Lizzie Wenger’s Patagonia mural at 2292 Highland Dr., Salt Lake City, UT.

Amidst all the construction going on in the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Patagonia’s SLC store has commissioned a new mural. The store itself is going through a remodel and decided to commission Lizzie Wegner to create a new mural to enliven its parking lot.

Wenger is a Salt Lake City native who turned to the outdoors for healing when her father passed when she was 12 years old. She enjoys several activities she can shop for at Patagonia, including mountaineering, rock climbing, and whitewater rafting. She has created murals at private residences and at 2432 S State St. for South Salt Lake’s 2023 Mural Fest. She is also an easel painter, creating works in acrylic similar in style to her mural work.

Her Patagonia mural celebrates various aspects of Utah’s great outdoors, including soaring peaks, the Bison you’ll find on Antelope Island and the tens of thousands of sandhill cranes that migrate through Utah each spring and fall on their way to their breeding and winter grounds.

Wenger’s mural, which stretches across an entire section of the L-shaped building’s east wall, replaces an earlier mural that represented a rock climber in a desert landscape.

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