What’s Your Story?
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 – Friday, January 17, 2025
What’s Your Story? is a collaborative and interactive community exhibition showcasing local stories. Viewers are invited to add their story to the exhibition visually or textually.
Using the cards and drawing materials provided, create a small work of art or story that expresses your personal connection to rural place. Responses can be drawn or written. If you’d like, respond to one of the following questions:
· What is your connection to the land?
· Imagine this town in ten years. What does it look like?
· What have rural communities lost that most matters to you and why?
· Think of a rural place you have lived in or visited. What was memorable about this place?
These responses will become part of our gallery exhibition, displayed on a common wall.
Header Image: Journey Stories, Granary Arts, 2014
What’s Your Story? is part of the Museum on Main Street exhibition, “Crossroads: Change in Rural America,” a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and Utah Humanities, touring in partnership with Granary Arts.
10/9/24 - 1/17/25 Connected to the Land
A group exhibition exploring women’s narratives rooted in the land and rural places. Included Artists: Odette England, Ray Farmer, Carly Jakins, Jane Roberts DeGroff, Elizabeth Stone, Elpitha Tsoutsounakis
Location: Granary Arts, main gallery
10/19 - 12/15/24 Crosorads: Change in Rural America
“Crossroads” takes a broad look at the characteristics of rural America. It explores how an attraction to and interaction with the land formed the basis of rural America, and how rural communities and small towns evolve. It also highlights how change has transformed rural America and how rural Americans are evolving for the future.
Location: Snow College, Karen H. Hunstman Library
10/24 Exhibitions Reception / 6 - 8pm
Opening reception of two new exhibitions, 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.
Location: Granary Arts and Karen H. Huntsman Library
11/1 Community Conversation: Connected to the Land / 7pm
Moderated by Micol Hebron. 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
Location: Granary Arts
11/8 Crossroads Scholar Lecture / Greg Smoak / 11:30am
Come learn more about the tension between the ideals versus realities of life in rural Utah as change – past and present – affects its communities.
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.
Location: Snow College, Noyes Building, Founders Hall
11/16 Scan and Share / Utah Historical Society / 11am - 3pm
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.”
Location: Granary Arts, CCA Christensen Cabin
12/4 Art Workshop: Recording Data as Art / Utah Museum of Fine Art / 3:30 - 4:30pm
Join us for a free community workshop, Recording Data as Art with Virginia Catherall. Come learn to track and record data as art at this all-ages family art activity.
Location: Granary Arts, CCA Christensen Cabin
School Tours / Snow College + Granary Arts
Come learn about the exhibitions, “Connected to the Land” and “Crossroads: Change in Rural America,” Docent tours available by request. Click here for scheduling and availability.
Crossroads: Change in Rural America has been made possible in Ephraim by Utah Humanities and Granary Arts presented in partnership with Snow College Karen H. Huntsman Library. Crossroads is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and state humanities councils nationwide. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.