About Us
Mountain Arts and Music’s mission is to Support the Creative Arts in Ogden Valley. Most of all, our goal is to help our community experience the joys of discovering their artistic and musical talents. For those pursuing these passions professionally, we help to sustain artists and musicians with local economic opportunities.
We support the creative arts through:
• Art Workshops and Classes such as drawing, watercolors, textile plant dyeing, and much more.
• Opportunities for musicians to perform and for artists to exhibit (and sell) their work.
• Open mic and music jams for musicians to gain confidence experience playing on stage and open
studio events that bring the community together in a low-key setting to jam, perform, and work on art together.
• House concerts for local and traveling musicians in the Ogden Valley.
• Business resources for creatives such tech training and access to programming through the State Division of Arts
& Museums.
• An annual one day Arts and Music Festival in Huntsville with live music, and art vendors.
• Weekly summer Open Arts & Music where participants learn to do water color painting, musicians participate in
open mic and kids can art projects.
• Support for local businesses looking to host music events (e.g., brunch at Peddlers).
• Art Classes for Valley Children such as after school art club at Valley Elementary and weekly classes for home schoolers.
• Community Art Projects such as The Ogden Valley Planet Tour in partnership with the Huntsville
Astronomical and Lunar Observatory and Compass Rose Lodge.
Mountain Arts and Music is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. We are supported through donations and grants. We are grateful for the support of our donors. ​​
Funding Sources
We have been grateful for the fundraising assistance provided by the Community Foundation of Ogden Valley (CFOV), which provides matching funds to our nonprofit organization. Any donations to Mountain Arts and Music qualifies for matching funds at the end of the summer. This has been invaluable for our operations and for facilitating our applications for other matching grants through other organizations. We are grateful to the individual donors who facilitate our CFOV efforts.
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We are grateful to the Weber County RAMP program for matching funds for our events. These funds have helped sponsor our first workshop series, our Arts and Music Festival, and our OPEN ARTS & MUSIC summer program.
We received funding from Utah Humanities for support of the Monastery Film Screening in April 2019.
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We are also grateful to the Utah Division of Arts and Museums for providing funding for our first summer of OPEN ARTS & MUSIC. We have also received a "Capacity Building" Grant and most recently, two years of General Operating Funds. Their support for our work has been very valuable.
