Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts



Museum admission is free. 

HOURS

Thursday: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Friday: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Saturday: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Chase Home will be closed on the following dates:

March 21 - 22, 2025

April 3 - 4, 2025




PLANning YOUR VISIT

The museum is located in the center of Liberty Park in Salt Lake City, Utah.

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

Explore current and upcoming exhibitions at the museum. 

FOLK ART WORKSHOPS

Learn, decorate, or create folk art crafts through this monthly series.

LIVING FOLK ARTS EDUCATION SERIES

Learn and engage with folk arts through your school or organization.

Community Resources

The museum offers guided tours and educational activities for all ages.

Contact the Museum

Reach the information desk or staff at the museum. 




    About the Museum

    The Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts is the only museum in the country dedicated to displaying a state-owned collection of contemporary folk art. It features objects made by Utah artists from the state’s American Indian, rural, occupational and ethnic communities. The Museum offers a snapshot of Utah’s heritage and contemporary culture. The Chase Home, built more than 150 years ago in a traditional hall-and-parlor style from adobe bricks, is a fine example of 19th century folk art.

    Established in 1976, the Utah Folk Art Collection contains more than 450 pieces of traditional arts and crafts from the state’s European, Asian, Latinx, Pacific Islander, and African communities. As a critical part of the State of Utah Alice Merrill Horne Art Collection, it includes paintings, sculptures, textiles, woodcarving, metalwork, saddles, beadwork, and more.


    Our Mission

    Chase Home Museum of Utah Folk Arts brings together Utah's diverse cultures and communities to preserve and celebrate their traditions.

    We strive to accomplish this mission by providing and creating a space where various groups of people can engage with folk and traditional arts through exhibitions, workshops, guided tours, school field trips, and community events. The Chase Home Museum hosts a variety of events in partnership with community organizations that include: artist visits, demonstrations, meet-ups, concerts, and performances.




    Planning Your Visit


    Chase Home Museum is always free and open to the public during posted hours.

    The ground level has two exhibition galleries as well as a timeline with information about the history of Liberty Park, the Chase family and the Chase Home. There are two exhibition galleries on the second level that are only accessible by stairs. The museum also houses a small library of folk and traditional arts related resources that are available for browsing while at the museum.


    Museum Hours

    The museum is open Thursdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.


    Contact

    You may reach the information desk at 801.245.7285 during open hours.


    Directions

    The Chase Home Museum is located in the middle of Liberty Park in Salt Lake City, Utah.


    To visit, enter the park from either 900 South or 1300 South and follow the signs to parking lots near the center of the park. From each parking lot, there are sidewalks leading to the museum. 

    The entrance to the museum includes a ramp, and the first floor is wheelchair accessible, offering two galleries and a history timeline of the Chase Home. The second level is only accessible via stairs. There are no public restrooms. For questions about location, hours, and accessibility, please see the contact information below



    Map of Liberty Park indicating location of Chase Home Museum



    Exhibitions


    The Chase Home Museum is always free and open to the public during posted hours. The ground level has two exhibition galleries as well as a timeline with information about the history of Liberty Park, the Chase family and the Chase Home. There are two exhibition galleries on the second level that are only accessible by stairs. The museum also houses a small library of folk and traditional arts related resources that are available for browsing while at the museum.


    Geontological Survey of the Big Field

    Elpitha Tsoutsounakis


    Dec. 14, 2024 - March 15, 2025

    The Geontological Survey of the Big Field imagines alternative relations to local territories through pigments, printmaking, and traditional handcrafts. The exhibition is inspired by research on local archives, pioneer histories of the Chase Farmstead, 18th-century maps of Salt Lake City, as well as observations of water, geology, and human movement between the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch Front. Tsoutsounakis interprets this assemblage of research through drawing and the binary logic of filet crochet to realize – and resist – the ubiquitous grid through ochre collected from the Wasatch valley. The survey conveys relationships between life (bios) and nonlife (geos) through artwork that centers materiality, domestic labor, and care through the creative practice. 


    Throughout the exhibition in the living room of the Chase Home – where early settlers once “gathered and danced to the fiddle” – various pieces of the show representing five-acre blocks of the “Big Field” will be unraveled on a great spinning wheel and then stitched into new forms drawn by members of the community. Join us at the museum with the artist throughout the show for ochre workshops and public unravelings of some of the pieces, where you can offer your own images of the Big Field to be reflected in the exhibition. Watch our social media for dates and details!

    ochre and crochet swatches



    about the artist


    Elpitha Tsoutsounakis (she/her) is a Cretan-American designer, printer, and founding faculty in the Division of Multi-disciplinary Design at the University of Utah. She directs the Field Studio Geontological Survey, or FSGS, a design research collective thinking with Ochre and other lithic dimensions. Visit the FSGS archive at unknownprospect.org for past survey installations.



    LIVING FOLK ARTS EDUCATION SERIES


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    Our program, Living Folk Arts for Kids and Adults, is free and allows interested learners in schools, arts and community organizations, and museums to actively learn and engage in a variety of folk arts found throughout Utah. Participants can choose to schedule a wide range of traditional arts workshops at the Chase Home Museum in Salt Lake City, or request a workshop at the location of their choice. We are thrilled to offer these workshops and look forward to learning about and celebrating folk art with you!

    Guidelines

    • Each location can request either to have an assembly presentation or a single class visual arts workshop. Requests will be reviewed case by case to determine if an artform/artist can accommodate an assembly.
      •  ***Visual arts workshops typically can only accommodate a single classroom/group***
    • Teaching artists can have up to two workshops per year through the Living Folk Arts program.
    • Priority will go to schools, teachers, and organizations that did not take part in the program during FY2024 (August 2023-June 2024).

    To request a workshop

    Explore the Folk and Traditional Arts section of our Teaching Artist Roster Directory and fill out the form below to let us know what types of workshops you’re interested in and where you’d like the workshop to take place. 
    Please reach out to Jenna Ehlinger ([email protected] or 801.953.3859) or Elisha Condie ([email protected] or 801.245.7285) with any questions.

    Request a Workshop



    Community Resources


    The Chase Home Museum, as part of the Utah Division of Arts & Museums, can be a resource for community engagement and workshops. A gallery located on the first floor may be used as a space to facilitate engagement with contemporary folk arts, traditional arts, and artists.

    Throughout the year, the museum hosts a variety of events that include:

    • Temporary exhibitions by local artists
    • Hands-on activities geared towards children
    • Workshops facilitated by artists where participants learn the history and techniques of different traditional arts

    Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for the latest announcements about events hosted in our community gallery. If you are looking for a space to facilitate coinciding engagement, please contact us through email with an inquiry.




    GUIDed Tours & Field Trips

    The Chase Home Museum offers guided tours and educational activities for groups of all ages. The museum is a wonderful destination to learn about local communities, traditions, and arts. Tours and field trips can be tailored to the interests and comprehension level of any group. We also offer educational activities for school groups to help students apply what they learn in the museum. Tours typically take 30-60 minutes.


    Tour Request Form


    Questions?


    Chase Home Museum
    Information Desk
    801.245.7285

    Jenna Ehlinger
    Museum Manager
    801.953.3859

    Ian Hallagan
    Folk Arts Coordinator
    801.645.2821

    Elisha Condie
    Museum Assistant
    801.245.7285