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Careers at the UMFA

We are hiring two managers for the Learning & Engagement department at the UMFA! If you enjoy teaching and want to create engaging programming for students of all ages, then these positions might be for you!

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Utah Museum Month
July 1 - 31, 2025

Utah Museum Month is an annual campaign to raise awareness of the 260+ museums, zoos, gardens, and heritage sites that preserve and share the rich and diverse stories of Utah communities.

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The Museum Café
Open 7 days a week! Serving food Monday - Friday, 11 am - 2 pm

The Museum Café is a campus oasis and a hub for conversation with friends or casual meetings with colleagues. Relax with a fresh cup of coffee, iced lemonade, or a made-to-order seasonal beverage.

Indoor and outdoor seating is available.

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At the Heart of It All
the UMFA's new blog

Curator Interview: Peter Hay

Relative Truths is the latest in a series of exhibitions featuring the work of contemporary artists who are faculty of the University of Utah Department of Art and Art History. The exhibition will be on view at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts from September 26, 2025 to January 4, 2026. It will feature over 30 new works by faculty artists covering a vast variety of mediums, styles, and subjects. Peter Hay was selected in 2024 to curate this special exhibition and has been working with the UMFA and University faculty to select works and develop themes that bring the exhibition together in a larger context.

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Year of Compassion
Saturday, July 12, 2025 | 12–2 pm | Free

Gateway to Himalayan Art introduces the main forms, concepts, meanings, and religious traditions of Himalayan art. Though the exhibition's time at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts is drawing to a close, Gateway is on view through July 27, and there are new beginnings ready to be celebrated! Join the Museum and the Utah Tibetan Association for a special program to celebrate Gateway to Himalayan Art and His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Year of Compassion.

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Gateway to Himalayan Art
Closing Soon!

Gateway to Himalayan Art introduces the main concepts and meanings of Himalayan Buddhist devotional art, a practice developed and evolved in Tibet, India, Nepal, and Bhutan, as well as interrelated Mongolian and Chinese traditions.

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Mining the West
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Mining the West, a collaboration between J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, brings together art, archival documents, and other primary source material from the nineteenth century through today to illustrate the technological, economic, social, and environmental implications mining has had, and continues to have, on the American West and its people. 

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Time Trip
Utah, Spiral Jetty, and Robert Smithson in the 1970s

In this digital exhibition journey to the time that Spiral Jetty took shape while, on the other end of Great Salt Lake, the University of Utah’s landscape underwent its own kind of transformation.

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