Utahns have always been proud of our state’s public support for the arts because it is an expression of the value we collectively place on our culture and on our heritage. We have the distinction of having created the first state arts agency in the nation, in 1899, when legislator Alice Merrill Horne initiated the purchase of paintings for a state art collection. Yet step by step this remarkable 125-year-old history is being undermined by bad decisions, the most recent being the plan to close the Chase Home Museum in Liberty Park.
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