Our mission is to build a world-class arts & entertainment venue where our community can gather year-round and enjoy the arts, while offering a unique professional experience for artists, performers, and audiences.
DESIGN CONCEPTS
Featured are renderings and concepts to help spark the imagination of how the High Desert Center for the Arts could look and feel.
Based on momentum and strong interest in the community to build a stand-alone arts and cultural facility, a 1,200-seat flexible performing arts venue in a facility with classroom, education, and artist exhibition and gallery spaces is the most viable option to meet High Desert Center for the Arts goals.
To create a facility that is welcoming and accessible to the community throughout the daytime and evening hours, a concept that includes performance, event, education, visual arts, and community gathering space remains the most viable.
THEATRE PROJECTS
We are collaborating with industry experts to lay a strong foundation for this project.
We consulted with the Denver office of Theatre Projects for the initial stages of developing the High Desert Center for the Arts. Theatre Projects is a globally recognized theatre design consultancy with a reputation for creating innovative and flexible performance spaces. We are thrilled they were able to help us in the Uintah Basin on the High Desert Center for the Arts!
ABOUT THEATRE PROJECTS
Founded in 1957, the company has completed over 2,000 projects in more than 80 countries, including renowned venues like the National Theatre and The Lowry in the UK, Dubai Opera, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the Esplanade in Singapore.
Sample work & clients below:
FEASIBILITY REPORT
These are sample pages from a 70+ page professional feasibility study, which was completed by Theatre Projects and Keen Independent Research (2023). The study highlighted the community's needs and assessed the feasibility of this project for our community.
At the time, our working name was Vernal Arts Center. It has recently rebranded to High Desert Center for the Arts.
Thank you to donors for the 2023 feasibility study: Ashley Regional Medical Center, Taz & Tammy Murray Family, Anonymous (2), and Cindy Williams.
Further study related to operational business planning will be conducted in the Summer of 2025.
Vision
To enrich, enliven, and enhance our community through art and entertainment.
Goals
Values
- Create a state-of-the-art facility in downtown Vernal
- Offer professional services
- Be sustainable
- Be a community partner
- Be accessible and affordable
- Attract out of the area artists, speakers, visitors
- Contribute to the beautification of downtown Vernal
- Provide educational programming and opportunities for youth and families (of any age) to excel and explore
- Unify the arts community and build a gathering place for all
- Celebrate all heritages and cultures
- Provide safe spaces for people to learn, grow, and be inspired
Collaborative, Inclusive, Community Focused, Innovation, Open, Creative, Resourceful, Respectful