Utah’s Art Shows, Art Festivals, Art Events, Exhibits, Artists, Art Galleries, Art Museums, and Photographers
The MPC is Brigham Young University’s archaeological and anthropological museum. The University now has four museums – the Paleontology museum, the Museum of Art, the Bean Life Science Museum, and the Museum of Peoples and Cultures (MPC).
Museum of Peoples and Cultures
Brigham Young University
700 North 100 EastProvo, Utah
(801) 422-0020
The Utah Cultural Celebration Center is dedicated to enriching and strengthening communities by promoting the expression of the arts, education, opportunities for economic development, and the celebration of human diversity.
The center is committed to:
The Center is designed to strengthen a sense of unity among the people of the Wasatch Front by highlighting cultural wealth and creativity and offering a forum to celebrate our residents’ talents in music, dance, performance, and visual arts. Providing a place where family and friends can come together, and where cultural arts are nurtured, promoted, and celebrated.
Utah Cultural Celebration Center Event Calendar
1355 West 3100 South West Valley City, Utah 84119
As Utah’s premier venue for contemporary art, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art is alive with activity: exhibitions, films, conversations with artists, community projects, a new Locals Only Gallery, live performances, a cafe, an art shop–and more!
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
20 S W Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84101
BALLROOM
WALTZ, FOXTROT, TANGO, QUICKSTEP, VIENNESE WALTZ
LATIN & RHYTHM
SALSA, RUMBA, CHA-CHA, SAMBA, MAMBO, SWING, WEST COAST SWING, JIVE, MERENGUE, BOLERO, PASO DOBLE.
COUNTRY WESTERN
POLKA, AZ & TX 2-STEP, CHA-CHA, WALTZ, EAST-WEST & OKLAHOMA SWINGS.
DISCO & CLUB
HUSTLE, NIGHT CLUB TWO-STEP
PRIVATE & GROUP DANCE CLASSES * ALL AGES * NO PARTNER NECESSARY * SINGLES & COUPLES WELCOME
NO PARTNER NECESSARY – ALL-AGES – SINGLES & COUPLES WELCOME
Ballroom Utah Dance Studio
3030 Main St #200-300, South Salt Lake, UT
Located in the grand lobby of the old Rio Grande Depot, the Rio Gallery was established as a service to Utah artists, providing a free venue for emerging as well as established artists to gather and educate the community through their artwork.
It was a busy place – with the huffing of locomotives pulling in and out, the echoing hubbub of the grand lobby, steps hurrying across the marble floor, the calls of baggage handlers, passengers at the ticket counter, people chatting in the coffee shop.
Built for $750,000, the depot was the main jewel of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad—and a worthy challenge to new Union Pacific Depot, which cost a mere $300,000. Railroads were big business in those days. And a fierce competition raged between the D&RGW’s George Gould and UP’s E. H. Harriman.
The main Rio Grande line ran to Denver through Carbon County and Grand Junction. Spur lines ran to several mining areas and to Ogden. But the Union Pacific controlled the rail traffic to the Pacific. So George Gould decided to build his own line to San Francisco. He succeeded, but the line cost twice as much as he had planned–$75 million—and sucked his family’s fortune dry. He lost his railroad empire shortly after.
Utah Division of Arts & Museums Website
Gallery Event Calendar
Rio Grande Depot History
300 South Rio Grande Street
Salt Lake City, Utah 84101
The Utah Center for Arts hosts art exhibits from renowned and emerging artists with over 9000 sq ft. of exhibition space. The UAA (Utah Arts Alliance) also hosts poetry readings, independent film screenings, live music, dance performances, plays and more.
Utah Arts Alliance
SLC Arts Hub
663 West 100 South
Salt Lake City, Utah
Workshops, classes, apprenticeships, school and community programs primarily in the visual arts
Bad Dog inspires youth to experience the power and freedom to imagine, dare, and create new possibilities
Bad Dog Arts
824 S 400 W B129, Salt Lake City
The Center for Documentary Arts (CDA) is dedicated to using the tools of documentary work – photography, oral history, film making, narrative writing, radio broadcasting, and visual art – to help Utahns look inward to better understand our state’s past and present and to gaze outward to discover our connection to the nation and to the world. CDA creates and supports projects that examine and honor the cultural, spiritual, and ethnic identities of our nation’s diverse population in forums wherein we can acknowledge differences, establish common ground, and hence, build community.
Center for Documentary Expression and Art
243 E 400 S, SUITE 301
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
(801)-355-3903
School and community-based visual arts classes, workshops, and projects.
The Utah-based nonprofit Children’s Media Workshop produces a substantive and sustainable change in a short period of time by working across the staff and curriculum using best learning and management practices. Using the 21st Century language of media, literacy is advocated in all its forms, from language and mathematics to art and technology. The focus is on building authentic learning communities that are empowered to apply critical thinking and basic skills to the latest educational and societal realities.
As a group of highly dedicated educators and community builders, we combine real-time classroom experience with collaborative team-building techniques that honor individual potential while capitalizing on our extensive backgrounds, from the beginnings of Sundance to having created the largest successful teacher training in US history, the Visual Learning Workshops.
Our basic premise: nothing is more fun than learning.
