Because the Deseret News celebrates its 175-year milestone, we’re taking a look at distinguished arts and leisure figures previous and current who’ve graced the Beehive State with their expertise.
It’s a strong roster that features individuals who have left a giant mark on the state’s tradition — some born in Utah and others who arrived from elsewhere. It contains individuals who discovered a house in Utah, a way of belonging. For a number of celebrities, Utah has been a refuge, an oasis of kinds away from Hollywood.
Right here’s only a sampling of Utah’s arts and leisure celebrities — together with common individuals in music, movie, dance, theater, books and artwork.
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In style music
Singers like Jewel and Brendon Urie from Panic! On the Disco hail from Utah, however didn’t dwell right here lengthy. Under are a couple of musicians and bands which have robust ties to the Beehive State:
The Osmonds
Lengthy earlier than there was Donny and Marie, or the superstardom of The Osmonds within the Seventies, there have been the Osmond Brothers, a barbershop quartet-style act that had its unofficial begin with a efficiency of “Oh Expensive Lord in Heaven” for his or her Latter-day Saint church congregation in Ogden, Utah, because the Deseret News reported in 2018.
The Osmond Brothers started to achieve traction as they carried out for household and church events in and across the Ogden space, in the end resulting in a debut on “The Andy Williams Present.”
And that was only the start. The Osmond siblings, arguably Utah’s most well-known household, have spent a long time within the music trade. However even amid the celebrity and touring and Las Vegas residencies, they nonetheless name Utah residence.
Put up Malone
Post Malone considers Utah an “oasis” away from Hollywood, and has been vocal about his love for the state ever since shifting to the Cottonwood Heights space a couple of years in the past.
“Transferring right here to this wonderful state was among the best issues I’ve performed in my life, apart from have a child lady,” the rapper and singer said on the opening night of his “F-1 Trillion” tour at Utah First Credit score Union Amphitheatre. “I gotta say, Utah is without doubt one of the most lovely locations on the planet, and I’m so grateful and so honored to be a resident right here.”
Even on the top of stardom, the singer has remained linked to his Utah group. He appeared in a video selling the town of Cottonwood Heights, is the face of a salmon pink Elevating Cane’s location in Midvale and performed the national anthem on the 2023 NBA All-Star Sport. He just lately launched his first profession stadium tour at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City.
David Archuleta
David Archuleta, a former longtime resident of Murray, rose to fame in his teenagers after being declared the “American Idol” runner-up in 2008. Thus far, Archuleta stays the highest-placing Utah singer on the present.
The “Crush” singer has launched a number of albums and just lately introduced his first new music in 5 years, due later this summer time. He’ll return to Utah for a present at Salt Lake Metropolis’s The Advanced in September.
Graham Russell, the singer-guitarist in Air Provide, found his love for Utah whereas performing a two-weekend stint in Las Vegas greater than 30 years in the past. He was so surprised by the Wasatch Mountains, he mentioned, that he instantly started taking a look at land.
“(The actual property agent mentioned), ‘I’m going to point out you this, however you received’t prefer it as a result of it’s type of bizarre. The home is round, there’s no proper angles and it’s not even close to accomplished. … Nevertheless it comes with 120 acres,’” Russell recalled.
He purchased it that very day — for $500 an acre.
“Typically (you) make selections on the spur of the second and also you simply really feel it’s proper, and as an alternative of feeling frightened you get enthusiastic about it,” he beforehand instructed the Deseret Information. “We had been very excited. It was an journey and it’s one which’s nonetheless ongoing.”
Russell is energetic in his native music scene — he composed a musical about the Berlin Wall that premiered at Salt Lake Metropolis’s Grand Theatre in 2019, and has been mentoring singers in Utah.
Brandon Flowers
Brandon Flowers hails from Henderson, Nevada, however lived a lot of his youth in Nephi — an upbringing that was a serious affect behind The Killers’ album “Pressure Machine.”
“Many reminiscences of my time in Nephi are tender,” Flowers, who a number of years in the past moved again to Utah along with his household, told RadioX in 2021. “However the ones tied to worry or nice unhappiness had been emotionally charged. I’ve bought extra understanding now than after we began the band, and hopefully, I used to be capable of do justice to those tales and these lives on this little city that I grew up in.”
