders with the courtesy as if it were still a one-man shop.
Acme Camera Co.
Acme Camera Co.
Used Cameras & Lenses added daily. Check back often or let them know what you’re chasing and they’ll try to get it for you.
Festivals
Go to these festivals, support your local arts groups and artists, and be inspired by all that Utah has to offer!
Utah Arts Festival
Utah Arts Festival
The mission of the Utah Arts Festival is to promote the arts and enhance the quality of life in Utah through the production of an annual outdoor, multi-disciplinary event in downtown Salt Lake City. They strive to maintain the highest artistic quality in our production and programming, represent excellence among a range of artistic mediums, and promote an appreciation for fine art while encouraging innovation in the field, and supporting non-traditional, contemporary works. The annual Festival takes place the 4th weekend of June each summer and is held downtown in Salt Lake City at Library and Washington Squares.
The Utah Arts Festival is the largest outdoor multi-disciplinary arts event in Utah with attendance hovering over 70,000 each summer. Having garnered numerous awards internationally, nationally and locally, the event remains one of the premiere events that kicks off the summer in Utah each June.
Urban Arts Festival
Urban Arts Festival
Urban Arts Festival, produced by the Utah Arts Alliance, is the largest free community art event in Utah. The festival showcases hundreds of artists, performers, and musicians.. It is a two-day celebration of Salt Lake’s urban and artistic culture for the community, art lovers, and families. The festival features artists, music, dance performance, automotive arts, projection art, virtual reality and new media arts, street basketball league, fashion, live street art, and mural painting displays and much more.
Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Children and Youth
Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Children and Youth
Utah Film Center’s Tumbleweeds Film Festival is an annual film festival for children and youth, ages 4 and up, providing opportunities for film lovers of all ages to engage their creative spirit, and bridge cultures by experiencing films whose stories transcend geographic, cultural, and political boundaries.
Tumbleweeds highlights stories and young protagonists from around the world, providing opportunities for Utah families to enjoy films from China, France, Germany, and Cuba (among many others) in an effort to cultivate an early appreciation for the arts. Families can also enjoy hands-on arts, crafts, media, and technology activities between films. Tumbleweeds is the preeminent cinematic festival for young audiences in the Mountain West, and encourages curiosity about our beautifully diverse and nuanced world.
Tumbleweeds features:
• Films from around the world
• Film-related workshops by professional artists
• Free, hands-on, creative activities for the whole family
Utah Pride Festival
Utah Pride Festival
A program of The Utah Pride Center, The Utah Pride Festival is a community event which features a broad spectrum of activities and entertainment. From its humble beginnings in 1974 as an informal gathering in the park, the Utah Pride Festival has come a long way. It is now a major Salt Lake City event that grows bolder and brighter every year. The Festival empowers the LGBTQ+ community of Salt Lake, as well as the state of Utah as a whole, to come together and celebrate. The Festival is now attended by more than 50,000 people and continues to grow each year. In 2017, the Pride Parade attracted 50,000 spectators. A broad spectrum of people can be found at all these events, including members of the LGBTQ+ community, their family members and allies.
Alt Press Fest
Alt Press Fest
Alt Press Fest showcases Utah’s vibrant alternative-press community. Featuring over forty zine creators, unique printing demonstrations, and creative activities for the whole family. Alt Press Fest is an annual celebration of zines, all forms of alternative press, and the awesome people who create in Salt Lake City. Besides browsing the creator booths, you can also pick up a zine with the CWC’s Zine Vending Machine, see demonstrations of gelatin printing, steamroller printing, and try out different creative activities.
Alt Press is freedom, creativity, expression, and a little bit of anarchy. It’s DIY publishing, where creators have total control of their work from concept to production.
ILLUMINATE SALT LAKE Festival
ILLUMINATE SALT LAKE Festival
The ILLUMINATE SALT LAKE Festival is a free two-day community art event and a celebration of innovation and imagination for the community, art lovers, and families. The festival features installations by more than 30 artists, live music and performances, kids activities, a kid’s short film fest, interactive light art demonstrations, virtual reality arts displays, food trucks, local brews & spirits and much more! Artists working with technology and using light as their medium will use the city as their canvas and create projection mapped artwork, light art displays and exhibits for the community to enjoy and experience a first of its kind experience.
This event invites the community to explore our city in entirely new ways and to see it in a whole new light, by illuminating our culture and community through art and technology.
Salt Lake Greek Festival
Salt Lake Greek Festival
The Greek Orthodox Church of Greater Salt Lake is delighted to present the Salt Lake Greek Festival. This annual three-day event gives the Salt Lake Greek Community the opportunity to share their deep-rooted culture with the great people of the state of Utah. The annual Salt Lake Greek Festival has evolved from its humble beginnings as a bazaar in the basement of the Church showcasing handcrafted items into one of the country’s finest and largest Greek festivals. The Salt Lake Greek Festival has also become a Salt Lake community fundraiser, with a large percentage of the proceeds being distributed each year to local charities and community outreach programs.
Made in Utah Festival
Made in Utah Festival
Made in Utah Festival celebrates local artisans, product makers, artists, musicians, businesses, and entrepreneurs. They are affiliated with Utah Stories Magazine. Their goal is to give exposure to these small local businesses and talented individuals as well as to make Utahans aware of the benefits and economic impact of shopping and supporting local.
Festa Italiana SLC
Festa Italiana SLC
Festa Italiana SLC is Salt Lake City’s own Italian Street Festival where you can experience the tastes, sounds, and culture of Italy. Through their unique offering of 15 authentic Italian Restaurants from around the Salt Lake Valley and wine hand-selected from Italy, patrons can experience the Italian culinary experience all while being entertained by the art and music of Italy. Live music is on tap both days at the festival culminating with headlining bands.
Festa Italiana SLC is a non-profit, Italian Festival in Salt Lake City sponsored by Alfa Romeo of Salt Lake City put on by 501(c)3 organizations the Italian American Civic League and Italian Club of Salt Lake. Proceeds from the festival will support local and national non-profit charitable organizations supported by the Italian-American Civic League of Utah.
SLC Busker Fest
SLC Busker Fest
Regent Street and Block 70 are transformed into SLC’s Busker Festival. Once home to a thriving Vaudeville scene, this festival celebrates the city’s history by bringing the living tradition of busking and street theatre to downtown. Appropriate for all ages, Busker Fest will thrill audiences with musicians, dancers, hula-hoopers, jugglers, and comedy. This event is free and open to the public. Performers will accept donations.
Grid Zine Fest
Grid Zine Fest
Grid is a zine and comix fest in Salt Lake City that hosts zine-related events, workshops, and readings, culminating in an annual exhibitor expo each April. They want to bring together folks from all across the city and state (and beyond!) to highlight the diversity of ideas and experiences of zine makers and to provide a space for this to happen.
Utah Blues Festival
Utah Blues Festival
The Utah Blues Festival is the only Festival in Utah solely dedicated to increasing awareness of a uniquely American musical/cultural art form – Blues music. This festival connects Utahns to a musical genre that has used the American experience as its voice – the Blues! By showcasing national and local Blues artists, as well as a Youth Showcase and Workshops, the UBF will provide a unique experience for Utahns to meet and connect around this culturally important musical art form, the foundation of all other American music to follow.
