{"id":30980,"date":"2000-12-10T13:07:28","date_gmt":"2000-12-10T19:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=30980"},"modified":"2025-07-24T12:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:19:33","slug":"helper-arts-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/helper-arts-music-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Helper Arts &#038; Music Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/banner2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30981\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/banner2.jpg\" alt=\"banner2\" width=\"600\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/banner2.jpg 980w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/banner2-300x92.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/banner2-900x276.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Helper Arts and Music Festival has been an annual event, and the only event of its kind, in Carbon County for the last 20 years.\u00a0 As the community\u2019s premier event, the festival brings together our city, town and region for an exciting and unique art experience that has also served as a catalyst for reviving the once struggling town of Helper.\u00a0 The festival is attended by thousands from Utah and the surrounding Western states, a popular destination of gathering family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the festival is primarily to expose and promote working artists by engaging them with display opportunities and art competitions in a variety of mediums, including painting, sculpture, dance, and music.\u00a0 For the younger generation of artists, we host an annual youth art exhibit through our Art Smart classes, coordinated through our local school systems, and hands-on education experience at our Children\u2019s Art Yard.\u00a0 The open-air art market has only quality, handmade works for sale by exhibitors that have been juried into the show.<\/p>\n<p>website:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.helperartsfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> http:\/\/www.helperartsfest.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helper Arts and Music Festival has been an annual event, and the only event of its kind, in Carbon County for the last 20 years.\u00a0 As the community\u2019s premier event, the festival brings together our city, town and region for an exciting and unique art experience that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":30981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2480,2483],"tags":[2628],"class_list":["post-30980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-southeastern-utah","category-southeastern-utah-arts-festivals","tag-helper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/banner2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 21:37:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94610,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30980\/revisions\/94610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}