The Used
A number of years earlier than a band out of Provo, Utah, referred to as Neon Timber burst onto the scene with the pop-rock tune “Animal” and an up-and-coming group named Think about Dragons had an EP launch celebration at Provo’s Velour, a couple of guys within the neighboring metropolis of Orem had been recording demos in a closet, influenced by the grungy sound of Nirvana.
These musicians, which included Utahns Bert McCracken and Quinn Allman, would turn out to be The Used. The band ended up solely enjoying a handful of exhibits in Utah earlier than catching its massive break. Now, it’s celebrating 25 years of being a band with a tour that just lately included a three-night stint in Salt Lake Metropolis.
“We’ve by no means shied away from the place we got here from,” McCracken instructed the Deseret News earlier this 12 months. “It’s all the time been a little bit of some extent of satisfaction for the band.”
Classical music and choir
Maurice Abravanel
Maurice Abravanel, as Carma Wadley wrote for the Deseret News in 2004, was searching for a house.
“The boy who was teased by Swiss youngsters due to his Turkish/Greek origins, the coed who was supposed to check drugs however was drawn to music as an alternative, the musician who got here to America to conduct the Metropolitan Opera orchestra however ended up on Broadway … discovered it in a spot the place he shared neither ethnic origin nor faith with many of the residents, however the place he discovered a standard ardour for music, for arts, for excellence.”
For 32 years, from 1947-1979, Abravanel served because the music director of the Utah Symphony, remodeling it from a group ensemble into one of many main orchestras within the nation. That accomplishment is now honored within the symphony’s residence that bears his identify.
Gina Bachauer
Abravanel was shut mates with Gina Bachauer. The pianist from Greece ceaselessly carried out with the Utah Symphony all through her profession, and was even made an honorary citizen of the state in 1966, per Deseret Information.
Immediately, Bachauer’s connection to Utah’s classical music group continues by the Gina Bachauer Worldwide Piano Basis, and the distinguished competitors that brings top-tier pianists from everywhere in the world to Salt Lake Metropolis.
Tabernacle Choir at Temple Sq.
The Tabernacle Choir shaped lower than one month after the pioneers arrived within the Salt Lake Valley, per Deseret News.
John Parry, the choir’s first director and an early Welsh convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, led 85 Welsh members of the church in a number of musical numbers at basic convention in 1849, because the Deseret News reported.
Over time, the choir has carried out for quite a few U.S. presidents — Ronald Reagan dubbed the group “America’s choir.“ The choir earned a Grammy in 1959 with its rendition of ”The Battle Hymn of the Republic,“ and established a worldwide attain with the longstanding broadcast ”Music and The Spoken Word“ (July 13 will mark 5,000 weeks of steady community broadcasting). The weekly program, which premiered July 15, 1929, was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2010.
Movie and tv
Utah is a well-liked vacation spot for Westerns, Hallmark movies and Disney TV shows and films. Every year, the Sundance Movie Competition brings cinephiles from everywhere in the world to Park Metropolis and Salt Lake Metropolis (though that can finish in 2027, when the competition makes its transfer to Boulder, Colorado).
Philo T. Farnsworth, who was born close to Beaver, Utah, within the early 1900s, is credited with inventing the tv.
Right here’s maybe a lesser-known truth: The primary individual to win an Oscar for finest director, on the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1927, was Frank Borzage, a Salt Lake Metropolis native.
Utah’s historical past with movie and tv is intensive. Under are only a handful of filmmakers and actors who’ve robust ties to the state:
Robert Redford
Robert Redford moved from California to Utah in 1961, he mentioned, for 2 causes: the land and the individuals.
“I got here right here to be a part of one thing,” he instructed the Deseret News in 1996. “It was a spot the place I might see a future. So I dedicated myself to this state and its future for my very own sake and my youngsters’s sake. That’s what introduced me right here.”
In Utah, Redford constructed a legacy impressed by impartial filmmaking and environmental activism. He bought the land now often known as Sundance in 1969 (and bought it a couple of years in the past), and helped launch the Sundance Movie Competition, which for over 40 years has been a cultural touchstone for Utah.
