From the desk of Katy Knight | UMA Board President [2025-2026]   Collecting More Than Objects In my experience,...

  From the desk of Katy Knight | UMA Board President [2025-2026]   This year's  Utah Museum Month &...

  From the desk of Katy Knight | UMA Board President [2025-2026]   This week the  Territorial Stateho...

From the desk of Katy Knight | UMA Board President [2025-2026]   At times the world around us can feel chaotic and...

From the desk of Katy Knight | UMA Board President [2025-2026]     I want to wish everyone happ...

From the desk of Katy Knight | UMA Board President [2025-2026]   As the incoming president of the Utah Museums...

Dear Utah Museums Association members and friends, This month, I’d like to take the opportunity to talk to you...

Think of a time when you felt like you didn’t belong. Perhaps you weren’t invited to a friend’s party, picked for a team,...

As this is my first blog post, I want foremost, to thank you for welcoming me as your new UMA president. I am truly honore...

Dear UMA Members and Friends: Conference,  conference, conference… Network, network, network! Spring 2015 is cert...

Dear UMA Members and Friends: Our annual event to promote museums in our state -  Museum Advocacy Day  -...

Dear UMA Members and Friends: Recently, I had the pleasure of visiting the ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center in B...

Dear UMA Members and Friends: The whirlwind of midterm election season has drawn to a close and with it brings possible...

Dear UMA Members and Friends: It is my pleasure to submit this first blog post as UMA’s new President. I’d l...

Hello  my wonderful museum friends!!! It’s September!!!  School  is back in session, the days are get...

Hello  my wonderful museum friends! It’s August and Congress is in recess and in their home districts. The week of...

Hello wonderful museum friends, I hope you are reading this blog post somewhere where it’s nice and cool! We...

Hello wonderful UMA members, I hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day, Mother’s/Father’s Day and are ready for a busy su...

Hello museum friends, I had the honor of representing the UMA at the Mountain West Conference for the Arts May 1 and at...

Ruth White and I had a wonderful opportunity to represent the Utah Museums Association at a meeting convened by IMLS (Inst...

According to an African proverb, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” That sort of flie...

Dear UMA members, First off, I would like to say thank you for your vote of confidence as I assume the mantle of Presid...

In the last eight years of his career, Elvis Presley had given up movies for live concert performances. He criss-crossed t...

I have the privilege, or some would say the punishment, of working with the Boy Scouts in my community.    Every...

Living in Cedar City and traveling up north as often as I do, I have a lot of time to reflect and ponder the mysteries...

This may come as a shock to many of you, but we have a new Superman . . . and  Batman . . . and...

Elvis slept here . . . well sort of. O.K. not actually, but he did fly over the city once. As a museum curator and...

I must confess something. Fall is my favorite time of year. I enjoy the cooler temperatures, the UMA conference, and my bi...

I heard some bad news recently. A monument to my youth will soon be no longer. I grew up in Riverdale, within walking dist...