Features on public art published in 15 Bytes, Utah’s art magazine.
For more than two decades, 15 Bytes has been documenting the artworks that shape Utah’s public landscape—sometimes formally commissioned, sometimes improvised or unsanctioned, often overlooked. From bronze monuments anchoring small towns to wheat-paste experiments in alleyways; from full-scale murals wrapping warehouse walls to whimsical objects that quietly appear […]
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 […]
Covering approximately 14,000 square feet, this collaboration by Utah artists Miles Toland and Joseph Toney is believed to be the largest street mural in the state. Painted on the west side of Astra Tower—Utah’s tallest building—the mural required months of planning and weeks of installation, with the artists […]
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 […]
You know what town has sponsored surprisingly few murals, especially considering it calls itself “Art City?” That’s right, Springville. Maybe it’s the mural gods holding a grudge—like how rock giants U2 didn’t perform in Salt Lake City for two decades because they got booed off the stage there […]
Is it something about the mural itself, this lone wolf set against a giant full moon? Or is it its very visible location, on the corner of West Temple, where it announces itself to 2100 South’s westbound traffic? There must be something, because this is at least the […]
If all that walking between the Capitol and Washington Square has left you winded during recent protests, you may have stopped in for a short break at the Brigham Young Historic Park, at the northeast corner of State Street and North Temple. Developed in the 1990s as a […]
Whether you came as a visitor to the April 2025 general conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or were on your way to the State Capitol to add your voice to one of the recent protests, if you passed through Temple Square in downtown […]
On April 11, 2025, a new public art installation titled Hidden Waters was unveiled along North Temple in Salt Lake City. The project features eight eye-catching sculptural works mounted on utility poles from State Street to 600 West, tracing the buried path of City Creek as it flows […]
