Experience the Festival Like Never Before
Donations Make the Festival Possible
Your donation doesn’t just unlock perks, it helps bring the Festival to life and supports the community behind it.
The Utah Arts Festival is a vibrant celebration of community and creativity—live music, poets and storytellers, film screenings, graffiti art, and an artist marketplace featuring exceptional visual artists.
It’s a place to discover inspiration, connect with others, and celebrate art in all its forms.
Your donation empowers artists and brings dynamic, accessible arts experiences to life.
Join the community of supporters who help make the Utah Arts Festival one of Salt Lake City’s most beloved cultural traditions.
Friends with Benefits (FWB) Giving Levels
FRIEND:
$50
Two general admission tickets
ADMIRER:
$100
Four general admission tickets
GROUPIE:
$250
Two Friend for a Day Passes*
ENTHUSIAST:
$500
Two FWB Weekend Passes*
FANATIC:
$1,000
Four FWB Weekend Passes*
SUPERFAN:
$2,000
Four FWB Weekend Passes*
Four Friends for a Day Passes*
BEST FRIEND:
$3,000+
Four FWB Weekend Passes*
Four Friends for a Day Passes*
Invitation to the Artist Marketplace reception
Exclusive experiences such as meet-and-greet with musicians or performers
*FWB Weekend Passes or Friend for a Day Pass include access to and are required to enter both the VIP Patio and Hospitality Patio.
Your VIP Access
- Experience the Festival from the best seats in the house with comfortable, shaded seating
- Access to premium beverage bars
- Space to gather with friends and enjoy the Festival
Hospitality Patio
- Patio open 5pm-11pm daily
- Find the Hospitality Patio at northwest corner of City & County Building (new location)
- Patio includes wine, beer, and cocktails for purchase along with complimentary food and sodas
VIP Patio
- Patio open 5pm-11pm daily
- Find the VIP Patio adjacent to the main Festival Stage on 200 East
- Includes premium view for music headliners
- Patio includes wine, beer, and cocktails for purchase
Custom Friend
Looking for something a little more tailored? We are happy to create a custom Friends with Benefits experience that fits your interests, group size, or level of support. Whether you are hosting clients, gathering friends, or celebrating your longstanding connection to the Festival, our team can design a package with personalized access, hospitality, and recognition.
To explore a custom package, please reach out to development@uaf.org or (801) 322-2428, extension 1. We would love to work with you to create a Festival experience that is uniquely yours.
The Friends Legacy
The Friends with Benefits program was created to support the Festival’s legacy and longstanding reputation in the community. We rely on generous donors to cover our operational costs (current cost of tickets to actual needed cost of tickets) to bring art, music, and community together in this cultural tradition, which has thrived for 50 years and is truly the last and largest multidisciplinary arts festival in the United States.
Your donation helps carry us forward into the next 50 years. Prices and benefits are subject to change from year to year as the Festival, community, and economy evolve. Our goal is to enhance community and provide meaningful community experiences to you. These changes help us remain financially viable, and we are deeply grateful for your understanding and continued support.
We are deeply grateful for your continued patronage and for being part of the community that sustains the Utah Arts Festival.
More Ways to Give
Friends Who #GiveaCrap
Be a Friend Who Gives a Crap!
Donate $75 and you'll have the opportunity to put a name or brief personalized message internally and externally on one of the fantastic Porta-Potties at the Utah Arts Festival. You'll also receive two general admission tickets to the Festival and a commemorative foam Porta-Potty as a reminder that you truly give a crap about something important.
Your donation is tax-deductible and all proceeds benefit the Utah Arts Festival. For questions contact development@uaf.org.
Planned Gifts
Thank you for considering a legacy gift to the Utah Arts Festival in your long-term financial plans. Your gift will have a large impact on the arts community in Utah by strengthening and securing the future of the Utah Arts Festival for generations to come.
Planned gifts can be in many forms:
- Bequests
- Life insurance
- Real Estate
- Trusts
- Annuities
- Pooled income funds
For more information on how to establish a planned gift, contact our development team at development@uaf.org or 801-322-2428 or your estate planner.
Gift Acceptance Policy
Acceptance of any contribution, gift, or grant is at the discretion of the Utah Arts Festival. The Utah Arts Festival will not accept any gift unless it can be used or expended consistently with its purpose and mission and can be held or sold for economic gain.
No irrevocable gift, whether outright or life-income in character, will be accepted if under any reasonable set of circumstances the gift would jeopardize the donor’s financial security and by making a donation to the Utah Arts Festival you acknowledge and agree that your donation does not place your financial security at risk.
The Utah Arts Festival does not provide advice about the tax or other treatment of gifts. Donors should seek guidance from their own professional advisors to assist them in the process of making their gifts.
The Utah Arts Festival will accept donations of cash, publicly traded securities, and valuable personal property. Certain other gifts, invaluable personal property, in-kind gifts, non-liquid securities, real estate, and contributions whose sources are not transparent or whose use is restricted in some manner, must be reviewed by the Gift Acceptance Committee* prior to acceptance due to the special obligations raised or liabilities they may pose for the Utah Arts Festival.
The Utah Arts Festival will provide acknowledgments to donors meeting IRS substantiation requirements for property received by the charity as a gift. However, except for gifts of cash and publicly traded securities, no value shall be ascribed to any receipt or other form of substantiation of a gift received by the Utah Arts Festival.
The Utah Arts Festival will respect the wishes of those relating to the desire to remain anonymous. With respect to anonymous gifts, the Utah Arts Festival will restrict information about the donor to only those staff members with a need to know. The Utah Arts Festival is excited and honored to accept donations intended for specific purposes. If you wish to make a donation restricted to a particular use or purpose, please contact our Development Director to make sure that your donation can be made in the way that both accomplishes your giving objectives and is most beneficial to the Utah Arts Festival.
The Utah Arts Festival may accept any designated contribution, grant, bequest, or devise consistent with its general charitable and tax-exempt purposes. As so limited, donor-designated contributions will be accepted for special funds, purposes, or uses, and such designations generally will be honored. However, the Utah Arts Festival reserves all right, title, and interest in and to and control of such contributions, as well as full discretion as to the ultimate expenditure or distribution thereof. Further, the Utah Arts Festival will acquire and retain sufficient control over all donated funds (including designated contributions) to assure that such funds will be used to carry out the Corporation's tax-exempt purposes.
The Utah Arts Festival will not compensate, whether through commissions, finders’ fees, or other means, any third party for directing a gift or a donor to the Utah Arts Festival.
Multi-year pledges will be accepted, but for no more than five years. Donors should complete and sign a gift or pledge agreement form detailing the purpose of the gift, payment schedule, and recognition preferences.
* Gift Acceptance Committee
The primary role of the Gift Acceptance Committee is to review proposed gift transactions that are out of the ordinary. The Committee shall be made up of one member of the Board of Directors to be appointed annually, the Executive Director, the Development Director, and an attorney or other professional persons as relevant to the nature of the potential gift (e.g. real estate professional, insurance specialist, CPA, financial advisor, etc.).
