Stories

How Patrick Willie rediscovered his heritage, one hoop step at a time. By Ellen Fagg Weist | Photography by Samuel JakeAdditional photography by Natalie Behring “What does one hoop represent?”...

Volunteers record and guard the state’s precious archaeological sites. By Ellen Fagg Weist | Photography by Keith Johnson TOOELE VALLEY > This morning’s fog makes everything look mysterious as we...

How a mystery on the University of Utah campus led to surprising findings about the state’s early medical training By Ellen Fagg Weist This is a hand of a laborer:...

Artists and arts groups reinvent themselves as the economy stutters to reopen By Ellen Fagg Weist A musician performing on your sidewalk. Artists posting new works in their yards and...

When UtahPresents shows were canceled in the spring, Executive Director Brooke Horejsi seized the opportunity. If an audience couldn’t be invited to Kingsbury Hall, she asked, could the space be...

Most exhibitions at St. George’s Sears Art Museum are months in the planning, with artworks that are meticulously hung and arranged. But instead immediacy was the inspiration for “COVID-19 Pops-Up...

Jeff Whiteley says he started to grieve when the Excellence in the Community concert series was forced to pause in late March — until the nonprofit’s founder hit upon a...

ALONE TOGETHER FILM FEST Film students graduating into a pandemic will face the most difficult job market in years, while many screenings of their works were canceled due to COVID-19,...

When Moab’s community radio station closed its building in mid-March, the station first turned to an automated system, which it usually relies on for overnight programming. After a week, KZMU...

By the third reiteration — or was it the fourth? or fifth? — of a summer concert series in the COVID-19 era, the Holladay Arts Council decided to keep plans as...

Using front yards as an outdoor art gallery, like a progressive dinner, was the aim of “Lawn Gnomes 2020,” a partnership between Ephraim’s Granary Arts and Salt Lake City Utah...

Utah’s state library shipped books for the blind all over the country during the pandemic By Ellen Fagg Weist | Photography by Todd Anderson On the phone, Ruth Levi, a...