With our In Plain Site byline we feature publicly viewable art, both official and street art, throughout the state of Utah.
Her nom de plume should be your first hint that something a bit psychedelic is going on. Atentatmente una fresa (Mindfully a strawberry) is Mexican artist Aline Herrera’s professional moniker. It sounds a bit like a late ’60s psych band. Under it, she has decorated football equipment, musical […]
Whether by accident or by design, the 2022 iteration of South Salt Lake’s The Mural Fest has created a metaphorical demarcation line for the ancestral lands of the Ute and the Shoshone: it’s Haven Ave. in South Salt Lake. On the south side of the street, Rafael Blanco […]
Rian Kasner says that with their new mural, painted on the south side of Apex Brewing in South Salt Lake, they were inspired by how people would feel when they read the words, “Darling, you are a work of art.” The one-story mural features stenciled images of five […]
Against a two-storey, rainbow colored-background, the profile of a Native American in a feathered headdress stares northward. To the right is the text of a Ute prayer: Earth teach me to remember kindness as dry fields weep with rain. The mural, located on AMI Roofing’s south wall, was […]
We’re frequently posting news on murals, street art and public art projects in the Salt Lake City area — capitol city, location of our headquarters and all that. But other municipalities in Utah are not willing to sit idly by while SLC paints its walls. Certainly not Provo, […]
Over the past ten years Gary Swanson has completed a couple dozen interior and exterior murals in the Salt Lake City area, including Gallenson’s Gun Shop, Fat Cats Bowling, Purgatory Bar and Settebello Pizzeria. His latest mural is on the north side of Caputo’s Market & Deli […]
Chris Peterson has a studio in Holladay, but his mural practice has taken him all across the Salt Lake Valley and further afield in the American West. As part of Visit Salt Lake’s “West of Conventional” campaign, Peterson recently completed a mural on the east side of the […]
As part of their West of Conventional Mural project Visit Salt Lake is unveiling ten new murals created across the Salt Lake Valley. The largest is probably Bill Louis’ mural on the south wall of the Hobby Lobby at Valley Fair Mall in West Valley City (3601 South […]
For much of the year, the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy (9575 S State State) has served as a vaccine center in the fight against COVID-19. A new mural on the outside of the building’s entrance serves as another sort of community builder. Traci O’Very Covey and […]
Chris Peterson (@chrispetersonstudio) is at work on a mural on the south side of the Cameron Wellness Center, which will be visible in all its visual splendor from the parking lot of the United States Post Office at 1953 South 1100 East. The mural features peacocks, which have […]
The mural appears on the south wall of The Shop, a co-working and living space at 350 East 400 South. Created by Philadelphia-based artist Phillip Adams, the work is inspired by “Pink Floyd,” a pink flamingo who escaped from Tracy Aviary in 1988 and made a seasonal home […]
North Carolina native Joseph Toney has made Utah his home in part by leaving his mark across the urban landscape with a series of indoor and outdoor murals in Orem, Cottonwood Heights, SLC, Park City and South Salt Lake. Toney may be best known for his sharp, linear […]
The pins on the CV map of Miles Toland’s career are as far flung as Mexico, India, Australia, France and Canada. This weekend he has added a pin in the City of South Salt Lake in Utah. Toland grew up in the artistic incubator of Santa Fe, and […]
As part of Mural Fest 2021, Himed and HOKZYN are hard at work on the mural on the south side of Ta’Contento, 2280 South West Temple. Discover more public art in the Salt Lake City area at our Art Lake City map: In Plain SiteWith our In […]
With their annual Mural Fest, South Salt Lake is a city on the move, and in case you haven’t noticed, Hayley Barry is spelling it out for you. In large letters. On colorful walls. Barry, who operates as Type Affiliated, has been a sign painter for years. She […]
“Painting murals and doing art for public enjoyments is honestly a dream come true for me,” says Brooklyn Ottens, who has created a mural at Bonwood Bowl (43 W. Oakland Ave.) in collaboration with Matt Monsoon as part of South Salt Lake’s 2021 Mural Fest. “I never wanted […]
Encounters with cougars seem to becoming more and more common. Videos of hikers and trail runners in Utah making their way away from aggressive cats, all the while trying to convince them they will not make a good meal, have gone viral online over the past couple of […]
