Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts
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| Established | 1987 (built 1856) |
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Liberty Park 600 East 900 South Salt Lake City, UT 84105 |
| Coordinates | 40°45′23″N 111°53′55″W / 40.7563925°N 111.8985922°W |
| Director | Jennifer Ortiz and Adrienne Decker |
The Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts is operated by the Utah Division of Arts & Museums, and has been the permanent home of the Utah State Folk Arts Collection since 1987. It is a venue for artists from Utah's various communities to display their traditional craft, music, and dance with fellow Utahans and international visitors. In addition to exhibits and concerts, the Chase Home contains an archive of recordings and photographs that document Utah's traditional culture.
It is located in Salt Lake City, and the only state museum of its kind in the United States.
In the early 1850s Mormon leader Brigham Young and his partner Isaac Chase built a flour mill and a two-story adobe house in the center of a 110-acre (0.45 km2) pioneer farm. In 1888 that farm became Liberty Park and today both structures still remain. The mill and Liberty Park have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, or NRHP.
The mountains, valleys and deserts of Utah have long been the home of native Indian peoples. Today's American Indians no longer need to build shelters from brush, sew clothing from animal skins or weave household containers from local vegetation. Yet many Native Americans perpetuate these skills by creating handmade objects, used at community celebrations or sold to art collectors, that express their cultural identity.
The most common art forms produced are objects crafted from locally gathered materials. Some weave willow into utilitarian basket forms handed down from antiquity or into brightly colored trays used both in modern-day ceremonies and sold through the tourist art market. Others transform wood, willow, buckskin and beads into cradleboards that are still used to carry infants. Many artists make clothing, jewelry and accessories using brain-tanned buckskin decorated with glass beads, porcupine quills, shells or sequins for community members to wear at pow wows and other native events. And Utah's native artists also transform wood and hides into drums, courting flutes and rasps.
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