The Annual Utah Blues Festival is the signature fundraising event for the 501(c)(3) non-profit, the Utah Blues Society. It is held at the Gallivan Center in downtown Salt Lake City.
Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival
Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival
The Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival is a multi-day performing arts festival in the heart of Downtown SLC, where artists from Utah and beyond come together to tell their stories. The shows encompass theatre, dance, music, magic, comedy, and more. The Great Salt Lake Fringe is uncensored, unadjudicated, and unrestricted. Artists hold the power and have the opportunity to create art that matters to them.
The Fringe is focused on the performing arts and 100 percent of the ticket sales go directly to the artists. Shows involve theatre, dance, music, aerial arts, magic, and over 95 percent of shows are world premieres or original works. Shows must be less than one hour long. The Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival has one goal in mind: to provide an accessible opportunity for performing artists and audiences to connect and collaborate with one another. The definition of “performance” is growing and changing and we want to be a part of that change.
Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival
Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival
The Salt Lake City Performance Art Festival features world-class performance art — live and in person — with works from respected local and international artists. Presented in partnership with Utah Arts & Museums, National Endowment for the Arts, and Salt Lake City Arts Council.
Native American Celebration in the Park Contest Powwow & Festival
Native American Celebration in the Park Contest Powwow & Festival
NACIP is an event sharing the Native American culture through song, music, dance and drums and cultural preservation. They ask the Native American tribes and communities to support their venue in the midst of the State of Utah pioneer day celebrations. They advocate Native American presence through a united effort and welcome you and your family to celebrate their cultures as first Utahns or indigenous people of this continent. They are not affiliated with the Days of 47 festivities or any pioneer related activities.
The Days of ’47
The Days of ’47
By remembering those 1847 pioneers and all those who followed, The Days of ’47 seeks to make their accomplishments and hardships live today through a variety of activities and celebrations each year. They believe the example of past and present pioneers’ courage creates a vision for a combined future that everyone can follow as our new journey of hope!
The Days of ’47, Inc. is a private, nonprofit, all-volunteer, charitable corporation to honor Utah’s early and modern pioneers and to keep their pioneering spirit alive.
Utah Beer Festival
Utah Beer Festival
Living Traditions Festival
Living Traditions Festival
The Salt Lake City Arts Council presents the Living Traditions Festival – a free, three-day cultural celebration that presents the traditional music, dance, foods, and crafts of the cultural communities that make Salt Lake City their home.
Craft Lake City – DIY Festival
Craft Lake City – DIY Festival
Craft Lake City facilitates local arts and crafts programming throughout the year, providing artisans of all mediums with the chance to promote themselves and their work, as well as educating the community on the local DIY culture through workshops, demonstrations, community partnerships, gallery shows and fundraisers. They promote regional spending and encourage the public to shop locally and support independent artisans whose crafts are handmade. Craft Lake City exists not only to support makers but also to inspire future makers and empower individuals to realize their creative potential.
Craft Lake City’s DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Festival® is Utah’s largest local-centric, three-day arts festival, with over 300 local exhibitors—artisans, DIY engineers, vintage vendors and craft food creators—a STEM Building, two stages of music and dance performances, local food vendors, food trucks, a kids’ area, DIY workshops areas, artisan demonstrations, a parenting lounge, a VIP lounge and approximately 20,000 attendees.
Twilight Concert Series
Twilight Concert Series
The Twilight Concert Series is a summer concert series presenting a wide range of nationally recognized and upcoming musicians from across the country and around the world. Musical acts are prioritized and selected on the basis of diversity through both musical genres and those that represent, speak to, and serve as role models to multiple communities including underrepresented demographics in music, such as people of color, LGBT communities, women in music, etc.
This vibrant and beloved program is presented in partnership with S&S Presents. Working closely together, the Arts Council and S&S have curated a summer series with something for everyone.
Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
Ballet West Choreographic Festival
Ballet West Choreographic Festival
World premiere choreography in an intimate setting. Ballet West’s Choreographic Festival continues to inspire creative works in this thrilling program dedicated to new choreography and diverse voices.
Nihon Matsuri
Nihon Matsuri
Nihon Matsuri, Utah’s Japan Festival, aims to share and educate the larger Utah community about Japanese and Japanese American culture, history, and traditions as well as to be a way to pass on the Japanese traditions and culture to younger fifth, sixth, and seventh generation Japanese Americans and to help them identify with their heritage.
Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival
Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival
Damn These Heels, the only festival in Utah devoted to showcasing LGBTQ stories in film that highlight LGBTQ culture, ideas, struggles, and triumphs.
What started out as a handful of screenings has turned into the longest-running LGBTQ film festival in the Mountain West, an immersive weekend festival that has presented more than 220 thought-provoking and entertaining films over the years including Quiet Heroes, Southwest of Salem, Todrick Hall: Behind the Curtain, The Pearl, Strike a Pose, Kiki, G.B.F., God’s Own Country, The Slippers, Boulevard, Beginners, Summer of Sangaile, and Tangerine.
Reviewers and Publications
Read previews and reviews of shows and events in THE BLOCKS.
Utah Stories
Utah Stories
Utah Stories is dedicated to the power of the individual. When there is a lack of individuality there becomes a dearth in community identity and ultimately personal liberty. Utah Stories Magazine and UtahStories.com work to represent “the voice of local Utah”. They produce journalism and stories about local business owners, artists, designers, developers and residents.
CATALYST Magazine
CATALYST Magazine
CATALYST has its finger on the pulse of our society’s most intriguing movement: the rise of the “cultural creatives” — those who take a whole-systems approach to the world’s ecological, social and spiritual crises. This has netted them the enthusiastic support of the community — and a stable of terrific advertisers, who value the unique demographics their editorial content attracts. Their growth since 1982 has been steady. Conservative, one might say. They prefer the word “organic.” If conservative growth produces an institution, organic growth grows an organism — something vital, alive, responsive. They think they’ve got a venerable organism here. Join them, and grow!
Q Salt Lake
Q Salt Lake
QSaltLake is Utah’s monthly news and entertainment magazine for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community available at over 300 locations along the Wasatch Front and online.
loveDANCEmore
loveDANCEmore
loveDANCEmore is a performance journal & dance criticism blog; a producer and curator of dance, placemaking, & new media programs; and a fiscal sponsor for Utah’s independent choreographers.
Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune
The Tribune is Utah’s independent voice. Building on a legacy of courageous, watchdog journalism, they strive to tell stories that are interesting, important and inclusive. Dedicated to fairness and accuracy, they aim to engage and empower you — their readers.
Utah Arts Review
Utah Arts Review
Utah Arts Review was launched September 1, 2018 by Lawrence A. Johnson, the former classical music critic of the Miami Herald, and, prior to that, a classical music writer at the South Florida Sun Sentinel. He was a freelance critic for the Chicago Tribune throughout the 1990s, covering classical music as well as rock and theater, and wrote regularly for the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Opera News, Opera and The New Criterion.
