The Center for Documentary Arts (CDA) is one of the founding partners in The Leonardo, an art, culture and science center in downtown Salt Lake City. The Leonardo will open to the public in 2009.

CDA is dedicated to using the tools of documentary work — photography, oral history, film making, narrative writing, radio broadcasting, and visual art — to help Utahns look inward to better understand our state's past and present and to gaze outward to discover our connection to the nation and the world. CDA creates and supports projects that examine and honor the cultural, spiritual, and ethnic identities of our state's and nation's diverse population in forums wherein we can acknowledge differences, establish common ground, and, hence, build community.