Jared and Jerusha Hess
It’s been an explosive 12 months for director Jared Hess, who discovered a field workplace sensation with “A Minecraft Movie.” Like his debut movie “Napoleon Dynamite” — which started to type when he was a Brigham Younger College movie scholar and would finally go on to have a profitable premiere on the Sundance Movie Competition in 2004 — influences from his Idaho upbringing are peppered all through “Minecraft.”
However immediately, Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess, his spouse and fellow filmmaker, name Utah residence.
Whilst The Hesses tackle blockbuster tasks, they continue to be linked to their local people. The animated quick “Ninety-5 Senses,” which earned the Hesses their first Oscar nomination final 12 months, stemmed from the Salt Lake Movie Society’s MAST program, an initiative that trains and pairs up-and-coming animators with established filmmakers.
Jared Hess has cited Utah filmmaker T.C. Christensen (“Ephraim’s Rescue” and “17 Miracles”) as a mentor and inspiration in his profession.
Katherine Heigl
Katherine Heigl was simply an adolescent out of highschool when she moved to the Los Angeles space, the place she ended up residing for twenty years. After a number of years in Hollywood, the “27 Attire” star realized she wanted “someplace to flee to.”
She discovered that house in Summit County, Utah. And over time, what initially was purported to be a trip spot grew to become a house. Now, Heigl, well-known for her position on “Gray’s Anatomy,” has mentioned that residing within the small city of Oakley is “the right choice” for her household.
Mike Lookinland, who performed Bobby Brady on “The Brady Bunch,” was born in Mt. Nice, Sanpete County, Utah.
As a baby star, he spent nearly all of his youth in Hollywood. However after graduating from highschool, he was prepared for a change of surroundings and returned to his Utah roots.
“I can say looking back that my transfer to Utah on the age of 17 … was an try and run away and get away, as a result of in 1978, Utah wasn’t as established as it’s now,” Lookinland instructed the Deseret News in 2019. “I wished to get out of L.A., get away from brokers and managers and Hollywood and simply be a child within the mountains. I went to the College of Utah and met my spouse whereas we had been each attending the U., and put down roots and haven’t even considered going wherever else. That’s how a lot we prefer it right here.”
Immediately, Lookinland operates a customized concrete countertop enterprise referred to as Simply Add Water in Midvale.
Wilford Brimley
Wilford Brimley, identified for his roles in movies like “The Pure,” “Absence of Malice” and “Cocoon,” was born in Salt Lake Metropolis and lived a lot of his life in Utah. He died in 2020 on the age of 85.
“Even his household says, ‘Wilford was Wilford Brimley from the time he was born to the time he died,’” Brimley’s pal, John Diehl, beforehand instructed the Deseret Information. “He by no means modified for anybody. He by no means modified for the trade — he was who he was. He was his personal man, and that claims loads for that trade, to face quick on who you might be.”
Tan France
Tan France, the style skilled for the favored sequence “Queer Eye,” has had a house in Salt Lake Metropolis for effectively over a decade.
“I fly residence to Utah as a lot as I probably can. Typically I fly residence for like 18 hours simply to see the mountains once more,” he mentioned throughout a 2020 speech at UVU, per the Deseret News.
Ty Burrell
Ty Burrell, identified for his position as dad Phil Dunphy on “Trendy Household,” has had a house in Salt Lake Metropolis since 2008, per the Deseret News. The actor co-owns the Beer Bar restaurant and Bar X on 200 South in downtown Salt Lake; The Consuming Institution in Park Metropolis; and The Cotton Backside in Holladay.
Initially of the pandemic, Burrell and his spouse, Holly, a Utah native, wrote a test for $100,000 that helped set up the net fund Tip Your Server, which raised cash for out-of-work servers within the native restaurant trade, because the Deseret News reported.
Laraine Day
Laraine Day appeared in nearly two dozen MGM movies between 1939 and 1945, per the Deseret News. A few of Day’s roles included the Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 movie “Overseas Correspondent” and the 1943 Cary Grant movie “Mr. Fortunate.”
Day was born in Roosevelt, Utah, certainly one of eight youngsters, and died on the age of 87 in Ivins.
