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Read below for Volunteer Opportunities.
Our Volunteer Team
Our Volunteer Coordinator, Miss Kaye (she is a retired school teacher!) and Assistant Coordinator, Thom Christman, work closely with a group of dedicated Volunteer Captains to help our volunteers have a great experience in their duties on site. Some of our captains and volunteers having been returning to the Festival year after year as volunteers…some have been with us for 15+ years. In fact, Miss Kaye has been with the Festival for 25 years and Thom has been with the Festival for 10 years.
Get your office-mates or a group of friends together and come down and take a shift pouring sodas, face painting or working as booth sitters for the Artist Marketplace. It’s a great way to get involved in the largest summertime community event! There’s a list of job duties and descriptions in this section and the shifts are usually four hours.
Volunteer Opportunities
Please note: You will required to sign a Utah Arts Festival Volunteer Agreement.
The Festival has volunteer opportunities that suit just about anyone’s skill level and interest. Particularly interested in the visual arts? Be a booth sitter at the Artist Marketplace, giving the artist a break to get a bit of rest or food. Handy with a hammer or screwdriver? Help us build the event or tear it down! Check out the list and descriptions below and come play with us!
Set Up - Build the Festival (age 16+)
Wear your grubbies and help us build the Festival! We start the Friday before the event begins and work right up to the opening day on Thursday to get everything ready for our guests. Help us build the stages, put scaffold together for the entrance gates, hang fabric and signs, set up booths, paint. If you’re not afraid of a little hard physical labor come and join us!
Shifts: 8 am – noon / 1 pm – 5 pm
Set Up - Climbing Crew (age 18+)
Willing to climb scaffolding? We need climbers to help put up scaffold for entrance gates and hang fabric. Must be able and willing to climb scaffolding up to 35 feet high. Must also be willing to participate in safety training and wear a harness while working and follow all instructions provided by our tech crew.
Shifts: 8 am – noon / 1 pm – 5 pm
Festival Greeters (age 16+)
If you've been coming to the Arts Festival for years, share some of your knowledge with fellow patrons as a Festival Greeter. Greeters are needed inside the entrance gates to welcome patrons, distribute festival maps and provide general directions to activities, artists and music and performance schedules. You must be 16 or older to help us as a Festival Greeter.
Shifts: Noon – 3 pm / 3 pm – 6 pm / 6 pm – 9 pm
Artist Marketplace Booth Sitter (age 16+)
Enjoy meeting people? This is a great way to help out our visual artists by giving them a break in their long day, refill their water bottles or get a bite to eat. You don’t have to sell their art, you just hang out in their booth and tell the patrons the artist will be back in a few minutes.
Shifts: Noon – 3 pm / 3 pm – 6 pm / 6 pm – 9 pm
Fear No Film Short Film & Video Festival (age 16+)
Love film? Come help out with the Film Program inside the City Library’s auditorium. Films run from noon to 11 pm and volunteers work closely with Topher Horman, the film coordinator with anything he needs to help make his program run smoothly.
Shifts: Noon – 3 pm / 3 pm – 6 pm / 6 pm – 9 pm
Beverage Booths (age 12+ for soda; age 21+ for wine/beer)
This is a great opportunity for groups, friends, or organizations to volunteer together. We need volunteers to pour sodas, beer and wine. You must be 21 years old to pour beer or wine and at least 12 to pour sodas.
Shifts: Noon – 4 pm / 3:30 pm – 7:30 pm / 7 pm – 11 pm
Art Yard – Face Painting – Toddler Zone (age 12+)
If you're a kid at heart this is where we need your talents! Come help the nonprofit organizations as they create hands-on projects for children to work on at the Art Yard. The Face Painting Booth is a great way to get your kids involved with volunteerism! Have your 12 year old (or older) get a group of friends together and come down and help paint faces! Enjoy spending time with the littlest patrons of the arts? Help out at the Toddler Zone – the tiny place for tiny tikes to hang out and just play, play, play!
Shifts: Noon – 3 pm / 3 pm – 6 pm / 6 pm – 9 pm
Strike/Tear Down (age 16+)
Yes, it only takes us 2 days to strike the entire event! Come help us take everything down and put it away for next year. This job involves lots of physical labor.
Shifts: 8 am – noon / 1 pm – 5 pm / 6 pm – dark
Volunteer Procedures
Check In
Check in at the Volunteer Headquarters (located on 400 South west of main gate between State Street and 200 E) and our Volunteer Captains will take you to your assignment. Please arrive 15 minutes before your scheduled shift time. Wear comfortable shoes and sunscreen. It’s usually hot in Utah in the summertime, but we have been known to get an occasional summer thunderstorm rolling through in the late afternoons, so bring a light jacket if the forecast is for rain. Please leave your valuables in your car or at home as we do not have lockers. Don't forget to bring the Volunteer Agreement included in your schedule confirmation email.
For set up, strike, and artist load-in, please check in at the on-site Festival offices located on the north side of the Leonardo Building.
Parking
We encourage our volunteers to use TRAX to get to the Festival and it will drop you off right in front of the Festival’s Main Entrance on 400 S and 200 E. Please be aware of TRAX schedules and know when the last train runs if you are staying late as there are no extended TRAX hours this year.
Amenities
All volunteers get free admission into the Festival on the day they work. Working a late shift? Come down early and check in at the Volunteer HQ, enjoy the Festival and then report back for duty. Volunteers also receive a Volunteer T-shirt and complimentary sodas and snacks.
Sign Up!
INDIVIDUALS: We are now accepting applications for the 2011 Utah Arts Festival. Please note: You will required to sign a Utah Arts Festival Volunteer Agreement.
GROUPS: If you wish to schedule a group (5 or more people) to volunteer, please email Miss Kaye or Thom at volunteers@uaf.org.
Complete the Volunteer Interest Form now!
