Features on public art published in 15 Bytes, Utah’s art magazine.
For all its cranes, new apartments, and redevelopment buzz, the Granary District has always been a place of odds and ends: empty lots the size of moonscapes, century-old warehouses slouching against cinderblock additions, and industrial streets that still bear the ghosts of rail lines. It’s a neighborhood defined […]
Cedar City was always an improbable place. If it hadn’t been for the iron ore deposits in the hills nearby—deposits that Brigham Young wanted to exploit for the fledgling Utah Territory—Mormon settlers might never have come to this particular stretch of the high desert at all. As recent […]
Sometimes your neighbor is just lazy. Halloween ends, the pumpkins collapse, and a plastic skeleton is forgotten in the yard. But take a closer look, because sometimes something else may be going on. In the Liberty Wells neighborhood of Salt Lake City, a skeleton family has settled into […]
Fans of Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing may remember the show’s famous jab at the Mercator projection, a map so ubiquitous we mistake it for neutral. Little could those viewers have known, back in the George W. years, how much that same projection would come to shadow a […]
Park City’s public art program started with an accounting error. David Chaplin was going through the books of the Park City Arts Foundation when he came across a felicitous accounting error. Chaplin, an avid skier, professional artist and instructor at the high school and college level, had moved […]
When Jo Roper came to Utah in the early 1960s, she was already an accomplished sculptor. Trained at Southwest Missouri State College and at Cranbrook Academy of Art, she had spent more than a decade teaching, exhibiting, and working across the Southwest, particularly in New Mexico, where she […]
A new year, and a shared project we’re excited to build together. As we step into a new year, we want to share something we’re especially energized by—and something we see as a long-term, collaborative effort. Utah Art Map (UAM!) is a project rooted in attention, documentation, and […]
At the Pinebrook roundabout of I-80’s Jeremy Ranch exit, Sandy the Crane presides over the landscape with a quiet, attentive dignity. Unlike a typical depiction of a sandhill crane in motion, Sandy is shown seated in her nest, her long neck lifting skyward while her body settles into […]
Sugar House has the name, but it’s West Jordan where they actually grew the sugar beets. In the early days of the Salt Lake Valley, sugar was an expensive import and the pioneers sought a local solution. Under the direction of Brigham Young, the area now known as […]
We snapped these images before the last leaves came down. Titled “Victoriam,” this 70-foot mural by Salt Lake City artist Chuck Berrett spans nearly 2,000 square feet, transforming the façade of a former 1968 medical office building into a sweeping field of botanical movement and layered color. The […]
Over the summer of 2025, the Ballpark neighborhood of Salt Lake City has become an open-air gallery, thanks to the Ballpark Mural Program—a creative initiative that brought ten new murals to walls across the district. “The Ballpark mural program has turned the Ballpark neighborhood into an open-air gallery,” […]
Set against the backdrop of the Taylorsville City Hall campus, the Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center has become a gathering place for both performance and visual art. The center opened in 2021 after years of planning and brings much-needed theater and rehearsal space to the middle and southwest parts […]
For more than a decade, Salt Lake City has been transformed with a colorful explosion of public art projects, street art and murals. (Don’t believe us? Check out our Art Lake City map). GREENbike would like to take that trend mobile with a new blend of art and […]
In the evolving landscape of Salt Lake City’s Granary District, where brick warehouses mingle with new creative spaces, one figure has come to symbolize the neighborhood’s spirit of reinvention: Hoodah, a towering, hand-built wooden troll who watches over the streets from his perch near 400 West and 700 […]
In 2024, Ryan Hymas helped put Santaquin on the map. The art map. The artist, 11 years sober, transformed a late-19th-century pioneer dwelling into an art extravaganza inside and out. When he first began renting the house on Main Street, it was falling apart and full of cobwebs. […]
Every Labor Day weekend, the streets of Payson fill with the smell of fried onions, the sound of marching bands, and the bustle of carnival rides. Onion Days has been the town’s signature celebration since 1925, when Payson’s farmers were famed for the onions they grew in the […]
Two striking new murals rise up along the sides of a parking garage in South Salt Lake’s rapidly changing downtown. Unveiled as part of the 2025 edition of South Salt Lake’s Mural Fest, the works are the result of a long-awaited collaboration between Dutch artist Marcus Debie, known […]
Best known for his colorful, expressive murals across Utah, Matt Monsoon takes a leap into three-dimensional work with his new public sculpture “What We Build Together,” now installed in the heart of Salt Lake City’s Fairpark neighborhood. Commissioned through the Salt Lake City Arts Council’s Public Art Program, […]
If you’ve exited westbound I-80 at State Street lately, you may have caught sight of a striking row of oversized butterflies seemingly pinned neatly across the facade of a new apartment building. Painted to look like a giant entomology display, the new mural at One Burton is hard […]
