Crossroads: Change in Rural America

Granary Arts, 86 N Main St, Ephraim UT

Snow College, Karen H. Huntsman Library, Ephraim, UT

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Granary Arts invites you to join us for the opening reception of two new exhibitions on Thursday, October 24, 2024 / 6-8pm. The Smithsonian Institution’s “Crossroads: Change in Rural America” on view at Snow College Karen H. Huntsman Library, and “Connected to the Land” a group exhibition on view at Granary Arts.

Event is free and open to the public.

Granary Arts, 86 N Main St, Ephraim UT

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Granary Arts invites you to join us for Community Conversation: Connected to the Land, moderated by Micol Hebron on Friday, November 1, 2024 / 7pm. Come listen to local community members responding to the prompt, “What is Your Connection to the Land?” in a unique and collaborative live event highlighting the experiences of women in rural Utah.

Attendees are invited to bring a simple object that expresses their connection to the land. These items will be exchanged at the end of the event, please bring something you are willing to give away, and plan to go home with something new. This can be a rock, poem, flower, drawing, recipe, dirt, etc. anything that connects you to the land.

After the main event, everyone is invited to add their own stories to the community exhibition, What’s Your Story? These responses will become part of our gallery exhibition, displayed on a common wall.

Snow College, Noyes Building, Founders Hall, 150 College Ave, Ephraim, UT

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Granary Arts invites you to join us for a lecture by Utah Humanities scholar Greg Smoak on Friday, November 8 / 11:30am located at Snow College Founders Hall. Utahns embrace a rural identity despite most of our state’s population being urban and most of its land being public. Come learn more about the tension between the ideals versus realities of life in rural Utah as change – past and present – affects its communities.

Snow College, Noyes Building, Founders Hall, 150 College Ave, Ephraim, UT

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This is an open call for Sanpete and Utah history! Community members are invited to bring photos, letters, recipes, and other items of personal and historical significance, past and present. The documents will be digitized and added to the online collection, “Peoples of Utah Revisited.”

Snow College, Noyes Building, Founders Hall, 150 College Ave, Ephraim, UT

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Granary Arts and Utah Museum of Fine Art invites you to join us for a free community workshop, Recording Data as Art with Virginia Catherall, on Wednesday, December 4, 2024 / 3:30-4:30pm. Come learn to track and record data as art at this all-ages family art activity.

Granary Arts, 86 N Main St, Ephraim UT

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Granary Arts invites you to join us for “What’s Your Story?” a collaborative and interactive community exhibition showcasing local stories. Viewers are invited to add their story to the exhibition, responding to the question, “What is Your Connection to the Land?” visually or textually. These responses will become part of our gallery exhibition, displayed on a common wall.

Granary Arts, 86 N Main St, Ephraim UT

Come listen to the stories of individuals living in the Sanpete Valley. The interviews focus on the joys and challenges of life in rural Utah. Residents were interviewed by Utah Public Radio as part of “Crossroads: Change in Rural America,” a traveling Smithsonian exhibition.

Snow College Karen H. Huntsman Library, 150 College Ave, Ephraim, UT & Granary Arts, 86 N Main St, Ephraim UT

Come learn about the exhibitions, “Crossroads: Change in Rural America” and “Connected to the Land.” Docent led tours available by request. To request a tour, please submit this form .

Granary Arts, 86 N Main St, Ephraim UT

Granary Arts Fellow Rhonda Lauritzen tells the story of the Ephraim Relief Society Granary, an oolitic limestone structure built in the 1870’s for the purpose of storing wheat inventories collected as part of the historic grain saving program run by the women’s organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints called the Relief Society. The building is now a locus for creative activity and the home of Granary Arts.

Granary Arts, 86 N Main St, Ephraim UT

The story of Carl Christian Anton Christensen, a Scandinavian immigrant and Mormon pioneer artist known for his historical narrative paintings – visual records of early church history, unique depictions of pioneer settlements in the West, and his colloquial representation of work and community in Sanpete Valley.