Located along 900 South and centered on 200 East, the Maven District is home to Salt Lake City’s largest community of female-owned businesses. It’s appropriate then, that the bevy of murals that have gone up on the north-facing parking lot on the west corner of the intersection are […]
Billy Hensler has created murals for a variety of clients: municipalities, hospitals, dentist offices, private individuals. And the subject and style can change with each client, from twinkly, light-filled landscapes ala Thomas Kinkaide to dark, chiaroscuro fantasy villains. Wildlife is a recurring motif in many of his murals. […]
AM Source 2285 S. Main Street South Salt Lake What will South Salt Lake’s downtown area look like in two decades? Who knows. As Evan Jed Memmott’s mural reminds us, “Nothing Lasts.” Right now, however, the area is going through a revival, with hundreds of new residences popping […]
Shades Brewing 154 W. Utopia South Salt Lake He’s got a BS in Interpersonal Communications from the University of Utah, an MFA in Drawing & Painting from Utah State University, and a KA (kick ass) from the streets. Raise a glass to Chuck Landvatter’s for his latest mural, completed for […]
Gustin Hydraulics 151 W. Commonwealth Ave. South Salt Lake Life got you down? Feeling under pressure? Ann Chen’s mural on the face of this high-pressure hydraulics shop may be just the message you need — “Change Starts With You.” The mural was completed as part of South Salt […]
“Aspen Forest,” which fronts the new Utah Department of Environmental Quality Technical Support Center in Salt Lake City, is the latest in a number of successful public art projects by Salt Lake City artist Day Christensen. With a degree in art and design from Brigham Young University and […]
Traveling south on Main Street, it’s hard to miss Trent Call’s eclectic homage to the Utah Jazz. There are plenty of Easter eggs to be found in the mural that celebrates the team’s 40 seasons: longtime fans will be able to pick out the evolution of the team’s […]
A half-mile of masking tape, gallons of exterior paint, dozens of rollers and brushes and some not-entirely-successful lessons in operating a scissor lift — that’s what it took Jann Haworth to create her recently completed mural facing the Pictureline parking lot in Salt Lake City’s Granary District. Haworth’s […]
Fluid Picasso-esque metal figures, Mad Max steam-punk vehicles, astronauts basking in the Utah air, and insects the size of your children (Honey, I shrunk the kids!). Take a walk down Broadway to view these identified “Flying Objects”—the works of established and emerging Utah sculpture artists. The ongoing project is […]
Originally, this piece by Greg Ragland was installed in an empty lot in the Central Ninth neighborhood, where the city had helped local residents organize a community garden. Since then, the neighborhood has gone through a revival, so the lot is no longer empty, nor a garden, and the sculptures […]
Discover the artistic side of Salt Lake City. Over the years, we have reported on and captured the publicly viewable artwork that crops up all over SLC, from the official public art installations to street art and even the strange things that pop up in people’s yards and […]
Because of the new apartment complex it faces and in whose windows its vibrant colors are reflected, this long mural at the 300 East Station of the S-Line is likely to become known as the Zellerbach Mural. Its host, though, is actually the warehouse for Kimball Electronics. The […]
You can get a cup of joe and adopt a Fritz, Mittens or Socks at this little cafe in Salt Lake City’s Central City neighborhood. This side of the building has been decorated with an appropriately feline mural. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map In […]
Other parts of the Jordan River Parkway are festooned with official public art like sculptures and installations, but the artwork here at 300 South is a little more DIY. On the side of the Wernli Inc. Refrigeration building, murals depicting life and wildlife along the river have gone […]
This colorful mural, featuring work by Trent Call (left wall) Gailon Justus aka Sweet Needles (central), and Mike Murdock (right), along with a community garden, has transformed a boarded-up building and helped to revitalize this nook of the Granary District near the Central Ninth Market. In 2015, ground was broken […]
