Celebrating 50 Years!
In 2025, Utah Humanities is celebrating 50 years of public humanities programming that cultivates connections, deepens understanding, and explores the human experience. As part of our 50th Anniversary, we’re collecting 50 oral history interviews featuring board alumni, former staff members, grantees, community leaders, and program partners. We are also launching a public awareness campaign, “I am the Humanities,” that asks the question, “How have the humanities influenced your life?” We’ll also gather our humanities community together for a “family reunion” to celebrate the impactful work we have accomplished together over the last 50 years and look ahead to the next 50 years and beyond.
Stay tuned for additional details and 50th Anniversary events and stories!
We All "Do" The Humanities
Our 50th Anniversary is a celebration of the humanities! Established in 1975 as an independent non-profit, we offer public humanities programs across the state that involve thousands of people and organizations. The humanities focus on how people experience and document their world, and they help us to understand the meaning of all human expression such as literature, history, art, and thought. As the study of human experience, the humanities can connect us to ourselves and each other in deeply meaningful ways. In fact, if you are human, you already "do" the humanities. Everything you read, think, create, and do adds to the human experience and can be looked at for interpretation and understanding.
Through our partnerships in offering public humanities programs, we help to create a Utah where mutual respect is prevalent, difference is celebrated, diverse perspectives are welcomed, and civic dialogue is rooted in curiosity. We believe that communities can be strengthened and improved through the humanities.