The Utah Review
The Utah Review
The Utah Review is Utah’s premier independent arts magazine, focused on covering the very best of the local arts scene. Their writers cover everything from film to theatre to dance; always with a critical focus on Utah first and foremost.
Since their inception in 2014, The Utah Review has been the Official Online Magazine for The Utah Arts Festival, Utah’s biggest arts event each and every year. In 2015 The Utah Society Of Professional Journalists awarded The Utah Review three first placed awards in the categories of: review/criticism, ongoing coverage and photo essay.
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SLUG Magazine
SLUG Magazine
Deseret News
Deseret News
Salt Lake City news and Utah news, sports, entertainment, weather, breaking news, movies, real estate from the online home of the Deseret News.
Front Row Reviewers
Front Row Reviewers
Front Row Reviewers was created by a bunch of theater geeks, oh, we mean folks, who like to be in plays and watch plays and talk about plays and write about plays. It has since grown to include many aficionados of the Arts as our writers, editors, and publishers. We also are NATIONAL, no longer just in Utah.
City Weekly
City Weekly
City Weekly’s mission is to provide thorough, relevant and interesting reporting and writing on local news, arts, and entertainment for the progressive, active, thoughtful residents of Salt Lake City and the environs. And in the process, set the standard for journalistic quality for this community. To foster a work environment that attracts and holds the most talented and skilled individuals available. To utilize technology to improve all aspects of our organization and publishing company.
“If we don’t print it, who will?”
Venues and Rental Spaces
Browse through venues and find the right space for your next event.
The Eccles Theatre and Regent Street Black Box
The Eccles Theatre and Regent Street Black Box
Inspiring architecture by Pelli Clarke Pelli makes the Eccles Theater an exceptional space for theatrical events as well as extraordinary gatherings. The 2,500 seat Delta Performance Hall offers a state-of-the-art stage for Broadway, concerts, comedy, and family performances, while the six story grand lobby, dramatic retractable walls, outdoor terraces, and great food will make your party or meeting unforgettable.
The Black Box Theater features 16-foot tall glass windows overlooking the new Regent Street Plaza. The Black Box ticketing windows and lobby are accessed from Regent Street, creating a distinct experience from the main performance hall at The Eccles Theater. Acoustically isolated, the 2,400-square-foot, Black Box space is able to accommodate a variety of dance, music and theatrical productions as well as private, corporate and community events. Movable seating platforms allow the room to be configured for several types of occasions, accommodating between 150-250 people depending on the arrangement.
Salt Palace Convention Center
Salt Palace Convention Center
Located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, the Salt Palace Convention Center is the perfect place for meetings of any size or occasion. From full-facility conventions to one-room meetings, our staff will provide the highest level of service and attention to detail. The Salt Palace Convention Center is an integral part of the vibrant downtown scene that can make your next event unforgettable.
Studio Elevn
Studio Elevn
Studio Elevn is the perfect space to reflect your unique and creative vision. Studio A holds up to 250 guests while Studio B provides an intimate setting for events with up to 75 guests. Both studios are beautifully lit modern industrial spaces and are sure to awe all who attend. Their minimal decor and clean white walls provide you a blank canvas to design in. They are conveniently located in downtown Salt Lake City near I-15 with off-street parking for you and your guests will be able to enjoy the convenience that Studio Elevn has to offer.
With two studio spaces and vanity/bridal suite, They can accommodate events of multiple sizes and uses. Additionally, they offer visual and audio equipment, bar service, event planning, floral arrangements, decor, furniture, modular metal desks/tables, folding chairs, lighting and more.
Ember SLC
Ember SLC
Ember is a unique urban venue brought to you by a team of nationally recognized designers and event planners. Their venue consists of three conjoined spaces – Rent them separately or all together to create the perfect Goldilocks venue for your next event. Rent both spaces for the ultimate venue experience. There are endless options to create a night that is uniquely you and unforgettable.
Caffe Molise
Caffe Molise
Caffé Molise hosts wedding ceremonies, wedding receptions and rehearsal dinners. The expansive patio makes for a memorable summer event. In the cooler months, their dining rooms can accommodate events and private parties from an intimate gathering of 10 to a celebration of over 200. They’ve hosted convention demo suites, corporate meetings, holiday parties, anniversaries, and product launch parties. Their gallery dining rooms offer partial privacy for meetings and discussions.
The Arts Hub
The Arts Hub
The Hub is the central location for Utah Arts Alliance. It houses 35 artist studios, office space for arts non-profits, dance studios, an events center, with over 33,000 sq. ft. of building space, community gardens, and more.
Salt Lake Public Library – Rental Space
Salt Lake Public Library – Rental Space
A variety of meeting rooms are available free of charge throughout The City Library. Rental and service fees may apply for conferences, large events, private meetings, and after-hours events (see fee schedule and rental rates for more information). To request a meeting room at the Main Library, please complete the application form. Please be as descriptive as possible in filling out the form’s fields to help ensure that your request can be fulfilled. Due to high demand for meeting spaces, please submit applications at least two weeks prior to your first scheduled event. Inquiries regarding space availability at the Main Library can be made Monday–Friday, 9am–6pm through the Administrative Services Department (801-524-8218).
SKY SLC
SKY SLC
Salt Lake has become a premier location for corporate and social events in Utah. Located 1 block from the convention center in the heart of Downtown and within walking distance to the best hotels and restaurants SLC has to offer, their event space makes sense for any size event.
The Depot
The Depot
The Depot, one of Salt Lake City’s most unique and innovative venues has partnered with In The Event, Utah’s premier event production and rental company. Located in the heart of Salt Lake City, this iconic setting is the perfect location to host your next corporate event, private concert, product launch, fundraiser, wedding, reception or business meeting. Accommodating groups of 50 to 1,000 guests and conveniently located within 1 mile of the Salt Palace Convention Center, their talented staff handles every detail, so you don’t have to!
Soundwell
Soundwell
Soundwell, located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake, is the newest and most intimate music venue to pop up in the thriving Salt Lake City concert scene. Formerly known as Elevate, the fully remodeled and rebranded venue opened its doors in April 2018, offering top-notch talent and premium sound in an intimate 700 capacity atmosphere. Soundwell is open and available for private rentals, holiday parties, corporate parties and business meetings.
Abravanel Hall
Abravanel Hall
Abravanel Hall is home to the Utah Symphony Orchestra and part of the Salt Lake County Center for the Arts. Adjacent to Temple Square and the Salt Palace on South Temple Street this architectural masterpiece has become a landmark. Besides symphony performances, the hall also hosts numerous concerts and special events. Abravanel Hall was created specifically to provide an environment of acoustical excellence.
Capitol Theatre
Capitol Theatre
The Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre is one of Salt Lake County’s most beloved buildings and has been a Downtown landmark since 1913. Today the Capitol Theatre is known for its elegant turn-of-the-century architecture and serves as the home for Ballet West, Utah Opera, Children’s Dance Theatre, and Broadway Across America — Utah.
The Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
The Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center
The Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center is a vital active hub for emerging and established artists and arts organizations. The Performing Arts Coalition conceived the project after completing a community cultural needs assessment. This center grew out of a need for additional rehearsal space for the tenants at Capitol Theatre as well as affordable performing spaces for the myriad performing arts companies that have developed over the last 25 years. Theatre Projects Consultants were hired to prepare the needs assessment and to develop a design scheme for the new performing arts center. The Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center contains the Black Box Theatre, the Studio Theatre and the Jeanne Wagner Theatre.
Pierpont Place
Pierpont Place
Pierpont Place offers full-service event planning, design, and coordination as well as a chic venue to host a wedding, corporate or private event, a non-profit fundraiser, or other occasions. Pierpont Place’s modern downtown space is perfect for any event. The venue is located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, just half a block from the Salt Palace Convention Center, and within walking distance of numerous nearby hotels and restaurants. The versatile space can accommodate up to 200 guests seated or up to 500 guests for a cocktail- style function. They consider their venue to be a “blank canvas” that can be transformed to fulfill any vision.
The Gallivan Center
The Gallivan Center
Renting the Gallivan Center can be done a la carte by choosing and paying for only the areas and equipment you need. View their rental rates on their website. If you’re unfamiliar with the Gallivan Center, check the map to see the areas available and what will suit your event best.
Union Pacific Depot – The Grand Hall
Union Pacific Depot – The Grand Hall
Built in 1909 as the Union Pacific Depot, The Grand Hall is an architectural landmark. The Gateway has worked to maintain and enhance the Hall’s most intricate details, including its original tile, stained glass and epic mural. And as it readies itself to serve as home to Salt Lake City’s hippest new boutique hotel, The Gateway will continue that work to preserve the charm of this architectural gem.
Make your next event historic. Call 801.456.2000 to book now, or fill out the form on their website.
The Leonardo
The Leonardo
Whether you are hosting a corporate event, having a wedding, or throwing a birthday party, The Leonardo has you covered. With three floors, tens of thousands of square feet, and multiple spaces to choose from, The Leonardo is the perfect venue to host your event.
Sugar Space Art Warehouse
Sugar Space Art Warehouse
Sugar Space is Your Space for Arts and Events since 2007! This venue is available for rent for corporate events, receptions, weddings, parties, events, performances, classes, exhibits, fundraisers, workshops, trainings and more.
The property has three buildings and features:
– A covered patio for outdoor events
– “Robertson Studio” 1050 square foot multi-purpose studio with maple, sprung floor, professional sound system
– Ample free parking in our private lot and on the street
– “Art House” with private monthly dedicated workspaces.
– “Arts Warehouse” 5,000 square foot event and performance space.
Galleries and Museums
Look here for places to see the latest art and explore where you could have your work shown!
Galleries
Art at the Main
Art at the Main
Art at the Main is a co-operative art gallery showcasing the work of some of Utah’s best local artists. In addition to providing promising artists a venue to show and sell art, Art at the Main hosts informative and educational art events for the public, including featured artist receptions, art demonstrations, and classes for children.
Art at the Main believes that an educated public will appreciate fine art and support a thriving arts community, which will make Utah an even better place to visit, live,and work.
They are continuously looking for prospective member artists working in these mediums: mixed media, watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastel, pen and ink, pencil, prints (etchings, monotype, silkscreen, lithographs), hangable fiber art, small 3D sculpture, glasswork, and pottery.
Alice Gallery
Alice Gallery
The Alice Gallery is located at the historic Glendinning Mansion in Salt Lake City, Utah, which also houses the main offices of Utah Arts & Museums. The gallery is named after Alice Merrill Horne, a legislator who supported the arts and founded the Utah Arts Council in 1899.
The gallery hosts exhibitions by Utah artists and works from the State Fine Art Collection. The Rio & Alice Galleries were established as a free service to Utah artists and surrounding communities. These venues allow emerging artists, professional artists, and curators to collaborate in the process of exhibition-making as well as engage the community through thoughtful and innovative art-making and dialogue.
Downtown Artist Collective
Downtown Artist Collective
The Downtown Artist Collective is an artist co-op founded by local artists and entrepreneurs, a place for artists and the community to come together through galleries, studio, and learning space located in Downtown Salt Lake City. They strive to create a community where artists can reflect, collaborate, and share in a cooperative environment. Their goal is to provide a space for excellent artists to exhibit work and share skills with each other and the community.
The DAC is an artist-run gallery. Artists staff the gallery and operate all aspects of the business.
FICE Gallery
FICE Gallery
FICE Gallery Opened April 7, 2008, and the night set the standard for the following 10+ years. Art, music, contemporary sneakers and streetwear. Fice quickly became Salt Lake City’s premiere sneaker and clothing boutique. Fast forward to 2016 and Fice had climbed the ranks to be considered among the nations finest sneaker and clothing boutiques. Top Tier Nike and Jordan accounts, Vans Vault, Born x Raised, Black Scale, 10 Deep just to name a few. And now with a new Fice boutique open in downtown Denver Colorado, the brand continues to grow.
Phillips Gallery
Phillips Gallery
Phillips Gallery is the oldest commercial gallery in the intermountain west. They represent artists working in a variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, ceramics, printmaking, jewelry, and mixed media. Their artists are primarily from Utah or the surrounding area. Phillips Gallery also represents national and international artists who have an association with Utah. You will discover a full range of subject matter from traditional to contemporary.
The gallery is also available to do custom framing, appraisals, restoration, installation, crating/shipping, space planning, lighting consultation, as well as consulting on private and corporate collections.
Art is an integral part of life experiences and Phillips Gallery is dedicated to a growing awareness in the visual arts of our community. They work diligently to extend the exposure of each artist they represent and meet their individual clients’ needs.
Finch Lane Gallery
Finch Lane Gallery
The Salt Lake City Arts Council programs visual arts exhibits year-round in the Finch Lane Gallery. Artist are invited to apply for exhibits annually. Typically, the applications are made available in January and due back to the Arts Council in March.
The exhibition program is designed to give local artists an opportunity to show their current body of work. The application process includes a thorough and competitive review by the Visual Arts Committee of the Salt Lake City Arts Council, with members from the board of directors and visual artists from the community.
Both one-person shows and group exhibits are considered. The quality of work, as evidenced by images of previous work submitted with the application, a range of styles and media, and a balanced exhibition season are among the criteria considered in the application review process.
Alpine Art & Frame
Alpine Art & Frame
Alpine Art has been a resource for local businesses, interior designers, architects, hospitals and clinics for over 30 years. They are located in the heart of the city and have been custom framing since 1983. Their large workspace is filled with natural light and has ample room to accommodate projects of any size. Alpine Art features fine art from local, regional and international artists, both established and emerging.
Rio Gallery
Rio Gallery
The Rio & Alice Galleries were established as a free service to Utah artists and surrounding communities. These venues allow emerging artists, professional artists, and curators to collaborate in the process of exhibition-making as well as engage the community through thoughtful and innovative art-making and dialogue. The Rio Gallery is located in the grand lobby of the historic Rio Grande Depot.
Southam Gallery
Southam Gallery
Southam Gallery works to further artists’ careers and help customers find works that they will love for years to come. Primarily known for exceptional representational art of the American landscape, Southam Gallery pleases the most discerning of art lovers, and they have years of repeat customers to prove it!
