The Mission of the Utah Arts Festival
The mission of the Utah Arts Festival Foundation, Inc. is to produce the annual Utah Arts Festival, for the purpose of promoting the arts and enhancing the quality of life in Utah.
The Utah Arts Festival strives to maintain the highest artistic quality and excellence.
The Utah Arts Festival presents a wide variety of performing, visual, and literary arts, and seeks to present the best Utah artists and their contemporaries worldwide. The Festival presents several core events annually: an Artists Marketplace; a Culinary Arts program; and a Performing Arts program. The Festival augments these core events each year with new and creative programs, artists, performances, and site elements, thereby ensuring each event is an innovative and unique celebration of the arts. To preserve its reputation for artistic excellence, all artistic work presented by the Utah Arts Festival is either juried or curated by professional artists and arts administrators.
The Utah Arts Festival's programming emphasizes contemporary art.
The Utah Arts Festival's emphasis on contemporary art implies a willingness to accept artistic risk by presenting artists, forms and subject matter that are innovative or non-traditional, provided that work is seen to adhere to critical standards of aesthetic quality and overall artistic integrity. In all artistic media and genre, the Festival encourages among its patrons an appreciation of and interest in fine art. The Utah Arts Festival fosters the creation of new artwork through competitions and commissions to artists and desires, whenever possible, to be a premier venue for introducing artists to Utah audiences. The Festival also values the interaction of patrons with artists, and seeks to provide opportunities for dialogue and education, both within the artistic community and between artists and the general public.
The Utah Arts Festival strives to exert a positive impact on the community.
The Utah Arts Festival is a community event which encourages the participation of all the people of Utah, both as patrons and participants. The Utah Arts Festival provides affordable access to the event by maintaining as low an admission price as possible, and provides subsidized and complimentary admissions for children, seniors, and disabled and low-income populations. The Festival relies on and acknowledges the value of a common bond between various sectors of the community, and seeks to foster the joint efforts of volunteers, government, business and non-profit agencies in working for the community's well-being. The Festival seeks to serve the community by being a year-round impetus for programming and activities in the arts. At every event, the Festival will exercise responsibility and adherence to the law in serving alcoholic beverages.
The Utah Arts Festival is a professionally administered, fiscally responsible organization.
By maintaining and increasing the financial stability of the organization and dealing soundly with all fiscal responsibilities, the Utah Arts Festival Foundation, Inc. seeks to establish its own longevity and contribute to the economic growth and well-being of the community. As a non-profit, community-based organization, the Utah Arts Festival Foundation, Inc. will uphold principles of good faith and business ethics in all its relations with patrons, sponsors, vendors and colleagues.