Loretta Younger
Loretta Younger, who was born in Salt Lake Metropolis in 1913, established a wide-ranging performing profession that prolonged from silent motion pictures to tv, and included an Academy Award for best actress within the 1947 movie “The Farmer’s Daughter.”
“Throughout her Hollywood heyday, Younger appeared reverse many of the prime male stars of her time, together with Lon Chaney, John Barrymore, Clark Gable, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Cary Grant and Robert Mitchum,” The Associated Press reported.
Roseanne Barr
Comic Roseanne Barr was born in Salt Lake Metropolis and attended East Excessive, per the Deseret News. Barr has returned to Utah a number of occasions over time, together with in 2018, shortly after the hit revival of “Roseanne” bought canceled.
Gedde Watanabe
Actor Gedde Watanabe, identified for his position in “Sixteen Candles” and voicing the character Ling in “Mulan” and “Mulan II,” was born and raised in Ogden. His mom sewed costumes for productions at Weber State College (then Weber State Faculty), and Watanabe’s first stage look was within the faculty’s manufacturing of “The King and I,” per the Deseret News.
Dance and theater
The dance and theater scenes in Utah are energetic — the state will get tons of illustration on exhibits like “Dancing With the Stars” and “So You Suppose You Can Dance.”
Two dancers with ties to Utah have received “SYTYCD,” and Utahn Thayne Jasperson, an unique “Hamilton” solid member on Broadway who has been with the manufacturing for the complete 10 years, competed on the present again in 2008.
Playhouses are peppered all through the state, from Tuacahn in southern Utah to the Hale Theatre in Sandy to Ogden’s Ziegfeld Theater.
Under are a couple of key figures in Utah’s dance and theater scene:
Willam Christensen
Willam F. Christensen, a Brigham Metropolis native and pioneer in American dance, staged the primary full efficiency of “The Nutcracker” in america with the San Fransisco Ballet in 1944.
Christensen, who established Ballet West in 1963, labored with Abravanel and the Utah Symphony to convey “The Nutcracker” to Salt Lake Metropolis. It has been a Ballet West staple ever since.
Final 12 months, “The Nutcracker” formally grew to become often known as a Residing Historic Landmark by the state of Utah, the primary such designation of its variety within the U.S., per the corporate’s website.
“I had no thought ‘The Nutcracker’ would turn out to be the factor it’s immediately,” Christensen instructed the Deseret News in 2000. “I simply thought I used to be doing one thing good by creating it. However I didn’t understand how massive it could develop into. I’d wish to suppose I did a superb deed with all this.”
Christensen taught on the College of Utah, the place he based the ballet division, and choreographed greater than 50 ballets.
Derek and Julianne Hough
Siblings and dance stars Derek and Julianne Hough each hail from Utah. Rising up, the Houghs educated at Center Stage Performing Arts Studio in Orem — which has produced quite a few award-winning dancers who’ve appeared on exhibits like “So You Think You Can Dance” and “World of Dance.”
Each siblings have been mainstays on “Dancing With the Stars,” however they return to their residence state once in a while for performances. And their father, Bruce Hough— who was on the ballroom dance crew at Brigham Younger College-Idaho — has stayed in Utah and was vying to fill Rep. Chris Stewart’s 2nd Congressional District seat in 2023.
Virginia Tanner
Virginia Tanner, or “Miss Virginia” to her college students, was born in 1915 and grew up in Salt Lake Metropolis. After learning in New York Metropolis within the late 1930s, Tanner returned to Utah and started to show dance within the unique Deseret Gymnasium, in-built 1910 and positioned the place the Church Workplace Constructing now stands, per Deseret News.
Tanner established the Kids’s Dance Theatre on the College of Utah and helped type Repertory Dance Theatre in 1966.
Fred Adams
Thirty years after his start in Cedar Metropolis, Fred Adams established a competition that may reworked the tiny Utah city into a serious arts vacation spot.
A pioneer in Utah’s arts scene, Adams based the Utah Shakespeare Competition in 1961 along with his spouse, Barbara Gaddie Adams. An enormous inspiration in creating the competition — apart from boosting Cedar Metropolis’s economic system and offering actions for summer time vacationers — was to construct upon the humanities legacy that Utah’s earliest pioneers left behind.