They strive to provide their customers with excellent artwork. Part of their job that they take very seriously is predicting talent which sustains a long- term career. There are many factors which dictate a long term career. Many of the most talented artists working in the West, started at Southam Gallery!!
DRAW Inc Art Gallery
DRAW Inc Art Gallery
DRAW Inc serves disadvantaged and underserved groups through art education and community outreach programming. They also provide artist resources, affordable classes and a platform for Rocky Mountain region artists to show and sell their artwork through the DRAW Inc Gallery.
Hope Gallery
Hope Gallery
Hope Gallery and Museum of Fine Art collects and offers Old European and Scandinavian masterworks (ex: Durer, Rembrandt, Bloch, Kroyer, Zorn, Ancher, Monsted, Molsted, Wegmann, Baumann, and Juel).
Their vision is to inform and inspire the public with the forgotten treasures of Scandinavian art from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. With a special focus on Danish paintings, thye hope to educate the world on its essentially undiscovered/undervalued artists who were overshadowed and more or less forgotten due to French Impressionism and Modernism. As works from the latter two have relatively expired in the art market, Scandinavian art – most notably Danish, has resurfaced and is making a formidable renewed appearance.
Art Access – Gallery
Art Access – Gallery
Art Access Gallery serves as an access point through which emerging artists, artists with disabilities, and others with limited access to the arts can enter and thrive in the local arts community. They do so by exhibiting their artwork with that of more-established Utah artists and by taking part in professional development activities. In doing so, Art Access Gallery celebrates and cultivates the talents of diverse artists while educating the community to understand the artistic skills of Utahns of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities. Each year Art Access curates exhibits from emerging and established artists.
We believe in the vital importance of access to the arts. Art Access galleries display stimulating exhibitions in an inclusive and cost-free setting by artists from all backgrounds and with all points-of-view. Art Access has two galleries available for exhibits: the main Art Access Gallery for larger exhibitions; and Access II Gallery, a smaller display space.
Modern West Fine Art
Modern West Fine Art
Modern West Fine Art is a gallery created by Diane Stewart to support established and emerging contemporary artists who, in compelling and varied ways, reframe our understanding of the West. Through thoughtful exhibitions, the gallery illuminates both new and historical bodies of work that are relevant and meaningful for today’s audiences.
The gallery aspires to support the local community through informative events. Shalee Cooper, Liberty Blake and Tylor Pilcher are excited to engage the community to gather in the space and experience art with a contemporary influence.
Urban Arts Gallery
Urban Arts Gallery
The Urban Arts Gallery is a non-profit art venue of the Utah Arts Alliance, conveniently located at The Gateway in downtown Salt Lake City since February 2013. The gallery showcases contemporary works by over 100 emerging and established Utah artists in the broad spectrum of street art to fine modern art, encouraging the appreciation of city life, cultural diversity, and diverse art mediums. In the boutique, you can find locally produced and handmade gifts including jewelry, t-shirts, prints, and more.
The space is also available to rent for private and community cultural events.
Museums
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) advances and elevates the community of contemporary arts and culture, establishing Utah as a leading voice for the spirit of innovation, experimentation and dialogue surrounding the issues of our time.
The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art has been an award-winning aesthetic force and community leader since it was established in 1931. Located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, UMOCA’s rich past has resulted in the creation of a cornerstone for contemporary culture in Utah, providing for artistic experimentation, community enrichment, and connection to the world as it occurs through our related experiences. The Museum strives to be a place where all points of view, experiences, and ages feel welcome to explore the pressing issues of our time through socially relevant art exhibitions and educational programming.
The Leonardo
The Leonardo
Whether you are hosting a corporate event, having a wedding, or throwing a birthday party, The Leonardo has you covered. With three floors, tens of thousands of square feet, and multiple spaces to choose from, The Leonardo is the perfect venue to host your event.
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Utah Museum of Fine Arts
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA) at the University of Utah is your destination for global visual arts. From ancient objects to the latest contemporary works, the UMFA galleries—reimagined and remodeled in 2017—showcase the breadth and depth of human history and creativity. The Museum’s collection of nearly 20,000 original works of art is the most dynamic in the region. As the fine arts museum for both the state and the University, the UMFA is a vibrant hub for cultural exchange among campus and community audiences.
LDS Church History Museum
LDS Church History Museum
Clark Planetarium
Clark Planetarium
For more than 50 years, Clark Planetarium has been Salt Lake’s go-to destination for visitors of all ages who want to discover and learn about space and science. They engage audiences inside their walls and across the State of Utah in the creative process that is science through educational outreach, hands-on exhibits, on-site programming and their IMAX and dome theatres.
Natural History Museum of Utah
Natural History Museum of Utah
The Natural History Museum of Utah illuminates the natural world and the place of humans within it.
Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum
Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum
Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum provides opportunities for children and families to learn while at play with hands-on exhibits and rich programming that provide a platform for education and creativity. The Discovery Gateway team partners with community organizations, artists, and performers to ensure that our programming is welcoming and representative of the diverse families and children they serve.
Performing Arts Organizations
Experience a variety of performances from one of these incredible performing arts organizations.
Dance
Repertory Dance Theatre
Repertory Dance Theatre
Repertory Dance Theatre is dedicated to the creation, performance, perpetuation, and appreciation of modern dance. RDT is the nation’s oldest and most successful repertory dance company. Unlike conventional modern dance organizations, they present you with a diverse range of modern dance styles and choreographers paired together in dynamic and unexpected performances.
They are about art. Art in motion, expressed through our bodies as modern dance. Art that in its immediacy and intimacy can be both thrilling and profound. Art that challenges you, and art that you won’t see coming. For more than 50 years, RDT has pushed the boundaries of modern dance, while preserving and celebrating its legacy. It was radical when Utah modern dancers beat out the big city stalwarts to receive a Rockefeller grant establishing us as the nation’s first repertory dance company. Today, they’re just as revolutionary as they were in 1966.
Municipal Ballet Company
Municipal Ballet Company
Salt Lake City’s Municipal Ballet Co. is a collection of classically trained dancers and choreographers who wish to share their art with their community. They think ballet is awesome, and they think other people might, too, if given the chance. So, they dance on the sidewalks, in the public library, in bars and historic buildings. They collaborate with local musicians and artists, because it’s a lot of fun, and because everyone’s art combined turns into something unpredictable and magical. They keep it local because they think it’s wonderful to create art with the people they share their streets with, for an audience of people they also share our streets with. This is their ballet, so it’s your ballet. They hope you enjoy it as much as they do.
Ballet West
Ballet West
Ballet West was established in Salt Lake City in 1963. Willam F. Christensen was the company’s first artistic director, co-founding the company together with Utah’s “First Lady of the Arts” Glenn Walker Wallace. In 1951, Christensen had established the first ballet department in an American university at The University of Utah and with the tireless assistance of Mrs. Enid Cosgriff this program grew into the Utah Civic Ballet, Ballet West’s first incarnation.
