The artwork is located in the garden representing Mexico in the International Peace Gardens. The garden features the Olmec Head, the Aztec Calendar, the God of the Mayas and the flower God of the Mexican culture.

This artwork is in the garden representing India at the International Peace Gardens.

The garden was dedicated April 22, 1966. It is represented by a bronze cast of the “Preaching Buddha” which is a gift from the government of India to the gardens. It shows great dignity and beauty.

Another bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi was added and dedicated May 10, 1997. His name is synonymous with peace and non-violence.

The artwork is located in the garden representing China at the International Peace Gardens.

The garden was dedicated in 1959 and features pagodas, graceful bridges and painting. The guests experienced first hand the theory of the Chinese garden, “Each step a different view,” as they meandered over the bridge and entered the Chinese Pavilion.

The Pavilion ramp faces the Jordan River, whose banks are well dotted with bamboo, pines, lotuses, and water lilies. There are weeping willows, mulberries, flowering plums and peaches, as well as many roses, begonias, chrysanthemums and other flowers. There are also rare imported magnolia trees and citrus shrubs, gifts from the Chinese Freemasons president from San Francisco, California.

The magnolia have long been an emblem of peace in China and planted in the Peace Garden, the donors trust they will ever remind Americans of the friendship of Chinese loyal to the Republicans cause.

William Louie, an architecture student from the University of Utah, was the designer of the garden. In true high minded fashion, the entrance to the thirty foot gateway of wood and concrete with Chinese style roof tiling was graced with a wooden sign engraved in Chinese with the words “Peace Garden” in the calligraphic hand of Dr. Wellington Koo, the former Chinese Ambassador to the United States. A couplet on either side of the gate read: “China and the West harmonious live beneath auspicious clouds; Joyous emanations permeate the International Peace Gardens.”

The two large lion statues at the entryway were dedicated in 1979.

Brodauf-Craig, a master sculptor, chose to combine the image of contained flames and the wheel to represent the work of the firefighters in large scale to serve as a landmark for Fire Station 11.

Brodauf-Craig’s large body of work, private and public, is a tribute to modernity. She was chosen as one of Utah’s “100 most Honored Artists” in 2002 as her artwork reaches many through both the private and public sectors.

 

This project was created to recognize the importance of our parks. Artists photographed visitors to the park, talked with them and incorporated their brief story into the plaques.

Plaque text: Fall is always a good time to come to the park. Especially when you’re with a best friend.

Aaron Lyman (left) and Trenton Kidd came to Herman Franks Park on a fall day in 1991 to throw a baseball and shag a few flies. “Sometimes it’s baseball, sometimes its Frisbee,” they say. But it doesn’t really matter what. It’s who that really matters.

The parks. They’re all about friendship.

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.

This artwork is in the garden representing Switzerland in the International Peace Gardens.

The garden was dedicated on August 14, 1965 after 4 years in the making. The first contribution of the Swiss people of Utah to the International Peace Gardens consisted of a Swiss Chalet, a small creek and pond and a miniature resemblance of a mountain.

In response to a desire to improve the image of Switzerland, a master plan was developed, calling for the beautification and expansion of the Swiss Garden, including the construction of a replica, almost fifty feet high of Switzerland’s most famous mountain — the Matterhorn. Other improvement consisted of  a new Swiss Chalet with granary, a rustic bridge, rock gardens, a flag pole, a variety of shrubs, trees, evergreens, plants and flowers, flanked on one side with a young forest of aspens and one the other side by a grove of pines.

Rocks for the rock gardens, steps and walks were hauled from the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon.