Salt Lake City Public Art Program

Connecting people to place and place to stories since 1984

Flowing Currents

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An abstraction of water, wind, traffic, and pedestrian flow of currents and migration patterns occurring above and below Interstate 15, this 400-foot painted steel sculpture is mounted to a retaining wall at the 1300 South and I-15 intersection.

This public art project was funded by the Salt Lake City Engineering Division. Special thanks to the Salt Lake Art Design Board, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, and Salt Lake City Corporation for their assistance with this project.

Imagine

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Located on the large loading dock door on the south side of the Eccles Theater, Traci O’Very Covey’s mural vibrantly asks the viewer to envision all of the possible art, dance, theater, and musical performances occurring within the walls of the new structure.

This public art project was funded by the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City. Special thanks to the Salt Lake Art Design Board, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, and Salt Lake City Corporation for their assistance with this project.

Utah Animals, Birds, and Dinosaurs

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Using “new growth” as their theme, the artist team of Nate Srok and William R. Littig, used contemporary natural wildlife and dinosaurs native to Utah as their inspiration to integrate artwork into Salt Lake City’s Redwood Meadows Park.

Animals: Elk, Moose, Bison, Marmot, Mouse, Deer, Raccoon, Cougar, Bear, Squirrel

Birds: Crow, Swallow, Magpie, Scrub Jay, Pelican, Heron, Woodpecker, Hawk, Vulture, Sparrow, Blackbid, Mallard, Gull, Turkey, Killdeer, Owl, Kestrel, Sage Grouse, Tanager

Dinosaurs: Pterosaur, Nasutoceratops, Allosaurus, Saltasaurus, Stegosaurus, Archaeopteryx, Torosaurus

This public art project was funded through a Community Development Block Grant. Special thanks to the Salt lake Art Design Board, the Salt Lake City Council, Salt Lake City Corporation, Housing and Neighborhood Development, Parks and Public Lands, Salt Lake City Division of Engineering and members of the Review Committee for their assistance with this project.

Happy-Go-Lucky

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These three over sized four leaf clovers reflect the changing faces and activities happening in the park throughout the day. The shiny, lyrical leaves full of their cheerful magic may very well be a clue to discovering the elusive pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Jordan Meadows Park is a pocket park located adjacent to an elementary school in an active westside residential area.

This public art project was funded through a Community Development Business Grant from Salt Lake City Corporation.

School Children’s Monument (Tribute to the Nation’s Constitution and Flag)

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Knaphus was a Mormon convert, who produced many sculptures and bas-reliefs for LDS temples, as well as busts of famous Utahns, decorations for office buildings, mortuary and chapel friezes. His best known work is the Handcart Monument, one of the most recognized symbols of Mormonism. The heroic size version stands in Temple Square in Salt Lake City.

Perhaps his best-loved secular monument is the 1937 School Children’s Monument near the west entrance to the Salt Lake City and County Building. It features a granite base holding a scroll depicting the United States constitution. On either side of the base, facing each other, are life-size statues of a boy and girl looking up at the United States flag atop the seventy-foot flag pole set in the base. The statue honors school children, whose nickels and dimes paid for it.

Salt Air Summer

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James Harvey Wilson is a watercolorist (egg tempera) and oil painter of color-impressionist landscape scenes. Olpin’s Artists of Utah (1999) cites exhibition activity in Santa Fe and New York City.

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