With 40 company members, 10-second company members, and a thriving academy that trains dancers of all ages, many of whom have gone on to professional careers with Ballet West and companies around the world, Ballet West ranks among the top professional ballet companies in America. Since its inception, the Company has had five artistic directors – its founder Willam Christensen, Bruce Marks, John Hart, Jonas Kåge and currently Adam Sklute, each who have helped to build Ballet West’s unique and expansive profile.
With this eclectic and ever-expanding outlook, Ballet West is truly an American pioneer in the world of dance.
Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company
Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company
Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company is committed to furthering contemporary dance as an accessible and valued art form through performance and dance education that raise the standards, deepen the understanding and promote personal connections with dance.
The Company pursues this overall vision through:
- Performing innovative original works and commissioning choreographers of exceptional talent
- Providing dance education for all levels and outcomes
- Touring regionally, nationally, and internationally
- Training artists as performers, educators, and choreographers
- Developing dance audiences
Gileadi Dance Co.
Gileadi Dance Co.
SB Dance
SB Dance
SB Dance’s mission is to engage the community with original work that combines movement, drama, and object. They aim to encourage people to think for themselves and to provoke curiosity about art and the artistic process. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit incorporated in 1998, the company is a resident at Salt Lake County’s Rose Wagner Center for the Performing Arts. It is overseen and guided by an energetic Board of Directors. The SB Dance portfolio covers original creations, events with theatrical flair, partnerships, and learning programs.
Bboy Federation
Bboy Federation
The Bboy Federation is a non-profit organization that showcases Hip Hop Arts as a viable path to success through practice, performance and education. They strive to promote street style dance as a respected and legitimate art form.
The focus of The BBOY FEDERATION is to help grow the Hip Hop community in Utah while providing local youth with an opportunity to develop their skills. This is done through competitions, workshops, performances and education. The ultimate goal is to provide members of our community with a chance to learn, work and travel while exposing the local Hip Hop scene to people from all over the country. By providing a forum to unite Hip Hop artists and their families in passion for their art, participants in the Bboy Federation are inspired to succeed not only on the dance floor, but in life itself.
Samba Fogo
Samba Fogo
Samba Fogo, a non-profit Cultural Arts Organization inspired many years ago by the excitement and beauty of Afro-Brazilian Music and Dance. For over a decade they have been studying, performing and teaching along the Wasatch Front and the Western United States.
THEIR MISSION IS TO ENRICH THE COMMUNITY AND INSPIRE OTHERS THROUGH LIVE PERFORMANCES, ARTS EDUCATION, CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS.
Theatre
Pygmalion Theatre Company
Pygmalion Theatre Company
The mission of Pygmalion Theatre Company is to produce theatre that reflects issues, concerns and shared experiences in the lives of women. Every production that PYG undertakes ties directly back to its mission: giving voice to women – playwrights, directors, performers, characters – and telling the stories that reflect women’s lives. They do this through a variety of artistic media.
Pioneer Theatre Company
Pioneer Theatre Company
Pioneer Theatre Company offers a wide range of exceptional theatre exploring the breadth of the human experience — challenging the intellect, stirring emotions, igniting imaginations and encouraging conversation. Each season includes a mixture of classics, large-scale musicals and contemporary dramas and comedies. Over the past ten years, it has developed a reputation for Broadway-quality productions and has mounted numerous Utah premieres and regional theatre premieres.
Salt Lake Acting Company
Salt Lake Acting Company
Salt Lake Acting Company’s 48-year history is reflected in the expansive body of work it has produced and in the long-standing support of its most open and adventurous audience. SLAC produces seasons of thoughtful, provocative, Regional and World Premieres; nurtures, supports and develops a community of professional artists; produces and supports emerging playwrights; and makes a significant contribution to our community and to American theatre by commissioning, developing and producing new plays. SLAC presents a year-round season of 5 to 7 Regional and World Premieres, reaching an audience of over 37,000 (including a season subscriber base of 3,000), and supporting over 150 professional theatre artists annually. With a budget of $2 million, SLAC works under a Small Professional Theatre contract with Actors’ Equity Association—a union for professional theatre artists to secure health and pension benefits and negotiate contract rights.
Wasatch Theatre Company
Wasatch Theatre Company
Wasatch Theatre Company envisions theatre as a classroom where actors, directors, playwrights, and technicians can apprentice, experiment, and produce in a supportive environment that encourages individual collaborative growth. They aim to provoke thought and action by selecting and producing a variety of theatrical experiences and encounters. Specialize in a presentational style of production making use of minimal resources. Lastly, increase awareness of, respect for, and participation in community theatre.
Plan-B Theatre
Plan-B Theatre
Since 1991, Plan-B has developed and produced unique and socially conscious theatre created by Utah playwrights. They share stories with a local point-of-view as well as global stories from a local perspective. They nourish a pool of local playwrights to rival that found in any other city in the country. They believe the best way to serve our community is to reflect it onstage – to create conversation, to provide an opportunity for patrons to think a little differently, to consider a point-of-view that may have been previously foreign, to listen in a way they may not have before.
The Off Broadway Theatre
The Off Broadway Theatre
The Off Broadway Theatre (OBT) is Salt Lake’s downtown hot spot for comedy. They opened in 1994, performing family-friendly parodies, traditional plays, musicals, and live improv comedy shows. They are a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Their audiences get a chance to see a unique brand of comedy in both the plays and the improv shows throughout the year.
Music
Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation
Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation
The mission of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation is to further the pianistic art, foster excellence in performance and teaching, develop opportunities for pianists beyond the scope of the organization and offer leadership in developing a musically-educated citizenry. By holding international piano competitions, solo recitals, and educational sessions, the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation aims to: Enrich the community by providing significant musical experiences for audiences and performers. Build an artistic/educational environment that will educate musicians and non-musicians to a higher caliber of performance and appreciation. Recognize and encourage superb artistry and assist career development of deserving young pianists. Promote and perpetuate the pianistic art.
Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation
Utah Opera
Utah Opera
Since 1978, Utah Opera has cultivated and entertained a growing audience of more than 150,000 annually around the intermountain area. They produce opera with artistic standards of distinction and with a fresh vibrancy – new works for our area as well as the classics.
Utah Symphony
Utah Symphony
The Utah Symphony is one of America’s major symphony orchestras, known internationally for its distinctive performances and recording legacy.
Excellence in the Community
Excellence in the Community
Excellence in the Community is a team of 10 individuals all of whom began working on the project for no pay other than the “love of the game”. With a focus on quality musicianship and a great diversity of musical styles, their concerts appeal to a broad range of age groups. They are pleased to see many families with young children in their audiences.
Founded in 2005, Excellence in the Community is 501 C3 nonprofit organization based on the premise that Utah’s best musicians and dancers represent a powerful resource for bringing people together and enhancing communities. They work to create more and better performance opportunities for Utah artists. Since their first event in 2005, they have presented over 650 concerts. Since moving to the Gallivan Center in December 2011, all of their concerts have been offered free to the public.
Kenshin Taiko
Kenshin Taiko
Kenshin Taiko is a Salt Lake City based group of drummers who help to keep the spirit of Japanese culture and drumming alive. Various taiko styles exist. Kenshin Taiko tends to be a little more traditional while some of their “cousin” groups are more avant-garde. Their goals include learning, growing together and having fun.
