{"id":65873,"date":"2022-11-02T10:03:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T16:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=65873"},"modified":"2022-11-06T10:07:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T16:07:11","slug":"ruby-chacon-is-both-celebrated-and-painted-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/ruby-chacon-is-both-celebrated-and-painted-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby Chac\u00f3n is Both Celebrated and Painted Over"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ruby Chac\u00f3n’s mural at the Jackson\/Euclid TRAX station, 820 W. North Temple<\/p><\/div>\n

In October, Salt Lake City’s Public Art Program commissioned local arts and culture writer Bianca Vel\u00e1zquez to write on the “art, legacy, and impact of Ruby Chac\u00f3n<\/a> in Salt Lake City\u2019s public art scene.” The city has commissioned Chac\u00f3n to create several murals, including her Art-in-Transit commission for the Jackson\/Euclid TRAX station on North Temple. The article, which was announced under the heading “Brown Faces in Public Art Spaces”\u00a0was commissioned to commemorate Latine Heritage Month (Sept. 15 \u2013 Oct. 15).<\/p>\n

Read the article in English\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0Para leer este art\u00edculo en espa\u00f1ol, haz click\u00a0aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Almost concurrently, the artist announced on her Instagram page<\/a> that one of her most iconic murals in the city had been painted over. The Catholic Community Services mural (745 East 300 South) was commissioned by Zions Bank in 2007 and was a multicultural celebration of hope. Chac\u00f3n received no notice it would be painted over. She only learned about it from her sister. “This hit me in the gut because it was painted on panels and was a movable mural. I cannot comprehend this kind of disrespect,” Chac\u00f3n wrote on her post.<\/p>\n

She also writes, “I\u2019m trying to figure out a plan of action.” This incident \u2014 and there have probably been and there will most certainly be others \u2014 raises a thorny issue regarding all the murals going up in municipalities around Utah. While a mural might be paid for by a business or municipality, federal laws still grant artists certain “moral rights” over their works, rights which under the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 prevent the destruction of an artwork regardless of ownership.<\/p>\n

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In 2013, Chac\u00f3n was honored by Artists of Utah as one of Utah’s Most Influential Artists. You can read the profile by Sue Martin here<\/a>, and a 2002 profile on the artist here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can discover more public art in Salt Lake City and surrounding areas at our Art Lake City map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In October, Salt Lake City’s Public Art Program commissioned local arts and culture writer Bianca Vel\u00e1zquez to write on the “art, legacy, and impact of Ruby Chac\u00f3n in Salt Lake City\u2019s public art scene.” The city has commissioned Chac\u00f3n to create several murals, including her Art-in-Transit commission for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_piecal_is_event":false,"_piecal_start_date":"","_piecal_end_date":"","_piecal_is_allday":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in_plain_site","category-mixed_media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/2014-01-30-Ruby-Chacon-for-Utahs-15-1572-1983-final-edit-AdobeRGB.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 21:17:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65878,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65873\/revisions\/65878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}