MICA, aka Mestizo Arts, recognizes the SLC MURAL MAKERS as the recipients of the Ruby Chacón Social Justice Arts Award.
The Ruby Chacón Social Justice Arts Award is given annually to individuals who are advancing justice and equity in our communities through the arts. Our 2020 award goes to the SLC Mural Makers, the anonymous artist collective whose portraits of individuals killed by police can be found on the corner of 800 S and 300 W in Salt Lake City. They, in turn, used the prize money to support the work of local mother and organizer Rae Duckworth, surviving family member of one of those honored in the murals.
For more information, visit www.mestizoarts.org/ruby-chacon-award-2020/
UTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Categories: Recognized | Visual Arts
We really need more social activist and BIPOC-related artworks around here. Thanks so much for sharing!
As the portraits on the Fleet Block are now being taken down, I think it’s important to not only recognize the social statements of the portraits, but also the artists. I don’t know who the anonymous SLC Mural Makers really are, but I have long been impressed with the consistency in stylistic approach in color and form in what we’re quickly executed renditions over an extended period of time and yet maintaining their uniformity. I feel bad that that at least one of them couldn’t have been retained.