Littig’s interpretation of the Virgin of Guadalupe stands in the middle of a neighborhood pocket park watching over all that visit the park.

The plaque installed on the concrete base reads: Lupita the Woman – December 12, 1987 – Dedicated to my Father, Hugo F. Littig, 1919-1976 – Palo Alto, California – Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico – Thank you Dad/William R. Littig, Willy.

Guadalupe Park was dedicated by the city officials and residents in December 1987 in conjunction with the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The park serves as a symbol of community pride and fulfilled a 15-year dream of organizing the neighborhood and this corner park. At the dedication one city official told the gathering, “it (Lupita, the Woman) represents the same compassion Our Lady of Guadalupe has expressed to us.”

Willy Littig has spent his life learning, teaching and creating. His work includes numerous glass and public art installations around Utah.

 

This glass window was designed by Willy Littig for the Art Barn located in Reservoir Park. The Art Barn, which is home to the Salt Lake City Arts Council offices, was built in 1931. The Art Barn was built for and functioned as a community art center until the mid-1970’s.

In 1990 the Art Barn underwent a major renovation and included in the project were opportunities for 3 public art projects, including this work by Littig.

This series of etched glass panels in geometric designs that are lacquered on all inside surfaces in the arches over the equipment bay and the front door. The etched pattern represents the grid of the City that firefighters travel in the course of their jobs. The half inch space between the glass panels creates a shifting registration for the viewer and color occurs throughout from shadows, reflections in the glass and the open spaces.

Willy Littig is active in the local arts scene, beginning his career working with glass and branching out to other materials as appropriate for each commission.

In developing the public art for the Sorenson Unity Center, the artists addressed the themes of transformation, change, adaptation, growth, inclusiveness and unity.   In abstract form, the public art, in five pieces, unfolds from a simple universal shape into a butterfly suspended from the interior ceiling.  Fabricated of aluminum and steel, the artists engaged form, color and density of the material to create the transition from the standing sculpture outdoors through the two pieces attached to the exterior wall to the two interior pieces that float overhead as visitors enter the building.

Two photographers, Wayne Chubin and Tim Gallagher (former residents of Salt Lake), ventured into the three-dimensional world with their Signal Site in Westpointe Park. The piece is laid out along the mathematical basis of the Fibonacci sequence, a series of numbers embraced by mathematicians and found in nature. The figures atop each post were vetted with the help of the Anti-Gang Task Force of the SLC Police Department to ensure that none of them were inadvertently associated with any of the local gangs.