Features on public art published in 15 Bytes, Utah’s art magazine.
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 […]
“Sanación a Madre Tierra” (healing of mother earth), Roots Art Kollective’s contribution to South Salt Lake’s Mural Fest 2021, emerged out of the difficult times of 2020. “We all went through some really hard times last year,” says RAK, “so we asked our followers on Instagram to give […]
Bill Louis’ contribution to South Salt Lake’s Mural Fest 2021 is all about family. Louis started as a graffiti artist but says as he started a family he wanted to “change up the my old ways and start beautifying the community with murals.” His mural on the south […]
This beautifully executed mural by Roots Art Kollective, featuring an image of artist Frida Kahlo, appears on the side of a Mexican bakery in Taylorsville: 5423 S. 4015 West. Discover more art with our Art Lake City map In Plain SiteWith our In Plain Site byline we […]
Along the Jordan River Parkway, a grieving family has turned this nondescript piece of infrastructure into a memorial. Accessible by foot or on bike, it is across the canal from the Khadeeja Islamic Center, 1019 W Parkway Ave, West Valley City. Discover more art with our Art […]
