Utah’s cultural industry continues to bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic, but the recovery has been uneven across various sectors.
The cultural industry bounced back “almost completely” in 2021, though some sectors hadn’t recovered to pre-pandemic job levels.
He added while it seems people missed the community aspect of arts, they were “a little slow to get back to hanging out with a bunch of people breathing on them for a while.” That matches what Matt Castillo, the arts and culture division director for Salt Lake County, has seen in the past few years. Salt Lake County oversees the major downtown Salt Lake CityRecovery from the blow the pandemic made to the cultural industry has been “a little bit quicker than we expected, but it has been uneven,” Castillo said.
Even venues with enough space weren’t consistently open. A spike in cases in late 2020 led Salt Lake County Arts and Culture to close its venues again and reopen them with limited capacity in early 2021. For example, while motion picture and sound recording jobs in Salt Lake County increased 11.1% between 2019 and 2021, jobs in museums and parks saw a 20.9% drop, publishing saw an 18.3% drop and performing arts jobs decreased by 10.7%.
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