Utah Arts Alliance (UAA) believes that art is for everyone. Going on 15 years, the Urban Arts Festival , presented by UAA, will take place at The Gateway Aug. 30.

“It was about creating the kind of world we want to live in,” Derek Dyer, founder of UAA, said. “And that’s the kind of world that has artists living in our local community and them being able to make a living off of doing what they do.”

Dyer was an artist himself when he and some colleagues were growing up in Salt Lake City. He wanted a place where he could showcase his art, but his options were slim. This is initially what brought UAA to light, establishing the organization in 2003.

“The intention was to build the program support for artists that were lacking when we were coming up,” he said. A few years later, when the

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