| Updated: April 17, 2021, 12:25 a.m.
A nonprofit arts group has unveiled its big plans to convert a 121-year-old church into a performance and creation space on Salt Lake City’s west side.
The Utah Arts Alliance gave tours to the media and public Friday of what it’s calling the Art Castle, in a Victorian Gothic building that was once the 15th Ward meetinghouse for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Art Castle, said Derek Dyer, the alliance’s executive director, will be an incubator for creative businesses and groups. It also will be a community art center, including an outdoor sculpture garden and amphitheater. And it will include an immersive art attraction, similar to the walk-through exhibition Dreamscapes that the alliance now runs at The Gateway.
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Dreamscapes at The Gateway is meant to pull visitors into a different world. The immersive art experience is so popular, Utah Arts Alliance Executive Director Derek Dyer said it sells out every weekend. It s kind of like a dreamland. It s just beautiful, and just a really fun experience, he said.
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Behind locked doors of a decades-old Salt Lake City secret
Behind locked doors of a decades-old Salt Lake City secret
and last updated 2021-02-17 23:32:35-05
SALT LAKE CITY â Just a couple blocks off busy North Temple Street on Salt Lake Cityâs west side, sits an architectural gem.
It was built around 1900 by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and served as the 15
th Ward up until the late 1960âs.
But for the last 40 years or so itâs been used as a recording studio.
âCarole King had recorded there, and a lot of big people had recorded there, and theyâd just live in the apartment up above,â said Bryan Hofheins, a musician, composer, and owner of Non-Stop Music and L.A. East studios which operated out of the church up until a couple years ago.