Literary
The Bee
The Bee
The Bee hosts lovingly competitive storytelling on the 2nd Thursday of each month with the occasional curated show and storytelling workshop in between. They believe that stories matter, that we are all storytellers and that everyone has stories to tell. As they continue to grow and evolve, they’re striving to cultivate meaningful community gatherings for storytellers and listeners alike, which contribute to the progression of culture, and where we can be ourselves, together.
Arts and Cultural Organizations
THE BLOCKS is filled with arts organizations who are busy bringing our community the best programming, opportunities, education and art that there is to offer. Discover these organizations and get involved!
Craft Lake City – DIY Festival
Craft Lake City – DIY Festival
Craft Lake City facilitates local arts and crafts programming throughout the year, providing artisans of all mediums with the chance to promote themselves and their work, as well as educating the community on the local DIY culture through workshops, demonstrations, community partnerships, gallery shows and fundraisers. They promote regional spending and encourage the public to shop locally and support independent artisans whose crafts are handmade. Craft Lake City exists not only to support makers but also to inspire future makers and empower individuals to realize their creative potential.
Craft Lake City’s DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Festival® is Utah’s largest local-centric, three-day arts festival, with over 300 local exhibitors—artisans, DIY engineers, vintage vendors and craft food creators—a STEM Building, two stages of music and dance performances, local food vendors, food trucks, a kids’ area, DIY workshops areas, artisan demonstrations, a parenting lounge, a VIP lounge and approximately 20,000 attendees.
Art Access
Art Access
Art Access builds an inclusive and diverse arts community in Utah through creative opportunities for people with disabilities and other marginalized communities, and through public engagement in the arts.
Art Access offers a diverse collection of mission-driven programs, including gallery exhibitions, workshops, artist residencies, literary arts activities, a mentorship program, and community outreach. Many of these programs have benefited from partnerships with local educational, artistic, and public service organizations. They are an affiliate of VSA, which is a program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts through its Office of VSA & Accessibility. They were assigned Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts, & Parks Tier 1 status in 2014, and were awarded NEA Art Works (2014) and Challenge America (2015) grants. They are the only arts organization in Utah that focuses on serving individuals with disabilities.
Art Access embraces the idea that the arts provide the perfect means for people to tell their stories, articulate their identities, and educate a great number of individuals for the common good. They serve a diverse population of adults and children with and without disabilities, as well as the elderly, youth-at-risk, refugees, the homeless, veterans, and other disenfranchised peoples. By engaging the community in educational and artful experiences through their galleries and programming, Art Access continues to play a significant role in helping to eliminate social barriers and create an inclusive world for everyone through art.
loveDANCEmore
loveDANCEmore
loveDANCEmore is a performance journal & dance criticism blog; a producer and curator of dance, placemaking, & new media programs; and a fiscal sponsor for Utah’s independent choreographers.
AIGA – Salt Lake City
AIGA – Salt Lake City
AIGA advances design as a professional craft, strategic advantage and vital cultural force. As the largest community of design advocates, they bring together practitioners, enthusiasts, and patrons to amplify the voice of design and create the vision for a collective future. They define global standards and ethical practices, guide design education, enhance professional development, and make powerful tools and resources accessible to all.
Utah Arts Alliance
Utah Arts Alliance
Utah Arts Alliance is a uniquely dynamic organization. The Mission of the UAA is to foster the arts in ALL forms in order to create an aware, empowered, and connected community.
801 Creative Women
801 Creative Women
801 Creative Women came to life in 2017 in response to the need for more recognition and support of Utah’s many female artists and is a grassroots movement for connecting and supporting creative women in Utah. They advocate, support and collaborate with each other to host events and lend their logo to others. If you have an event that would appeal to this growing, engaged group of females, please send them an email at info@801creativewomen.com
Utah Division of Arts and Museums
Utah Division of Arts and Museums
Utah Arts & Museums seeks to advance the quality of life for all through arts and museum experiences and cultural opportunities. The Division provides more than 500 outreach services, including arts education, professional development, exhibitions, community outreach, and direct matching grants to schools, local arts agencies, organizations, community centers, performing groups, museums, and individuals across Utah.
The Division acts as a state coordinator and advisor on topics of importance to arts and museums communities. The Division also manages the state’s art assets for fine art, folk art, public art, and traveling exhibitions, reaching every county in the state. Utah Arts & Museums is the primary agency in Utah that distributes state and federal funds to stimulate and encourage growth in the creative industries. The funds are appropriated directly for arts and museums by both the Utah State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts. We are a division of the Department of Heritage and Arts (DHA), within the state government of Utah, responsible for the promotion of the arts and Utah museums. We include the Arts & Culture Business Alliance, Utah Office of Museum Services Board and the Utah Arts Council Board. Our goals are to:
- Promote the value and impact of our cultural community
- Ensure access, inclusion, diversity and equity
- Foster sustainable organizations that support community needs
- Serve as a statewide resource hub
- Align the organization to fulfill our vision
- Communicate agency identity
Salt Lake City Arts Council
Salt Lake City Arts Council
The Salt Lake City Arts Council, founded in the late 1970s, was created to ensure that the community established a local arts organization to provide public programming and support for the arts. The organization has developed a balance between producing programs and supporting other arts activities throughout the City through grant funds.
The mission of the Arts Council is to promote, present, and support artists, arts organizations, and arts activities in order to further the development of the arts community and to benefit the public by expanding awareness, access, and participation.
Bad Dog Arts
Bad Dog Arts
Bad Dog Arts is an artist-run nonprofit arts organization located in downtown Salt Lake City. Bad Dog Arts provides programs for youth in our community ages 5-18, by creating a safe space to engage in confidence-building and highly creative activities in the studio, in the classroom, and out in the community. At Bad Dog, they believe art reflects what is possible and that art can inspire and challenge young people to discover their potential and strive for excellence in all facets of their lives.
Salt Lake City Public Library
Salt Lake City Public Library
Salt Lake City’s Main Library reflects and engages the city’s imagination and aspirations and provides ample programming for everyone in our community. A six-story curving, walkable wall embraces the public plaza, with shops and services at ground level, reading galleries above, and a 300-seat auditorium. A multi-level reading area along the Glass Lens at the southern facade of the building looks out onto the plaza with stunning views of the city and Wasatch Mountains beyond. The Rooftop Terrace, accessible by walking the Crescent Wall or the elevators, offers a 360-degree view of the Salt Lake Valley. Spiraling fireplaces on four floors resemble a column of flame from the vantage of 200 East and 400 South. The Urban Room between the Library and the Crescent Wall is a space for all seasons, generously endowed with daylight and open to magnificent views.
The Creative Lab: Level 1
The City Library’s Creative Lab provides a space with dedicated equipment and software to create, edit, and convert digital media projects including, but not limited to, video, audio, photography, and 3D modeling. The Creative Lab is intended for individuals or small groups and provides the community with access to technology resources that they may not otherwise have. The Creative Lab requires users to have a current Basic or Expanded Salt Lake City Public Library card in good standing; however, a library card is not required in order to attend Creative Lab classes. All equipment is for use solely within The Creative Lab.