“Proper from the start, when it was the state of Deseret, Brigham Younger was selling high quality theater,” Adams instructed the Deseret News in 2014. “I believe in all probability as necessary as any (motive for founding the competition) was to maintain alive this ardour that the early settlers had within the arts, in classical music, in classical literature and particularly within the writings of William Shakespeare.”
The competition obtained the Tony Award for excellent regional theater in 2000.
Will Swenson
Broadway star Will Swenson, who’s married to six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald and starred in Latter-day Saint comedy movies from the early 2000s like “The Singles Ward” and “The R.M.,” comes from the legacy theater household that established The Hale Middle Theater in Orem, which relocated to Nice Grove final 12 months as The Ruth and Nathan Hale Theater.
Swenson was 12 when his household moved to Utah to start out the Hale Theater along with his grandparents — and the household really lived within the theater for six months, per the Deseret News.
Swenson’s Broadway roles have included “110 within the Shade,” “Hair,” “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,” “Les Miserables” and “Waitress.” Most just lately, he starred as Neil Diamond within the jukebox musical “A Beautiful Noise.”
Authors
A number of authors sought to seize life within the American West, Utah included. Under are some key writers who’ve helped convey the Beehive State to life for readers:
Wallace Stegner
Pulitzer Prize-winning creator and historian Wallace Stegner lined the huge American West in his writings — and Utah was by no means too removed from his thoughts.
Stegner attended East Excessive and studied artistic writing and literature on the College of Utah, the place he later taught within the Thirties, per Deseret News.
The Deseret News beforehand reported how Stegner referred to as Utah residence in his essay “At House within the Fields of the Lord,” regardless of spending most of his grownup life away:
“I’ve all the time envied individuals with a hometown. … That’s the reason I’ve been astonished, on a few current journeys by Salt Lake Metropolis, to discover a conviction rising in me that I’m not as homeless as I had thought. At worst, I had thought myself an Ishmael; at finest, a half stranger within the metropolis the place I had lived the longest, a Gentile in New Jerusalem. However a dozen years of absence from Zion, damaged solely by two or three quick revisitings, have taught me completely different. I’m as wealthy in a hometown as anybody.”
Edward Abbey
An occasional Utah resident who lived in Moab, Logan and Inexperienced River, Edward Abbey had a “fierce love” for southern Utah — and a decided dedication to defend that land — that he expressed in a number of books and essays, per Deseret News.
Abbey’s books are prominently featured on the Again of Past bookstore in Moab (“Desert Solitaire” is without doubt one of the retailer’s hottest books). The shop is devoted to writings in regards to the West.
“Ed has performed a lot to assist forge a brand new land ethic for Utah and a brand new aesthetic in land appreciation for an entire era of Individuals,” reads a bit within the Deseret News following Abbey’s demise in 1989. “His message: depart it alone, take satisfaction in understanding the wilderness remains to be there.”
Terry Tempest Williams
Again in 1983, earlier than her writing profession took off, Terry Tempest Williams spoke to the Deseret News about her method.
“The important thing,” she mentioned, “is to see nature in a contemporary gentle, see predictable issues in an unpredictable means.”
The Utah-based creator and naturalist, who grew up in Salt Lake Metropolis, rose to fame along with her 1991 memoir “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place.” That very same 12 months, Newsweek referred to as Williams ”one of the West’s most striking new writers.” Over time, Williams has written in regards to the American West, spirituality and her advocacy for environmental conservation.
Fantasy writers
Utah can also be a hotspot for fantasy writing, together with the next authors:
Blockbuster fantasy author Brandon Sanderson calls American Fork residence, and is closely concerned in his group. Final 12 months, on the FanX conference in Salt Lake Metropolis, he announced plans for a local bookstore and browse from an upcoming e book.
He has given lectures at his alma mater Brigham Young University — where he was roommates with “Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings for a time — and is the inspiration behind the annual Dragonsteel conference in Salt Lake Metropolis.
Different fantasy writers who dwell in Utah embrace Brandon Mull, creator of the “Fablehaven” and “Dragonwatch” sequence; Ally Condie, creator of the younger grownup dystopian trilogy “Matched,” and whose novel, “The Unwedding,” caught the eye of Reese Witherspoon final 12 months; and Shannon Hale, creator of the Newbery Honor recipient “Princess Academy,” and the novel “Austenland,” which impressed the 2013 movie of the identical identify.
