The Art Castle is a project by Utah Arts Alliance to acquire, preserve, renovate, and activate the historic 120-year-old 15th Ward Chapel located at 915 West 100 South to create a community gathering space, an immersive art attraction, and a regional draw for those that would like to experience and participate in new emerging art forms. The Arts Castle project will be an incredible driver for economic development and regional tourism draw for the State of Utah.
Utah Arts Alliance (UAA) was founded in 2003 with a mission to foster the arts in all forms in order to create an aware, empowered, and connected community. The UAA serves an average of over 250,000 individuals in person and over 1M people via our online, televised, and radio programming annually. The UAA is one of the most significant administrators of independent Cultural Facilities in the State of Utah with seven venues that include Counterpoint Studios, Alliance Theater, Arts Hub, Dreamscapes, Urban Art
The Historic 15th Ward Chapel is a beautiful old Castle-like chapel and exemplar of Victorian Gothic revival architecture. It was built in 1900 and was previously used for the 15th Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City – with the cultural hall addition to the west of the chapel being built in 1931. The church sold the chapel in the late 1960s.