The Gallery at Library Square: Level 4
The City Library has a long history of supporting the arts through a program of changing exhibits. These exhibits expose thousands of Salt Lake City residents to a wide variety of art media, including paintings, watercolors, drawings, collage, photography, and sculpture.
Public Art in the Main Library
More than one percent of the construction cost of the Main Library was dedicated to public art and has resulted in powerful, unique, whimsical, clever, and spectacular works integrated throughout the entire library complex.
Boston artists Ralph Helmick and Stu Schechter developed a large hanging sculpture titled “Psyche” for the Urban Room. The finished work consists of nearly 1500 small sculptures of books and fluttering butterflies which coalesce into a large, composite human head. The word “psyche” comes from the original Greek, meaning “mind” and “butterfly.” Some of the butterflies sport wings covered with words in twenty different languages, taken from the universal declaration of human rights. Several of the butterflies flutter their wings due to mechanics and a small electric current.
Kinde Nebeker developed a series of whimsical, thoughtful, profound, and poignant quotes that appear in surprising places throughout the building. Nebeker’s talents have been put to use as the building matures, identifying new locations and uses for quotes.
James Charles created a large painting built up in layers, with each new layer affecting our understanding of the previous one. The upper portion of the painting is formed by shaped stretcher bars and covered by a semi-transparent material, a reference to the new library structure. The lower section is a grid of small boxes containing sign and symbol figurative elements, referencing the painting’s concept of the pursuit of knowledge. The painting is found in the Lower Urban Room at the end of the hall leading to the lower entrance of the Auditorium.
Bonnie Sucec and Day Christensen designed “Shards,” large free-standing and hanging glass sculptures which appear as ribbons of color throughout the building.
Ed Dolinger’s work consists of abstract metal panels and elements enlivening the access to the library from the parking garage.
German artist Karl Schlamminger designed the Grandmother’s Attic playroom in the Children’s Library.
Utah Film Center
Utah Film Center
Utah Film Center inspires and engages diverse audiences to initiate conversation and community building through curated film exhibition, educational programs, and artist support. They continually strive to bring our community together through the powerful and efficient medium of film. Their programs raise awareness among and inspire audiences while preserving the cinematic culture in Utah.
They curate and organize two film festivals every year – Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Children and Youth and their longest-running program, the Damn These Heels film festival. In addition to film screenings, the Utah Film Center provides media arts education programs for students and teachers statewide through in-classroom activities, field trips with visiting guests, and accredited teacher professional development.
Utah Cultural Alliance
Utah Cultural Alliance
Since 1980, Utah Cultural Alliance is the statewide advocate and voice of the cultural industries — defined as the humanities, arts, and for-profit creative businesses. For them, advocacy is two-pronged. On one side, they champion culture to elected officials. On the other side, they amplify culture’s presence to the general public, with a particular focus on the contributions they make to Utah’s economic, family, and community life.
Culture Collective Events
Culture Collective Events
Culture Collective Events believes that art can heal the world. Join them for flash mobs and pop-up events designed to bring joy and create human connection! Join the movement by collaborating and following them today!
SpyHop
SpyHop
Spy Hop is a digital media arts afterschool program for students ages 13-19 of all skill levels and aspirations. Gain new skills with the gear you need to bring your artistic vision to life.
Spy Hop’s mission is to mentor young people in the digital media arts to help them find their voice, tell their stories, and be empowered to affect positive change in their lives, their communities, and the world. They envision a world in which all young people possess the skills and mindsets necessary for future success and that their voices are heard and valued in their communities.
Clever Octopus Inc.
Clever Octopus Inc.
Clever Octopus Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering creativity and environmental awareness through art, science, technology, engineering, and math. Their multitentacled approach includes the Clever Octopus Creative Reuse Center and the Octopod mobile outreach vehicle.
Downtown Artist Collective
Downtown Artist Collective
The Downtown Artist Collective is an artist co-op founded by local artists and entrepreneurs, a place for artists and the community to come together through galleries, studio, and learning space located in Downtown Salt Lake City. They strive to create a community where artists can reflect, collaborate, and share in a cooperative environment. Their goal is to provide a space for excellent artists to exhibit work and share skills with each other and the community.
The DAC is an artist-run gallery. Artists staff the gallery and operate all aspects of the business.
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA) advances and elevates the community of contemporary arts and culture, establishing Utah as a leading voice for the spirit of innovation, experimentation and dialogue surrounding the issues of our time.
The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art has been an award-winning aesthetic force and community leader since it was established in 1931. Located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, UMOCA’s rich past has resulted in the creation of a cornerstone for contemporary culture in Utah, providing for artistic experimentation, community enrichment, and connection to the world as it occurs through our related experiences. The Museum strives to be a place where all points of view, experiences, and ages feel welcome to explore the pressing issues of our time through socially relevant art exhibitions and educational programming.
PIK2AR
PIK2AR
Pacific Island Knowledge 2 Action Resources (PIK2AR) is an asset-based community organization whose mission is to help Utah’s Pacific Islander communities flourish through providing culturally-relevant resources, opportunities and services to help build alliances, bridge communities, and provide opportunities. PIK2AR, in collaboration with various community partners, is focused on providing support in the following areas: Economic Impact, Violence Prevention and Cultural Preservation.
Artes de Mexico en Utah
Artes de Mexico en Utah
Their mission is to promote the appreciation of Mexican art in Utah with a vision of a community united by cultural connections. They use the beauty of Mexican art to draw people of all ages, races and ethnicities together to learn more about Mexico, its history, cultures and people. Through the experience of enjoying and learning through art, people find commonalities, which builds bridges and promotes inclusion. They make sure their events are open and comfortable for everyone (and in English, Spanish, or bilingual, as the audience requests). They teach from a historical perspective and include U.S. history and parallels between Mexico/Latin America and the U.S. They especially seek to help young people of Latino heritage to be proud of their heritage and proud of being part of our country and community.
They provide high-quality art education and art activities aimed at uniting our communities by 1) celebrating our rich history as part of Mexico (a fact many deny), and 2) helping Latinos develop pride in our heritage and a sense of belonging. Their programs include: free classes on Mexican/Latino art/history, the state’s only prize for Spanish literature, a Mexican film tour, traveling exhibits about Mexican art/artists, art workshops, and Salón México art talks.
Salt Lake Film Society
Salt Lake Film Society
SLFS presents an amazing 12,000+ opportunities a year in Salt Lake County for residents to enjoy extraordinary film presentations at both the historic Tower and central business district Broadway Centre Cinemas. Our facilities create cinematic events that build bridges for communication within Utah’s continually diversifying population and the changing global milieu. Serving over 250,000 patrons annually. SLFS offers the community dozens of special programs and treats over 26,000 city residents to free film presentations each year.
As the region’s only film presenting venue with permanent facilities for independent film, SLFS serves individuals of all ages, races and socioeconomic levels. With recent program grants from Zoo Arts and Parks, The Hemingway Foundation, The George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, The George Q. Morris Foundation, and The Salt Lake City Arts Council, SLFS has a proven track record of success as both a local business and a non-profit leader.