“Individuals all the time ask me, ‘What’s within the water in Utah?’” Condie instructed the Deseret News final 12 months, citing the recognition of younger grownup and middle-grade novels. “In Utah, I believe we’re nice about studying all by our lives. I hope that’s one thing we preserve as a group and that we preserve ourselves open to all types of literature.”
Artists
There isn’t any scarcity of artists in Utah. An enormous variety of artists depict the landscapes of the West and the pioneers’ journey throughout the plains.
A number of additionally created murals and different notable art work for Latter-day Saint temples, together with John Hafen, LeConte Stewart, John B. Fairbanks and his son, Avard Fairbanks, whose work contains the bronze cougar close to LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo.
Here’s a sampling of some distinguished artists with robust ties to Utah:
Jann Haworth
Jann Haworth lived in England for 35 years earlier than making her residence in Utah.
In England, she and her then-husband Peter Blake crossed paths with the Beatles and had been commissioned to design the long-lasting “Sgt. Pepper” album cowl, the Deseret News beforehand reported.
She was 24 when she started engaged on “Sgt. Pepper,” a mission that may earn her a Grammy in 1967.
Many years later, in Utah, Haworth started contemplating the opportunity of reimagining the “Sgt. Pepper” album cowl by making a mural in downtown Salt Lake Metropolis titled “SLC Pepper” that celebrates scientific development over celeb.
Charles Roscoe Savage
Charles Roscoe Savage, a Nineteenth-century photographer who lived in Salt Lake Metropolis for many of his life, “tracked the expansion of this small Western city because it grew to become a serious American metropolis … a visible report of a contemporary metropolis rising from the desert,” Joe Marotta wrote in a bit for Deseret Magazine.
Savage is probably most identified for his 1869 photographs that seize the linking of the primary transcontinental railroad at Promontory Level.
C.C.A. Christensen
One among C.C.A. Christensen’s most notable works, “Mormon Panaroma,” got here to life in Utah, the place he emigrated from Denmark after becoming a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The sequence of greater than 20 oil-on-canvas work tells the early historical past of the church.
“His might be essentially the most unique and earliest expression of Mormon artwork,” Anthony Christensen, proprietor of Anthony’s Superb Artwork and Antiques, instructed the Deseret News in 2010.
Cyrus Dallin
Cyrus Dallin, a sculptor from Springville, was 29 and had simply returned to Utah in July 1891 after seven years at college again East when President Wilford Woodruff of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proposed a fee: create the angel statue for the almost accomplished Salt Lake Temple.
Dallin was skeptical in regards to the mission, however in the end determined to do it after some convincing from his mom, per the Deseret News.
“I take into account that my ‘Angel Moroni’ introduced me nearer to God than something I ever did,” he mentioned of the fee, per Deseret News. “It appeared to me that I got here to know what it means to commune with angels from heaven.”
Minerva Teichert
Born in North Ogden, Minerva Teichert grew to become an achieved artist who received first place in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ centennial artwork contest — successful that in the end led her to turn out to be the primary lady to color a temple mural, the Deseret News reported.
In 1947, Tiechert painted a virtually 4,000-square-foot mural within the Manti Utah Temple. She continued to color Latter-day Saint-themed artwork all through her life, together with 42 work that depict tales from the Guide of Mormon.
Pilar Pobil
Pilar Pobil’s largest piece of art work, a 12-foot portray, hangs within the lobby of the humanities constructing on the College of Utah.
The acclaimed painter from Spain got here to Salt Lake Metropolis in 1957. Pobil usually opened her brightly-colored home in the Avenues neighborhood to younger college students, fellow artists and the group, internet hosting fundraising occasions, artwork courses and the annual occasion, Artwork in Pilar’s Backyard.
In a function on PBSUtah, Pobil’s daughter shared her perception that artwork saved her mom from tragedy in adolescence — the artist was 9 years previous when her father was killed within the Spanish Civil Warfare.
The legacy of Pobil, who died last year at the age of 98, lives on in a humanities scholarship that bears her identify on the College of Utah. Her works are on show all through the state.
